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by stass 12y ago
Is it necesseraly bad? Netflix making deals with ISPs is exactly what market self-regulation is.
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by stass 12y ago
Are you referring to GNU sed? Other sed implementations I know of actually use -E for extended regular expressions support. I could never understand why GNU picked up -r for sed... As for dd, it came from a non-UNIX OS and kept the origin
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by stass 13y ago
Great accomplishment! Congratulations to OpenBSD folks!
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by stass 13y ago
Google by itself is much worse than NSA. At least, NSA does not screw up the industry and does not try to destroy local economies. I'm surprised there's not a lot of public backslash against Google and their employees.
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by stass 13y ago
Linux? FreeBSD? Haiku? There's plenty of choices, and all of them have modern web browsers available (and frankly, better browsers than Chrome. People should really stop drinking google kool aid and take a look at the chrome codeba
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by stass 13y ago
Why doesn't it?
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by stass 13y ago
I didn't say at all that C is bad, as a matter of fact I write most of my code in C. It is, however a low-level programming language not much different from assembly. The reason it is that it operates on concepts that are not abstract
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by stass 13y ago
No, C is as low level as you can get. It directly maps into the instructions of a register machine in runs on.
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by stass 13y ago
That's true that it allows faster-than-light communication is some sense, however it is not clear if it is possible to use quantum entanglement for faster than light information transfer: to extract the particle stat one has to perform
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by stass 13y ago
XMMS is great! I like mplayer better for video though, it's much easier to control and understand.
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by stass 13y ago
This sounds more like engineering and scientific approach then.
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by stass 13y ago
What is the difference between the algorithmic thinking and mathematical thinking?
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by stass 13y ago
Not just ideas, it's a way to express the computation formally in an abstract way. Being executable by a machine comes as a direct consequence of that. You are right that knowing several languages expand ones abilities to express comp
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by stass 13y ago
If you just need concurrent reading and update the database from a single process, you can use CDB. It always served me well.
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by stass 13y ago
One of the languages that originally featured REPL, Lisp, was always compiled, both to machine code or byte code. Ditto smalltalk. I am not even sure which "traditional" languages you are talking about. When I mentioned state, I
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by stass 13y ago
And yes, REPL is still helpful even if the compilation is fast; amusingly most languages that have REPL features fast compilation (at least those not based on JVM). The benefit of REPL is that it preserves state which one can experiment on
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by stass 13y ago
Dynamic typing has nothing to do with compilation speed. Furthermore, static typing is not orthogonal to dynamic; rather static type system is just another utility language on top of the actual language which helps to prove the correctness
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by stass 13y ago
Given that for images one does not need to do random I/O, any kind of object storage system will do much better than NFS or any other kind of network filesystem with POSIX semantics guarantees. And no, in real world, you don't us
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by stass 13y ago
That's because they stopped teaching CS, it's not that they replaced Scheme with Python in CS courses. How can you possible teach metacircular interpreters, constraint propagation languages, ambiguous computation and similar cons
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by stass 13y ago
Hey, I uploaded the preliminary version of valgrind-freebsd to https://bitbucket.org/stass/valgrind-freebsd/downloads . It seems that there are no regression compared to 3.8.1, but please test, if you can, with you
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by stass 13y ago
What is the benefit of a web client if you keep it open the entire day? I find standalone clients, like Sylpheed, much easier to use and you're not constrained by what you can run in browser.
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by stass 13y ago
A good discipline also helps. ;)
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by stass 13y ago
I'll try to get the valgrind-freebsd updated some time this week. So it's coming.
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by stass 13y ago
What do you mean by valid characters? The file name usually can include any characters except the forward slash. There are, of course, filename limitiations, which are implementation specific.
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by stass 13y ago
It's not. Just look at what limitation of such sort lead to in Windows, where each application tries to serialize an otherwise perfectly valid filename into a set of characters allowed in Windows. Of corse, majority of them never get
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by stass 13y ago
I'd suggest to look at the freebsd ports build system. It is essentially declarative being built on top of Make language, and allows easy integration of various open source components and dependencies. If targeting multiple platforms
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by stass 13y ago
Language is not a platform, it is a way to describe a computation. In this particular case, the researchers discovered that using a relational language to describe state transitions in a distributed systems helps to reason about the distri
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by stass 13y ago
It might be a problem with your OS/distribution if you feel like it is awful to use in production. FreeBSD, for example, provides an excellent ruby version in it's package repository (and can have all of them installed, 1.8, 1.9,
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by stass 13y ago
ARMv6 is very similar in all regards to ARMv7 and there are very fast implementations available. Are you talking about ARMv5 perhaps, which has a terrible memory model making fast multitasking implementations with memory isolation very har
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by stass 13y ago
Why do you call bonjour crap?

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