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by mschaef 9y ago
It'll be interesting to see if they can keep the battery power output up for a sustained length of time. Acceleration numbers are all well and good, but racetrack performance is about sustained high-load operation, and Tesla has had so
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by mschaef 9y ago
I tend to agree... for me, C++ is a great solution for problems I don't tend to have in my workaday life.
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by mschaef 9y ago
Whenever I see Kierkegaard referenced, I can't help but think of Michael Swaine's comments (1998) on how it influenced Stroustrup as he developed C++: > Is modesty a virtue in a programming language? Stroustrup thinks so. Invis
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by mschaef 9y ago
> The other issue I see is that for some reason Houston didn't require all of these people to have flood insurance. Not necessarily Houston. FEMA gets involved... if you're in a flood zone, FEMA mandates flood insurance (and so
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by mschaef 9y ago
> Some formats don't need to be read as plaintext by the average person. Fair point, and in fact, I'd go further - most of the time most people, do not need to directly edit or view most files in most formats. Even if you took
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by mschaef 9y ago
The difference between a 'neotar' effort and a 'neovim' effort is that for 'neotar', you'd have to be using it also for me to send you a neotar file. It may seem like a small thing, but this is a major imp
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by mschaef 9y ago
> Why do people believe that if something can be browsed with less/Notepad, it is somehow more "readable" than a binary representation? I've seen and worked with tons of XML, and most of it was utterly useless withou
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by mschaef 9y ago
Despite the fact that they can be used for similar purposes, the underlying formats are radically different. TAR is a 'Tape Archive'... the metadata for each file is adjacent to the file contents itself. (Which is what you'd
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by mschaef 9y ago
> Goldmans ... hired a game dev to do their click-to-trade currency UI. Seemed like the guy found an easier job for more pay. Not necessarily easier... but definitely a different set of difficulties.
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by mschaef 9y ago
Microsoft's original JavaScript implementation also had some interesting characteristics. Bear with me a moment as I describe why. Back in 1987, Bill Gates wrote an article for a Byte Magazine special edition in which he described a ki
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by mschaef 9y ago
You should take a look at the Chambers and Ungar papers on the implementation of Self. In Self, _everything_ is theoretically done through message send/dispatch. This includes field access, numerical operations, flow control... the wor
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by mschaef 9y ago
> I think the biggest reason Python is still slow is that there weren't such kind of investments comparable to those for JS jits (or dot Net). I think this is spot on. Python, Ruby, and the JVM all originated in the 1990-95 timefram
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by mschaef 9y ago
That's awesome. Some of the details are different, but pretty much exactly what I was thinking when I wrote what I wrote.
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by mschaef 9y ago
I can't speak for ryanmarsh, but I have a few thoughts. * Excel really has two major ways of performing computations on data - formulas within the grid and actions upon the grid. Despite the utility of the formula based dataflow model,
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by mschaef 9y ago
I'd be inclined to attribute that to messaging more than understanding. I hear what you're saying, but a fully qualified statement that captures all of the details both loses a lot of impact and isn't the kind of thing that
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by mschaef 9y ago
> If your chief frustration is battleship coordinates I read that more as a way to demean Excel by comparing it to a toy than any kind of exhaustive list of complaints...
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by mschaef 9y ago
Data tables can also make things considerably faster. A colleague of mine once made a spreadsheet something like an order of magnitude faster by switching to data tables. (Maybe more speedup than that, even.)
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by mschaef 9y ago
Excel also supports Multiplan-style RC syntax for cell addresses, if you like. I find the syntax a bit more clear, but ultimately too verbose to be useful. R1C1 = Row 1, Column 1. R[1]C[1] = cell one row over and one row down. One other poi
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by mschaef 9y ago
MicroFocus has done COBOL for .Net for years... https://www.microfocus.com/products/visual-cobol/ "Compile COBOL applications directly to Microsoft intermediate language for deployment within Microsoft .NET..
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by mschaef 9y ago
If you ever wondered what the creators of the Gimp were up to these days, this is your answer: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/about/
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by mschaef 9y ago
Yeah... one day her cat dies, and she gets the automated text you forgot to stop: "Hey babe... hope you're having a great day! xoxo"
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by mschaef 9y ago
AIM Triton. Not the original.
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by mschaef 9y ago
Sad to see AIM go for sentimental reasons, but I can't say it's too surprising. The world has moved on. Technically, one of the more interesting aspects of AIM was that it was built on Boxely... one of the earlier (~2004-2006) mar
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by mschaef 9y ago
> To be mentioned on slashdot was a meant instant saturation for a website. For quite a while, that was even referred to as being 'slashdotted'...
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by mschaef 9y ago
> That's something I don't get: why don't they use either? The other way to look at that question is to consider who the developers were back then and what alternatives they had. Emacs or vi compares very well at first gla
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by mschaef 9y ago
> But my understanding from having interviewed people that worked there is that it's so convoluted to avoid GC pauses that you might as well be using C++. I've done a very minimal amount of this... the gist is that you avoid G
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by mschaef 9y ago
PreScheme serves the same sort of role within the Scheme48 ecosystem. It's been a while since I've looked at Scheme48, but if I remember right, the VM is written in PreScheme, which is usually compiled down to either C or machine
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by mschaef 9y ago
Cornell does something similar, using Cayuga Lake as a heat sink for their campus cooling: https://medium.com/cornell-university/lake-source-cooling-d3...
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by mschaef 9y ago
Or they could just do s/Apache/Holy/
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by mschaef 9y ago
"The train goes nowhere, but it goes there fast..." That CD is just full of gems...

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