litewulf

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by litewulf 18y ago
Well, yes, hence my explicit mention of GCC and the java compiler. :) In general, as long as the compiler is bug free, you should be fine. Its just that never running into a compiler bug is much less likely when you're using very new code.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Good Lord thats scary sounding. I believe the app engine datastore has been stated as being built upon bigtable. I suppose the index creation is "newer" code than the core of bigtable, but I'd like to hope that the Google bigtable code is b
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by litewulf 18y ago
Did you read the article? In direct response to 1: "The researchers had already discovered that each session of intellectual work requires only three calories more than the rest period." So, yes, it does, but apparently the change in appeti
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by litewulf 18y ago
Do you have any pointers to what was wrong and how it was resolved?
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by litewulf 18y ago
I want to say something about leaky abstractions and caution the reader that writing code that you then pass to something that generates some other code is a very very scary thing by and large. The Java compiler and gcc are really mature, a
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by litewulf 18y ago
I actually use GWT, and my advice is to be very careful. I've managed to have bugs that show up in the browser that I have had an amazingly difficult time tracking down. You get a pile of javascript from your pile of java, and it can be har
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by litewulf 18y ago
Question: why are stay_win and switch_win floats? Why not make them integers, and just do a conversion when you're printing the results out? That way you can do increments with integers which should be cheaper.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Oh no, collecting data is so droll and boring. I'm a decider! (Sorry, your comment really bugs me. I don't actually adhere to running A/B testing for everything, but come on, everytime I look at analytics data doesn't make my site less "fun
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by litewulf 18y ago
Why is Katakana easier to work with? I mean, usually my code is either unicode-safe... or it isn't. I've never ran into "kind of unicode-safe as long as the character doesn't have too many lines" ;)
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by litewulf 18y ago
:) cool I understand what you're saying.
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by litewulf 18y ago
Actually I think a bigger thing was exceptionally low living standards compared to the US which meant cheap labor...
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by litewulf 18y ago
I don't understand why this makes you a lifelong fan of free trade. Those countries are pretty corrupt governmentally, so maybe it makes welfare look bad, but I have to say the companies aren't treating people all that well either. (I say t
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by litewulf 18y ago
(Am I the only one who thinks the iPhone is actually a terrible interface for typing? Think about typing your password, now imagine you do it on an iPhone (so no benefit from autocorrection). I fat finger all the time , and I don't even
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by litewulf 18y ago
I really don't understand the advantages of your approach. I'm willing to believe I'm just dumb though ;) (One comment on the basic approach: many languages that use green threads don't scale well in multicore due to issues like lock conten
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by litewulf 18y ago
(disclaimer: I've only used a cellphone and never made one.) I think the problem is much deeper than you'd think. Its very difficult to know the battery cost of an action (some CPU ops take less power iirc), and also I'd imagine that certai
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by litewulf 18y ago
(Google did not have first-mover advantage with their search engine. First mover advantage helps , but it also helps if you have something else, like sexiness.) Android handsets definitely lack a certain polish, both software and hardware
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by litewulf 18y ago
Weirdly, Android (and most other operating systems) have the ability to run background processes without anywhere near as complicated a system. They just implement preemptive multi threading, that way if some threads need more and some need
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by litewulf 18y ago
I tried it. Never works. ;) I think family wants to see you secure. I think future spouses want to see a willingness to take on risk. So tailor those pick up lines to the audience. (Wonder if startups got less sexy with the economy going do
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by litewulf 18y ago
Can you give me a source for the hardware not having drivers? That makes no sense to me, how are you supposed to be able to reflash a phone in any meaningful sense without drivers so the phone, er, works.
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by litewulf 18y ago
The developer G1 lets you flash it however you want. Is that sufficient freedom? I don't understand how this view gets upmodded.
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by litewulf 18y ago
I think it helped. It wasn't the ONLY factor (the search engine was pretty good too ;)), but I think displaying results faster (smaller page size, more focused UI), contributes positively to the experience. Perhaps there are UIs that would
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by litewulf 18y ago
Hm, it sounds like you may end up sitting near me (same department at least). Hope I run into you, sounded like you did cool stuff.
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by litewulf 18y ago
I used Slimtimer. There are tons and TONS of timer applications. Then I use the powers of CSV+programming or excel to massage the data into whatever inane format people want it in. (Then I got a salaried job ;) Though keeping track of the t
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by litewulf 18y ago
Well, Java has Comparator classes. You can simply have first class functions by making a generic-d class (generic types for input and output), and a single member like "public T apply(F arg)". Its not that out of the ordinary. So the paradi
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by litewulf 18y ago
Try nxhtml if you haven't already. Its "better" than mmm for some uses. What I really should do is figure out a way to open sections of text in their own buffer (and corresponding major mode) so that changes in that buffer would be reflecte
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by litewulf 18y ago
Is that shipping cost due to customs/VAT/not-really-shipping? 171 seems a bit...unexpected to me ;)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Caveat: FUSE is very slow for ZFS. Use it only to check out the features, but if you run it (hypothetically) on something important, be mindful of the limitations.
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by litewulf 18y ago
That license "mania" is important. Just because it restricts you from doing certain things you wish you could doesn't mean the license itself is wrong. RMS once commented that he used OSS not because its better right now , but that by usin
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by litewulf 18y ago
I think after the intial setup wizard things are okay. That being said, remember to turn off data roaming (I think its off by default, but perhaps people either change it, or it the default has changed?) Smartphones can generate scary scary
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by litewulf 18y ago
I suggest you read the wikipedia article. Theres a pretty good summary of its current status. "well, dub it has some effect, but it doesn't make certain thought impossible" A better example is that some languages have more words for color,

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