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by spamizbad 17y ago
Yeah, CK came across as a major dick, but... Ingo benched this on a two-socket, 8-CPU system. CK made it blatantly obvious he was targeting single-socket multi-core systems, or UMA SMP systems. Further, he's seems pretty adamant about not
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by spamizbad 17y ago
I'm a few paragraphs in and I'm already crushed under the weight of the author's histrionics. This article is crap and belongs on a site like Digg, not HN.
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by spamizbad 17y ago
I wouldn't exactly phrase it as a "decline in innovation" but post-tech boom innovation has gotten harder for numerous reasons. Off the top of my head, I can think of three culprits dragging this down in the tech industry specifically: Fir
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by spamizbad 17y ago
To their credit, half of that propaganda is right: The United States is most definitely an empire- albeit one in denial.
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by spamizbad 18y ago
Quite frankly I'd rather be working with robots than building text adventure games (been there, done that: when I was 13). And while building a meta-circular evaluator is interesting, I don't see how it can be considered a central tenet of
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by spamizbad 18y ago
Please do not compare Noam Chomsky to Ann Coulter. Coulter is an unabashed demagogue, Chomsky is an intellectual and academic who happens to have strong political opinions.
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by spamizbad 18y ago
My parents faced the same decision, decided against it, and I'm glad. My ride through public school was a bit bumpy but overall I did OK, and made several life-long friends in the process. I was exposed to homeschoolers in college and whi
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by spamizbad 18y ago
I'm not sure I buy the 'Rich don't use what they pay for' argument when it comes to taxes. Just because you're not living in government housing or collecting any welfare doesn't necessarily mean you're using fewer tax dollars. The US milit
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by spamizbad 18y ago
I'm not so sure Python 3.0 was really designed to carry any real momentum for "Python 3000" instead, it seems to serve as a base platform for future migration. I understand Guido and the Python team haven't explicitly stated that, but tha
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by spamizbad 18y ago
Cutting spending in a deflationary recession is never a good idea. You want to execute spending cuts when the economy is vibrant and growing, not when your GDP is shrinking and your unemployment numbers are kissing double-digits. If anythi