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   by tl 16y ago

   > Multi-threading seems like it would likely require a change to the Javascript implementations. What about Web Workers? http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/
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   by tl 16y ago

   It's a scary monster living outside your walled garden.
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   by tl 16y ago

   It's an anecdote but I've had 2 PHBs that wouldn't accept C# in a "VB.NET" environment.
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   by tl 16y ago

   You forgot my favorite: $ time clojure -e '(println "Hello, world!")' real 0m0.781s Yeah, I know it's the JVM but still.
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   by tl 16y ago

   As another example, Minecraft (recently mentioned on HN) is currently on version 1.1.0 despite still being in its Alpha.
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   by tl 16y ago

   Except that he didn't. He said the faux tough guy speech (that everyone liked) overshadowed the actual message of his rant.
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   by tl 16y ago

   There used to be sold addons at one point (it's possible but piracy is extremely easy), but Blizzard made paid addons a TOS violation.
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   by tl 16y ago

   When I used Firefox I had up to 15 tabs open. When I switched to Chrome, I found that a few changes in behavior of tabs allowed me to maintain up to about 75 tabs. When I enabled No More Tabs, (a piece of advice from a recent article posted
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   by tl 16y ago

   I don't know that it's better but it's a quarter of the price of my iPad during a period of penny pinching.
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    by tl 16y ago

    Here's an anecdote for you: our corporate intranet site gets a peak spike of a few thousand users every day, around lunch. (People browsing the web over lunch and the computers in-house all have the site as their fixed homepage.) That web
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    by tl 16y ago

    Being badly burned by VSS in the past and subsequently viewing all source control to be bad. Also, a massive number of "<project name> - revised <date>" folders was good enough in their eyes.
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    by tl 16y ago

    Let's see, I've worked where source control was not allowed (yay management). So #1 and #2 were necessary for communication. Also been in situations where non-programmers make small changes to certain pieces of code. Yes, that means you
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    by tl 16y ago

    Make an iPad version and sell it for $2.99-$4.99.
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    by tl 16y ago

    Well, I'd say C++'s std::ostream was a bad idea the first time, but if you're going to do it you might want to swap __lt__ for __lshift__.
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    by tl 16y ago

    $ time echo '(println "Hello, world!")' | clojure Clojure 1.0.0- user=> Hello, world! nil user=> real 0m2.756s user 0m1.040s sys 0m0.140s $ time echo 'print "Hello, world!"' | python Hello, world! real 0m0.018s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0
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    by tl 16y ago

    I'd like to see data supporting that 80%. We had AT&T phones through work at my last job, and we'd use our personal Verizon phones because of poor signal quality and dropped calls during service calls.
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    by tl 16y ago

    Different parts of the US have such large variances in the cost of living that it's hard to give a meaningful answer (i.e. non-skilled labor here has greater variance than that).
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    by tl 16y ago

    Those are examples of projects succeeding in spite of GNU. We had the Emacs/XEmacs schism, where rms fought against lucid over features, most of which are in emacs now. How many people actually like gcc? Why is Apple pushing to replace i
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    by tl 16y ago

    >What I would really like to see are the numbers of Windows computers receiving updates. That would be a legitimate number. Actually, that number wouldn't be valid either. How many corporations block Windows Update because new versions
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    by tl 16y ago

    HTML is more liberal about missing close tags, so minifying HTML should include removing those tags when the page is pushed to the browser.
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    by tl 16y ago

    I can't speak to the quality of the iPhone version, but the Linux version is absolutely terrible. It's slow and crash-prone (think early flash releases).
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    by tl 16y ago

    I went 9 for 11, but the more interesting part is the breakdown on each title. The two I missed fooled 3 out of 3 and 12 out of 16 respectively, and a few of the ones I got right, (nearly) everyone got right.
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    Exercise 36: Designing And Debugging(sheddingbikes.com)

    1 points by tl 16y ago|0 comments
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    by tl 16y ago

    So you're going to wait 5 iterations of Moore's law, or 6.5 years? (8x speed and 1/4 price)
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    by tl 16y ago

    Anecdote: Myself, plus 3 guys I work with decided to lose weight. We all succeeded (I lost about 50 pounds over 9 months), but the guy who lost 3.5 pounds per week started having serious medical issues.
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    by tl 16y ago

    I'd say nearly every company whose focus isn't software (they employ more programmers than software companies and they use the degree as a screening tool).
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    by tl 16y ago

    Xkcd joke? http://xkcd.com/327/
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    by tl 16y ago

    cough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth cough
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    by tl 16y ago

    It's not arbitrary. It's simply the largest int pointer your emacs can represent. It's also a non-problem on 64-bit machines. Run the following code in your emacs buffer: (let ((i 1024)) (while (> i 0) (setq i (* i 2)))
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    by tl 16y ago

    Actually in the superfuture the cost is negative; advertising based on the context of recent text messages causes the operator to make a small amount of money (about $.005) per message sent.