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by oconnore 15y ago
> Something like this needs months of usability testing. Seeing as how 12.04 is many months away, I don't understand your disagreement.
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by oconnore 15y ago
More importantly, to most of us Amit is just as much a stranger as the millions of other people who are touched by leukemia and cancer in general. Make sure you are donating in one way or another.
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by oconnore 15y ago
My problem with this is the 4th tenet: "Responding to change over following a plan". Some tasks require lots of planning. When you are building a complex system, you cannot plan as you go, and in some cases your first usable release cannot
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by oconnore 15y ago
My anecdotal rebuttal of his anecdotal accusation is that there are plenty of startups where drug culture is non existent, and doing drugs (ignoring 'reasonable' alcohol/nicotine consumption) would be looked down upon. That said, I look for
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by oconnore 15y ago
256 attempts is the upper bound. The expected value of attempts should be 128.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Charging less would help. Purchasing the game is significantly more convenient than downloading one from the community which may or may not have bugs or malware installed. The only reason that torrenting is competitive with the legal game m
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by oconnore 15y ago
The "politely ask it to stop" paradigm is not a solution. For it to work, your thread cannot perform any blocking calls, nor can it call out to any long running functions that are not specifically designed to check a stop flag frequently.
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by oconnore 15y ago
> The reason people use threads very heavily in (say) Java is that it is the way things are done effectively on that platform, because there isn't really anything better. It's not because it is globally the best way to do things in ever
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by oconnore 15y ago
The premise of that quote is that something is missing in both languages. In that context, your question is sort of absurd.
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by oconnore 15y ago
> Because I'm not aware of one, as long as you don't try to write Java code in Python. That means you are aware of one. Anyways, I guess I have my answer, performance problems just aren't very common for many programmers. Keep in mind t
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by oconnore 15y ago
Seeing how the internals of Python are designed, I can't help but wonder how programmers don't flock to lisp compilers. The dynamic language without a GIL problem has already been solved, as has the optimization problem. The amount of work
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by oconnore 15y ago
Also, I can't help but think that SOPA would be dead in ~1 hour if Google pulled the plug on Youtube.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Cloudflare karma at work.
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by oconnore 15y ago
$ python3 Python 3.2.2 (default, Nov 21 2011, 05:01:42) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print('hello world') # <-- Unicode!
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by oconnore 15y ago
And air travel is less efficient, noisier, and dependent on fossil fuels than gliding over a maglev track.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Basically the 'card' is in your phone, which has a battery and a CPU, so it can secure the communication of your identity which is tied to your bank information. The radio frequency is identical.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Since when has the burden of proof been with the accused? Do either of these women have evidence other than their own testimony?
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by oconnore 15y ago
> In a garbage collected language, nothing expresses ownership, and so while you not be at risk of memory leaks, you're still vulnerable to all the other bugs that come with aliasing mutable objects. You are conflating required languag
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by oconnore 15y ago
No, because you can offend people without bigotry, and you can be entirely respectful without being PC. The scope of things that can offend the people around you is essentially limitless. Failure to tip toe around your audience's sensitivit
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by oconnore 15y ago
That is not political correctness, that is basic respect for a fellow human being. Political correctness goes much farther.
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by oconnore 15y ago
It really doesn't, sorry. I have no idea what any of that means, and I don't even understand what exactly my bone marrow does, never mind how much of it I can lose before something bad happens. I have lost blood before, like when I scraped
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by oconnore 15y ago
IGNORANCE: The concept of donating bone marrow terrifies me. I imagine a doctor drilling into my skeleton and using a large needle to suck out the gooey stuff that makes my blood. It sounds absolutely horrific. If I were ever to consider
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by oconnore 15y ago
In general, useful is a good thing. A tool that washes your clothes for you is useful, and good. A tool that hammers nails for you is useful, and also good. Now, a tool that judges what you are reading is useful, but is it good?
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by oconnore 15y ago
As a programmer, I can make my programs do whatever I please. If I want to autosave all of my documents, I can write an Emacs script to save after every hundred keypresses. If I want greater security, I can write a tool to encrypt my files
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by oconnore 15y ago
>> Plan9 keeps being mentioned, but do regular users understand it? (Is there a "this is why we do things, and this is why that's good" written for people who haven't written their own compiler?) > Yes, y
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by oconnore 15y ago
For enough time and money dumped into code auditing and hiring smart people, no. Not that most companies should do that, but it is possible if you want to pay for it. Most companies (rightly) prioritize innovation, scalability and profit ma
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by oconnore 15y ago
I am making no such assumption. See [1] in my original post. I already talked about intersection. Feel free to add Y3K to the list of nuclear war, chinese hackers, etc. The intersection is incredibly small, and not something that I am going
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by oconnore 15y ago
I'm flattered. I don't have a SF account but feel free to copy/paste if you think they would enjoy reading it.
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by oconnore 15y ago
No, three 9 reliability for a single server. 1-.001^3 = .999999999, which is under a second expected per year, which the client will never notice even with good monitoring tools, and therefore will never invoke the contract.
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by oconnore 15y ago
I don't understand what the issue is. The client wants you to plan for disaster, and they aren't math oriented, so asking for 100% probability sounds reasonable. The engineer, as engineers are prone to do, remembered his first day of prob&#

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