mantrax5

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by mantrax5 12y ago
Considering the architecture of Node.JS is not suited to compute-heavy tasks, I wonder what kind of code are you willing to optimize in Node.JS with SIMD?
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by mantrax5 12y ago
"There is encouraging evidence that SIMD will enable a whole new class of application domains and high-performance libraries in JavaScript." Anyone take a guess what those might be (honest question)? In the past SIMD has been the
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by mantrax5 12y ago
> It's easy to dismiss off the protestors as old hat for not reacting gracefully to a changing market, but the issue at least in London seems to largely be with the fact that their existing businesses are subject to more costs and r
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Taxi drivers in Europe are paid a fraction of the profits they get from clients, most of it goes to taxes and the operators running the cab networks. Uber's drivers are in a similar position. So what do we have here? Another example of
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Can we please stop using lottery/lightning/meteor analogies? A modern computer does more operations in a single second, than a small country can buy lottery tickets in a lifetime. Many wildly unlikely things become quite likely wi
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I like how any interesting article I've seen about Chromebooks in the last year or two starts with removing Chrome OS from the machines.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
It's becoming a habit that every week either telco responds to Netflix, or Netflix responds to telco. I'm slightly sick of these silly public letters. Why the hell either Netflix or said telcos feel like they need to bother the pu
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by mantrax5 12y ago
There was a joke when Microsoft was pushing Zune that it has the fastest sales growth "in the brown MP3 players market". The category you define may be seen as arbitrary, first because existing filesystems have not stopped evolvin
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I get the joke, but I don't think we read about technology for the comedy of it. People who would've found ZFS interesting on its own merit won't read about it, and those who are interested in Git would.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
> "Using ZFS as a replacement of Git for is probably not a good idea." Uhm. > "I’m not sure of the stability on Mac at this time. Using ZFS as a root file system on Linux is still slightly problematic at this moment.&qu
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Correction, it's Fw, not FF.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
It was only yesterday when Firefox was 3 and look at it now. Isn't it about time we start telling it to get married and have children or?
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Perl's brand is damaged. No amount of explaining fixes a broken brand. The best that can probably be done is to create a new language which is, say, a clean subset of Perl 6 and call it something new, focusing the message on how readab
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by mantrax5 12y ago
The idea that writing a framework means you smart wouldn't explain why there's such a proliferation of badly written frameworks, particularly in easy to pick up languages like JavaScript, Python and PHP. We're not special. Li
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by mantrax5 12y ago
And... shit like that is why features like operator overloading or this @auto_closure attribute are a bad idea. I sympathize with the idea of creating a language mostly defined as a library of itself. It's nerdy, it's neat, it&#x2
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by mantrax5 12y ago
In one of the WWDC sessions an Apple engineer was adamant one should never choose terseness over clarity, because every line of code is written once by one person, but read many times by many people. And funny enough Objective-C is taking t
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by mantrax5 12y ago
"You know, one of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left John Sculley got a very serious disease. It’s the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just tell all these other people “here’s
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Coldtea got my point pretty well. Everyone else gets a whoosh. I'm not saying abandon Python for Java, I'm saying if you'll optimize Python, first optimize single-thread Python performance, before we get to parallel processin
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by mantrax5 12y ago
One must have a pretty low bar for 13 year olds to call this thing as intelligent as a 13-year-old. I've seen 4 year olds understand English better than this. There's an obvious disconnect between the complexity of some statements
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by mantrax5 12y ago
A perfectly written parallel Python app without GIL would be ideally 8 times faster on an 8 core system, compared to stock Python. Rewriting the original program in Java would make the program about 100 times faster... on one core. Now let&
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I'm familiar with Symfony, etc. Please don't sell it to me as "perfectly nice" code. The reason most of the PHP code is crap is not because PHP makes it impossible, but because a popular crap language with a low initial
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by mantrax5 12y ago
> compatibility with great libraries and mature full-featured frameworks So as I said I've been doing PHP. And I have yet to see one of those unicorns in PHP-land. In fact, my first gut reaction was that you're being sarcastic
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I'm a developer and PHP is in my toolbox when suitable. But the thing I can't understand is... why waste all this effort to make a slow, broken language fast, instead of using a faster language? I mean, sure, it's impressive
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by mantrax5 12y ago
> "There should be no way to build and use an invalid query" Well the SQL server won't actually run an invalid query, so what's your point? I'm not afraid of invalid queries. I'm rather afraid of valid queri
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I don't know. You obviously like the site, and it's full of these scroll abusing sites, it make me believe I can't browse sites anymore.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
If we'll be talking about strawmen, the idea every SQL query is composed of many concatenated string pieces is the biggest of them all. You both talk about the perils of dynamically building queries, yet proclaim the benefits of static
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by mantrax5 12y ago
> SQL libraries don't have to be ORMs or useless. It's true, they don't have to be useless. The problem is that people who end up writing most of those libs are: 1. People who have very superficial knowledge about range of
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by mantrax5 12y ago
The project page makes claims that it doesn't fall into common ORM traps such as recreating SQL syntax, locking you into a limited subset of it, yet... just a few sections below it shows exactly that. I'm sorry, but building SQL o
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Many phone vendors before HTC have used proprietary headphone connectors. But Apple is not most phone vendors.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Cross-platform support for their hardware is not something the typical user will take advantage of. If the user has an iPhone they can buy the Lightning version, and if they use an Android phone, they can buy the micro USB version. But chan

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