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by pyalot2 13y ago
Working long hours as a matter of course is really bad for you, and your company. There's of course the personal cost you carry, being stressed and overworked constantly affects your health and happyness adversely. Productivity also su
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"Twitter announced that they need to hire less talented people that are less productive. A spokeswoman said, that though they have the necessary funds to hire the best talent they can get, they just couldn't deal with that much pr
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by pyalot2 13y ago
If you turn off everybodies fax machines right now, it's a bit of an inconvenience. If you turn the internet off right now, it's a major global disaster impacting the economy as well as every other activity of modern societies. Ad
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by pyalot2 13y ago
This behavior is encountered whenever * is expanded by the shell and has nothing to do specifically with vi or rm. I also fail to see how posting a troll comment from a mailing list from a person who fundamentally doesn't understand th
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by pyalot2 13y ago
"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law"–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes ap
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by pyalot2 13y ago
You see how the caller has to be aware of how what he's calling is a generator. You're dragging generators all the way trough the call chain as soon as anything deep down in the call chain is a generator, and you'd want to us
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by pyalot2 13y ago
In 2 weeks.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
That's a faulty assertion. A generators working principle is that it can resume into the closure if the "caller" is looping over the generator. Let's assume a simple call stack, A -> B -> C. Now C would be a genera
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by pyalot2 13y ago
How many times do I have to say this. Generator/Yields and equivalent constructs don't actually solve the callback problem, they exacerbate it. That is, because you only get to direct one call-level down, but, that's now how
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Oh give me a break. Larry (Oracle) Ellison is just trolling now. Oracle bought Sun, including their rights and obligations to a little known language called "Java". Sun was having no problem with Google using it for android. Hence
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Firefox has been working on an incremental GC
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by pyalot2 13y ago
You should stop developing apps for Google
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by pyalot2 13y ago
"Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet. We're working to bring devices to more countries as quickly as possible. Please check back again soon."
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Streisand effect
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Linux Nvidia GTX-460 binary blob drivers, works fine.
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Various sources are regurgitate the claim that building such a track would be cheaper than either a high speed rail or a highway. Maglev tracks (of any type) are much more expensive to build. Evacuated tubes safe for human transport and sta
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by pyalot2 13y ago
At least in the OpenGL world, compute shaders use more or less the same syntax as other kinds of shaders (GLSL). It's true that WebGL does not have compute shaders (and neither does OpenGL ES), yet. However OpenGL ES roughly tracks Ope
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Compute shaders solve essentially all these issues, and more. The graphics pipeline consists of programmable and semi-fixed components and it is quite often useful to interact with it. For that purpose compute shaders introduce compute kern
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Found no live-examples to run. WebCL's not supported by my browser. WebCL's not integrating with the WebGL rendering pipeline (no buffer sharing, no atomic synchroniczation primitives etc.) I'd suggest solving a few fundament
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by pyalot2 13y ago
In order to mine bitcoins you need not just powerful hardware, you need the right kind of hardware, the kind that is very hard to come by (custom tailored ASICs). The current network hashrate (about 180 terra hashes per second) outclasses a
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Yes, the distribution of coins isn't egalitarian (early adopters get more, later adopters get fewer). Yes there is a fair deal of manipulation (pump&dump and all that and more). No it's not a kill-switch. In order to exercise
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Mozilla isn't reluctant. They can't implement the DRM because the license to redistribute the proprietary DRM plugin is such that they couldn't offer their browser under the license they've been offering it.
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And thanks to HTML DRM Netflix will now remain the only provider with a non-zero chance of succeeding. Great Job all around, pat on the back to the monopoly holders. Well done.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
And now netflix is also not interested to be streaming to FirefoxOS, Firefox browsers, Opera, Ouya, and upcoming new device from Kickstarter, and so forth.
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flash and silverlight have gone trough an evolution where they are obligated to respect a users privacy and not to allow doing arbitrary things (like installing a rootkit on a machine) because of that. The DRM plugins being more or less dir
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by pyalot2 13y ago
And if you want to use netflix, just use something else than Linux and/or Firefox. It's perfectly fine that competing OS vendors (like Apple and Microsoft) make linux less attractive by way of a standard. It's also perfectly
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The firefox source won't contain the DRM crap. It is such that Mozilla cannot support it. Microsoft and Google (browser vendors) are colluding to freeze out Mozilla.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The defendants: * Netflix * BBC * Microsoft * Google * MPAA * W3C The offenses: * Multiple monopoly holders collude to lock out the competition * Discriminating against minority browser/OS platforms (such as firefox, linux, ouya etc.)
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Well, let me just put on my tinfoil hat. Other commenter on the thread pointed to a paper demonstrating how pretty every car control function can be hacked and overriden. It can even be rigged to self-erase after crash. And I'm guessin
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by pyalot2 13y ago
That's a wild paper :) "maliciously bridging between our car’s two internal subnets" "we demonstrate the ability to adversarially control a wide range of automotive functions and completely ignore driver input" &quo

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