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by jblow 12y ago
You can't schedule something unknown.
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by jblow 12y ago
Steam doesn't deal with its own files. It deals mainly with random games that are creating tons of random files.
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by jblow 12y ago
See this graph: http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/CPU-Sc... The green line was the only one still going, and it plateaued about a year ago (you'd see that in a newer graph).
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by jblow 12y ago
Math is supposed to be about pursuit of truth, not how congenial you are.
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by jblow 12y ago
Yeah. Requirement #1 for any test like this is, it happens in a Faraday cage.
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by jblow 12y ago
Do you think they hire boring people to be reps? If you were in charge of hiring the most effective people for this job, who would you hire?
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by jblow 12y ago
Like I said, that is a problem. So start thinking about how to solve it .... Like, the plane is always landed from the ground, not the air. That idea introduces new problems, but you can start thinking about those too. Come on, people.
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by jblow 12y ago
You can make a similar list about anything that doesn't exist yet. If it were easy, it probably would have been done. Eight years ago, you could have made an equivalent list about electric cars. Well, we have electric cars now and that
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by jblow 12y ago
If the new tools and techniques were actually good, they would be enough for a while, and people wouldn't feel the need for even newer tools and techniques the next week. This should be an obvious and automatic hype-temperer, but for s
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by jblow 12y ago
Author has no concept of what it is like to take submissions to anything. As someone who is a member of an investment fund that gets way less attention than a top-tier VC, I'll tell you what it is like to have open submissions: Almost
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by jblow 12y ago
Is there an underlying presumption that smart hacker-type people do not have spiritual interests? I think a lot of smart hacker-type people would disagree with that.
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by jblow 12y ago
Usually when people say stuff like this, they haven't programmed anything as complex and performant as the thing they are criticizing, so the comments can and should be disregarded as noise.
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by jblow 12y ago
Very misleading title. This is not about a GC speed up, it is about a reduction in pause time. The GC a itself is eating as many cycles as before (possibly more due to the cost of making things incremental) and they are clear about this in
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by jblow 12y ago
Random mom-and-pop folks have been able to buy high-DPI laptops at Best Buy for well over a year. (And higher DPI than discussed in this article; for example, 3200x1800). In computer lifecycle terms that is a long time and it is a little
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by jblow 12y ago
It is suspiciously posted by an account that was just created and is even named "throwaway". Downvotes are fully justified.
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by jblow 12y ago
I should clarify before people respond antagonistically ... as someone who is designing a programming language, I think it's great any time someone is making languages and trying out new ideas. That part is great, if you want to make a
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by jblow 12y ago
It is cute, but you can't design a language for toy problems or you run into problems with bigger software. I kind of stopped reading here: "Since it is declarative code, update returns a new world w2 instead of merely modifying w
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by jblow 12y ago
It seems like it would be pretty easy to filter by amount of motion and list in priority order. (Provided the motion lasts long enough to overcome latency effects, etc).
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by jblow 12y ago
Come on guys, think about it! It is trivial to make your test routine log the error but return true so that the compiler doesn't stop.
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by jblow 12y ago
The talk is just over an hour. The second hour is Q&A.
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by jblow 12y ago
It is good that they are testing, but the mindset that this is a special occasion seems very weird to me. Rule #1 of programming is that if you didn't test it, it doesn't work. (It may still not work for real after you test it, bu
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by jblow 12y ago
You never know, you might be talking to someone with actual experience.
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by jblow 12y ago
It is nice to see someone summarizing this kind of information. However, really this is a continuation of the academic attitude toward parsers making them MUCH harder than they have to be. If you want to study grammars in an abstract sense,
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by jblow 12y ago
Sync is not that hard. I have never had a problem with Dropbox, for example, and that was made by brogrammers.
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by jblow 12y ago
I don't like X. I want to migrate to something simpler, but I think it should be MUCH simpler than anything anyone is building right now. I actually did a few more tweets after this describing what I think makes sense.
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by jblow 12y ago
The article isn't wrong, it's just ambiguously written. When you are viewing stereoscopic 3D, you are indeed looking at a surface that is flat and at a fixed distance from your eyes. This has consequences in terms of how your eyes
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by jblow 12y ago
Many game programmers decided long ago that object-orientedism is snake oil, because that kind of abstraction does not cleanly factor a lot of the big problems we have. There isn't anything close to unanimous agreement, but the dominan
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by jblow 12y ago
In the Guessing Game, you suggest using abs() to get a nonnegative number, but this is wrong, since it would make 0 less probable than all the other values.
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by jblow 12y ago
Hey Steve, Who do we have to harangue to get Rust to rename "Vector"? It is kind of embarrassing and confusing terminology, and there is no reason to propagate it. Just call an array an array and an immutable array an immutable ar
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by jblow 12y ago
I am very happy to see this list. I came to Demo Day in 2010 (as an investor) but left without investing in anything, because I was so demoralized by the way it seemed everyone was trying to start lame web sites doing relatively trivial thi

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