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by vegabook 10y ago
yes I realise that I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth, and I love git(hub), but I'm just pointing out that "(github.com)" might just be a net-negative marketing point for people looking for robust software.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Looks like an awesome piece of technology, but why, whenever I see headline xxxx followed by "(github.com)" do I get a slight feeling of despair - that feeling that this project has a high chance of being future abandonware. Is it
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by vegabook 10y ago
Oh puhleeze. I have been a subscriber to the Bloomberg terminal for a full 17 years, the keyboard has been changed literally 4 times in that period, and I have yet to see one that is not a regression from the one that went before. Today y
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by vegabook 10y ago
It strikes me that my browsing experience not has seen a net improvement in the past 6-7 years. Whereas the functionality of websites is undoubtedly better, the ad-swamp is definitely greater too. I call it a draw. For all the content/
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by vegabook 10y ago
...more likely it is being considered for withdrawal from circulation altogether for all the usual war-on-cash reasons. Indeed, in large amounts, 500 euro notes are already selling for 515 euros for reasons of moving money outside of the ba
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by vegabook 10y ago
a) be thankful that banknotes are not being withdrawn altogether, but... b) mention of the 50 suspicious by its absence.
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by vegabook 11y ago
no this is a major shift in how we are governed, it's creeping up multi-decade, and has huge future ramifications. It is literally the breakdown of everything we have taken for granted in economic governance in the past 100 years, and
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by vegabook 11y ago
Astounded that the top comment is about meta-fucking-web. This is a huge story. It has enormous impact, economically, politically, socially. We're seeing centralised ownership through the back door, via the mechanism which started out
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by vegabook 11y ago
We've truly legitimized, if not quite yet legalized, when we're applying biz jargon like "supply chain" to dope. I'll just send My Man an application to the INSEAD MBA programme....
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by vegabook 11y ago
super glue!
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by vegabook 11y ago
Ah yes. 25% faster. I get 50x faster (that would be 5000%) just dipping into Numpy when I need to (admittedly with AVX), and C when I have to. Both are like, trivially easy. Why are we bothering with making native Python marginally faster w
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by vegabook 11y ago
would be interested to hear more about this IO issue. Am I right to assume that because of the genesis of the X86 architecture in desktop computing, it is not optimized for server-class IO, and that this permeates the design (ie difficult t
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by vegabook 11y ago
Attach/detach is the killer feature if you ever use more than one computer in your workflow, i.e., if you're a programmer of any kind.
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by vegabook 11y ago
No clue why you are being downvoted as this is an important point: Android's Java forcefeed is negative in more ways than one. We need multiple alternatives (yes yes Kotlin I know but more). Many programmers dislike Java and will do an
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by vegabook 11y ago
As per my post, mine is a phone, not a tablet. But it's the same OS. As far as the phone is concerned, I get 2 days easily in normal use (lots of browsing), and 3 days if light use. I would estimate it at 1.5-2x longer battery life tha
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by vegabook 11y ago
This is not a Linux tablet in that hacked-up sense. It's Ubuntu Phone. I've been using this for a year now on my Aquaris E5 and while it's not quite as smooth as IOS and Android quite yet, and that's only because my ha
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by vegabook 11y ago
Fair enough, at valuation of more than 1billion GBP so double that of doordash.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Deliveroo, Hungry House, Deliverance, Just Eat. That's the (well entrenched) competitive landscape in London alone. And I doubt those are sucking in numbers like 127m of funding (at god knows what valuation). These guys at doordash mus
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by vegabook 11y ago
What got me in was the pocket-chip add on. Kind of a PDA wrapper that will let me do a little bit of IoT without too much soldering! That was the unique story here for me as opposed to the dozens of other cheap SBCs.
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by vegabook 11y ago
I meant to be somewhat flippant. "Sarcastic..." You have made some good points, tadfisher, especially with respect to the ARM architectures being fragmented, and the ART compiler. I take those points, and indeed, I do respect the
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by vegabook 11y ago
"ekes out", that's rich. After taxing your native performance at least 50%, it's now eeking out performance. Haha.
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by vegabook 11y ago
There is no need for the JVM abstraction anymore, since the multiple architectures of the 90s such as Sun SPARC, SGI, Mips, PowerPC, X86, DEC Alpha, AS/400, have been pared back basically to two. Moreover, the more modern abstraction i
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by vegabook 11y ago
Nothing irritates me more than having an unnecessary virtual machine slow down my code by a factor of 2 or more, hogging memory, and putting a huge headwind on startup times. It all just grates against my engineering soul. It's like ri
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by vegabook 11y ago
nice old-time "slashdotting" jargo, though I doubt that Slashdot does any slashdotting anymore (sadly). "HackerNewsing" just doesn't do it, does it.
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by vegabook 11y ago
You have just persuaded me to give Rust a try... I like the idea of an advanced programming language with a pedagogical bent, that still allows me to get shit done. Since you seem to be a functional guy, the fact that you respect Rust is a
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by vegabook 11y ago
yes it does. Fair comment. But Haskell attracts the 1% CS elites who, sadly, are counterproductive to the language's wider adoption. Ocaml is not pure enough for these guys, and so, a paradoxically smaller community produces a higher a
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by vegabook 11y ago
..until you need to use somebody's Mensa-level-obfuscated, undocumented, library. Life is too short.
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by vegabook 11y ago
check out newegg. They come from Supermicro, Gigabyte, and I think Asus does a line too. They're pretty new so I think only Supermicro is currently listed but they come from at least 4 manufacturers now in Mini ITX form - so fitting hu
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by vegabook 11y ago
Hello Xeon D 8 core 16 thread, 2.1 GHz base clock, 2.8 turbo, latest tick, latest tock, supports up to 128 gig ram so double the i7, mini itx boards @ 800 dollars including processor. No GPU though. Nice thing is, it does ECC ram. Oh and, 1
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by vegabook 11y ago
> Apple is misjudging the needs of their users, to the point where trendsetters like programmers will be switching away from the platform I feel like this. I feel like the content creators (creative or coding) are being left behind by

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