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by smegel 11y ago
John Gruber will get a huge kick out of this.
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by smegel 11y ago
I remember the days of the Athlon X2 versus the Pentium 4...AMD was truly the king back then. Combined with nVidia producing an awesome AMD chipset (nForce), they were glorious days. Then AMD went weird and starting focusing on these dual-s
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by smegel 11y ago
Won't Perl6 make the book redundant, I mean the whole reason we needed a Modern Perl book was because there was an old and crufty way of writing Perl5...but Perl6 ditched all that baggage so the only way to write Perl6 will be comparab
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by smegel 11y ago
Endorsed by the NSA Hmmm...
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by smegel 11y ago
> Here's the rub with that argument though, Japan was not a great power in 1945 Well there is an active (and unresolved) historical debate about whether the bombs were justified, but Japan had been a powerful Empire that defeated
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by smegel 11y ago
> is more analogous to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan was a Great Power in WW2, very nearly a match for the US. It was also aggressively building an expire of it's own - whose own actions, particularly against re
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by smegel 11y ago
I wish Art Deco was still a thing.
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by smegel 11y ago
> Their expressive advantage is minimal - x++ is not much shorter than x += 1. And there is no ++ equivalent of x += 2.
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by smegel 11y ago
Ansible is a godsend.
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by smegel 11y ago
Google is getting platform locking, much like Microsoft. Even if Yahoo did come out with a world class Docs, or Email, or Youtube, or Blogger, or Sites, or AppEngine - I would still stick with the Google equivalent because I am all connecte
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by smegel 11y ago
> For a stark depiction of how Taiwan’s technology industry has been ravaged by the rise of the smartphone...both are down by more than 40 percent -- and smartphone maker HTC Corp (as well) Didn't bother wasting my time with the res
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by smegel 11y ago
It's a preview. 1.5 just comes out a short while ago.
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by smegel 11y ago
Not when every nuclear armed state except Pakistan and North Korea are lined up to give it a good whipping.
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by smegel 11y ago
And when the oil runs out, just another ISIS.
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by smegel 11y ago
Kubernetes. Specifically, running kubelet locally is a great way to bring up a "pod" of just the containers you want, configured the way you want. It's actually pretty conveniant, and as dev I have started preferring it as a
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by smegel 11y ago
Wow, going for a walk in the woods is also a pretty good way to avoid be spied on by the government. Better burn the forests down, or at least fill them with video-cameras and microphones!
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by smegel 11y ago
Is JIT going to be on the horizon (sorry didn't watch the full video)?
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by smegel 11y ago
Wow. I'm talking about the webpage.
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by smegel 11y ago
Is Facebook one of those social networking sites? Meh.
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by smegel 11y ago
Interesting all his graphs top out at 1000 threads. Wonder what they would look like if they went to 5000, or 50,000 threads.
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by smegel 11y ago
> Go is not sucky. It is fantastic at what it does. Go is fantastic at what it does well, which is lightweight concurrency (with a synchronous api), something that no other compiled, imperative language offers. But I haven't spoke
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by smegel 11y ago
If C++ couldn't do it, D won't. They are of the same ilk. Go kinda is already, but is too sucky on too many levels to really break through. Rust is still alpha and seems to be going backwards at times, but looks like a strong cont
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by smegel 11y ago
> as it tries to meet a goal of creating consumer robot technology by 2020 Wouldn't a self-driving car qualify as a "robot"?
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by smegel 11y ago
It's not a bug, it's a feature! Seriously.
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by smegel 11y ago
I've never been to LA, but now I know.
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by smegel 11y ago
The contrarian view is there is no such thing as a "secure device", and physical security is the only answer .
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by smegel 11y ago
Japanese people actually practice integrity. If they find a wallet on the street, they will make every effort to return it to its owner - with the cash still inside. If you let small groups of employees "do their own thing" it mig
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by smegel 11y ago
> “There is no way in hell the problem there is the kernel,” Torvalds said. “If you run a nuclear power plant that can kill millions of people, you don’t connect it to the Internet.” He is so right.
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by smegel 11y ago
> split staff into often tiny units that make their own plans The problem is this just doesn't work in some countries. It is as much about Japanese society and culture than the CEO that even makes this possible to begin with.
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by smegel 11y ago
> In the past four weeks, there were 45,000 new apps submitted to the iOS App Store alone. That's...staggering. If I tried to guess I would have been an order of magnitude out.

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