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by simula67 11y ago
Are you saying that Linux folks should do a terrible job to trigger advances in systems research ?
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by simula67 11y ago
This article caused me to lose my faith in exceptions : http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/020163371x/supplements...
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by simula67 11y ago
> SPARC did this too. I thought this experiment was a failure since most operating systems do multitasking : http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~cs30x/sparcstack.html
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by simula67 11y ago
A large number of engineers are not interested in learning JavaScript since they may be very fluent in their language of choice. I think it would be better for everyone if they can bring in their expertise also to the web platform. Also I d
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by simula67 11y ago
What if Linux had a great asynchronous interface for reading files and FreeBSD had a terrible one ? Would NGINX team have bothered to implement this ?
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by simula67 11y ago
I am not from the western world, but there is huge application to learning English, it is the lingua franca of the world. I am thinking that these competitions are formed out of people's desire to teach their children to speak English
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by simula67 11y ago
Relevant : http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/
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by simula67 11y ago
> Elementry's Dev team doesn't pay for Ubuntu, they don't pay for the Kernel or GNU Tools, Neither Canonical, the kernel developers nor FSF demands you pay them money for Ubuntu, Linux or GNU Tools. Nor do they oppose maki
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Alibaba removes ad seeking female with porn star qualities to motivate employees(shanghaiist.com)
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by simula67 11y ago
I wonder how much the software state of the art is advanced by software developers as opposed to software maintainers. When you are working to refactor software written by others, things like "private methods" are a gift. If you a
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by simula67 11y ago
Behind closed doors ? Or will the entire world get to see how Google search algorithm works ?
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by simula67 12y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you know if your interview process is better ? Is there some scientific method ? A lot of what you write makes sense, but how can I convince myself that I am not falling prey to Confirmation Bias ?
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by simula67 12y ago
I had to reinstall GRUB uefi. Afterwards, I followed the advice from here : http://askubuntu.com/a/371589 Edit : Care to explain why this is getting downvoted ?
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by simula67 12y ago
It is great to see Microsoft taking many steps to court hackers these days. What would convince me they have turned the corner ? 1. Windows playing well with other OS on my laptop. I updated my Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 and I could no longer
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by simula67 12y ago
On closer examination, you seem to be correct. Without insight into how Chinese secret service works the simplest explanation is that the attack was likely perpetrated by them and that is what we must assume to be of highest probability. I
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by simula67 12y ago
> bureaucracies tend to do extremely stupid stuff when looked at from the outside but every cog on the inside thinks that its action makes perfect sense. If this is Chinese doing, the likely ones responsible are the Chinese Intelligence,
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by simula67 12y ago
China is the second most powerful country in the world. Do people really think they are that stupid ? They are not going to attack an American company using infrastructure that anyone can track back to them. This Github DDoS has got to be t
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Show HN: Conservative News, an anti-HN(cnews.cloudapp.net)
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by simula67 12y ago
The world would be a much sadder place if that was the case. I do not understand how the infrastructure that powers world trade, banking, public construction etc works. I am grateful that they are packaged into easily understandable interfa
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by simula67 12y ago
As I understand it, there are some things called natural and legal rights. Rights such as 'Right to life', 'Right to liberty' etc are natural. While 'Right to Privacy', 'Right to Freedom or Religion'
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by simula67 12y ago
> Americans would not have any privacy left > I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America Isn't he Australian ? I can understand if he was
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by simula67 12y ago
I am not a hardware designer, but are you saying one large 64 bit multiplexer to access the whole memory would be impractically slow ? Even if we don't get register speed, it would simplify software design, wouldn't it ?
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by simula67 12y ago
God, what a mess we are in. I can't wait for memristors to become commercialized and get TBs of register speed memory on every processor core. None of this cache, paging, NUMA nonsense.
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by simula67 12y ago
The question was : "Why are so many Apache projects Java-centric ?"
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by simula67 12y ago
Aren't twitter posts, you know, public by default ? What is the big deal if these students intended to share this information with everyone. Or did Pearson somehow played tricks to subvert their trust ?
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by simula67 12y ago
> Well, that's possible with compile-to-JavaScript languages. I have tried to read code that was translated to Javascript using some source-to-source compilers and they are very hard to understand. On the other hand for a language l
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by simula67 12y ago
I feel like being bullied for having to learn Javascript to do web programming. I wish there was a push towards supporting arbitrary languages for doing web development.
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by simula67 12y ago
Brendan Gregg seems to have worked extensively on extracting maximum performance on all major UNIX kernels ( FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris ) out in the real world. If he writes an essay around performance of these kernels, I feel it will be very
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by simula67 12y ago
I am assuming that the global queue is written in a way that makes enqueuing and dequeueing an atomic operation that cannot cause a control switch. This code will ensure that re-entrance is unpermitted only during the relatively short time
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by simula67 12y ago
This is a very good post because it explains the reasoning behind the code very well. It starts out with explaining the problem, and presents a simple solution to the problem. Then it explains the short-comings behind the solution and then

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