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by ktRolster 9y ago
They might be measuring the "average used car", not the "average used car for sale." So immediately after you buy the car, it becomes a used car (or maybe a year after, not clear from the article).
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by ktRolster 9y ago
AV will make those people who are not internet+security literate more vulnerable. There have been vulnerabilities found in all major anti-viruses, some of them were really bad. You're better off not using an antivirus. See for examp
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by ktRolster 9y ago
You are right. A lot of times you can rearrange the code in various ways, and the compiler will happily generate more efficient code. When that's not possible, the way to keep it portable is by writing a generic C function, then writin
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by ktRolster 9y ago
It's almost always better to start with a compiler-generated critical section and see if there are possible hand optimizations. Yeap. But once you do, it's almost always easy to get some efficiency gains, because you understand
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by ktRolster 9y ago
APIs are copyrightable. You can see here: http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/x-1.html There is still a question on fair use. Google won the jury trial, but the appellate court is ruling in a few months, and
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by ktRolster 9y ago
That's a good thing.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Harvey Mudd had some good success getting their enrollment up: https://qz.com/730290/harvey-mudd-college-took-on-gender-bia...
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by ktRolster 9y ago
You aren't happy at all that your house is worth a million dollars?
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by ktRolster 9y ago
The common resource is land. Although there is a private aspect to land, it is also managed collectively through zoning laws (and other laws).
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by ktRolster 9y ago
This is what happens when you let office space be built without building extra housing.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Advertisers use terminology that matches the user as the product. They talk about "inventory" and that means page views. They talk about "supply side" and that means people who come to gawk. They talk about "demand
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Batch processing. Lots of rows.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
At some point, maybe we'll start seeing RAM put onto the CPU itself. I mean, more than it already is (with cache).
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by ktRolster 9y ago
If you aren't clear of the definition of "eating clean," then let's ask, what strawman do you think the author was knocking down?
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Since this representation is internal, it means that if there is ever a need for more clusters, they can switch to 64 bit integers without breaking any compatibility.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Serious question: if you think the article was creating a "clean" strawman, then to you, what is the actual definition of "eating clean?"
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by ktRolster 9y ago
I think this quote from the article is relevant, too: to understand how clean eating took hold with such tenacity, it’s necessary first to consider just what a terrifying thing food has become for millions of people in the modern world. G
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by ktRolster 9y ago
The opening paragraph is cringe: Younger, 23, believed herself to be eating the healthiest of all possible diets. She was a “gluten-free, sugar-free, oil-free, grain-free, legume-free, plant-based raw vegan”......Younger had sold more than
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by ktRolster 9y ago
I think the proper response to the Google manifesto is to say that women don't always choose to become programmers, but when they do, they're pretty good at it.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
IO language is a language that is similarly easy to extend. You might call it a language prototyping language in the sense that it's easy to test out language features (or whole new languages) in IO.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
In theory, that could be a good thing, as the sites could be better preserved, not trammeled on by later generations of humans. Although in practice, actually finding them is hard. Note there are sites like this in Europe, too.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
OOP fundamentally results in a combinatorial explosion of state I'd be interested in knowing what theory you are basing this on. In practice, I have never seen this combinatorial explosion of state, but maybe that's just me.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Interestingly, you can do the same in C. For example: int *x = malloc(sizeof(int)*100); x = x + 50; Then you can use negative indexes, and this is actually valid code: x[-10] = 1337; I've only had use for that one t
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by ktRolster 9y ago
1. Is this mistake somewhere else also? This a technique employed with great success by OpenBSD. Theo de Raadt says, "Can you imagine if a Boeing engineer didn't fix all instances of a wiring flaw?"
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The REal Brutalist StyLe(zerobugsandprogramfaster.net)
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by ktRolster 9y ago
a major point of Brutalism is letting the essence of the materials come through rather than covering them up So......something like this? http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/brutalist.html That can get recursive real
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Maybe you should read it again and let us know which of those options it is.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
We'll switch to IPv6, and every service will still go through port 80.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
At one time, operator overloading was encouraged. See for example, << in the cout command. Everyone was trying to think of new ways to use them.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
My understanding is it's in the same repository (for convenience), but is logically separate, so "forking" it mainly means copying the correct directory.

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