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by silverlake 18y ago
Most people consider the real-estate bubble to be a massive shock to the financial system that could quite easily lead to a severe recession and the government takeover of $1 trillion in Fannie & Freddie debt (plus another few hundred b
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by silverlake 18y ago
you're right, but you can implement the real fib by returning N instead of 1: let rec fib n = if n < 2 then n else fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
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by silverlake 18y ago
There's a middle ground: build a new OS and provide backwards compatibility using virtualization (closer to Solaris Zones). It could work like the Coherence feature in Parallels VM for the Mac, but be embedded in the OS. If you double-click
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by silverlake 18y ago
Wouldn't it make sense to first check if there are different conclusions before you declare "it's too bad" the writer failed to mention them? Google has this new feature called Search. You might like it. I strongly suspect our happiness is
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by silverlake 18y ago
There are deep difference with fundamentalist Islam, which is a relatively small minority of all Muslims in the West. In the US, we have the same deep differences with fundamentalist Christians. It the "fundamentalism" that is the problem,
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by silverlake 18y ago
Yes, Linux is monolithic. MacOS X is a micro-kernel, but I believe the BSD stuff runs in kernel space, so it's effectively a monolithic kernel with a nice layered design. I think NT is somewhere between OS X and Linux. The article was terri
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by silverlake 18y ago
I was a textbook definition of a nerd: skinny, all A's, glasses, bad clothes, took college classes at night, asian in a very white blue-collar town, did all the nerd stuff (even math camp!). I went to a mediocre high school with few smart k
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by silverlake 18y ago
I think nearly all companies pursue the same tactics, but we only notice the winners. When I was at Motorola long ago, I stumbled across an outline of how to compete against other cell phone companies. Technological innovation was a minor p