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by tl 15y ago
In clojure, you can solve this by using a variadic macro (instead of a function) to generate the fast, unrolled version. I think pg had a similar example in On Lisp for generating fast code to find points on a bezier curve.
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Boldness and Restraint(prog21.dadgum.com)
1 points by tl 15y ago|0 comments
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by tl 15y ago
The answer is to use both. Do you really need realtime reporting? If you don't, store everything in a document database and write a small job to copy the data to a relational store for querying and reporting.
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by tl 15y ago
Startup idea: Automate this process and charge a 5% markup on the laptops sold through your site.
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by tl 15y ago
Even in PHB land, it's possible to have the kind of living eenvironment that lisp gives you. If you need an example, look at Notch's making of Prelude of the Chambered (his Ludum Dare entry) where he has live code reloading in Java.
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by tl 15y ago
It varies based on location. The unrealistic "we require 5 years experience in a technology that's 3 years old" HR people still exit. Even more common is N years of desktop app programming experience counting as 0 years of web programming
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by tl 15y ago
Powershell is like Eclipse: * usable for the task at hand * inferior to similar tools that are 20 years old * slower / more resource hungry than it should be
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by tl 15y ago
We solve this by having the e-mails come out in hourly batches for errors, with a separate, single, immediate e-mail for "the site is down" type problems.
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by tl 15y ago
Their choice on Windows 7 is severely limited. (Buy a Mac, build your own hardware, eat the cost of Windows or use a linux vendor like system76 that no one knows exists) Xbox 360 took massive amounts of marketing investment from Microsoft
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by tl 15y ago
There's also Hatsune Miku, a Japanese singer created in software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI
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The impact of language choice on github projects(corte.si)
2 points by tl 15y ago|0 comments
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by tl 15y ago
Actually, it's "mouse being required". As in there are functions that Blizzard will not allow you to keybind like turning your camera or character. In games where this restriction is not in play, players have keys to face an enemy or do a
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Software Systems Research is Irrevelant (Rob Pike, 2000)(herpolhode.com)
2 points by tl 15y ago|0 comments
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by tl 16y ago
> This should be their entry into the TV space. I don't know why they don't see this -- probably because their senior management is too old to take the gaming space seriously. It's not an issue of age, Apple has never been interested in
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Dabble DB shuts down on May 18, 2011(dabbledb.com)
49 points by tl 16y ago|29 comments
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by tl 16y ago
> The iPad 2's early success is a warning sign of a global tablet bubble, where supply could outpace demand for tablets by about 36 percent, said J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz. It's official: everything is a bubble now.
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by tl 16y ago
Does this mean that if you prefer to not use compositing effects, that Wayland is much ado about nothing?
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by tl 16y ago
> The app was selected as "New and notable" by Apple for the Swedish App Store, and my goal of 150 sales in three months was reached in less than one week. That's the key point. Making it onto one of Apple's lists is the real moneymak
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by tl 16y ago
It's not "sometimes" - it's some gamers most of the time. Look anything from Mario to Madden. The majority like the status quo, and the likes of Braid and Minecraft still aren't making EA money. Additionally, the creative thinking require
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by tl 16y ago
How long is the list of games that zsnes doesn't have 100% accuracy? It had reasonable performance in the Pentium 3 era. We're talking about emulating a 4MHz processor.
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by tl 16y ago
I'm not; the site's first userbase was .NET developers. Some percent of people looking up those answers are doing so from a company pc that may not allow anything else.
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by tl 16y ago
should've (contraction of should have) and should of have similar pronunciation, so using "should of" in writing is a somewhat common mistake.
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by tl 16y ago
Ruby and Python are both terms where the common meaning confounds the programming language on Google Trends. * Python still has a viable niche (scientific computing, stats, etc...) * Ruby's niche (mvc websites) got copied by every other dec
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by tl 16y ago
That gets trotted out as the counter argument (even with vb .net vs c# where the 2 languages are very similar), but it's moot. Code reuse doesn't happen without clean interfaces (which reduces the problem of different languages) because fe
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by tl 16y ago
You might be able to use F#. There is no technical reason you can't use F# with C#, but I've seen political barriers to even using C# with VB.Net.
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by tl 16y ago
The close button is way too small, and difficult to use from a tablet.
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by tl 16y ago
That's like saying cancer can't be a threat to people because it can only exist because of people.
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by tl 16y ago
That's why I qualified with more than one. The Nexus One is an unsubsidized model that the carriers effectively fought and T-Mobile tries to make up for having terrible coverage by doing the technical side correctly. Specifically, I'm say
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by tl 16y ago
No-strings attached free wireless tethering is a killer app. I expect more than one Android+US Carrier to have it before AT&T+iPhone does.
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by tl 16y ago
It's only a broken window fallacy if the comment was implying that the impact was positive.

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