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by slavak 16y ago
On that note, where does a "homeless" person even PUT a television?!
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by slavak 16y ago
That's true, but these posts aren't ever of the "language Y is actually as good as or better than C, always!" variety, are they? Instead what we get is the results of (in the best case) a couple of micro-benchmarks that happen to show compa
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by slavak 16y ago
Is this really still news? Yes, we know you can get great performance in some tasks with languages other than C. I swear, if I see ANOTHER article with the linkbait title of "X faster than C"... The decent ones posted at least bother to do
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by slavak 16y ago
Having read up a bit more on ZeroMQ, I have to ask: How is this, if at all, superior to, say, MPI[1]? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface
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by slavak 16y ago
While my CDP class didn't explicitly discuss the Actor Model, message-passing as a concurrency model was studied and we did implement algorithms using it. How basic is the Actor Model for implementing concurrency using message-passing, besi
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by slavak 16y ago
Like someone commented on the site itself, I also can see a faint outline of the hidden message in the original (left) image. It changes in clarity if I change the angle I'm viewing my LCD screen at - most visible when I view it from below
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by slavak 16y ago
I particularly enjoyed the first line: "the internet is inherently insecure..." Okay, joke's over, everyone pack up and go home. Last one please turn off the lights... Alternatively, this could be some kind of philosophical comment on the f
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by slavak 16y ago
What I got out of this presentation: "You thought the only way to do concurrency was by using synchronization primitives? Surprise! You can also do it by message-passing between processes!" What I think of this: Say whaaaaaaaaaaat? Message-
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by slavak 16y ago
I hadn't thought of it that way. Thanks for the clarification.
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by slavak 16y ago
Could you explain what causes RSA keys to "not scale linearly"? I don't seem to recall any part of the protocol being non-linear in the key length.
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by slavak 16y ago
Is this really a prevalent feature these days? I must be completely out of the loop. That must be the most useless "feature" I've ever heard of. What possible reason is there for doing this?!
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by slavak 16y ago
In addition to all the (valid) comments that have been posted so far, there's one more thing that bothers me: When I was looking for a job, a fair number of the resumes I sent out were either sent by fax or given out in printed form. Either
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by slavak 16y ago
You're talking as if children are killing themselves over internet bullying left and right. The truth is this almost never happens and when it does is almost certainly bullying from the real world spilling over into the virtual. The interne
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by slavak 16y ago
Sorry to disappoint you, but color theory is in fact anything BUT simple. For starters, RGB are not "THE primaries in light." In fact, primary colors aren't a property of light but of the way you perceive light. You could just as successful
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by slavak 16y ago
Exactly the kind of thing users not familiar with the way Linux handles memory DON'T consider when they check how much free memory they have. If you're the sort of person concerned with the overhead of zeroing pages then you can look at mor
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by slavak 16y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to just include the RAM used for disk-caching when calculating free memory? After all, the whole reason it's being used for disk-caching in the first place is that it's free! The Linuxoids that know what this eve
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by slavak 16y ago
Some familiarity with Numerical Analysis is, in my opinion, a must to a practicing Software Engineer. The official course book where I took the course was Dahlquist,G.L., Bjorck,A. Numerical Methods. I didn't use it too much so I can't comm
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by slavak 16y ago
This probably depends a great deal on the legal system where you live. Over here there's a decent chance of a "small-print" condition like that being thrown out if it was ever challenged in court. Of course it also helps that usually you si
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by slavak 16y ago
Wouldn't that be considered a breach of contract? I know that if this happened to me (Israel) the first thing I would do is call up my ISP and threaten a lawsuit unless they provide me the service I signed up for.
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by slavak 16y ago
The guy is deep in debt, but chose to keep a low-paying part-time job he [presumably] likes and to default on his loans instead of seeking options that would allow him to keep his obligations. And the complaint is that the guy should be fre
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by slavak 16y ago
I have an incredibly hard time believing the medical industry does not have stringent standards in place for safety-critical software. Do you have anything to demonstrate this, and what country are we talking about here? (To remind me not t
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by slavak 16y ago
This baffles me. Did the software engineers creating this not take a course on numerical analysis in college? Or were those, as so often are, electrical engineers that had been hired to do software work? The amount of misunderstanding in th
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by slavak 16y ago
In addition I'd like to point out that it's generally a good idea to not be obnoxious to the person who is going to handle your FOOD. You might get a little extra in terms of service, but you're practically guaranteed to get a little someth
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by slavak 16y ago
I think it's pretty common, in fact. The idea is to prevent interested parties from abusing the legal system in order to prevent members of government from performing their responsibilities or gain leverage on them.
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by slavak 16y ago
I have a problem believing this is about Israel since: a) Defense companies in Israel _do not_ offer "very good salary." In fact, it is a generally accepted fact that they universally offer lower salaries than civilian companies. This is of