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by rumcajz 10y ago
I have moved from C++ to C myself and I am a much happier person since.
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Software Licenses and Failed States(250bpm.com)
60 points by rumcajz 10y ago|48 comments
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by rumcajz 10y ago
Network stacks. And pipelines in general.
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Performance of green threads and why it matters(250bpm.com)
56 points by rumcajz 10y ago|31 comments
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by rumcajz 10y ago
And then losing your investment when you win the battle and Uber moves in? Why would anyone do that?
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by rumcajz 10y ago
Would you invest in a startup which can be destroyed by its competition at will, i.e. by Uber agreeing to do the checks? Not gonna fly.
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by rumcajz 10y ago
This is a kind of thing that have always fascinated me: People from past epochs (Bergson in this case) trying to convey a though and we being unable to parse it. My favourite example is one of Robert Musil's essays. There are multiple
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The Nanny World(250bpm.com)
6 points by rumcajz 10y ago|0 comments
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There Never Was a West(theanarchistlibrary.org)
1 points by rumcajz 10y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 10y ago
Rational response to the economy that -- for whatever reasons, productivity increase, wealth transfer etc. -- is able to satisfy all the demand by putting just a fraction of the population to work is to create bullshit jobs that nobody need
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by rumcajz 11y ago
This is a sad day for all Pastafarians.
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How I Explained Heartbleed to My Therapist(medium.com)
2 points by rumcajz 11y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 11y ago
Sounds like someone have been reading Stanislaw Lem.
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by rumcajz 11y ago
On the other hand, here's Karl Popper's cause for two-party system: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/01/ka...
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by rumcajz 11y ago
That's going to be interesting. Chomsky doesn't seem to be extra concerned about the Internet. His position, AFAIU, is that all the current problems are just a new reincarnation that have been with us for a long time. I guess Snow
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by rumcajz 11y ago
Can somebody explain what does Wittgenstein have to do with the whole thing?
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by rumcajz 11y ago
You can use this: http://libmill.org
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Silicon Valley talks a good game on ‘basic income’, but its words are empty(theguardian.com)
5 points by rumcajz 11y ago|0 comments
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Footnotes to “Select Statement Considered Harmful”(250bpm.com)
1 points by rumcajz 11y ago|0 comments
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Select Statement Considered Harmful(250bpm.com)
1 points by rumcajz 11y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 11y ago
I don't know which translation have you read. The fact is that translators rarely understand all the subtleties of Eco's original, translate it incorrectly and thus the translations are much more confusing than they should be.
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by rumcajz 11y ago
Nice essay. But framing the problem in terms of evolutionary vs. counter-evolutionary is not useful. Of course the evolutionary is going to win. It wins by definition. Evolution is the survival of the fittest. Being evolutionary means betti
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The scarcity of college graduates with FOSS experience(lwn.net)
6 points by rumcajz 11y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 11y ago
Thanks for making the above clear. I should probably have made that explicit in the article but I was so focused on hard cancellation that all I've said about soft cancellation was, basically, "do it by hand", without going i
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by rumcajz 11y ago
It comes from experience. I've tried to implement such a simple protocol and it literally takes months to get all the details right. Also see the quote from Joe Armstrong in the article.
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Karl Popper: The open society and its enemies revisited(economist.com)
4 points by rumcajz 11y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 11y ago
This is an advice to use C in a way that resembles higher level languages. But it you want to do so, why not simply use a higher level language? The power of C -- which distinguishes it from most other languages -- is the ability to allocat
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What's holding back the world economy?(theguardian.com)
5 points by rumcajz 11y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 11y ago
We've experimented extensively with code generation resulting in C and there a single most important reason why it does not work: Nobody except the authors can read and understand, let alone modify, the source code.
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Structured Concurrency(250bpm.com)
3 points by rumcajz 11y ago|0 comments

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