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by teacup50 11y ago
Multicore isn't free in a battery constrained device, and yet devices are multicore. The fact that you don't have an 8 core phone doesn't mean multicore concurrency isn't used. There are all sorts of things that benefi
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by teacup50 11y ago
Apps barely making use of multicore? Maybe in your web world. We would not have been able to ship the apps we've shipped were it not for being able to exploit shared state concurrency. ... and yes, I think the Facebook app is making he
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by teacup50 11y ago
Bubblegum content appeared in direct response to the death of the traditional revenue streams.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Your quality bar is extraordinarily, painfully low.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Media got worse as the revenue streams dried up; if you pay for writing, you can expect much better writing. I generally find that I'm better off spending an hour researching books to purchase on a non-programming subject than I am spe
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by teacup50 11y ago
And yet, miners still had the choice whether or not to run XT. If enough did so, then isn't that a vote? If Bitcoin can't survive without centralized control over miner software, isn't that a sign of broken decentralization?
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by teacup50 11y ago
Given that XT was met with outright censorship, DDoS attacks, and other unethical and criminal behavior, I don't see what else you'd expect him to do.
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by teacup50 11y ago
I couldn't find that info despite clicking around in "TFA". Thanks. "24% of women in Tech reported inappropriate sexual advances" is a less scary headline. It's still way too high, but when you also factor in
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by teacup50 11y ago
I've heard nothing about JunOS moving to Linux. That would be a truly bizarre move on their part, both in terms of technical quality of Linux vs FreeBSD, and licensing headaches with the GPL. Do you have a source?
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by teacup50 11y ago
It also doesn't define what an "unwanted" advance is . There's a stark difference between an inappropriate advance and an unwanted advance, and it generally comes down to whether or not the recipient has free agency
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by teacup50 11y ago
Why? USB adds tons of complexity/overhead relative to what HID devices actually need -- especially hardwired devices.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Why not extend IMAP? It is by definition highly extensible, and unlike JMAP, it's not wedged into complex poorly suited protocols like HTTP. Clients leave IMAP ports open indefinately; IMAP IDLE provides push e-mail over this mechanism
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by teacup50 11y ago
The constitution -- and the fundamental inalienable rights it enumerates -- were written to provide a backstop for when society fails to draw the line on a slippery slope. This is exactly what happened with the legalization of gay marriage
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by teacup50 11y ago
Smalltalk and the Metaobject Protocol are things to revile and shun. They aren't elegant programming models and they aren't even internally consistent programming models. If you read Smalltalk papers, they aren't really
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by teacup50 11y ago
It's not the same argument at all. Why not beastiality? Consent. Why not polygamy? Agency, inherent power inequality. The reason why gay marriage won't "degenerate to polygamy and beastiality" isn't because people a
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by teacup50 11y ago
Books are not the sole property of colleges.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Key pinning you can't override locally is DRM.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Borked? They're building robots, not bingo card webapps. I'd say the "Japense startup ecosystem" is doing fine.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Do you actually have specifics, here? I'm happy to discuss things like how to model fork() in-kernel.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Marketers, "growth hackers", and senators don't get to define spam. Users -- especially those hitting the "spam" button -- define spam. Whether or not something is considered spam depends largely on whose interest y
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by teacup50 11y ago
What does it mean in a one-vote/voice-per-citizen democracy when a small number of people with money can buy more "free speech", allowing them to dominate the political dialog and crowd out dissenting voices who have less m
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by teacup50 11y ago
Microsoft does control the kernel, and given that, none of this stuff is particularly complicated. As for choosing "_exactly_ the right behavior" ... the whole point of POSIX is to clearly define the exact right behavior!
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by teacup50 11y ago
Continuous motion, maybe. Continuous forward motion, not so much.
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by teacup50 11y ago
What made NPAPI something nobody is happy with has little to do with standardization approaches. Web APIs aren't a replacement for a plugin mechanism, and never will be, because they live below the browser instead of as a peer of the
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by teacup50 11y ago
I just can't imagine a situation where you brought on VC funding and were still able to maintain tarsnap's ethos. The inescapable push would be to find fast/big growth areas, and to change tarsnap in whatever way necessary to
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by teacup50 11y ago
This is always Mozilla's excuse. It's not as if Google hasn't published their source code or their documentation: https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/c-api It's not as if Google isn't wi
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by teacup50 11y ago
Is there a kernel in here somewhere? I'm curious about the BCM hardware interface (and I'm hoping this isn't Linux, but ...)
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by teacup50 11y ago
> Dishonest marketing? Really? Homebrew, a free tool was out spreading lies about MacPorts? That's ridiculous. Ridiculous? Homebrew's marketing tagline was "MacPorts driving you to drink? Try homebrew!". The (obviou
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by teacup50 11y ago
If you've been using Homebrew for 4 years, you probably missed MacPorts' adoption of binary packages, automatic detection+repair of broken library linking, sandboxing of builds, etc. That's resolved all of the fragility (and
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by teacup50 11y ago
I can't fathom how MacPorts could ever break your whole system. - MacPorts' /opt/local is not in any of the default system paths. - MacPorts uses sandboxing to ensure that builds can't stomp anything outside o

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