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by leorocky 12y ago
Like how has this news affected your personal life at all. Did this action diminish your capability to have a job of your choosing? Did it prevent you from raising children? Did it prevent you from doing something you love? How different is
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by leorocky 12y ago
Programming languages are like vehicles. If you can drive one, you mostly know how to drive the other. JavaScript has a lot more gotchas than Objective-C. If you feel comfortable with the weird "this", closures, and prototypes, Ob
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by leorocky 12y ago
> "which provides the content protection needed for premium video services like Netflix" I don't think the qualifier "premium" and DRM are so tightly coupled as Netflix suggests. I could imagine a universe in whi
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by leorocky 12y ago
The wikipedia article on the monster group doesn't even mention the number 24.
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by leorocky 12y ago
Not using labels with radio and checkbox input elements could be on that list again.
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by leorocky 12y ago
I don't think Pandora is a good comparison with Beats or Spotify. Pandora is more of a radio station. You can't make play lists, pick the song you're playing or do much other than pause and skip a limited number of times. I a
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by leorocky 12y ago
Agreed evil in emacs is very good. It is the best vim emulator I've ever used and is even better than vim in instances (like when it shows you everything you are replacing as you type the replace command). Lately though, after near a d
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by leorocky 12y ago
Well if you made a general add function that always performed an or operation on the least significant bit, it would be pretty interesting. You'd always flip odd and even in any addition.
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by leorocky 12y ago
I made no claims about democracy at all. I made a comment about police being accountable to elected officials and another about the futility of protests in this particular instance. The police are accountable to elected officials. If there
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by leorocky 12y ago
The title is misspelled, it's "fulfill" but it's wrong on the original post too.
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by leorocky 12y ago
Why shouldn't law enforcement use drones? Law enforcement are bound by the same laws any citizen is and they are the tool what we as a society use to insure security in our lives. Why wouldn't we want to make their jobs easier? Th
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by leorocky 12y ago
> If you are aggressive then make wrong statements (co-routines not sharing memory) then well you'll get downvoted. My point was that a programmer shouldn't need to share memory to write concurrent code. That statement is not w
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by leorocky 12y ago
> unnecessarily aggressive Aggression that's really the result of thread frustration in Java. I hadn't read about middlebrow dismissal before, I can see how my post came off wrong. I'm glad I posted what I said however, be
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by leorocky 12y ago
I didn't know this.
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by leorocky 12y ago
> By definition, you aren't doing concurrent programming if you aren't doing shared writes. I don't understand what you mean but I like Robert Pike's take on concurrency: "concurrency is the composition of indepe
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by leorocky 12y ago
> how about you complain about Microsoft, Dell, HP, Nvidia, AMD etc.? These companies are businesses that need a business reason to support your platform. Until more people are playing triple A games on platforms that use OpenGL you can&
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by leorocky 12y ago
Tufte is only one perspective? The point is that information is more important than presentation. Making something pretty should never reduce the accessibility of the information or take away information. Mary's slides are much more in
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by leorocky 12y ago
Akka is a library not an extension of the JVM so it would not be able to provide native features to Java. I didn't know that Quasar did more. One is able to write much better concurrent code with Akka than with vanilla Java but I think
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by leorocky 12y ago
Yeah there are some nice libraries, my preference is Akka, but I think Java needs real native coroutines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine#Implementat
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by leorocky 12y ago
> What is so bad about threads? Why do you need co-routines? You aren't forced into sharing memory across parts of your program that have no business sharing memory. In Java you can easily end up in a situation where you can look at
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by leorocky 12y ago
If you are doing concurrent programming right you don't need compare and sweep synchronization because you aren't sharing memory across different threads. One must use atomics in Java actually quite a bit, like if you wanted a san
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by leorocky 12y ago
> The difference between this and the old Atomics is that here, when a CAS fails due to contention, instead of spinning the CPU, the Adder will store the delta in an internal cell object allocated for that thread. Wow man Java's sti
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by leorocky 12y ago
Yep, totally not responding and I have no idea what a xamarin is. EDIT: Looks like the main website is up: http://xamarin.com/ They let you build apps for other platforms in C# which is cool.
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by leorocky 12y ago
I'm not mocking the person and I appreciate his post, I am simply fed up with having to keep track of all the things I am supposed to be boycotting right now though. I do apologize if what I said came across as mocking. I'm just s
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by leorocky 12y ago
I use PayPal every day nearly. I like Stripe, Square not so much. I don't know, the people that seem to complain about PayPal are people who take donations but aren't registered non-profits and even if PayPal was evil, I doubt any
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by leorocky 12y ago
> I will never do business with Amazon again. Every other day it's someone saying they'll never use Facebook again, they'll never use Amazon again, they've quit Dropbox, they'll never use Google again. People in
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by leorocky 12y ago
There's nothing but spam, trash and even a test post: http://ireport.cnn.com/recent-updates.jspa I don't even know how this post made it to the front page.
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by leorocky 12y ago
> The post is from iReports, which is apparently an experiment in citizen journalism. CNN lets random people with no qualifications post stories under the CNN banner. The title is wrong. It should be some user submitted a bogus story on
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by leorocky 12y ago
Maybe "soylent profitable" is the new "ramen profitable" or whatever.
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by leorocky 12y ago
Well I want to see the image for the article too. We're still figuring all this out anyway. I doubt that as long as people want to show ads on tiny space challenged screens (a very long time), reading news on a phone will suck. I will

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