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by nspattak 6y ago
Well, netflix's product is the content they serve and one logs on netflix to consume its content. FB or google are supposed to offer other "services" for "free" and end up abusing that in order to shove ads down you
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by nspattak 6y ago
I suspect, though I haven't tested as I can not, that this would be the case for MOST papers in every field that uses code to reach its results.
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by nspattak 7y ago
I think that this will depend on the actual performance of the CPU. While apple is a huge manufacturer, MS did choose to use them in their surface laptops. And as much as I wanted the previous mobile ryzen cpus to take off, most of the revi
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by nspattak 7y ago
I moved to France a few years ago. I did know that French don't know English as much as they do not want to speak English yet I am still amazed by how much. I think that the main reason for that is that they have their own French speak
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by nspattak 8y ago
I had a french feeling when I read the word "association". I confirmed it originates from France when I checked their "about" tab. I like their idea but I hate it when the front page is in english as if this is a world w
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by nspattak 8y ago
How much is 1.2 terabyte of debt? :P
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by nspattak 8y ago
I agree that there are definitely a lot of differences between developers in an academic environment to the ones in a corporate environment. I would expect that this counts in favor of the title and not against it. How many of the "pro
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by nspattak 8y ago
Really interesting post. I have often worked in such a mess of a code even though in orders of magnitude smaller code bases with only a few developers. I would never imagine a project like oracle is like this. Since there seem to be a numbe
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by nspattak 8y ago
the first part of your last sentence: Welcome to Balkans!
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by nspattak 8y ago
I have been intrigued to learn D for a long time now but I never had the time to tinker with it before learning other languages that are more widely used. Are there any reasons - in your opinion - which should make one start tinkering with
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by nspattak 8y ago
Reporting from Greece: 1) most unemployed people are not entitled to any kind of allowance. There are big groups of unemployed people (women, people aged 50+, specialized workers eg constructor workers ) who have given up the hope to find a
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by nspattak 9y ago
I skimmed through the code and I am interested to see what it is doing, so thanks. However from a high design point of view, don't you think that requiring 3D acceleration contradicts the "minimal fast text editor" ?
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by nspattak 9y ago
No it is not. Environmental problems will continue to exist and actually increase even if the earth population was suddenly half by this afternoon. The problem comes from the careless use of technological advancements. Advancements which ha
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by nspattak 9y ago
I couldn't agree more. IMO, not wanting children for one's personal reasons is perfectly fine, there is no need to make it look like there is a higher noble reason behind it. IMNSHO what is completely unacceptable is having childr
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by nspattak 9y ago
I found the learnopengl.com web site to be an amazing resource, it is of similar quality to a good book! Thanks Mr. De Vries.
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by nspattak 9y ago
"users" of Makefiles are actually developers, not secretaries, pensioners or architects. They should at least understand tradeoffs and choose accordingly. Developers are used to not using spaces: oneStupidClass or AnotherStillStup
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by nspattak 9y ago
I am so sick and tired of disgusting C code that I would argue that it is only easy to learn how to write a code in C that compiles but not to learn how to implement projects in C. In fact if I could, I would like that writing in C was proh
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by nspattak 9y ago
I do not understand what exactly you are claiming in your first paragraph. You say that you have never had to pay for an article yet you "have been on both sides of the fetch for a friend" which strictly speaking (and despite how
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by nspattak 9y ago
I understand the situations you are describing and I still have the impression that the main problem behind this is inadequate leadership (and probably at several layers...). There are more than enough Real Programmers or lacking soft eng w
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by nspattak 9y ago
Well, the "in the eye of ... with no proper evaluation" argument can be had for a lot of other aspects of software development and product management, doesn't it?
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by nspattak 9y ago
So if I get your argument correctly: Developers learn a new language that is faster to develop, safer and faster to run than existing solutions (which work but are of increased technical debt) and successfully & quickly port the existin
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by nspattak 9y ago
to be fair though, these are not server processors, they belong in the office not in a data center.
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by nspattak 9y ago
I hate to be the one to say it but this looks very one-sided to me: is 1-20% of a performance benefit really a "It gives you great performance at light-duty applications and generally can't be touched by the Threadripper 1950X in
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by nspattak 9y ago
because applications are written with the "if it is not un acceptable it is acceptably fast" mindset
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by nspattak 9y ago
Extra PCIe lanes mean more peripherals might be available on a system, eg more GPUs and/or hard disks and/or other IO devices.
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by nspattak 9y ago
As already said, funding a company is not fair competition. If governments (us, eu, etc) cared for competition in this market (or any other tbh) they could have simply enforced the fair market regulations. Instead they chose to ignore the u
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by nspattak 9y ago
As much as I would love to see blizzard's code, it is their intellectual property. This is nothing similar to wikileaks. Wikileaks publishes information that should have been public because it is of public interest and relates to the p
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by nspattak 10y ago
Damn, am I the only one who doesn't feel long ago when we were looking for 64bit distributions to test owr brand new opterons? Arch did not exist at the time(if I remember well).
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by nspattak 10y ago
The EU is nowehere near what its declaration stated. aka there are fundamental problems in this union which the EU is trying to hide under the carpet but they can not be hidden. What I find surprising is that it is the British who first dec
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by nspattak 11y ago
Do one thing and do one thing well doesn't equal do one simple thing. Furthermore, ls can actually do One Thing Only if this is enough for you and that is plain ls. What would be the better alternative? Have multiple ls, ls-color, ls-l

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