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by leif 16y ago
I use swype now and am extremely happy with it. I can't imagine this would be any better than it. With swype, I can enter n characters with a path of at most n vertices, with this thing, it seems I need to create n differently-sized arcs.
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by leif 16y ago
The people that want this technology don't want it that badly. If you develop chemical weapons, you've got to start worrying.
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by leif 16y ago
I had guessed this was about clojure before I followed the link, somehow, I think because in part, I feel the same way. Is this common? Anyone else feel like clojure is, or is on the path to becoming, the perfect language? I won't say I'l
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by leif 16y ago
Makes sense. I feel the same way about text processing. I have yet to see anything else that rips through text like perl does. Over the summer, I rewrote a powershell script in perl and got three orders of magnitude improvement (reliably)
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by leif 16y ago
My "other" was for clojure and sh.
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by leif 16y ago
I find it a little surprising that you use both perl and ruby. Is it an issue of "one guy likes perl, another likes ruby", or are there things you find easier in one than the other, in both directions? Or is ruby just there for your API an
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by leif 16y ago
I marked off C, C++, python, and other (shell scripts) for rethinkdb though I'm not there right now. The code was in C++ but most of it would compile as C, and we wrote lots of benchmarks in some combination of python and shell scripts. If
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by leif 16y ago
> As a matter of fact, writing "good" Python code is a very seldom observed art and most performance issues can be gotten rid of if you know enough about the language and follow the style and design advices of true "Pythonistas", as the
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by leif 16y ago
Insecurely transmitted cookies. I think it safe to assume these two will negotiate a means of exchanging keys to their respective cookie jars.
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by leif 16y ago
Come to Stony Brook, and talk to Erez Zadok. He is the creator of unionfs, he teaches (undergrad) Advanced Systems Programming in UNIX/C, and (grad) Operating Systems, and runs a lab devoted to (mostly) Linux filesystems. NetApp, Data Dom
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by leif 16y ago
Python is almost always memory-heavy. C is not, if you do it right. Of course, C, if you do it right, will be the fastest, it's the "do it right" that's hard. Clojure, on the JVM, will be slower than C "done right", but faster than most
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by leif 16y ago
These are two questions (see the recently posted parallel clojure talk). For concurrency (short version: this means multiple processes doing different things sharing some small amount of state), I'd say Clojure, Go, and Python are all good
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by leif 16y ago
Sounds ripe for a marketplace where people can offer to and request lending from other users.
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by leif 16y ago
DonKey
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by leif 16y ago
Downvotes? On my comments? OS X runs on thinkpads, mine has all drivers but the wireless driver, see http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page for more details and instructions. I regularly drive a 2560x1600 external monito
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by leif 16y ago
I have a friend who describes it exactly the same way.
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by leif 16y ago
> The Lenovo doesn't run Mac OS X. Yes it does. > Not sure how much this matters, but the Lenovo is also using Intel Graphics, how well does it work on external monitors? Can it power a 2560x1600 30 inch monitor? Yes it can.
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by leif 16y ago
Cool, thanks. I know far too little about compiler optimizations, it's always nice to hear about them.
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by leif 16y ago
Seriously though, it's about the same thickness as the old Airs, it just looks thicker because it's blocky and not all tapered at the end.
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by leif 16y ago
Battery life depends what you run on it. I get almost 4 hours on the 4-cell, about 10 on the 9-cell.
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by leif 16y ago
That's what she said.
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by leif 16y ago
""" It has a few huge improvements: * Much higher resolution: 1440x900, up from 1280x800. This brings it from the 13” class to the 15” class. I’ve always wanted a light 13” notebook with a 15”-class screen resolution, and Apple just release
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by leif 16y ago
3 is actually a quite valid point for embedded. Any swap actually will be expensive when it comes to keeping cache lines clean. The correct answer in that case is just to not swap the variables, and instead swap their uses later on:
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by leif 16y ago
silly me
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by leif 16y ago
> I'm tempted to create a LOOP clone for Clojure, then laugh villainously as I unleash it upon the world. DOOOO IT
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by leif 16y ago
Well, what python calls a "decorator" is just a function that accepts a function and returns a function with roughly similar functionality. In python, the old way to decorate functions was def my_decorator(f): ... def my_function
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by leif 16y ago
Yeah, that I think would be toeing the envelope.
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by leif 16y ago
> This blank region of empty space is a hollow void that adds lines to the > length of this .signature's physical size. > > I cant think of anything more to add!
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by leif 16y ago
positive, real

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