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by troutwine 16y ago
Being able to set the timeout would be a nice feature. Really I would be annoyed with 15 seconds, though I do agree that such a timeout is more suitable than is 1 second. I keep my hard-drive spun down for a simple reason: power consumption
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by troutwine 16y ago
Seems to force my hard-disk to sync every half-second. Not so very desirable on a mobile device. For reference, I am: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.59 Safari/534.3 Please do ema
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by troutwine 16y ago
Ironically, you were a bit too terse for me to understand your point. Would you care to elaborate please?
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by troutwine 16y ago
Sure. If you have any problems the Debian mailing lists are excellent, the Ubuntu forums are good and I'm very often polite via email if you have a question that isn't very tightly focused.
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by troutwine 16y ago
Ah, yes, good catch.
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by troutwine 16y ago
I would tend to say go with Debian, if that is your aim. While I understand that some of the Ubuntu long-term support releases have stable package bases, I have had nowhere near the same level of comfort with an Ubuntu LTS as I have with De
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by troutwine 16y ago
Interesting. My first thought on finishing your post was "How rude; you've tainted us all with the knowledge of a that patent." Evidence of manners in the making I suppose; adaptation of custom in the face of seemingly immovable, shared bur
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by troutwine 16y ago
Just so you know, the approach Erlang takes is to keep old, active versions of applications around in memory. File handles and such are never reassigned to newer versions. Applications are garbage collected once they are no longer active.
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by troutwine 16y ago
Yes, it's very likely that I know different folks. That's why I hedged my comment by noting that it was purely anecdotal: I tend to associate with computer scientists, mathematicians and medievalists. The first and last groups tend to be mo
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by troutwine 16y ago
Better standards support in IE is a boon for everyone; JS shivs and CSS resets only go so far in alleviating development pain. Still, I don't know that I would go so far as to say "back in the game" but, rather, "no longer so shockingly bac
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by troutwine 16y ago
I always rather liked "Less is more; more is less."
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by troutwine 16y ago
I'm not familiar with the Google Code site. Could your provide a link? I've downloaded my kit from: http://ai-contest.com/starter_packages.php Also, for what it's worth: http://ai-contest.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=405&#38... I
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by troutwine 16y ago
I rather wish their forum was open. I'm only receiving a blank grey window when I run ShowGame over a game's text. Alas. Edit: I suppose the outage was momentary; the forum is rather hopping.
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by troutwine 16y ago
Clearly I need to study more.
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by troutwine 16y ago
Poor fellow, one should never take the help along on trips or, indeed, have them anywhere near the living quarters for terribly long. I well recall the termination of my last scullery maid: she took a nasty head cold and would most stop sne
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by troutwine 16y ago
They are distinct issues, to be sure, but, then again, they are part and parcel. Properly implemented, a language with distributed computing primitives buys you single address space concurrency: it's the degenerate case of a cluster. No mat
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by troutwine 16y ago
This echoes my sentiments rather precisely. On the not infrequent occasion that I am building something which requires massive concurrency I _also_ need it to be distributed, if only for service reliability. Multi-core might be the (very ne
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by troutwine 16y ago
Quite so.I made my statement more to dissuade the notion that Tornado was in any way a magic concurrency machine, that, ultimately, careful programming is still required.
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by troutwine 16y ago
In short: epoll. Network IO bound servers need only deal with sockets that have some event ready. Unless I'm mistaken, Tornado isn't written to be highly concurrent, it is, rather, quite asynchronous: they make it very simple to deal with I
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by troutwine 16y ago
To be sure, though I think that the no outside influence restriction is a bit contrary to the archeological record. Though I didn't make it clear, what concerns me are not the coarse technologies of life--wheels and pottery and what not--bu
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by troutwine 16y ago
At subsistence levels, it is not unlikely that all but the most basic human learning would be lost to active memory in a generation or two. While the species will persist, the ability to live as flailing gods will not. I wonder, how do we p
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by troutwine 16y ago
Statistically speaking, you've lived about half of your life. A little under, depending on country. I suppose you are a glass half empty sort of fellow? Really though, it's not so bad. We all face utter oblivion; the question is "When?" and
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by troutwine 16y ago
You are going to make a lot of mistakes, some painful, others interesting. Happy hacking!
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by troutwine 16y ago
Clojure tool support is pretty rough, even when your main editor is Emacs. Not infrequently I have issues with swank/slime whereby I cannot load libraries correctly, maintain a proper connection or correctly eval a buffer (possibly related
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by troutwine 16y ago
Interesting. I'm nearly ready to graduate from Portland State University and I know, beyond a doubt, that had I turned in a project with a flaw that glaring I would have failed the project, for "general unsuitability". Different schools, di
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by troutwine 16y ago
Interesting. I try to keep a newspaper or periodical handy, something offline and inert. While my project compiles, I read a few hundred words and do not get so engrossed I lose my original train of thought.