moomba

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by moomba 16y ago
I'm wondering why you're saying linux has no place in distributed computing. Most supercomputers and distributed systems run linux. Not sure what paradigm shifts are going to have a significant impact on the OS. The only changes I've seen a
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by moomba 16y ago
This is the first thing I change in any linux system I'm working with. I've become completely dependent on prefixed history. Never liked the Ctrl+R thing.
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by moomba 16y ago
Yea, Strings in Java take up much more memory than one would expect. Minimum String memory usage (bytes) = 8 * (int) ((((no chars) * 2) + 45) / 8) http://www.javamex.com/tutorials/memory/string_memory_usage.... Objects in general also hav
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by moomba 16y ago
Looks like the iphone version of an Android phone. Doesn't seem like a really good phone. Although the UI seems less cluttered. That is my one big complaint about Android. None of the phone manufacturers have wrapped Android UI in nice way
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by moomba 16y ago
Not sure I'd call neo4j NoSQL. Its a graph DB as listed in the link. Is the new trend to call any data store that is not SQL, NoSQL. I even heard Lucene being called NoSQL, http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/04/30/nosql-lucene... .
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by moomba 16y ago
His quote, "Storage is pretty cheap but data acquisition and computation are even cheaper" seems a little out there. Data storage has gotten extremely cheep over the past decade. Computation on the other hand only will get much cheaper if i
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by moomba 16y ago
I remember when I was taking an assembly class in college we always joked about how ridiculous it would be to write an OS in assembly. I'm surprised someone actually did it. C is so close to assembly that these seems quite unnecessary. Alth
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by moomba 16y ago
What a steal...
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by moomba 16y ago
But, don't feel afraid to go into excess when the time permits. Life is about pushing the boundaries.
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by moomba 16y ago
I've read many articles, but don't do it for the sake of reading. It usually accompanies other reading on said subject.
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by moomba 16y ago
You probably are never going to use the original code you put down, so its kind of irrelevant how you start designing your web app. The most important thing is to start working. By doing this you will know what works and what doesn't. This
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by moomba 16y ago
Adam Curtis' stuff is great. Thanks for putting this up. I'd recommend you check out his latest series about freedom. The points he makes in that one are even more interesting.
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by moomba 16y ago
I doubt that this product will become successful. I'm not concerned so much with the publicity and the undeserved donations. The article does bring up a good point about having these "seeds" serve their own mini social networks. I don't see
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by moomba 16y ago
Not sure why he says, they're not your ideas anyway. If that was the case, you wouldn't be hoarding them.
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by moomba 17y ago
Looks like a typo in Rule 3. Should say, "Possessive nouns never use an apostrophe." This point is alluded to in the body of the rule.