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by melted 11y ago
I take it you're not a cop, and don't have any cops in your family. The rule is very simple: unless you want to get shot, don't fuck with police. Pointing a toy weapon at an officer counts as fucking with police in my book.
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by melted 11y ago
This is huff po we're talking about, right? They'll print anything as long as it drives traffic.
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by melted 11y ago
Compared to DBs browser code bases are lax and buggy beyond belief. Want to take a second and a gig of RAM opening a page? Go right ahead. Browser crashes? We're "sorry", wait for next release 2 weeks from now. No multitenanc
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by melted 11y ago
We're talking $1500 for the headset and GPU able to support the headset. Plus a pretty beefy workstation to feed that GPU. Plus the games don't actually exist yet, and they face a massive chicken-and-egg problem. No one but the mo
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by melted 11y ago
I've done just that, in fact. That lasts exactly until they start remembering in greater detail how things _actually_ were, without all the unfounded nostalgia. And things were pretty fucking harsh even by the modest standards of today
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by melted 11y ago
Much of that "people were happy under communism" BS is just that: BS. As anyone past the age of about 30 would tell you, you tend to forget the shitty stuff a lot faster than the good stuff. As a result we often hold these romanti
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by melted 11y ago
What's the use case to justify the massive cash outlay these things require? I don't see it.
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by melted 11y ago
Now watch this face plant in the market. It's a niche product with horrifically overinflated expectations, steep pricing, and no application ecosystem or clear, killer-app use case. Good luck folks, you're gonna need it.
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by melted 11y ago
All I can say is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLiu7B25G4o . Please stop blogging. Thanks.
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by melted 11y ago
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but the author of that article is pulling his conclusions out of his rear end. E.g. that article also shows "the fall of Linux".
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by melted 11y ago
How so? You instantly get the benefits out to a huge user base.
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by melted 11y ago
Well that seems to be of very marginal utility to me, but I concede that it might be a much bigger deal for others.
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by melted 11y ago
That doesn't answer the question though. Why not just add all (or some) of the aforementioned stuff to tmux? Tmux is an established, widely used piece of software. Any improvements would be much more appreciated there.
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by melted 11y ago
What for? What benefits does the use of Python confer in this case?
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by melted 11y ago
Says someone who has quite obviously never worked on database engines. Package manager? LOL. What language are you programming in, Ruby?
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by melted 11y ago
How battle tested are those languages? How many outstanding bugs do they have in their compilers and libraries? How good is tooling support? How easy is it to find competent programmers? How well do they interoperate with existing high perf
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by melted 11y ago
Eclipse has gotten quite a bit better over the past couple of years. If you haven't tried it in a while, try again.
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by melted 11y ago
You use this if you want to _appear_ smart, and you use structs if you actually _are_ smart. Smart programmers do not introduce gratuitous complexity into their code.
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by melted 11y ago
One thing I learned in my 20+ years in this field is that relying on anything from Microsoft leads to inevitable regret down the road as they cannot restrain themselves from turning every thing they do into a means of vendor lock-in.
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by melted 11y ago
For databases, C/C++ is still the only reasonable choice. For OLAP cubes in particular, you want to keep as much data in memory as possible as efficiently as possible, and drop down to SSE intrinsics where needed. C++ lets you do just
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by melted 11y ago
One thing about Apple is this: they _always_ have a plan. Count on it. It's not like Business Insider is uncovering something they don't know here. All this doomsaying is due to the fact that Apple does not pre-announce anything.
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by melted 11y ago
Most of the time, "C with classes" is exactly what the problem calls for. I cringe every time I see classes whose functionality can be replaced by a simple function. Those shouldn't even be classes. They should be free functi
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by melted 11y ago
That only covers a subset of what you need to know. :-)
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by melted 11y ago
Except the ones made by their contractors would be $30k apiece for the same thing.
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by melted 11y ago
If you're a regular middle class wage slave, there are very few ways you can reduce your tax burden. My accountant says the only way to even begin to optimize taxes in my tax bracket is to start my own business.
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by melted 11y ago
The article is just as data free as my single data point. My experience contradicts it. I use Linux _everywhere_ these days, on the desktop, on the laptop, and on my workstation at work. It works well. It's just not Windows, which seem
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by melted 11y ago
> Win95 and WinNT were unstable Not to worry, in my experience Win 10 is returning to its roots of being unstable. At least on laptops.
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by melted 11y ago
I don't know about this article. I bough a 3rd gen Thinkpad Carbon earlier this year and Ubuntu runs better than Windows 10 on it. Not a single crash. The only thing that doesn't work out of the box is the fingerprint reader. Not
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by melted 11y ago
There's no way anyone can actually work and read 2 books per week. I call bullshit on this one.
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by melted 11y ago
You've got a point there, but I don't see this as a huge deal if they don't begin to abuse their position. Which they might, but I'll reserve my judgement until there's something to judge.

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