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by newt0311 18y ago
good point. data centers do not have their own military contingent like navy aircraft carriers. Wonder what that does to the cost equation. It seems to be somewhat fixed so if we make this big enough... One could also try different technolo
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by newt0311 18y ago
Instead of untested wind farms on liners, why not just use nuclear power. It is well tested (think aircraft carriers). Furthermore, while such a reactor may need fuel and disposal services, the wind farms will likely also require spare part
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by newt0311 18y ago
Right on. This is where lisp shines. Since inbuilt special forms and added libraries are indistinguishable from each other and since advanced functionality like macros are available, it allows one to write a DSL in lisp. Its very nice. PS
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by newt0311 18y ago
Well... If you would like to go into CS a little with some rigor, a book on compilers would actually be very helpful, if only because compilers have to deal with some of the most complex problems in CS today. I would advise starting with th
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by newt0311 18y ago
Half right, half wrong. Lifting weights in isolation is useful but not particularly. However lifting weights with some exercise for careful movement control like Tai Chi is the best combo. Tai Chi just by itself is useful but without some a
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by newt0311 18y ago
Thing that I didn't like: No linux version.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Actually in lisp (and scheme as scheme is a dialect of lisp), the line between library and language is so fuzzy that its practically invisible.
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by newt0311 18y ago
regulated because the government controls all the customers -- the elementary, middle, and high schools. It may not be direct regulation but it is dependent on government regulations all the same.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Comcast deserves some praise for this. They could have just continued with a stealth limit and let their customers ignore it but by placing an explicit 250 GB limit, they are offering more information to the customer and helping the custome
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by newt0311 18y ago
No. You were right that with large inputs the program stack will blow up. However, the definition of tail recursive is if a function returns the value of a recursive call or does not make a recursive call and the factorial and Fibonacci fu
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by newt0311 18y ago
Nope. Its worse. The solutions given in the book for the Fibonacci sequence and the factorial won't be optimized into tail recursion even in scheme unless some additional transformations were carried out on them first. In the factorial sequ
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by newt0311 18y ago
Agreed. The FSF and the GPL no longer stand for the truly free software that we all know and love.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Just wondering, how much of that is due to the query optimizer in MySQL and how much is due to the inherent nature of SQL? It would be interesting to try this on other RDBMSs like postgres and oracle to see what their results are like.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Doesn't synthetic ammonia production currently rely on petroleum? Also, the other major use for ammonia is as a major fertilizer for food products. Your ammonia idea will spike the food prices just like ethanol except that it will strike ev
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by newt0311 18y ago
Stacking would be the wrong way to go about it. With ZFS, you could still get 99.99999...% but with only a slight percentage increase in necessary storage space.
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by newt0311 18y ago
It is completely unacceptable for a normal FS. Something a bit more advanced like ZFS may be able to cope. What I am wondering about is why amazon didn't implement such a solution on a massive scale themselves and then run EBS on top of it.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Agreed. I would love to buy one if the price drops anywhere below $100. From what I can tell, this is also in the creator's best interest as that is the natural direction for this project -- One in every household.
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by newt0311 18y ago
The article makes quite a few good points. Then again, thats not very hard with C++.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Tragedy of the commons is a prisoner's dilemma type of situation but is indeed a better analogy here.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Isn't the right solution to make C NULLs a unique value or at least get rid of them now that a better replacement is here. Seriously, have 5 different ways of doing the same thing is how perl became a hell hole for anything more than 10 lin
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by newt0311 18y ago
Small point. There is a prisoner's dilemma here. As profanity is used more and more often, it becomes less jarring (consider bloody, bloomin, etc.. as examples of prior swear words). Thus, they their very use, these words become less useful
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by newt0311 18y ago
Hmm. This would be a great opportunity for the airlines to sue the TSA for the lost time.
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by newt0311 18y ago
All hail the bloat-lords. PS. Why are the additions of nullptr, and strongly typed enums a good thing? and doesn't C++ already have a NULL from C?
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by newt0311 18y ago
Thats even worse for us. China's top few percent is a lot larger than ours and considering the ratio of graduates in technical fields, is going to stay that way.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Math is easy to explain. The only place where a student can be exposed to real mathematics is in select universities. All the other places teach arithmetic which is most useful to a dumb calculator. The central problem with teaching arith
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by newt0311 18y ago
The malloc tax is unavoidable unless you use an accurate relocation GC which for a language like C++ is basically impossible.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Another excellent point: C. C is absolutely wonderful for writing low-level code like kernels, device drivers, and language interpreters. For anything else, it is atrocious. The problem is that these two spheres require drastically differen
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by newt0311 18y ago
Why not just use the boehm GC?
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by newt0311 18y ago
I should point out that not all contracting agencies are like that. Quite a few of them don't fabricate candidate's CV and some even have their own technical screening procedures.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Better strategy: drop MySQL and move to postgres.

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