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by orib 18y ago
I think we're in agreement on that, and you just repeated my point =)
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by orib 18y ago
true. However today any given field can be covered to a far greater depth than one person can be familiar with as well. 500 or 600 years ago, science was just smaller. Half a millenium ago, I could probably know everything about the cutting
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by orib 18y ago
Personally, I read it and half-agreed, half-disagreed. Her ideals are powerful and moving. It would be great if people could be like that, but they aren't. Plus, her characters seem to have a few too many tantrums and blow up buildings ;-)
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by orib 18y ago
Not only that, but Google tries to be too smart. Years ago, when I searched for "x y z", google would only return results for "x y z". Now it returns results with things resemblying x, y, and z, most of which are NOT what I was searching fo
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by orib 18y ago
Because there are relatively poor alternatives to it. Think of it this way -- if people were used to T9 interfaces on phones, and you had a T9 pad for a computer, then most programmers would be entering their code using T9 because it's hard
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by orib 18y ago
Sorry, but this is inane. Just because your son sucks at writing doesn't mean that the pen is obsolete. Paper isn't going anywhere. It's still the simplest, cheapest, and most robust of recording information on the fly, and nothing on the h
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by orib 18y ago
Interesting; Many of my calculus classes -- university especially, but also high school -- didn't (don't) allow using a calculator at all on the tests. My university specifically mandates one model of calculator for all students. This model
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by orib 18y ago
Because it's control and monitoring , and the internet is the easiest way of sending around small chunks of data that you recorded to colleagues around the world.
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by orib 18y ago
The problem with common sense is that it's not so common. Good advice is often simply common sense once you realize what's being said.
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by orib 18y ago
Yes, precisely. This is the point at which you say "I may be indirectly supporting the slaughter of animals financially, but I need to eat. The benefits outweigh the costs, and I'm reducing the demand for meat. I hope that will make a diff
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by orib 18y ago
Or (I can't speak for him, but this is what I took away from it) is that he doesn't believe in test driven development. For what it's worth, I think elements of it are nice, but it's often taken too far.
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by orib 18y ago
Seriously, go talk to some real people. You're way overestimating the average user. Many of them ( cough my family cough ) don't know the difference between Windows and Office. Many of them don't understand that the internet doesnt co
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by orib 18y ago
Why is S3 different? "My data is on other people's machines" is still the case there. Encrypt it before you send out the blocks, and you're exactly where S3 is.
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by orib 18y ago
What's the difference between financially supporting someone who would do evil, and doing it yourself? Is hiring a hitman wrong? Is shopping at a known hitman's store, knowing that the profits he makes will be invested into killing wrong? I
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by orib 18y ago
Who said it had to be serious? A sense of humor is always something I enjoy in products I use. a Unix system just isn't a Unix system without the bsd-games package! Silly easter eggs just make programs more fun to use; it gives them a bit o
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by orib 18y ago
The way I use it is by not logging in at all. I've set it to email me on events, and I click the links in the mails. Other than occasionally looking at event pictures, I don't even look at Facebook pages.
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by orib 18y ago
Google is failing me now and I've got class in the morning, but you can find benchmarks comparing Lua-JIT and V8, and Lua-JIT beats V8. Lua-JIT is quite a bit slower than native code. Depending on what you're doing/benchmarking it seems to
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by orib 18y ago
More or less, web applications will continue to suck as long as they have a browser jammed around them. The browser is a lame application platform; the internet itself is important; it means that your apps are up to date, it means that you
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by orib 18y ago
Chrome is an OS in the same sense that the Java VM is an OS. In other words, none to speak of.
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by orib 18y ago
Yep, especially with tools like kcachegrind for visualizing the output of valgrind's profiler (valgrind --tool=callgrind)
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by orib 18y ago
Both debuggers and printf()s have their place. I use both heavily with debugging; DDD's data graph view ( http://www.icewalkers.com/scr/n1350/ddd.jpg ) is especially invaluable when debugging data structures in C.
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by orib 18y ago
Culturally, cars are status symbols. Computers aren't (except in small geek circles, sometimes). When you pay extra for a car, you're paying for prestige. When you pay extra for a computer... well... you're paying extra. Apple is trying to
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by orib 18y ago
The idea isn't a bad idea; Google isn't going to be the best search engine forever. (there are friends who swear that Yahoo has better results for them); Eventually they'll be unseated. just not by Cuil, because they did it so badly, and th
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by orib 18y ago
In one word: Cuil. How would you rate their chances now that they established themselves as a high-profile failure?
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by orib 18y ago
Yes, but the typical data access patterns differ between threads and processes. Again, this architecture makes sense for the "lots of totally independent processes" case. The problem is that this case isn't as common as you'd expect. on Lin
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by orib 18y ago
If that's the way they're doing it, then it sounds bad. Why? Because the "working quite well" is only really valid for single threads with no shared data structures. In other words, when you pretend a thread is a process. As soon as you hav
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by orib 18y ago
A browser window. This is a Javascript wrapper, which means that browsers can execute it. Browsers can't execute Objective C. I'm not sure why these people felt they needed a wrapper around Javascript, which already has it's own fairly dyna
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by orib 18y ago
Ah. So you propose writing a Javascript compiler that spits out a dynamically linkable, PIC executable for multiple architectures using semi-static assembly, and then using that to write V8? Otherwise, if you simply dump a raw image you've
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by orib 18y ago
Because you would need to bootstrap it every time you want to run it, since Javascript is interpreted. This means you'd need a 3rd party Javascript interpreter to run your Javascript interpreter.
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by orib 18y ago
If only the comic wasn't so horribly overmarketed. Seriously, I haven't tried Chrome yet since I don't have a windows box, so I'm holding off judgement, but all the overenthusiastic, arrogant, and annoying marketing crap in the comic has al

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