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by socmag 10y ago
This! There is no single "truth". Under the unfortunate consequences of the CAP theorem and the speed of light, consistency grinds to a halt as the number of observers increases. Time itself would have to stand still in the limit
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by socmag 10y ago
This is a beautiful body of work along with the other articles by the author, and form a kind of "Rosetta Stone" for a new generation of musicians, developers and artists to use as a launchpad into the fascinating hockey stick of
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by socmag 10y ago
A database is an abstract concept, and ACID transactions on databases have nothing to do with the interface semantics used to interact with the shared state being managed. You can have non-ACIDic SQL databases and ACID NoSQL databases. Whil
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by socmag 10y ago
By dollar sales? Hah!!! Seriously if it is by revenue that means there are at least a hundred times more people using $10 quite decent wired headphones. Me included. I don't want blue tooth headphones. Ever!! Can I make it more clear?
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by socmag 10y ago
X-Altruism... It's a thing http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/walking-the-l...
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by socmag 10y ago
Thanks!
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by socmag 10y ago
Yes that's right, it's so complicated nobody on the planet understands what is running on the thing or even where to begin to find out anymore, which is a shame, there was a time when it was quite pristine. I recently switched ba
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by socmag 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification, good to know.
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by socmag 10y ago
Thanks for putting that answer together. It's generally how I feel. "come up with a whole other business in order to make income from it" You really hit the nerve there. And is not that I'm naive enough not to think that
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by socmag 10y ago
Whoops okay! But the observation remains, just hike the root node of this up one level in the tree for me. My bad.
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by socmag 10y ago
Right I know, I've been there and witnessed it first hand trying to sell on the iPhone app store. I was more thinking of zero day PC Games and especially console games in my comment but that should have been made clearer. I get that th
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by socmag 10y ago
Okay I understand, and I more or less feel the same way for the most part. Although I use Linux 95% of the time, and I think Windows has lost its way a little. I would disagree that it isn't robust. The kernel at least is quite excelle
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by socmag 10y ago
He said, he feels he is betraying open source. Actually that somewhat hits the nail on the head regarding how a lot of us feel. We'd love to do it but the pragmatic reality is that we can't do that all the time. He feels the pain,
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by socmag 10y ago
Well that part I understand, but freedom has a price, and to make that work the onus is on the community to prop you up. Unfortunately, the human genome is pretty selfish in my personal experience.
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by socmag 10y ago
Aside from the other comment where I hope I pointed out the reasoning.. The "Betray Open Source" bit. You might be right that there is some projection. I've been working on a project for quite some time now, without any pay a
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by socmag 10y ago
The bit... "Moving to something like this one day makes me conflicted. On one hand I feel like I would betray open source, on the other hand I wouldn't have to restart my machine to play games..."
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by socmag 10y ago
Serious general open question here. It strikes me as odd that on the one hand you say you want to ditch windows in favor of FOSS, but then go on to say that you use Windows just to play games. The interesting thing is that games are some o
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by socmag 10y ago
Better to be on the right side of history. I mean, if you are asking the question, you have already made a personal decision that you would like to sign it. Not doing so would be betraying yourself. That would be worse than not getting a s
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by socmag 10y ago
Never mind, I found it in the Gist... https://gist.github.com/sacreman/b77eb561270e19ca973dd505527... 1 x DalmatinerBD server GCE n1-standard-16 (16 cpu, 60GB memory, 1 x 375G local SSD disk) I would assume that is the
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by socmag 10y ago
Why the downvote? Oh right, the iPhone can't be charged wirelessly. Silly me. http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobil...
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by socmag 10y ago
Neh, allows you to buy add-on battery case that wirelessly charges the phone that's in it. Marketing priorities!
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by socmag 10y ago
I'm on my phone and my eyes are not so good as it is. Does he say what the architecture of the platform he was testing this on?
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by socmag 10y ago
Oh come on, we can get two or three pairs so there are always some charging no matter what our situation.
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by socmag 10y ago
I totally disagree with this. It is far easier to build an application in shitty old MFC than a thousand attempts and 10,000 random attempts to fix things in no content way. The problem now is nobody can rationally understand the complexit
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by socmag 10y ago
Yes it is awful. How people manage to build applications given the festering pile of rubber bands, glue and fish heads that we call web development platforms these days is beyond me. There was a time when even I could build a website. Then
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by socmag 10y ago
I think it depends on what data you need based on the problem space, but yes it does suffice for many use cases. The thing is that it is least common denominator, and when you are dealing with high perf, cross language systems, it really is
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by socmag 10y ago
Yes well that was the sad part :P I was working on Data Visualization at the time. Then SQL Server decided they wanted data visualization, so they bought the entire team from MSR. Turned out it was mostly just a way to get headcount. Prett
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by socmag 10y ago
Also I might add that I very quickly became quite disenchanted with the lack of types in JSON; and I'm sure many of us have come to that same conclusion. Really hope that it can be fixed at some point, but not holding my breath on that
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by socmag 10y ago
I think there is a lot in common between Common Lisp, Python and JavaScript in general. For many years I was in the schemaless camp before JS came along. Then for a number of years I was in the self-describing camp because I was thinking t
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by socmag 10y ago
Ex MSFT Researcher here. It's fun to work at MSR. Not everything done there is valuable, but it is very diverse and you are given pretty much Carte Blanche to fuck around with whatever you want. Just come up with some stuff now and aga

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