mantrax5

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by mantrax5 12y ago
Can you please quote which part you refer to?
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by mantrax5 12y ago
If those are in opposition, the author should probably quit his job. There's a good number of companies whose basic purpose lies in improving society.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Ugh: "...found that 42 per cent of Americans are “not too” or “not at all” confident that all life on Earth is the product of evolution. Similarly, 51 per cent of people expressed skepticism that the universe started with a “big bang”
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Good designers, good developers, good <insert profession here> have an acute sense of where their role is in the business. Employees who have an unclear idea of what they're doing or why they're doing it, also don't hav
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Event that is hardly enough. There should be a physical (well virtual physical) obstacle towards launching a high stakes command. The system should be able to assess the scope of a task, and ask you to confirm 10 times if it has to, in blin
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by mantrax5 12y ago
You know how in movies you need at least two people to bring their special secret keys, plug them in, and turn them at once to enable a self-destruct sequence? That is a real principle in interface design - if something would be really, re
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Folk psychology is precisely the way I see this supposed link between self-awareness and mirror recognition. Ascribing intelligence and self-awareness only to those species that share specific superficial traits with us is the kind of think
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I also find the algorithm they're using very interesting, as we have a lot to learn from the systems people have built (systems of any kind). But making libraries better is not exactly an unsolved problem, the only problem is the solut
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by mantrax5 12y ago
This is why Steve Jobs used to say "everyone can throw money at a problem and fail to change anything", but people chose to see it as the excuse of a greedy businessman (who actually did donate to a number of projects privately )
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by mantrax5 12y ago
The real reason is quite simple. And I'm not trying to be bitter or anything, rather think like a businessman. The reason is... it's full of JavaScript kids out there, and because they're so many, they're all replaceable
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Even worse, it's not just Photoshop mocks... Actual working hardware solutions were already demonstrated before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTu9omph9U8&feature=youtu.be That patent is a bit sad, even if I con
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Durable to me means the chance of losing state on unexpected shutdown is ruled out. It's not the case for Redis.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I don't understand what's so hard to say the thing being scaled up is "the application domain model" and not "SQL". Not hard, is it? A "scaling SQL" article that suggests adding Redis is like a "
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Redis is great... except for the fact it's (publicly) not ACID, so adding Redis in the mix and calling it "scaling SQL" is outright misleading, because it loses the very properties SQL exists to provide. Redis will enter into
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Regarding RPC, you're right, I guess I'm not quite following the classical understanding of it. I tend to work with actor systems, where everything (in-process or intra-process) is message passing, so I tend to see the message lay
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by mantrax5 12y ago
It was, yes, and to this day read-only SQL access to certain tables is not that bad of a practice to allow for report-generating apps within a company. However the idea of exposing SQL databases publicly as an approach never took hold for
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Fielding's REST is pretty much CRUD in HTTP disguise. Don't get me wrong, this can be great for "hypermedia applications" as Fielding's paper argues. But "hypermedia applications" just doesn't fit wha
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I think you got it exactly right. It feels like the author got a little too excited about CRDT-s and forgot all the other principles of good system design (it's about clear stable interface, low coupling, single responsibility and so o
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by mantrax5 12y ago
So he favors exposing a standard set of distributed data models instead of having APIs. What a horrible idea. Exposing implementations is bad because implementations change. Exposing implementations is bad because as you expose the intricac
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Well, of course in CAD it won't matter since the surface formula isn't the end product. But with fonts, it is.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I don't mean to disregard the work of Hamming & co. as trivial. Each one of us struggles to add something to the stream of human thought, and it's hard every time, and it's worth praise every time, but it's interesti
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I don't mind the feature itself, but gotta love the confusing info coming from Mozilla's people over this, over the course of the last few days. Open isn't always good when it comes to your PR.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
It basically reduces deadlock chance. When you have one exit and it's blocked due to many people attempting to fit at once, the entire queue is congested. That barrier turns one exit into two exits (even if it's backed by only one
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Error correction codes and transaction models have existed before computers have, of course the schemes people have settled with before computers were designed to fit within the limits of what people could work with back then, with no compu
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Hey look, Uncle Bob said something about comments. DELETE ALL COMMENTS AND CHANGE SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING!
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Looking for a problem where there is none, this author is... The reason why comments are pale compared to code is because a comment always belongs to a given piece/block of code. A comment doesn't exists for itself, it exists
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Ultimately it all comes to cybernetics. Understanding how systems work, understanding how to change systems, and how to design new systems. Not about programming itself. We were designing systems for millennia before computers existed. All
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I'd love to chat with the author of this paper. This is pure gold, I love the analytical thinking in it, especially as someone designing systems that commonly interface computers with human operators. I've saved it, it's a gr
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Ok, the deal is not even officially announced, how the ef is so much info leaking out? If it's leaking out of Beats, then they're already demonstrating how poor of a cultural fit for Apple they are. From... literally not day 1,
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by mantrax5 12y ago
You're exactly right. This would be like a person who is unable to lead internal dialog, and everything they think, they say out loud.

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