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by toddh 14y ago
Excellent!
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by toddh 14y ago
There's a ready market for eternal life. What's the point of being really really rich if you die like everyone else?
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by toddh 14y ago
If you want battery backed ram you might as well use a UPS. There are also corruption issues. A failure can leave data structures in an inconsistent state that applications typically don't worry about in RAM.
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by toddh 14y ago
There's a race to control client, which is mobile. Apple or android can lock Facebook out or require them to use an ad system or a payment system. To control and profit in the future they need to own the entire stack, through to the user, o
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by toddh 14y ago
And why can't we program those "appliances" too? We live in a microprocessor enchanted world. To treat the world as dumb and unconnected is wasteful and disrespectful.
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by toddh 14y ago
You might consider the Actor model. Event loop code can be a mess and threaded code while simpler because it appears linear eventually has such complicated runtime behaviours it also becomes a dangerous mess. And Actor model combines the be
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by toddh 14y ago
That's very kind of you, thanks.
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by toddh 14y ago
Your tweet didn't convey a compelling value proposition, so that may account more for why the response wasn't as great as you wished.
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by toddh 14y ago
Maybe it wasn't as necessary without the context of a wide spread literate culture and market economy?
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by toddh 14y ago
To a large extent the investment in all that silicon is why developers can play the commodity game today. Many smart people are working on the next substrate for the next revolution and everything will change again. The differences are the
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by toddh 14y ago
The difference is mobile devices are not considered general computers so they are not open to the end around by webification threat. Device hardware and resources will not be made available to the web layer so a web application will always
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by toddh 15y ago
Accepting the earliest bid seems quite arbitrary. How would the system change if a random participant was selected? Or perhaps you could buy preferential treatment or use an algorithm weighted by some good actor metric.
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by toddh 15y ago
As a consciousness had to apply the tag the wave function was already collapsed. A tag is more like adding another dimension to reality.
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by toddh 15y ago
Swapping made sense when we had computers with limited resources running multi-user workloads. Neither is now true. These servers are special purposed so they don't need the overhead of a general OS at all. But aren't there two issues here?
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by toddh 15y ago
Do you really really consider that a high standard? Really?
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by toddh 15y ago
As an interesting counter point, Jeff Dean at Google says they prefer to have a known hit every once in a while, so they will have all the cron jobs go off at the same time versus introducing jitter. It perhaps has to do with their emphasis
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by toddh 15y ago
You shifted the problem to the network and disk storage. Distributing compiles, objects, executables, debug images, packages, etc can take longer than a compile on a single machine unless you are quite careful.
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by toddh 15y ago
>We aren't a company that designs cool phone hardware." That's just where we make 70% of our profits :-)
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by toddh 15y ago
This strikes me as more of a transition period. Eventually mac sales will be controlled completely via the app store and its highly structured sand boxed environment. Gatekeeper allows runtime control. Icloud replaces the local file system
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by toddh 15y ago
I understand that hungryblank. But I don't consider myself a journalist. I'm a developer writing for developers so they can hopefully learn something that will help them build cool stuff. To that end I use a very concise easily digestible s
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by toddh 15y ago
Going to the movies is an experience. It is the experience of the process itself (friends, meals, conversation, fun) and the meta experience of living someone else's experience on the screen. Is that really so bad?
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by toddh 15y ago
They did well, but they didn't win, and they haven't won. And winning is the point after all.
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by toddh 15y ago
How good are the Oakland A's? Not very. So how successful is the data driven approach really? Isn't accepting a single case like this in the NBA as any kind of proof unscientific?
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by toddh 15y ago
What will that new architecture look like? ... Since I can't seem to reply to your comment...so an 8 bit processor :-) It would be interesting to pair this with the new 100 core chips.
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by toddh 15y ago
You've just made the problem one of specification. How do you make clear specifications for something you are in the process of inventing? It's not possible. You'll try to invent it in your head. Early on in implementation what's in your he
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by toddh 15y ago
Definitely better than blog spam and content farms, but I was hoping those weren't my only options :-) I would like the highest signal content for the aspect of digital cameras I'm interested in, regardless of source. Using G+ as a mechanic
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by toddh 15y ago
It's a more successful version of the Yahoo portal strategy + the walled garden strategy. Yahoo failed when the competition created more attractive services and a walled garden requires something interesting enough to build a wall around. I
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by toddh 15y ago
Ideally wouldn't it find the best result? G+ and farm.* seem equally likely to be poor. I did an image search for something like Empire State Building and my G+ results showed first. The results sucked.
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by toddh 15y ago
While I agree Google is deprecating the URL, as indicated by the removal of the Shared in Reader features, isn't this just a case of somebody cutting and pasting without attribution? G+ can't do anything about that.
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by toddh 15y ago
Jedberg, I'm sorry I didn't respond, but I don't have a record of getting an email. Corrections are always welcome. A lot of articles are summaries from multiple sources, so they aren't made up (I'm not sure how I would even do that), and t

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