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by kunley 16y ago
There's a Core Team reelected each 2 years. Btw it just changed: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=11461+0+/usr/lo... Btw, they have an excellent practice of quarter reports, here's the latest: http://www.freebsd.org/news/stat
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by kunley 16y ago
You came with an elaborate points, but you seem to forget the main problem that the author seemed to scratch surface of: Smart people, just like other people, have ego. And when they get driven by it, they suck. Now please reread your point
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by kunley 16y ago
Well I have seen such evidence a couple of times. Some profiling of code using huge library stacks gave really surprising results. I think it's worth considering that there's no such thing as "microsecond spent on few commands" alone. Every
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by kunley 16y ago
I normally don't post my own writings to HN. Yet, as many people say here in the comments, there seems to be a shortage of tech submissions here, so here it is. This is a quite fresh blog and I have a mental queue of articles summarizing ye
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Partial functions in Ruby, plus a comment why to use them(inthephase.org)
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by kunley 16y ago
While the FreeBSD people didn't have their momentum to market themselves in a way Linux community had, they still manage to produce better system. The other thing is that most people, even who consider themselves OS hackers, don't need such
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by kunley 16y ago
I like ESR's idea of having semi-random cites at the top of each blog entry.
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by kunley 16y ago
Yes and that's why many Java applications esp. in the corporate world are slow , contrary to the common belief. When I say many/most software written in Java is slow, people tend to laugh and direct me to the shootout benchmarks. This is a
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by kunley 16y ago
I subconsciously read UX as Unix.. (oh thank you HP-UX for past years with ye ;)
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by kunley 16y ago
The voice of reason on the desert of political correctness.
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by kunley 16y ago
Classics: Beethoven, Mozart Ambient and slow electronics but transparent ones which don't seem too psychedelic or w/ hard feelings, as they easy distract and 'sell' you their emotional setting when you really need to focus instead. So I'd e
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by kunley 16y ago
The most obvious question is what's the revenue model? (unless it is top secret)
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by kunley 16y ago
Cool idea. It's also refreshing that site doesn't require user creation, for obvious reasons.
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by kunley 16y ago
Excellent article. The ksplice fellows are extraordinary hackers w/ good practice!
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by kunley 16y ago
Yeah microbenchmarks are cool to stare on when your farm of those jboss instances for another very important project is crawling. Very motivating. Wake up, this is reality.
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by kunley 16y ago
Yes I know my claim, and I showed you a way to grasp it. "Categorically": that's what you said. Just observe, instead of trying to apriori-tize the world.
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by kunley 16y ago
You have no place for jokes, not HN.
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by kunley 16y ago
Your point is purely rhetoric. Does GNU invite being pitted against its namesake by hardcore oldtime Unix fans? Still, focusing on whether 'NOFOO' name is appropiate or not is quite silly.
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by kunley 16y ago
Citation is overrated. Today anyone can publish anything and be cited by another anyone. Live in the industry for 15 years or so and observe for yourself. Carefully.
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by kunley 16y ago
"With this arguing, isn't it reasonable to assume that a project Foo written in C or C++ is faster than an equivalent written in Java simply because the author writing project Foo in C/C++ likely understands performance by choosing C/C++ in
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by kunley 16y ago
ksplice.com are hardcore low-level hackers.
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by kunley 16y ago
The Java problem is not that JVM is itself slow, but that Java is so inconvenient to use, that people use tons of stacks of libraries to accomplish even simplest things (think dependency injection) that JVM becomes bloated by loading and ca
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by kunley 16y ago
" I’d even argue that the main reason kernel code tends to be efficient is not because it’s written in C but because it’s written with parallelism and reentrancy in mind, by people who understand those issues. A lot of code is faster not be
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by kunley 16y ago
It's all about people, not the ORMs or other technical inventions. Most shithead queries I encountered during years of DBAing were written by hand by poor folks abandoned by their colleagues and over-confident managers. Just no one cared to
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by kunley 16y ago
I agree with your points and ideas of auto-optimization. I'd just replace "at some shops" with "at most shops" to reflect reality a bit more.
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by kunley 16y ago
I guess it's wrong point of view for a hacker. X vs NOX is all about ego, this kind of silly games should be dismissed by a hacker, focusing on technical merits instead.
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by kunley 16y ago
This article has its amount of religious bias and wishful thinking. The author tries to establish his base on a fact that SQL is all about relational algebra and it's the right paradigm to query your data. While I agree with the latter, the
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by kunley 16y ago
Yeah this is even better. _why is a genius! :D
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by kunley 16y ago
Don't use it and don't complain then. Btw I actively use SQL since 1997 so I guess I have quite a proficiency. Still my point of readability wins , at least for me. So you see, your argument about readability doesn't hold for some people.
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by kunley 16y ago
Well if you put is this way, all is lost: you've already decided it WILL leak. Without checking. What are you missing? It's not that user wouldn't know SQL. It's that code like this is more readable because you don't do a mental switch in y

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