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721.
by rictic 14y ago
"everything" seems unfair. Firefox has had sockets for a while and has also chosen to make them available to extensions only. Even Java Applets back in the day supported sockets only if you jumped through a bunch of hoops (if I recall corre
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by rictic 14y ago
The first two sentences of your comment are unrelated to the rest. The "I'm a pretty big deal" thing is just a joke. A lot of the greats have spun bits around it over the years (I think Steve Martin is among the best). That is exactly 0 d
723.
by rictic 14y ago
This wasn't someone who was telling insulting jokes just to get laughs. This was someone whose repeatedly stated and well known opinion is that a historically repressed group don't have an equal or valid place in the workplace. It's not a j
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by rictic 14y ago
It may have been on them in some sense, but it certainly didn't have much of an impact there. People didn't write apps for those phones in any numbers. The world wouldn't look very different today if those phones had run a completely differ
725.
by rictic 14y ago
Would this mean that it would be dangerous to read API documentation for potential competitors? Would it mean that you'd be in danger of violating copyright if you implemented a compatible implementation of someone else's API? Would it mean
726.
by rictic 15y ago
I haven't heard anyone besides mchurch cite number of CLs as a productivity measure. Lines of code sometimes, but not CLs. Sometimes it's just not worth it to break a large, cross-cutting change up into small chunks. That said I do vastly p
727.
by rictic 15y ago
Part of the objection raised here is that the php maintainers are not amenable to fixing these problems with the language. Maintaining a private fork of the language with different semantics is both a recipe for disaster and at best a local
728.
by rictic 15y ago
Hm, I'll admit I've spread a bit of misinformation on that matter myself, thanks for the correction. The source for my confusion (and I suspect others as well) was some comments around the time hip hop was made public that it basically wasn
729.
by rictic 15y ago
No, this is more like writing a long, well reasoned, extensively researched article with the thesis "McDonalds food is unhealthy". It is a public good. No one in this comment section is saying to you "stop using php on this project you're d
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by rictic 15y ago
It isn't just snobbery (though I'm not denying that there's going to be an element of that in the comments, languages make people get religious and weird). Being called in to do maintenance on a php project sends a stab of dread through the
731.
by rictic 15y ago
Why currency and not cycles? The VM is designed to give each CPU ~100k cycles per second (billed per instruction).
732.
by rictic 15y ago
The adjacent tweet from the CEO mentions Shay by name. I'm usually a stickler for this kind of thing as well, but this one reads as entirely unambiguous to me.
733.
by rictic 15y ago
I think they hit the right compromise here. As you said you can give up and pass on the word. If you get the word early then it shows you the final drawing then moves on to the next turn. Not allowing someone to skip to the final drawing wh
734.
by rictic 15y ago
I read it as an exercise in science fiction, and imagining what will be possible with stuff that's not far beyond the current state of the art. Yes all of these ideas are unworkable right now. The shocking thing, when I stopped to think abo
735.
by rictic 15y ago
On reflection, the bullshit comment was overblown. The author was not trying to be deceptive or anything. I take it back.
736.
by rictic 15y ago
I don't think that you have any objection with the Chrome team writing their own (presumably open source) DNS client (or at least if you do I'm unable to see why). To try and guess your objection (please correct me if I'm misreading), this
737.
by rictic 15y ago
Why then is len special? Should we also have builtins to add to a collection? If it is good design there, should others repeat it? For example, if a module author is defining a new protocol for a set of objects that anyone can implement sho
738.
by rictic 15y ago
len and __len__ may have made sense when they were first implemented, I do not disagree. Having tutored students learning python as their first experience programming, I recall that it was confusing that len was a function which merely call
739.
by rictic 15y ago
I love python. It took a while but it has won me over, and I've come to appreciate its commitment to legibility and consistency. At this point it only loses out to javascript in my heart because javascript is universally deployed on users'
740.
by rictic 15y ago
It seems like you're miscommunicating over where to delineate the product. You are right that the marginal cost of the Nth copy of a particular film is about zero. The marginal cost of making the Nth film is still decidedly nonzero.
741.
by rictic 15y ago
False equivalency, eschewing credit cards is different than not paying them. If you make enough comments that are bad enough then your account is likely to be banned. If that's your goal then at some point along the way you'll be only three
742.
by rictic 15y ago
Don't underestimate the power of the web though. For a new student/user, there's a big difference between step 1 being "click this link" rather than "follow this intimidating installation process". Javascript is not ideal, but it's quite go
743.
by rictic 15y ago
re: high traffic. A buddy and I hosted the static parts of our privacy activism page youropenbook on github pages (it was initially all static). This was during the privacy scandal of spring 2010 and as our traffic really ramped up we sent
744.
by rictic 15y ago
Are you confident that you're comparing apples to apples there, and not e.g. pageviews to http requests?
745.
by rictic 15y ago
I downvoted because the parent misread the article and as a consequence is taking a strong stand from a misinformed starting point. The discussion that results will not likely be very interesting.
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by rictic 15y ago
Wow that's faster than the range I was working with. Will look into it, thanks for the info.
747.
by rictic 15y ago
Point taken; recommendation withdrawn. For the record I ordered my drive on the 4th, before that article was posted and after, I'd believed, those issues were resolved. I don't expect that I'll receive an apology for being called an unethic
748.
by rictic 15y ago
About a day is ~90 microseconds, which is really fast, even for an SSD. The FusionIO folks claim they can do 30 microseconds though, which is really incredible, just a couple hundred times slower than ram. I wanted to say that that was with
749.
by rictic 15y ago
I have exactly 0 hardware manufacture connections. I give you my word that this was just a fun post that I've been thinking about off and on for a long time. No one influenced me to write the post at all, in any way. Why did I recommend the
750.
by rictic 15y ago
CPU register: there is a bite of sandwich in your mouth.

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