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by jd 18y ago
Debunk misses the point of original article. It was a cache performance test. You'd expect almost identical performance in C# and C++ for the reasons the original author explained. Original author responds: http://systematicgaming.wordpres
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by jd 18y ago
I've seen how seriously some providers/hosting companies treat backups. Let's just say that deleting backups to free up space for new accounts was considered perfectly OK. I completely agree it is something you -want- to outsource, because,
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by jd 18y ago
The drop in replacement is slower than CPython. Likely to change in the future, but still.
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by jd 18y ago
Take a look at the PyPy FAQ. They're using annotations, type inference assumptions, and so on. PyPy seems to be focused on a Jit-able subset of Python. It's not a project that can one day be transparently included in the new Python release.
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by jd 18y ago
I've heard this claim several times, but there seems to be very little evidence to support it. The fast native code Lisp compilers such as SBCL and Lispworks sacrifice correctness for speed. You can fully expect the VM to crash when you giv
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by jd 18y ago
Python's implementation is focused on code readability. One of Guido's initial goals was that no matter how insane the input, the interpreter must never crash. His emphasis on simple and clear code (and an intuitive bytecode) gets in the wa
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by jd 18y ago
> You think that top software engineering graduates in New York City make $26k per year? Recalibrate! Recalibrate! Oops, mental typo. Thanks for the correction.
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by jd 18y ago
I doubt it has a good ROI via recruiting, etc. Joel mentioned he spent more than a million on improving the interior design. No recruiting is going to make up for that, any time soon#. And in a few years Fog Creek will move to a different l
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by jd 18y ago
The usual arguments against using money as motivation are that (a) money is not enough to keep you motivated during the "darkest of times" and (b) even if you get there the money will probably not make you happy. But Mark Cuban _was_ motiva
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by jd 18y ago
Also Recommended: Gates , by Manes and Andrews. It doesn't score high on a literary scale but it really captures the thrill of starting a company. It also covers the partnerships between MS and Apple without passing judgment.
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by jd 18y ago
By saying the universe has an arbitrary state before the Big Bang you're also assuming the universe has _a_ state before the Big Bang. But perhaps the universe had no state at all. A variable is a piece of memory and always has _a_ value. T
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by jd 18y ago
Quote: In fact, the most effective anti-piracy software development strategy is the simplest one of all: 1. Have a great freaking product. 2. Charge a fair price for it. Is he joking? The World of Goo is a great freaking p
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by jd 18y ago
What you're saying makes perfect sense, but that isn't what Yegge is saying at all. You're saying the state of the universe may or may not be sensible before the Big Bang, but it's unknowable so speculation is pointless. What Yegge is sayin
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by jd 18y ago
> But one way or another, all systems are embedded systems. [...] host systems often overlap and even cooperate. A city is composed of many interleaved subsystems. So is your body. It's not always a simple containment relationship. Sys
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by jd 18y ago
So as long as the charity compartmentalizes their income into different groups (depending on source) and pay the Porches from one group you're OK with it? Your line between OK/!OK seems really arbitrary to me.
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by jd 18y ago
It's not that obvious where to draw the line. Executives of charities need to get paid. And because charities deal with large amounts of money, mismanagement can be very costly. By increasing the salary of the executives you can get more qu
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by jd 18y ago
It's weird how so many people are so paranoid. Why is he coming up with these elaborate explanations of why they dislike him so much? Is his reasoning really something like this? Biz dudes needs rails to be popular so that they can pitch id
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by jd 18y ago
Yes, but Micheal Keaton has shown us that a clone of a clone might not be as sharp as the original, or even as functional as the original clone.
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by jd 18y ago
It's just a slip of the tongue. When you pick up idiom from the television and exchange students it's easy to say something that's like totally retarded. She was probably just nervous and didn't know what to say. So she said the first thing
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by jd 18y ago
The best shortest short story is still by Hemmingway: "For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn"
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by jd 18y ago
It seems you're disagreeing with a statement I never made. The question was "If they did have the same syntax, would they be different languages?" I replied: "Yes, they would be different because their semantics would be different" I never
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by jd 18y ago
Different semantics
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by jd 18y ago
It's great as an embedded language. The implementation is so tiny you can effortlessly change the language to change whatever it is you don't like about it. The C++ bindings aren't so great, last time I checked. The documentation is not of
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by jd 18y ago
Would be far more useful if you prune duplicates and segment the log into 4 sections "today, last week, last month, older". Like the concept though.
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by jd 18y ago
Terrible article, if you ask me. The author strings some seemingly arbitrary quotes together - but it's unclear where the article is going or if the author is even trying to make a point. The opening paragraph is great though, and the the d
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by jd 18y ago
> regular variable because Java works by reference, not by copy I haven't read the other replies, so somebody else may have pointed this out already but Java is a by-copy language, like C and C++. Not by-reference like you claim.
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by jd 18y ago
Yes. It's called a second hand Aeron.
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by jd 18y ago
When you have 50 pictures in a presentation about web programming, about half of them tend to fall into the lolcat category. Of course that grows old quickly. But in a presentation about the dodo every picture is both relevant and interesti
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by jd 18y ago
Note the unique presentation style - story with flashing images. It's surprisingly appealing. Even simple slides like "Anyway." that stay for just a second or two keep the viewer from getting distracted. The whole "less words more pictures"
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by jd 18y ago
x = 365; ((x + 1) * x) / 2 # 66795 For x > 2 and odd.

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