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by riobard 16y ago
This, my friend, is the musical industry forcing people not to pay them.
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by riobard 16y ago
What about gzipping the content first?
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by riobard 16y ago
To be fair, the shortcut should really read "cmd+?". Much easier to remember!
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by riobard 16y ago
This kind of edge cases will happen much more frequently when you have multiple smaller systems. A larger system helps you by balancing out those. Will a larger system run out of resources if everyone requests it at the same time? Of course
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by riobard 16y ago
The best part of it? It doesn't cost millions of dollars to use! Only thousands!
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by riobard 16y ago
This is the beauty of aggregation: when you add a lot more different types of users to the system, the load tends to be balanced out because not everybody needs the same resource at exactly the same time. As long as the distribution of diff
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by riobard 16y ago
One thing I just hate the most being in Canada: many interesting stuff on Amazon.com does not ship to Canada, and Amazon.ca gets like nothing.
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by riobard 16y ago
If type annotations are fully respected that programmers code it like a statically-typed language (no type change for a variable in scope), will it be possible to AOT compile it?
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by riobard 16y ago
Come on… though I don't use Firefox that much other than testing compatibility ever since Chrome was stable enough for daily use, but FF4 is significantly faster than 3. Your page loads in <1sec in both Chrome and FF4 on my machine.
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by riobard 16y ago
"Startup time is still the #1 performance metric we optimize for." Isn't it a bit wrong direction now that people keep the browser open all day long (compared to years ago that they close and open it frequently)? Don't get me wrong, though.
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by riobard 16y ago
For those unfamiliar with the Nginx/Lua setup, here's the introduction: "Lua-nginx-module integrated Lua into NginX, and providing high-concurrent & non-blocking request processing ability without forcing developers explicitly dividing
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by riobard 16y ago
"Its ability to change what any object is, on the fly" No, it doesn't. It changes the reference. If things are referred in the right way, it is possible to statistically compile them. PyPy relies on this info too, but JIT compiling.
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by riobard 16y ago
Do not support files > 2GB in size. No go.
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by riobard 16y ago
The Fibonacci generator hurts my eyes! Here is a cleaner version. def fib(): a, b = 0, 1 while True: yield a a, b = b, a+b Anyway, the order of the pipeline-like operation in Python so
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by riobard 16y ago
This is such an easy straw-man target that will keep tons of politicians appearing to be busy and working on something really important. It will win them votes and by the time it actually starts to work nobody would really care about it any
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by riobard 16y ago
You are right. It really depends on use cases. In many scenarios, a 5mb lib is just another dep that build tools such as sbt will handle for you. In many others, 5mb overhead to a 500kb mobile app is obviously overkill. My use case is fine
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by riobard 16y ago
The checklist for Scala: - Performance equivalent to Java for equivalent code Pass. - No language-imposed runtime library Failed. 5mb runtime lib. - No more (or not much more) complicated than Java It depends. For some, Scala feels much mor
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by riobard 16y ago
Here's why: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2356480
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by riobard 16y ago
"software vendors will just get to choose which format to support." can they have both?
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by riobard 16y ago
A quick question: why xxx usually means sex-related?
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by riobard 16y ago
Does ZFS do anything to optimize for SSDs?
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by riobard 16y ago
It's amazing that a country known for its industrial standards is stuck with such ancient compatibility issues.
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by riobard 16y ago
Correct me if I got it wrong, but does it mean that putting any Python function in any() makes it run in C??? From my understanding, the any() version is faster is primarily because it avoids looking up .update() method each iteration. The
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by riobard 16y ago
I don't like the idea. But the price makes sense: (try to figure out how they decide this price) 1. Xcode is 4.2GB in size. 2. Bandwidth costs about $0.10/GB, so that's $0.42 per download. 3. Every update requires re-downloading. 4. We'll
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by riobard 16y ago
Xcode 3 is still available for free download. Though I really don't think it's a good idea to make Xcode 4 non-free.
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by riobard 16y ago
These mp4 files seem to be re-compressed from the original avi files. They are much blurrier now, to the point that handwriting on the board is sometimes not readable.
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by riobard 16y ago
PyPY typically uses 2x more memory than CPython.
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by riobard 16y ago
How are you going to test LAMP on Windows 7? L stands for Linux.
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by riobard 16y ago
He wants an ISO that packs in SP1.
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by riobard 16y ago
You just need to fully understand when Python does evaluation. import types def function(item, stuff = lambda: []): if type(stuff) == types.FunctionType: stuff = stuff() stuff.append(item) print

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