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by jff 13y ago
That's an interesting thought: what orientation will your screen take in microgravity? Will it stick on the last time it saw ~1 g, or will it flip randomly from one to another, or will it just go with "whatever has the highest acc
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by jff 13y ago
http://i.imgur.com/Gg2wmKS.png ugh don't do this please
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by jff 13y ago
Well, it's going to be faster if the smaller executable can keep its entire text segment in memory. I've done the instruction scheduling stuff by hand on paper; it's pretty interesting. We did Tomasulo scheduling, which is ha
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by jff 13y ago
He clearly describes SRAM in the following paragraph, then contrasts it with DRAM in the rest: Registers use an expensive and power-hungry active design. They're continuously powered, and when reading them, this means that their value
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by jff 13y ago
The accelerometer should work fine in space? It measures acceleration, it's not like acceleration stops outside the atmosphere
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by jff 13y ago
Yep... although if you look at that, it's just lining up based on tabs. I like gofmt because it barely ends up changing my code--I already write it pretty much like that! I was talking more about when people want to do things like this
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by jff 13y ago
A lot of the things you're claiming the Go designers chose off-hand one afternoon are really things they've liked and been doing for decades. Take a look at the Limbo programming language and you'll see a more primitive versi
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by jff 13y ago
Since Glass just displays a small rectangle at upper right part of your visual field, it's not much use for that sort of application. You'd have to twist your head around until the virtual screen appeared to cover the object you w
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by jff 13y ago
I think if the lawyer then tried to sell off his fee in bitcoins in order to get some real money, he'd crash the market. Especially since you can't use bitcoins to buy drugs anymore.
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by jff 13y ago
Regarding the Terminal application, check the scrollback settings. My colleague wondered why it took 20 seconds to start and ate up 2 gigs of memory... turns out Terminal was storing scrollback all the way back to when he first bought the m
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by jff 13y ago
Yeah, the Nexus 4 takes really horrible pictures. High resolution, but if you actually view the picture full size, it looks like a digital camera from 1999 or something.
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by jff 13y ago
Talk about non sequitur...
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by jff 13y ago
It's evolved sufficiently here in California that I believe Californian drivers now prefer to pass on the right rather than the left, given a choice.
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by jff 13y ago
I'm really happy someone else feels the same way about "beautiful". It's lost all meaning in this space, it might as well be "EXTREME" or some other marketing bullshit term.
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by jff 13y ago
Or even an electronic device capable of digitizing a sheet of paper and sending it over some communication system such as a phone line. It would make facsimiles of the original... I guess we could call it a facs machine for short?
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by jff 13y ago
In fact, I think he may have once said that if 386BSD had been available at the time, he wouldn't have bothered doing Linux, or at least making it into what it is now.
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by jff 13y ago
"Haha IFR is a fancy-sounding term but you really mean you just find a road and follow it to your destination as though you were in a car"
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by jff 13y ago
With the extra joke being that following roads is actually VFR and that you most likely couldn't follow roads in IFR.
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by jff 13y ago
I would call all of those points extremely obvious and hardly worth a whole study. If you have low ratings, of course you're tempted to get some fake positive reviews. If you have a lot of reviews, adding a few positive ones will not a
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by jff 13y ago
It sounds more like Kirk/Linux.
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by jff 13y ago
It's not a BSD kernel. It has the BSD userland, though.
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by jff 13y ago
I want to echo the recommendations of others: learning about kernels and writing your own would be a lot more valuable. I'm speaking from experience when I say that trying to provide a userland sucks. You've said elsewhere on this
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by jff 13y ago
Does pkgng actually have any packages on it these days? The last few times I've checked, nothing's been available because of a security breach a year ago or whatever.
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by jff 13y ago
I identify very strongly with mathematics, so I have chosen my name to be the full expression of pi. I will not reproduce it here, since the HN servers lack the appropriate storage to contain it.
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by jff 13y ago
You're right, thank god US citizens aren't given a unique number at birth that they'd later need to attend school, get a driver's license, buy a house, or get a job.
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by jff 13y ago
Yes. Oh god yes. Don't let the HN world get you down, there's more out there than HTML and Javascript.
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by jff 13y ago
This reminds me of my experiences with Plan 9. A very cool system, but it's managed to attract some of the absolute worst people in computing. Dare to criticize something and they'll leap down your throat. In the end, I just gave
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by jff 13y ago
That's an extremely odd attitude.
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by jff 13y ago
Partway through college I bought an old HP-48 and suddenly had this realization. The TI system encourages you to enter exactly what you see on the page, plus a whole bunch of parentheses because calculators are dumb and everyone's para
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by jff 13y ago
Because Go is getting more press than Rust and that is really, really hard for some people to handle.

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