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by pekk 9y ago
Can you share an instance where you actually needed a btree? What made it a true need (business need of some kind maybe_ and not just a measurable difference?
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by pekk 9y ago
PIA has already supported Freenode for a long time. In return, Freenode has consistently sabotaged the Tor service so that the only way to connect safely is with a VPN.
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by pekk 9y ago
Or maybe instead of a distro, we could define certain conventions for interoperability that all distributions had to follow. We could call it the "Linux Standard Base." But looking into my crystal ball, it might not work out well
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by pekk 9y ago
Windows packaging isn't all it's cracked up to be. There is no standard package repository, the norm is just to distribute executables of various kinds, the process of building installers is not that simple... "Starting deb a
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by pekk 9y ago
By this logic, BSD developers should just work on the Linux kernel. Or is it the other way around? And nobody should ever make anything new. But this reasoning would have said not to make Linux to begin with, because there was already e.g.
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by pekk 9y ago
"Spending resources for a 3rd one" 1. Doubling the number of people on a project does not double the speed of its production. It may actually hurt matters. This is the classic problem of estimating with man-hours and ignoring coor
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by pekk 9y ago
I know the pain of searching for software to meet your requirements. But unless you have a friend you can really trust to provide informed recommendations, nobody can take this pain away for you. If all require projects to say negative thin
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by pekk 9y ago
In what way is Ubuntu not for humans to use? I don't know what youtube-dl even is, why should your personal interest be the top priority of Ubuntu and when it doesn't work evidence that Ubuntu isn't fit for humans?
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by pekk 10y ago
Not at all, it's very good and would be the right thing if you wanted to be able to buy books from their store.
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by pekk 10y ago
The people complaining about performance are always going to be louder.
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by pekk 10y ago
R is old. R always had math. That's not new. Python always had a lot of other things. Strange depiction.
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by pekk 10y ago
What is the point of GPLv3 if it is not allowed to have any difference from GPLv2?
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by pekk 10y ago
If you're going to say that the GPL is viral because it applies to derivative works, then almost any license is viral because the license of any work follows it around. That is the nature of licenses. Anyone who expects to copy-paste o
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by pekk 10y ago
GPL doesn't "taint" codebases. It is deliberately applied to code by the people who write it, knowing what it is. It's not an inferior version of a BSD license. It's a different license. If you don't want your
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by pekk 10y ago
Pascal has null. Does that mean it is dynamically typed?
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by pekk 10y ago
You're right that these arguments apply to many languages, but they're not tautological or nonsensical and the choice of Lisp (like many other choices) can be defended.
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by pekk 10y ago
"Optimization" describes the result, not the implementation. Unless you consider intelligence to be average-suboptimal, it's entirely reasonable to say that it's about optimization without committing you to any claim abo
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by pekk 10y ago
Having read a lot of what he's said, he uses words and phrases in an idiosyncratic way that isn't the same as they would be used by, say, a politician. He may or may not be racist, but he's schizophrenic so we should probably
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by pekk 10y ago
You offer interpretations of several sentences. These interpretations are guesswork. Even if we take your interpretations as perfectly correct, they don't knit together into any coherent message. The man is schizophrenic. You are holdi
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by pekk 10y ago
Did you pay attention to what TempleOS is for? Do you know what it was like to program for the C64? It is ring 0 only on purpose! That's the whole point! The idea that someone would go into a thread about TempleOS, trash TempleOS for o
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by pekk 10y ago
Actually all the times I've read him use the word "niggers" (and it is an offensive word, I won't dispute that) he actually means something different than you would expect.
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by pekk 10y ago
640x480 isn't a crazy convention at all when you understand what is required to interface with the display hardware and you remember the goals of TempleOS. He wanted to recapture transparency of the C64 system in a 64-bit system. It&#x
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by pekk 10y ago
Do you know how much you could do in a month but can't because of bad design choices, overengineered type systems, and dogmatic adherence to the 'every application needs to be written in the language with the best benchmark numb
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by pekk 10y ago
If you had made this comment to the introduction of HTTP itself, I would today be hailing you as a visionary
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by pekk 10y ago
Many other languages have industrial support, a proven toolchain, and are known by a lot of candidates: Java, C#, modern C... this is if we restrict ourselves to only the most popular languages with compile-time type enforcement, which is f
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by pekk 10y ago
And the disadvantage is that you have to pick and choose them after learning about all of them, and you have to deal with the choices made by whatever other code you have to work with, and you have to reason about all the combinations. For
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by pekk 10y ago
That isn't a fact, just a personal opinion. Disagreement with that opinion isn't a matter of ego or having an outdated view. A lot of people have looked hard at the language and actually tested it out and found many actual flaws.
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by pekk 10y ago
If you are going to "throw everything in IO" then what advantage does Haskell have?
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by pekk 10y ago
If you are more proficient in Lisp than Python, your Lisp will be more readable than your Python.
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by pekk 10y ago
It's 2017, weren't we all supposed to be living on soylent by now?

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