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by vajrabum 14y ago
It's funny you should mention godlike powers. We're pretty fast reaching a point where an individual can have "god like" powers for not very much $$$. You could argue that the genie isn't out of the bottle yet, but I think the point is argu
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by vajrabum 14y ago
Let's not swap one assumption for another perhaps hidden one. In this case, the assumption that the product life cycle is long enough that you ever have "mature" products. The article points out that the appliance product life cycles used t
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by vajrabum 14y ago
That sounds like a pretty dubious assertion to me, especially given the nature of $$$. Care to provide some evidence?
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by vajrabum 14y ago
You forgot to ask, how many people need to export to a specific older version format to support their colleagues or customers.
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by vajrabum 15y ago
How long will it be before somebody ports a nice VM to DCPU-16 or targets a compiler for it? The architecture is so simple and familiar I'm guessing that's not a terribly hard job. Folks are probably not going to write their programs in DCP
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by vajrabum 15y ago
Yahoo Mail has pretty much the same services and it's based on Zimbra. It's pretty good.
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by vajrabum 15y ago
You couldn't make a living as a writer prior to the invention of the printing press--at least the only way you could do it was to get some individual or institution to pay you to write a book. In that case books were so expensive that there
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by vajrabum 15y ago
I'm guessing like most people who write for a living that he had a carbon (assuming this is before word processing) or a disk file found in his papers after his death.
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by vajrabum 15y ago
In the article the idea of bioengineering Draco into the body was mentioned. My understanding is that in the early stages of pregnancy there's some very weird stuff going on in mammals that appears to involve endogenous retro-viruses. It mi
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by vajrabum 15y ago
Love this metaphor and there's some truth here but no amount of training is going to make a manager butt out when the manager is the problem.
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by vajrabum 15y ago
Yes, and the way I understood the article is that the problem--not for the next generation of chips but two generations down the line--is that cog architecture scales up to 10s or 100s of processors but not thousands due to synchronization
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by vajrabum 15y ago
No. On the face of it sounds like a problem of Rumblefish stealing from users.
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by vajrabum 15y ago
Well then they're missing out. The only time I visit Stack Overflow is when it comes up in a Google search or when it shows up on hacker news with something actually useful and book-markable like this.
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by vajrabum 15y ago
This paper is mostly obsolete but contains this wonderful and famous comment on Algol 60: Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.