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by obtu 15y ago
The technical term for what CoffeeScript is doing — a compiler that doesn't need a global view of the program and does local source transformations — is a transpiler.
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by obtu 15y ago
As well as digg, for not cracking down hard enough at the time 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 was extracted.
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by obtu 15y ago
That problem, of educating elected officials about legislation that they could get informed about from well-funded lobbies instead, exists in pretty much every government. Educating the general population so that they care is also a good id
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by obtu 15y ago
I'm not sure this works for things that require a lot of precision and focus, like understanding proofs of theorems. That's probably part of the “about” caveat.
425.
by obtu 15y ago
This article was written for an audience of pointy-haired bosses, and so the meh scientific insights are followed by groundbreaking! executive! decisions!
426.
by obtu 15y ago
Too much demand is a good problem to have. Raspberry Pi is certainly counting on mass production to meet their target price; and if people still want more, competitors will spring up.
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by obtu 15y ago
Sure, Cygwin does a bit of extra wrapping. The official site and just about anybody link to msysgit, however.
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by obtu 15y ago
Possibly Linux isn't using the same compression settings?
429.
by obtu 15y ago
What is this archive step you mention in passing, and what makes Linux slow at it?
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by obtu 15y ago
For all you know you're seeing the HDD cache and not any kind of filesystem caching. evmar mentions SSD making a difference for workloads that should fit in RAM, which means HDD caching also would, for a very modest workload.
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by obtu 15y ago
Yes. You can specialise the implementation without breaking semantics. Lua, PyPy, and some Javascript VMs are examples of that.
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by obtu 15y ago
Given enough users, all bugs become features, to someone. This kind of user/product interlocking happens a lot in Microsoft software (document formats, ie6, sql, etc).
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by obtu 15y ago
Upgrades are silent and unattended. Tools build on that, sysadmins rely on that.
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by obtu 15y ago
robilad (Dalibor Topic) is the guy who spearheaded the GCJ and Classpath effort that led to Sun's JDK being GPL-ed. I don't know how I feel about him working at Oracle; is he more useful inside or outside?
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by obtu 15y ago
Not really, they're developing BtrFS for example.
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by obtu 15y ago
There is no reason to remove past versions from the archive, since the licence exception allows that. You can still pin or downgrade to that version; I don't think apt-style upgrades should be considered destructive in that sense. The choic
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by obtu 15y ago
That or specialize. Lua, Javascript, and PyPy all have more efficient storage of integer-keyed hashes. Lua's solution is particularly simple and could easily be transferred to PHP.
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by obtu 15y ago
Python has lists and dicts, and lists don't get the per-item overhead of GC-ed keys. PyPy does better than CPython and implements specialised, low-overhead storage for some dicts, lists and sets of uniform type (in 1.6, nightly builds, and
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by obtu 15y ago
Seems like Twitter censored it from the trending spot; a pity.
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by obtu 15y ago
Yes, thanks!
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by obtu 15y ago
Because this one is the letter from internet engineers. Google had to enter the lobbying game, but the view point of individuals should be more important to a society than the “money as free speech” of corporations.
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by obtu 15y ago
They had cleared most of the comments database, which is massive incompetence. I don't think they had any fallback plan.
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by obtu 15y ago
You can install both. The new multiarch support builds blahblah:i386 and blahblah (implicitly blahblah:amd64) debs for source packages that have it enabled. Before that, packages that wanted to provide i386 binaries on amd64 wrote their own
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by obtu 15y ago
I think these are best addressed with the X-UA-Compatible header, and various other ways to trigger the use of an older IE engine. Otherwise, users are offered a choice between broken legacy internal apps, or breakage on most of the rest of
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by obtu 15y ago
Great that they abandoned the “intranet apps still depend on IE6” talking point. XP still won't move past IE8, however.
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by obtu 15y ago
Here are two links that work for me: http://www.nikopik.com/2011/12/ca-telecharge-aussi-illegalem... http://www.nikopik.com.nyud.net/2011/12/ca-telecharge-aussi-...
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by obtu 15y ago
Not at all. Here's a similar idea, a thermostat with two inputs: too hot and too cold, plus some machine learning tuned for circadian rhythms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3153227
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by obtu 15y ago
The only optimisation this one has (that the article tells us about) is that passengers choose their floor, but not the elevator to get there.
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by obtu 15y ago
Way slower, because it includes vendored files I don't care about.
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by obtu 15y ago
Great Firewall?

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