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by javanix 16y ago
An interesting article, but I have to disagree with his conclusions about the effect on malware. I'd say that mainstream Linux adoption would likely be dominated by 1 or 2 major distros, like Ubuntu. Any potential attack vector could be tar
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by javanix 16y ago
I'd like to see a real translation of this article before I draw any conclusions. Google translate is decent (and getting better) but I'm not sure I trust it yet for international diplomatic translations.
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by javanix 16y ago
Charles Stross is a very intelligent individual. If anyone here hasn't read Accelerando I highly recommend it.
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If true, this is by far the most intelligent article I've ever read from the Post.
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What is PG's so-called "hacker radar" if not some analogue to the "hacker acceptance factor" that I tried to allude to? People think that languages like Python and Ruby are "cooler" somehow than Java - that's all I was trying to get at. I d
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by javanix 16y ago
Agreed, there are certainly exceptions to the rule but I don't think anyone would put the level of Java's "hacker acceptance factor" anywhere near Python or Ruby or the like.
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by javanix 16y ago
Sort of ironic that all of his concerns were proven out, yet Java still managed to prove his prediction wrong. Though his definition of success seems to be "would really good programmers (wizards) ever use this language for sweet projects
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PrimeSense releases open source drivers, middleware for Kinect(joystiq.com)
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by javanix 16y ago
Perhaps I should have said "protection of state secrets out of context ". My main concern isn't that these secrets are getting exposed, its that they are getting exposed in a way that is easily editorialized by whoever is distributing them
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by javanix 16y ago
Well, true, but I've always read that as him not wanting to become the same sort of political lighting-rod that he hates. He was very careful to avoid any overt political associations for his rally, for instance.
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by javanix 16y ago
There are also legitimate concerns over the protection of state secrets. WikiLeaks and other whistleblowers form an important part of modern society, but we should also be wary of single-spigot fountains of information that come via unverif
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by javanix 16y ago
Well, Jon Stewart for one, when he isn't being just a stand-up, does tend to call out major journalistic and political figures for their inadequacies in this regard.
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Weird. It was apparently easier to get into MIT in the late 19th century than it was to pass the eighth grade.
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by javanix 16y ago
I think my favorite part of this was: It has culminated in the WebBase project whose aims are to maintain a local copy of the World Wide Web Weird to think that a local copy of the internet was actually feasible only twelve years ago.
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by javanix 16y ago
The only thing I would ever use this for would be legal files shared with friends - I'm not sure how often Amazon ripples their IP addresses, but I'm sure the RIAA/MPAA would have a field day with an IP address linked to a billing account
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What is computation? Concurrency versus Turing's Model(knol.google.com)
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by javanix 16y ago
No, this does not herald the future. This heralds the relatively-recent arrival of advanced statistics to the college basketball world - rebounding percentages, scoring percentages, runs -- these are pieces of information anyone could glean
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by javanix 16y ago
Huh, cool - I never really looked into what goes into doing compiler optimizations. What sort of gains would we be looking at with syntactic language differences taken into account? For instance, suppose I wrote some program in C, compiled,
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Very true. Syntax doesn't really matter in terms of performance - what matters is compiler optimizations. Theoretically someone, if they had a mind, could optimize a Python compiler to run just as fast as C (or at least as fast as a non-sta
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by javanix 16y ago
I really hope that game and other performance-dependent development moves to Go or something like it, rather than being stuck in C/C++ land. The advantages of modern syntax design coupled with a fast native compiler would be a potent and ex
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by javanix 16y ago
You know, 42 feet per gallon sounds pretty terrible, but I'd say moving 5.5 million pounds of equipment 42 feet with one gallon of gas is pretty damn impressive.
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by javanix 16y ago
That's not quite the same situation as hardware hacking - DirectTV's countermeasures basically come down to detecting fraud and disabling the users, not preventing it completely. What just about all consumer electronics companies have faile
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by javanix 16y ago
I personally wouldn't use this for gadget recommendations - I am too picky and enjoy the research process too much. However, for buying a toaster or a microwave or something, I can definitely see this site being useful. Usually I end up goi
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by javanix 16y ago
A confusion that could be mitigated by a less-inflammatory title.
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Fortunately, with ESPN3 I think things are getting better (and we'll eventually get to the point of full IPTV), but until every big game is available officially online, there's just going to be no way for me to ditch cable completely.
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by javanix 16y ago
Yes, I get the same way. My CS courses were basically all dependent on exam scores - I would estimate that on average 75% of the course grades came from exams. In some of the courses, even as late as my 3rd and 4th years, people weren't abl
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by javanix 16y ago
I loved C when I was in college. Unfortunately, the university I attended had a CS department that required both a lot of time, and Java for most coursework, so I didn't get to do it enough. Hence, applying for jobs with C in mind wasn't re
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by javanix 16y ago
Yikes. That hits a little too close to home.
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I concur. The userbase of IRC and StackOverflow is going to be fairly similar, I'd imagine.
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taking actions to reduce stress due to excessive workload and long hours That's not really caring that you're working too hard, or trying to fix the problem that you're working too hard. That sounds like trying to make you less angry abou

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