utopcell

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1. 661.▲
   by utopcell 8y ago

   Aah.. Oracle! The company that, when researchers benchmarked it against other DBs and found it dead slow, they made benchmarking it illegal. Why are they still around again ?
2. 662.▲
   by utopcell 8y ago

   Isn't Android transitioning to kotlin ?
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   Fender’s acoustic-electric hybrid is a technological wonder(engadget.com)

   9 points by utopcell 8y ago|1 comments
4. 664.▲
   by utopcell 8y ago

   The comparison is between senior (5-10 years of experience) positions at FAANG, not all software companies, and doctors over all hospitals. How much do doctors make at the top 5 hospitals after 5 years ? How about top lawyers ? In terms of
5. 665.▲
   by utopcell 8y ago

   Hardware seems to be by far the easiest component of the equation. Google home minis are practically free.
6. 666.▲
   by utopcell 8y ago

   I echo the sentiment of the author. Also, It seems to me that in all three articles, what comes through is not that ranges will be cool or useful, but that coroutines are awesome. With this, I couldn't agree more. I sometimes wonder if
7. 667.▲
   by utopcell 8y ago

   Beautiful! (-:
8. 668.▲
   by utopcell 8y ago

   And let us not forget the blasphemy of bracketless blocks of code. Or uninitialized variables.
9. 669.▲
   by utopcell 8y ago

   Syntax should be dead-simple so that correctness is obvious, compilers don't dump incomprehensible messages on trivial typos, and programmers can focus on efficiency. For example, in something as simple as: int z; while(++z)
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    by utopcell 8y ago

    I believe this is OK. He mentions the co-creator in the video and posts a link to their video at the description.
11. 671.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    That's how I read it as well. Not cool spreading such rumors..
12. 672.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    Someone paid them ?!
13. 673.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    So what ? This does not make the work any less impressive. There is zero doubt in my mind that this was a genuine effort. Mark, if you're reading this: Awesome hack, keep them coming!
14. 674.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    They probably would, they'd just be named GNU / Ads.
15. 675.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    > The pragmatic answer is firewalls between layers (i.e. browser separate from search), and competition in layers, plus decent legislation, plus some degree of decentralization. A long-form way for saying 'unusable'.
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    by utopcell 8y ago

    That'd be a nightmare.
17. 677.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    Well.. this looks ok for 26 letters and 10 numbers. Not sure you can stretch that to full ASCII. For 36 characters, 6 bits per character suffice.
18. 678.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    No, plus people rotate their monitors.
19. 679.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    + all off for space, so 2^3.
20. 680.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    No scrolling needed on my UP3218K monitor.
21. 681.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    ..that the Don was the one who really revived Apple by inventing the iMac and the iPhone ? Yes, yes, we know all that.
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    by utopcell 8y ago

    https://youtu.be/DmbGs290qeM
23. 683.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    Knuth was asked if this was true by R Munroe (xkcd) on a talk on campus at Google, and Knuth denied it.
24. 684.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    Melissa ?
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    by utopcell 8y ago

    You are holding Yahoo against its potential, because in absolute terms, Yahoo still commands about 10% of the US search market. That is nothing to sneeze at.
26. 686.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    Of course they have other stuff, but their web search results come directly from Yahoo/Bing and the Russian search engine Yandex. This is widely known [1]. On their FAQ though [2], they mention Yahoo and Bing, but "forget" to
27. 687.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    :-)
28. 688.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    The author is not an unknown entity. ZeroMQ is one of the highest performing brokerless MQs, if not the highest. I do remember that the main pain points were wrt STL and not C++ (but it's been a while since I read that post.) Other peo
29. 689.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    What constitutes competition ? If I put up a site serving Wikipedia, that nobody visits, am I a competitor to Wikipedia or Google ? Last time I checked, DuckDuckGo had < 0.2% market share. Aren't Bing and Yahoo enough already to jus
30. 690.▲
    by utopcell 8y ago

    Even before handing over the domain, Google had a landing page that was essentially saying: "If you want to visit DuckDuckGo, _click here_."