ldar15

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by ldar15 15y ago
Technology does not kill jobs: instead it allows the new jobs to be created elsewhere . 50,000 BC: your "job" (finding food) so dominated your life that your entire community followed it around. 20,000 BC: farming began. Your "job" is in t
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by ldar15 15y ago
why not abstract away the underlying architecture Because it would not be an abstraction of what is there. It would be the creation of an abstraction of something that isnt there: i.e. a simulation. And indeed, this is exactly the cause o
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by ldar15 15y ago
I'd been programming over 20 years when I read SICP. The book was interesting. It was interesting as an introduction to functional programming. But, in my opinion, a lot of the stuff in it that is held up to be clever or informative is just
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by ldar15 15y ago
And if there is a language that is screaming out for an AMP equivalent its C#: it has structs for efficient memory organization. It has hands-off memory management, meaning that the GPU back-end can do it differently than a CPU back-end. It
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by ldar15 15y ago
The CLR does inline, but it has restrictions that you're probably hitting. It has restrictions that I am absolutely definitely hitting, and that I hit whenever I want to do something that would actually benefit from inlining. Inlining a p
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by ldar15 15y ago
"efficient" DRY: as a programmer you know that having to maintain two identical copies of something to keep them in sync is bad. You should refactor. Now take that idea and make it part of the language: header files. You have to declare eve
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by ldar15 15y ago
I agree with your conclusion (suffering for lack of modern native code development) but disagree with your solution. C# still has the potential to be vastly superior to C++ for "native" development. The problem is that they spent the last 1
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by ldar15 15y ago
It is exactly the kind of innovative solution that multiple developers would discover independently. It is exactly the kind of idea that does not need a 17 year monopoly to incentivize investors to provide cash for its development.
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by ldar15 15y ago
"Dear Big Media, Lately we havent received enough campaign funding. We have made polite inquiries before, but they have gone unanswered. We're trying really hard to keep a hold on these pesky liberals, but they are doing a really good job o
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by ldar15 15y ago
adhering to the constructions signs indicating that a lane is closed ahead What part of the construction sign are you adhering? Is there a construction sign that says "merge immediately"? No. So your anger is based on what? The fact that
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by ldar15 15y ago
You claim: This gets everyone through the construction zone faster since you don't have a stream of last-minute merges jamming things up. There are countless studies demonstrating that this apparently widely held opinion is wrong. Here's
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by ldar15 15y ago
Depends if the other side also wants to keep patents going. They may be interested in patent reform too. Apple has Lodsys to deal with, for example. If you dont have patents then its all about execution. I'd say Apple is kicking everyone's
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by ldar15 15y ago
8% might not "own" us, but its enough to "pwn" us. Here's some nice commentary about the reality of the debt limit: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/06/22/602761/the-imposs... Many point out that, even if the government "shuts down",
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by ldar15 15y ago
Unless we are talking about China using the debt for hostile purposes, in which case the independence of RoC and what it may be willing to do to stay independent, might be exactly what matters. Ditto HK. I assume everyone involved has pla
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by ldar15 15y ago
It just works. I think the refactoring and language support may be better too, but that's not why I switched. I switched because eclipse is either too complex to work reliably, or I'm too stupid to understand it. Android, Appengine, maven,
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by ldar15 15y ago
$900 million could buy a lot of politicians, surely.
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by ldar15 15y ago
His solution is the "problem" of having to update the whole game state in a function is "is not to return new versions of anything, but to simply return statements about what happened" and "Actually handling what happened is a separate step
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by ldar15 15y ago
"It chose to attack the lowest-hanging fruit first, the one thing about Apple's development environment most likely to stand out as primitive and backwards to programmers coming from other platforms or even fresh out of school: manual memor
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by ldar15 15y ago
So, 502. Can you please (seriously) write a post about what your server setup is and what its like to be deal with the rush of traffic. I'll be doing it one day soon and all the info I can get would really help!
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by ldar15 15y ago
Short answer: Because lawyers cost money. LGPL code is not magically perfect. I've modified most third party libs I've used. If those are LGPL, I have to make sure those changes get back to the public. I either have to put messages on the g
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by ldar15 15y ago
It gets better. 3. The Chinese use the money we give them to buy gvt bonds. 4. The gvt bonds are spent by the gvt. 5. This spending is added to GDP. 6. GDP appears to have gone up. Without gvt debt, GDP is the same it was in
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by ldar15 15y ago
Imagine a future society where food and shelter are essentially free. A single person can farm hectares of land and produce food for thousands. Food is distributed automatically. Shelter is built once and lasts for hundreds of years. Humans
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by ldar15 15y ago
FTA: "GDP is as high as it was in 2008". Without government debt spending, GDP has been flat for 15 years. http://www.johnmauldin.com/images/uploads/charts/050911-01.j... Its like saying that your annual income rose from $100,000 to $150,
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by ldar15 15y ago
Both life and liberty are rights which may be forfeit by criminal action. Simply because the justice system can revoke your life does not make your life a privilege as Ms Krapielian would have us believe. The simple fact of the government p
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by ldar15 15y ago
FTA: Registrar Rachel Krapielian said that protecting the public far outweighs any inconvenience Gass or anyone else might experience. “A driver’s license is not a matter of civil rights. It’s not a right. It’s a privilege,’’ she said. “Yes
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by ldar15 15y ago
And now, governments! http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/07/15/the-horrify... Fancy.
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by ldar15 15y ago
So, are these the new numbers? I copied the numbers from the original and the new post: haproxy direct: 6,000 requests per second stunnel -> haproxy: 430 requests per second (OLD) nginx (ssl) -> haproxy: 90 requests per seco
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by ldar15 15y ago
From the EFF: ""Decrypting the data on the laptop can be, in and of itself, a testimonial act--revealing control over a computer and the files on it" This suggests to me that the prosecution has failed to prove that the laptop, or the data
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by ldar15 15y ago
On the contrary. If the safe requires a combination, the higher courts have held that the 5th protects you from giving it up.
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by ldar15 15y ago
Detailed. But wrong. Although courts and DAs have tried to argue that a password is like a physical key, or tried to give you immunity for speaking the key, higher courts (e.g. the 5th circuit of appeals) regard giving the password as testi

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