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by orib 18y ago
What if the answer was yes? There are some things C or C++ are just better at, like operating in a low-memory environment when you want to squeeze as much as possible out of the system. Sure, GC is nice and all, but for things to work well
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by orib 18y ago
Because Windows PCs are well known to be friendly to developers, with a lovely, powerful Win32 API that's a joy to use, has no horrible warts and... oh. wait. Thanks to an accident of history (NeXT) combined with Apple killing backwards com
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by orib 18y ago
As I said, I have no clue on how Redhat's paid support compares to Sun's, although I know they hire lots of developers working on things throughout the entire stack, so I'm assuming that if you paid enough they'd set one of their developers
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by orib 18y ago
Wow, I never expected to see a parody of the Sunscreen Marketing Board sketch. And it's all good advice, no less.
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by orib 18y ago
If you pay for support, you get support. I doubt that there would have been much difference in your experience if you were paying for a support contract with one of the larger Linux distributors, like Redhat or Novell. Linux doesn't mean yo
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by orib 18y ago
Induction isn't the core of it. The idea is that you try to find counterexamples in science, and you don't have proofs in the general sense. Ever. The best you can say is that "If I guessed right, then I have math that worked out." Nothin
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by orib 18y ago
Computer science is not a science. It is a math. Science is the attempt to find counterexamples to disprove your ideas on how a given system behaves. It involves conducting experiments to give input data for constructing a model, and then
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by orib 18y ago
Which, when you look at it, is just another name for "undefined". It didn't solve anything, and seemed to me like a bad troll on the mathematical community.
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by orib 18y ago
Doesn't matter. Any distro that's worth using is just fine as a server. Just use whatever you use on a desktop to minimize niggly almost-the-same-but-not-quite annoyances between them, and you'll be happy. Personally, I like Debian Testing
100.
by orib 18y ago
Oh god no. Let MDI die like it needs to, please!
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by orib 18y ago
Interesting. Got any links about the approach you're taking to decide what would be optimal? It seems like that would be a very difficult problem.
102.
by orib 18y ago
Interesting. I suppose it depends on what you're doing, but I typically see the speed taken getting cut to half vs -O and -O2 in C/GCC, so things will typically run at 50% the speed. Flipping around between -O, -O2, and -O3 don't make much
103.
by orib 18y ago
I think you missed the sarcasm.
104.
by orib 18y ago
Since when did the cloud mean non-relational data stores? For that matter, since when did the cloud mean anything concrete * ? I've heard cloud computing describe more ideas (all of them ancient) than almost any other term in computing. Yes
105.
by orib 18y ago
What if the iPhone was like a product, and we subjected it to the same standards as any other product out on the market? Just a thought, you know.
106.
by orib 18y ago
You're always in a box, but it's not necessarily a cubic box, and it usually has more odd nooks and crannies than you'd expect. Most people restrict themselves to a certain well-explored subset of your problem space. The trick is to explore
107.
by orib 18y ago
This sort of thing wouldn't be competing with Linux. It would be far closer to competing with Nessus (the Blackberry OS) or FIRST Robotic's PIC "OS" or some other small embedded systems, instead of being a destktop OS. to horribly abuse Fey
108.
by orib 18y ago
The point is that it's supposed to be a Squeak VM running directly on hardware. (So converting the VM to a CM -- Concrete Machine; yes, I did just coin that term). Running C code would mostly defeat the purpose. Also, in a way it is an OS,
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by orib 18y ago
I disagree. Doctor Who would definitely have used a machine that you've probably never seen before. Something quirky that you'd never know how to use if you had never seen it without training. Perhaps an SGI O2 running a customized Slackwar
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by orib 18y ago
Women who go into computing do it because they think that it will benefit them them more than the generalizations about women will annoy them.
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by orib 18y ago
Science is also not the unqualified saying loudly "LALALA I CANT HEAR YOU". In many cases he's simply dead wrong, but people listen because what he says is more pleasant than the truth. We're running out of resources (not just oil. Copper,
112.
by orib 18y ago
A suggestion and a possible monetization idea - don't sell to students. Make schools your target. They buy a copy of your app and put it on their servers. Make it possible for teachers to push out assignments to it. It also makes the thing
113.
by orib 18y ago
You can be happy without being "normal". Normalcy is overrated. Balance, on the other hand, isn't. Go out and start meeting people. A good place to start is some sort of relatively geeky but non-computer oriented event. SCA, perhaps? Pick s
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by orib 18y ago
Uh, What ? Mainstream hardware support from OSX? Not only does it have poor support for common hardware, it has artificially restricted support. What it does support, it supports reasonably well, but that hardly qualifies OSX as a system t
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by orib 18y ago
It also makes it impossible to DRM non-Apple provided files on Apple devices. As much as I'd like to see DRM go away, if it has to exist, there had better be one spec that lets me buy from any store to play on any device.
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by orib 18y ago
For some reason that typo gave me a rather amusing mental image of the neighbor's kid trying to eat your lawn ("shove it in his maw"). Yeah. Stupid brain making connections where they don't exist.
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by orib 18y ago
They haven't been very easy to defend for about 4 or so years now. I've been saying that although Apple's products are technically nicer than Microsoft's at the moment, I'd rather see MS in a position of dominance than Apple, just based on
118.
by orib 18y ago
The problem is that plain language is full of loopholes and double meanings. Legalese is hard to understand, but it tries to be precise and loophole-free.
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by orib 18y ago
And a whole lot of "wait, what tree does this code map to again?" With lisp, there's no difficulty mapping: int main(int x) {foo()} to Method m = new Method(return:=new Type(int), args := new ArgList(
120.
by orib 18y ago
I don't see why this got downmodded. XKCD and Dilbert are awesome, but everyone already knows about them. I went there with hopes of seeing some new stuff (and I did, but not as much as I wanted to see)

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