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by johnm 18y ago
You might want to take a look at e.g., Scala and how it implements actors on the JVM. It's basically doing a MxN actor to thread-pool scheduling.
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Threading Challenge Programming Contest(software.intel.com)
3 points by johnm 18y ago|1 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
As you say, trust (or, more specifically trustworthiness). This ends up being a lot in terms of integrity and authenticity. Conviction -- particularly courage of their convictions. Understands the difference between fact and opinion. Also k
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by johnm 18y ago
If not, it's a really weird point to make. :-) Could be a spell-checker error.
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by johnm 18y ago
"Socratic method" FTW!
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Why Customers Will Pay You to Restrain Them(fastcompany.com)
1 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
What language do you think would be best for them/someone to move to Parrot as their base platform? Given Parrot's very dynamic nature, a dynamic language seems like a good idea. Io would be quite interesting but it's too esoteric at this
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by johnm 18y ago
:-) Since the separation of Parrot from the development of Perl 6, I do think it's fair to say that progress has been good.
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Parrot VM v1.0.0 released(parrot.org)
61 points by johnm 18y ago|29 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
Re: In theory, theoretical questions are great. In practice, they are fidgety little things that must be asked precisely correctly to have the same "correct" answer that the interviewer has memorized and are frequently botched, almost invar
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by johnm 18y ago
Use a window manager that supports multiple independent workspaces. E.g., on a Mac use Spaces. That way you can arrange your windows as you like and leave them that way.
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by johnm 18y ago
Thanks! Sounds like an attempt at describing a process of creating art.
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by johnm 18y ago
I particularly like the shifting of focus onto the notion of relationships. If I may, I'd also point out that qualities such as "quality", the values embodied by practices, and the evolving nature of relationships over time all come down to
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Quality is Dead #2: The Quality Creation Myth(satisfice.com)
4 points by johnm 18y ago|1 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
(0) Get a check up by your physician. I.e., check for and treat any medical factors (high blood pressure, obesity, sleep disorders, etc.). (1) Start regular exercise. For stress, it's better to do smaller amounts/intensities more often than
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by johnm 18y ago
Re: Two types of programmers I totally agree that people are generally more on one side of that spectrum or the other. That said, the problem with way too many organizations and methodologies is that they don't take into account that it's
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by johnm 18y ago
Clean sans serif, monospaced. Consistent baseline. Distinguished forms (i.e., 0/O, S/$, (/{, 1/l, etc.). Good weighting at various sizes.
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by johnm 18y ago
If you're coming from svn then Mercurial is much easier to learn than Git. Also, I don't know what crack they are smoking but Perforce is easier to learn than Git for basic stuff. The biggest place that I've seen perforce get complex is wh
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by johnm 18y ago
Clojure just might become a popular lisp. :-) In terms of Scala, it's built on top of the JVM (as is Clojure) and so it's underlying model is the same -- Java threads mapped to OS threads. Scala does give people a variety of syntactic const
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by johnm 18y ago
If you don't need to cram a lot of boxes into a tight space then 2U will usually give you better airflow and cooling. Also, when those on-motherboard NICs die, you can more easily/cheaply add additional NIC cards to the 2U boxes. In terms o
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by johnm 18y ago
Customized version of http://ezmlm.org/
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by johnm 18y ago
(A) Lease vs. Buy: If you can swing it, lease them instead - tax benefits, etc. (B) Do you really need 8 cores per box? I.e., you can get used dual-dual machines a lot cheaper than 50% of the price of the dual-quad machines. (C) If you kno
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by johnm 18y ago
On your first point, that's why things like the super-short "did you know that XYZ could do this...?" type of demos work great. Of course, see e.g. Kathy Sierra's writings for how to balance. Re: your email example... You're missing the is
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by johnm 18y ago
Hey Alex, Though do note that one of the most effective sales tactic is to let people actually play with the product themselves. Of course, that presumes that the product itself is compelling. :-)
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by johnm 18y ago
Re: Trust A good book on this is Hernando de Soto's "The Mystery of Capital". Re: Saving individual banks rather than the banking system See the fiasco that was/is the Japanese handling of their bubble bursting. Re: The complexity of the "t
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by johnm 18y ago
Rather than trying to dictate/engineer a "fault tolerant" economy, I suggest thinking more along the lines of "what simple mechanisms can be put in place in how the system functions so that participants in the markets/economies can make b
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by johnm 18y ago
That's an emergent property of the system (which emerges or not) so how are you going to engineer that?
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by johnm 18y ago
That's a collective abrogation of responsibility by the public at large, not one by individuals within it. Ptui! How, exactly, do you think such "collective" behavior comes about? By the collective, emergent behavior of the indi
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by johnm 18y ago
Ah, sorry for the confusion... The public and the article.
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by johnm 18y ago
Bah! This knee jerk hysteria is exactly the same as the reaction to 9/11... A major shock to the system freaks people out because the work isn't conforming to (comfort-oriented) expectations and so they instantly look to someone who looks

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