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by ken 6y ago
Agreed. For sharing a filesystem, I assume the best you can do today is probably FAT32 (or whatever the latest of that family is), which is not great. Why can't we get people from major tech companies together and have them develop a
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by ken 6y ago
wunderground. It used to be fast and simple even on a 14.4K modem. Now it's slow even on broadband.
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by ken 6y ago
Whenever I've tried making dependency graphs of programs (usually the easiest type of visualization to create), I find they always turn up some crazy dependencies you never expected, and don't want. It's easy to hide one wei
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by ken 6y ago
"Flow-based" is only one kind of visual programming. UML alone has over a dozen different kinds of standardized diagrams. I can write a state machine with a big switch statement, for example, but I still find them easier to read
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by ken 6y ago
These issues are old . - Large programs / graphs? I can browse maps and photos of the entire planet from my web browser. ZUIs are well understood now. Also, computers got really big and fast. My graphics card has 8 GB (!) of RAM.
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by ken 6y ago
Python is a text-based language. Aren't all these editors "text-based"? You know you don't have to run Emacs in a terminal emulator, right? It's had mouse support for decades.
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by ken 6y ago
While we're on the topic of typographical prejudice, I confess that if I see a Microsoft Word document at all, I tend to assume the author is not so technically literate. The intersection of "people I've seen use Word" a
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by ken 6y ago
You have your text editor set up to use a formatter which handles the number of spaces after periods, in source code comments and plain text files? How?
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by ken 6y ago
I've seen a-million-and-one junior developers screw up for-loops, too, with overly complex code that's hard to understand and debug. That's in no way unique to FP. I would need at least 3 more pieces of data -- the other (ex
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by ken 6y ago
The "asrs" mnemonics are the same, but the opcodes use different addressing modes. The 4th instruction in the longer sequence is a register-to-register move, which might be a simple register rename. It's not obvious to me t
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by ken 6y ago
It’s interesting to see “The Mythical Man-Month” in a list like this, since I’ve never once seen any team implement what it suggests. Is it meant only as a cautionary tale?
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by ken 6y ago
As a Lisp programmer, I confess that when I see a performance shootout between Go, Java, and C++, I don't expect to hear the result that Go won -- and that its performance is on par with their old Common Lisp program.
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by ken 6y ago
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo... Lattner on Swift (2016): "...while it is true that modern GC's can provide high performance, they can only do that when they are granted m
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by ken 6y ago
I agree that Apple's behavior isn't quite consistent with a simple obsession with thinness, but I don't think it's weight, either. My 15" PowerBook in 2001 was 2.4 kg. The 15" MacBook Pro in the linked answer
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by ken 6y ago
Apple also made their own operating system, their own programming language, their own external connectors, etc. Have their competitors followed their lead in becoming more vertically integrated in any other way? I’m not really seeing it. T
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by ken 6y ago
No, the Mac compiler target has never supported bitcode. And LLVM bitcode doesn’t work like that anyway.
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by ken 6y ago
Doesn’t that invalidate your earlier claim that “it wasn't very bad and most developers complied, which is an argument in favour of an ARM transition being feasible”? It doesn’t matter how nice the experience is for those who upgrade
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by ken 6y ago
I don’t think so. They also said: > Even more astonishing, Daniels discovered that if you picked out just three of the ten dimensions of size ... less than 3.5 per cent of pilots would be average sized on all three dimensions.
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by ken 6y ago
This sounds like a perfect use case for object oriented programming. “I want something mostly like that thing that already exists, but with a slight variation.“ Or hooks, if you’re one of those weird Lisp programmers. Unfortunately, virtual
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by ken 6y ago
I assume that all modern CPUs are CISC-ish opcodes running in microcode on a RISC-ish core, and it’s been a few decades since those were useful labels.
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by ken 6y ago
Which ballot is for JP Morgan loan officers? Or do you mean voting in my non-battleground state for US president (D for the past 30 years), or perhaps senator (D for the past 20 years)? What effect, exactly, are we hoping for? ‘Voting for
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by ken 6y ago
Parts of Carbon are still around. It’s only the GUI parts that never made the transition to 64-bit. (Source: my app uses a couple Carbon APIs, where I couldn’t get the newer Cocoa APIs to work reliably.)
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by ken 6y ago
It also reimplements all of those things itself from scratch because their priority is on cross-platform parity, not efficiency. Every time I see someone working on a FF bug I’m cc’d on, I marvel at how many files they have to touch to get
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by ken 6y ago
I recall my friends in college praising it at the time. To them, the biggest downside of joining the military (besides, obviously, getting killed) was that your individuality would be beaten out of you. This marketing campaign tried to sh
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by ken 6y ago
My favorite sequence of maps in a book was “Black Hawk Down”. The first chapter begins with a world map, showing Somalia, and it lays the geopolitical setting for the events. The second chapter has a map of Somalia, showing where Mogadish
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by ken 6y ago
So the solution is "convince all of my (unemployed) friends to spend $50 on something which has more value to me than to them"? Assuming that does solve it, I'd say a solution is known , but I wouldn't call it "sol
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by ken 6y ago
You can always tell what features the creator of a product use themselves! Microsoft long ago (10 years?) added a great feature for bus routes on Bing Maps: "Previous stop is ___" / "If you reach ___, you've gone to
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by ken 6y ago
It’s possible, but then why is it $1000 smartphones are struggling with this, and $5 landline phones from 1993 did just fine? Did Apple skimp on audio hardware that bad? That’s a little hard to believe.
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by ken 6y ago
True, but there are other ways it could provide this information to me. It could display a volume level meter on the screen, for example.
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by ken 6y ago
I’m surprised this didn’t mention the elephant in the room: the audio quality is terrible. I simply can’t hear half of what is said, even at full volume in a quiet room. Either I ask for repetition all the time (and walk over whatever the

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