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by rpcope1 12y ago
I can't tell if that's a rather passive-aggressive ad hominem or what, but sometimes its hard to know the true inner machinations of some of our "revered" tech giants until you've seen them from the inside. Needless
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Wow, this is a great read; it also sums up about every company I've ever worked at with more than a couple hundred people. It's amazing how many people will pull in more time than absolutely necessary on things they don't ca
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Not GP, but LibreOffice is much more actively developed than OpenOffice.org currently. Any more it looks like OO.org is just getting maintenance from a few IBMers [1]. It's rather a shame, with all of the brand recognition that was bui
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by rpcope1 12y ago
It will be interesting to see how this works out with NAT being as difficult to work with UDP as it often can be. It's a shame that SCTP is not more widely adopted, as I suspect it may be just as good (if not better) as a transport lay
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Modern, extremely popular compilers may not even support C89 features yet... Citation needed please. Also, because C is not a true subset of C++, it has seemed that many big C projects will not compile on C++ compilers because of co
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Yes, typically home routers tend to use pretty industry standard chips like Broadcom chips (like the BCM5357 in my home router). D-Link, Linksys, and crew don't usually roll their own SoCs, but just seem to throw off the shelf stuff in
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by rpcope1 12y ago
This scares me a lot, especially living in Colorado. I hate to be one of those "No Vacancy" people, but our aquifers simply can't support any more people here. It seems crazy when you start diverting water from the other side
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by rpcope1 12y ago
I had the same gut feeling. TCP already seems like a fine enough abstraction (especially in comparison to UDP), and it is actually literally _everywhere_. Maybe someone should write a TCP socket implementation for the browser instead of try
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Not sure if you're kidding, but GP is referring to area of the one-sigma region around mean for a normal distribution (see: bell curve) in relation to the total area (68ish percent of total), which is usually where the "normal&quo
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by rpcope1 12y ago
It's funny, the first thing that came to mind here was "this guy sounds like he's trying to phish his way onto somebody else's VM", but alas, it wasn't that interesting. I'm rather confused why this is tre
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by rpcope1 12y ago
I am surprised it didn't get upvoted to the top...because javascript.
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by rpcope1 12y ago
I think GP needs sarcasm tags.
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by rpcope1 12y ago
I agree mostly, I think more regulation is important, and transparency is critical and much needed. I would not choose, however, to bank with anyone who wasn't FDIC insured; while the FDIC may allow some banks to be less risk-averse th
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by rpcope1 12y ago
I don't know about you but this makes me incredibly nervous; I have mentioned before there probably is some inefficiency in taxi medallions, but uber is also doing things like ignoring government regulations wholesale (see Germany), po
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Julia mentions atop (which is good), I think htop is also worth noting here as an improvement on top.
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Maybe you can elucidate what about Python's syntax is broken or not DRY? EDIT: To me, seeing this is Python code anywhere would seem to violate principle of least astonishment, which I think is somewhat more important than being DRY, i
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by rpcope1 12y ago
This is certainly interesting, but I think it kind of breaks with the "only one obvious way to do things," which Ruby tends not to follow (and with regards to string formatting, Python doesn't either :P ). Does this buy you a
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by rpcope1 12y ago
It's funny that you bring up licensing being hard to get; sometimes I wonder if we're not actually (still) too lenient in who we give drivers licenses to. Maybe it's just that I'm past the point where my pre-frontal cort
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Sound waves used to extinguish fire(factmag.com)
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by rpcope1 12y ago
FYI if someone is reluctant to give up their HDD capacity at the price point an SSD exists, I've had really good luck with IDEA and Pycharm on my Seagate 2.5 1 TB Hybrid (ST1000LM014). I think they can be found on NewEgg for like $70 (
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Having automatic type casting of the form we've seen above present in the language is like having a gun without a safety--it's that 1% of the time that the pin inadvertently strikes the shell that you will really really wish you h
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by rpcope1 12y ago
If you're going to insist that a character (or string) is it's own magic datatype _and is not an unsigned (or similar) underneath it all_ and you're going to talk about high level niceties, then your interpreter really really
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Is your Javascript VM not already in native code when you're running Javascript on these platforms? Or are you suggesting that the instruction set for the chips on these devices "be pure javascript"?
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by rpcope1 12y ago
If you have any experience in most other programming languages this would seem to violate principle of least astonishment (see "wat").
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Because 49 isn't just the "character code" for "1" it is _the actual value_.
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by rpcope1 12y ago
I'm going to release a Javascript framework and call it Brawndo.
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by rpcope1 12y ago
When you see a character, it usually has an underlying representation an unsigned (or byte or array of bytes or int if that's your thing, with size depending on ASCII, Unicode, etc). In both UTF-8 and ASCII the character "1"
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Python is also dynamically typed, but it does something sane: >> "1" - 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'str&
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by rpcope1 12y ago
It will be interesting to see how this evolves; hopefully it will make it easier to build a userland TCP/IP stack, and maybe even to make it easier to ship a new transport protocol (this might make it easier to push for HTTP over SCTP
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by rpcope1 12y ago
48 might have been a much more reasonably sane answer, or just disallow operations that don't really make any sense, instead of implicitly casting in non-obvious ways.

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