riotingpscifis

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by riotingpscifis 13y ago
Unless you are extending the compiler why would you care? GCC consistently produced faster code that LLVM If you are extending the compiler, why would you want to allow companies like apple and oracle to bottle up you hard work and not give
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by riotingpscifis 13y ago
LLVM compiles faster as it optimises less (oversimplified of course).
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by riotingpscifis 13y ago
Nope it's still an old Bash, with a really slow grep!
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by riotingpscifis 13y ago
That's part of the plan. Amazon make a loss in Q1-3 and turn a profit in Q4, this results in a slight profit over the year, a boatload of investment in infrastructure and it being almost impossible for competition to keep up.
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by riotingpscifis 13y ago
Consider the NSA having MITM capabilities before the data reaches google: 1) This is exactly what you would need to do, to consider it realtime 2) None of the denials cover this
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by riotingpscifis 13y ago
1) Pick a closed ecosystem 2) Have a non-standard use case 3) Beg Ecosystem owners to change to meet your needs
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by riotingpscifis 13y ago
>Adding a conditional ("do I answer or do I proxy?") on every DNS query -- and there are many -- is going to introduce enough latency to be noticed unless you throw a lot of gear at it. And you're still going to introduce latency by ins
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by riotingpscifis 13y ago
If you live in a closed source ecosystem, you die in a closed source ecosystem. e.g If you want to distribute closed source tools and software without sorting out a license first, your going to have a hard time because often this is exactly
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by riotingpscifis 14y ago
If you setup you're stack wrong then some of you're points are valid. But many amazon services offer you redundant infrastructure at a reasonable cost. But the key advantage over traditional hosted solution is that you can run reproducible
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by riotingpscifis 14y ago
What is the motivation to redesign the site, other than to make it look more web 2.0?
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by riotingpscifis 14y ago
1) Replace GPL code with BSD code 2) Release a subset of the features to open source community Why would Apple be so allergic to GPL unless they want the ability to close stuff? If really you think Apple would stay open if they dominated th