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by laxd 10y ago
> It's kind of mind boggling to think about every atom in the universe representing one position in a game of chess and there not being enough atoms in the universe to represent each one. Chess players mentions this a lot. And then
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by laxd 10y ago
LLVM/Clang and Grand Central Dispatch comes to mind. The MAC framwork is also a shared effort, but I don't know who is doing the heavy lifting. It's something.
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by laxd 10y ago
Merge sort?
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by laxd 10y ago
Only two years until James Webb telescope launches. Should keep us entertained for while.
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by laxd 10y ago
I tried the community edition a while back. Can't remember much by now but it definately was'nt the same experience as the commercial one. (Actually I'm using the phpstorm edition).
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by laxd 10y ago
It really depends on what kind of development you do. It's great as long as the tools you need are actually supported. And the tools would presumably work the same on linux so it's more a matter of what kind of system you prefer t
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by laxd 10y ago
I'd fund Slava and Mike again in a second. - Paul Graham on twitter
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by laxd 10y ago
FreeBSD land seem a lot more package centric after the introduction of pkgng (now just pkg) a few years ago. It's, in my experience, fast, simple and reliable. Not half-baked like the old package system. Even among those why build them
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by laxd 10y ago
First thing I see is a post by a Matt Dillon about creating sub-processes. Wonder if it's Matt Dillon the DragonflyBSD guy.
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by laxd 10y ago
I was struck by the references to 4 different browser.