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by stiff 13y ago
You are misunderstanding and/or misrepresenting my point, which is that once enough people over a long-enough period build systems in a top-down, systematic matter, well as it works, it becomes impossible for a single person to underst
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by stiff 13y ago
I can't agree with this either. Practical engineering is not pure mathematics, and once systems get complex enough, even if they are man-designed and not given from nature, there is often no other way than to use "reverse engineer
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by stiff 13y ago
I think people are attracted more to the form of the EWDs and to it's melancholic tone, rather than to the content itself, which is confirmed by the huge popularity of the EWDs as compared to "The discipline of programming",
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by stiff 13y ago
I have seen this explanation and frankly I find it ridiculous. Multiple databases as a dictionary layer?
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by stiff 13y ago
If Redis would now just use names for databases instead of numbers and get rid of the limit of number of databases... Managing multiple application instances (production, test, staging for multiple countries) using a single shared Redis ins
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by stiff 13y ago
How precisely are his views extreme? The criticism of Stallmans opinions (as opposed to his behaviour which is another issue) I have seen unfortunately boil down to the fact that people can not even imagine sacrificing the smallest of their
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by stiff 13y ago
See also: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp2.html http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp3.html http://en.wi
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by stiff 13y ago
I know there are theorems about floating point, that's missing the point, what I am saying is that the theories most useful for doing reasoning are often nearly impossible to formulate if you would like to include in them a lot of mess
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by stiff 13y ago
Computers are now complicated enough for Computer Science to have turned to some extent into an empirical science - it is impossible for a single person to have in their head everything that goes in a typical computer, operating system, com
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by stiff 13y ago
Raison d'etre means "reason for existence" and it refers to a particular thing. The problem is that "why studying algorithms is important" does not describe a thing, so you can ask yourself: the reason for existence
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by stiff 13y ago
Pardon me, but your french would leave a better impression if you would use it in a grammatically correct way. "reason for existence for why studying algorithms is important" ?
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by stiff 13y ago
I can't claim to be at the level of the joyent guys presented here, but I think taking a Operating System class and Computer Architecture class, or reading the respective textbooks helps, and at the same time you have to be familiar wi
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by stiff 13y ago
The company I work in has some servers in RZ19 and we have intermittent problem of similar kind all the time over the last month or two. Most of the time the servers just stop being reachable from the Internet or packet loss occurs when try
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by stiff 13y ago
I find it a bit unsettling that those question often center on finding out whether the universe is "in principle" deterministic. Can the universe be deterministic in principle but at the same time be indeterministic in that it is
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by stiff 13y ago
What really annoys me is this particular blog post, not just the existence of the course, for example this thing: “What is Big Data?” They will teach you fundamental principles of Hadoop, MapReduce, and how to make sense of big data. Devel
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by stiff 13y ago
99% of people looking for information about big data and 99% of people looking to do data science, don't have nowhere near big data, and don't need to be taught hadoop. Those people are instead often lacking fundamental knowledge
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by stiff 13y ago
The only things that are powerful and expressive in JavaScript are bastardized beyond recognition versions of ideas from Lisp, Smalltalk and Self. You get those dynamic mechanisms that we know for 50 years now (lambda expressions and runtim
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by stiff 13y ago
I am not remotely interested or educated in the topic of charity in the third world, I just don't see the connection between Microsoft's history and the assessment of the foundation, but this article is clearly written with a cert
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by stiff 13y ago
For heavens sake, it's not like Microsoft was exploiting little children in Africa or producing gas chambers. They were just running business, being quite rough, but doing nothing exceptionally evil to the world. I mean, I didn't
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by stiff 13y ago
It's Stanislaw, since he was Polish, Stanislav would be a Russian name. He is most importantly the co-inventor of the hydrogen bomb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon There is a great autobiography
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by stiff 13y ago
It's like saying the main idea in C was to allow writing programs. At this level of generality it is indistinguishable from tens of projects with similar goals, including also earlier ones.
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by stiff 13y ago
I don't think the story of literate programming can be of any help predicting how well this idea here can work out. Literate programming is not "embedding documentation". The main idea was to separate the order in which the c
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by stiff 13y ago
Not quite legal.
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by stiff 13y ago
Anyone knows what operation are they doing in the video?
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by stiff 13y ago
What do you do when you have to use a computer without your customization? Uh, by that logic I would only use notepad.exe.
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by stiff 13y ago
Marie Skłodowska-Curie is her "correct" name in some sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Curie_Sk%C5%82odowsk... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
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by stiff 13y ago
Removing the battery risks slicing the trackpad I/O cable because they designed it this way without any apparent reason, and they glued the battery to the case. I do understand that there are engineering tradeoffs sometimes between eas
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by stiff 13y ago
I don't want to have to pay someone to undust the fan of my laptop after a year of usage. I am a grown up, I accept that the warranty will not be valid past that point and that I might break something. I paid for the thing and I have t
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by stiff 13y ago
Might be, I still find it ironic, given that the founding fathers of Apple grew out of the open hacking/engineering community where all the designs were out in the wild and you could mess with things at will.
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by stiff 13y ago
Things like proprietary screws are there to make the machine smaller and lighter?

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