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by lucio 8y ago
It depends on how stable is the Kernel, the rate of external changes (e.g. new processors), new discovered vulns, and the capacity of the new leader. If all of those things go in the wrong direction, Linux could lose its reputation. For exa
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by lucio 8y ago
don't spin it. He wrote: >I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted "retroactively
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by lucio 8y ago
The key here is not to take the cursing personally. He's cursing the code not the coder. He don't hate specific persons. He can curse you on one not-so-good patch and praise you on another. The anger it's not directed at the
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by lucio 8y ago
link?
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by lucio 8y ago
He's tired. He's older. He mentioned several times how he's been developing this for decades. Maybe he is making a balance, maybe he thinks that the Kernel does not really need him so badly now, and he can take a time out.
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by lucio 8y ago
The more exaggerated the cursing, the more problematic is the subject according to Linus. Linus' over the top cursing is a means to transmit his evaluation of how problematic some code is. It's never personal. Show me an instance
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by lucio 8y ago
>it’s really just an alternative syntax for C# That's very true. Either C# or VB.NET, you're programming the NET Framework. All you can do in C# you can do in VB.NET, and even there's some features that are better implemen
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by lucio 8y ago
That syntax was irregular but very useful. It was not surprising or confusing. A$ = "ABCD" MID(A$,2,2)="12" PRINT $A >A123
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by lucio 8y ago
Twitter is now banning promoted tweets with the legal term "illegal alien"
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by lucio 8y ago
I see fabulous opportunities to get creative in the code comments area. Does this version compile TIFF? What about compiling an animated GIF, I have a few ideas to abuse that feature...
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by lucio 8y ago
>Why eight steps? Well, to differentiate between 256 equally likely possibilities requires eight bits. Each experiment, since it differentiates between two equally likely outcomes (pass and fail), provides one bit of information. Therefo
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by lucio 8y ago
>what happened to letting the truth be debated a la the Socratic dialogue in the academia of all places! https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi...
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by lucio 8y ago
So there's no more room for improvement at the microchip level. Will software become leaner? Is Moore's law reaching a plateau?
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by lucio 8y ago
That's OK but when using "logs" it takes more time and tries to find a complex bug than to search for it using an interactive debug tool.
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by lucio 8y ago
Have you seen the Hans Rosling talks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8t4k0Q8e8Y There's a few on TED talks. It's a must see.
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by lucio 8y ago
Let's imagine a syntax-sugared Go... Every function has a hidden "err" return value Every function has an "exceptionExit:" block, by default it does just "return err;" After every function call, an automat
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by lucio 8y ago
si vis pacem, para bellum
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by lucio 8y ago
from the comments, don't kill the messenger >Can I use this article as a case study for Journo students on 'How NOT to approach a topic'? You took a wonderful subject and turned it into a gloating, patrnonizing pile of cra
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by lucio 8y ago
How many of you were expecting a javascript-related article?
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by lucio 8y ago
That's what Google spanner is claiming, that Spanner is Consistent and highly-Available (nine fives, or 99.99999% of the time available), which "in practice" they say is "CA".
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by lucio 8y ago
What about partial partitions, let's say you have 7 nodes, and 4 of them can't see the other 3, while the client can see all of them? There are systems tolerant to these partitions (see PAXOS)
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by lucio 8y ago
If partition tolerance is the most important property to have, you can have it, as long as you don't need "C", consistency.
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by lucio 8y ago
>Does this mean that Spanner is a CA system as defined by CAP? The short answer is “no” technically, but “yes” in effect and its users can and do assume CA. >The purist answer is “no” because partitions can happen and in fact have hap
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by lucio 8y ago
This article could be titled ORM considered harmful (2006) http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...
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by lucio 8y ago
I think the facts should precede any statements of ideas in this case. Since the article do not present the facts as a sequence of events, the video I linked seems to be useful.
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by lucio 8y ago
The video is about the facts, you can dismiss the extra 10% of the video. Unless he's hiding some facts, it seems like a good summary.
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by lucio 8y ago
She was talking about her job, the fan was very polite, and after her response, sad when mistreated. You don't mistreat the people who pay for your product, even more when they're polite. I can't see gender involved in this i
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by lucio 8y ago
and then https://twitter.com/DeroirGaming/status/1014564971416518656
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by lucio 8y ago
How about analyzing the facts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q50oy4-UJM Is this guy analysis correct?
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by lucio 8y ago
That's a rational attitude to have once you're in an advanced civilized country and you can go to an emergency room and have adequate medication, you can eat (and more) by working 6 hs in front a computer, etc. Rationality is the

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