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by pkroll 13y ago
When was it not OK to openly curse on blog posts? Blog posts are from the mass of individuals, and may contain literally anything. Why would "not just people in IT" matter...?
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by pkroll 13y ago
I don't know where I fit in the scheme of things, but I suspect people get a lot more on Amazon than you're thinking they do once they have Prime. I've got 120 orders in the last 6 months. If you take the $80/year and sp
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by pkroll 13y ago
In what way is asking someone, somewhere, to move a project to another, unnamed language, going to be more effective than actually starting a project and putting code into it? Sure, "go do it yourself" is not a pleasant response,
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by pkroll 13y ago
What they're collecting is information. Their knowledge is in how to collect all of it, and access it. That's where they're taking action.
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by pkroll 13y ago
Nothing I've seen on Hacker News would lead me to the conclusion that 2013 was the year of Go being unanimously praised. It gets flack every time a story shows up.
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by pkroll 13y ago
Since you said "at every level": optimizing via caching (at the program/memcached level) before you have otherwise made the code go as fast as it can has several problems. It can obscure future performance enhancements, may t
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by pkroll 13y ago
There was an article that mentioned ancient roman concrete survived so long not because it was STRONGER (it's about 10 times weaker than modern concrete) but because it survived the elements better. At least partially, because it was m
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by pkroll 13y ago
No: those antibacterial soaps are advertising a number that is the same as regular soap. They're no better in getting rid of bacteria, and may contribute to antibacterial resistance. http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin
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by pkroll 13y ago
Yeah, you might wanna take a read of that one again: the neighbor who wants to stop mending the fence, is making fun of the neighbor who won't stop repeating "good fences make good neighbors."
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by pkroll 13y ago
Slide incorrectly attributes the "premature optimization" quote to Hoare, but it's Knuth's. http://hans.gerwitz.com/2004/08/12/premature-optimization-is...
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by pkroll 13y ago
In that irrational assumes sentience, OK. The randomness being "we can't possibly predict all the elements that went into X happening" OK. But neither of those matters in making an abstraction: the biological components didn&
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by pkroll 13y ago
Comparing, and... nope. They were both developed within a few years of each other, and are from different paradigms, so regression seems like a cheap dig, but not an accurate one.
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by pkroll 13y ago
It can: take a look at Tech Specs, it's listed (for 30hz): http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
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by pkroll 13y ago
But, since it's very likely to record the events on video, there's substantial motivation to do things By The Book.
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by pkroll 13y ago
There were plenty of complaints from some film critics, which is a particular audience, but I don't think you can take that and say most people didn't like the high frame rate version of The Hobbit.
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by pkroll 13y ago
Has Carmack actually predicted that Haskell will be a big deal? I know he's said he WANTS functional programming to be a big deal, and that he's looking to do a Haskell-coded game or engine. But I can't find a prediction on a
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by pkroll 13y ago
When you're awake? 'cause people who have sleep apnea don't usually have any trouble breathing whatsoever either. Use your phone to record a nights sleep, or at least SOME sleep, and you might hear: snoring, no breathing, sud
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by pkroll 13y ago
+1 for the Futurama reference
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by pkroll 13y ago
Well, RPython, which is not quite the same thing. And aside from the lack of benchmarks, http://docs.topazruby.com/en/latest/current-status/ says it's "extremely incomplete" which is generally
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by pkroll 13y ago
Your issue is with Amazon's system, then, not with the affiliates themselves. It's what Amazon has set up. There are plugins to replace any Amazon Affiliate link with your own, if you're absolutely dead-set against it.
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by pkroll 13y ago
You'll also need to plug them in correctly, as they're one way: plug them in wrong and your video will play in reverse.
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by pkroll 13y ago
The closest you'll get to those for a while, is VR like the Oculus Rift, and 4K screens (tiny, phone-size ones) would help that a LOT. :)
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by pkroll 13y ago
140 comments in and no mention of TurboLinks? You hit a URL, you get the content. You click a link, it just gets the body and replaces that: no reloading the CSS, or JavaScript, so content gets rendered faster. Search engines get the actual
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by pkroll 13y ago
I asked about this in another thread that you responded to, and appreciated your answer. (Which had a bunch of links and a strong implication of "well, since you ASKED, here's what you need to go do something about it..." :)
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by pkroll 13y ago
That's disturbing. A quick Googling didn't find anything either way, can you provide a link that confirms this?
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by pkroll 13y ago
I think Rob Pike was trying to make a language to build web services. Pike, Griesemer and Thompson are all at Google, you know, where they're kind of nuts about the web. :)
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by pkroll 13y ago
It doesn't appear that there's been any real speedup on the Ruby on Rails results for the last several rounds, so... why is that? Does nobody in the community care about speed? Is there no way to speed up Rails? Is it not clear wh
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by pkroll 13y ago
Isn't there something to be said for splitting up the comments, so you don't get a single thread that covers five different points and nests forever?
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by pkroll 13y ago
Where is that documented? 'cause that's a pretty big claim.
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by pkroll 13y ago
Anyone have any luck getting this to work on a previously installed app? It seems to be getting the custom buildpack, and after reading the code a bit it seems, yes, it says it's caching the assets, but it never says it's using th

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