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by vegai 17y ago
Why do people always benchmark JVM-ported languages to be lot faster than the main version, but in actual production use they turn out to be much slower?
212.
by vegai 17y ago
Yes, so, it really should be: instead of spending billions on weapons, don't spend it on anything.
213.
by vegai 17y ago
Sounds a bit large. Does that figure include all the support libraries for network & web -- or that you're not using any?
214.
by vegai 17y ago
Yes. Apples also can be compared to oranges by several different criteria.
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by vegai 17y ago
"If there is a God who created the natural laws of the universe, surely he is also capable of suspending the rules when he finds it worthwhile to do so?" Why do you suppose this? Perhaps it trapped itself in.
216.
by vegai 17y ago
A competent C programmer can clearly make a good, performant program in 10klines. A genius programmer, maybe 100klines. There's something beyond those figures, though. And it gets worse when a team is involved. The higher the level of the l
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by vegai 17y ago
And notably, Mercurial written in python is much faster than Subversion written in C.
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NetBSD 5.0 released(netbsd.org)
1 points by vegai 17y ago|0 comments
219.
by vegai 18y ago
There's one reason: flash. When we get a good video standard over the web, then yes, there's one less reason to pirate stuff like that.
220.
by vegai 18y ago
Note though that using ++ like that builds lots and lots of intermediate lists.
221.
by vegai 18y ago
Meh. Why not just write in python? It's a better language in almost every way anyway.
222.
by vegai 18y ago
Uhm, how is it not their fault? Honestly.
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The Haskell ⇌ Erlang FFI(haskell.org)
7 points by vegai 18y ago|0 comments
224.
by vegai 18y ago
Aww, I dismissed Erlang about 4 months ago because I didn't see anything like this existing and didn't want to bother writing it myself.
225.
by vegai 18y ago
So we should just stop trying? That's not very entrepreunial.
226.
by vegai 18y ago
For what I need, all commercial alternatives are worse. Some considerably worse. Why would I waste time even downloading them from the net?
227.
by vegai 18y ago
But doesn't Azure have a much worse limitation: Microsoft?
228.
by vegai 18y ago
You should rethink everything if you cannot provide those people personal offices who absolutely must be at the office every day. One thing you're probably doing wrong then is thinking that everyone should be physically there every day.
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by vegai 18y ago
So is python java now?
230.
by vegai 18y ago
Riiiight. "Last weekend, Valve decided to do an experiment with Left 4 Dead. Last weekend's sale resulted in a 3000% increase over relatively flat numbers. It sold more last weekend than when it launched the game. WOW. That is unheard of in
231.
by vegai 18y ago
No.
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by vegai 18y ago
I was very convinced by the reflections to real life soldiers' experiences. Didn't you read them? As a father of two kids, I'm considerably more worried now, especially about the education part.
233.
by vegai 18y ago
Buy them a nice suit?
234.
by vegai 18y ago
Lynch's latest, Inland Empire... not only the biggest mindfuck I've ever seen, also includes the most scary imagery.
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by vegai 18y ago
The Ultimate Darwin's Award.
236.
by vegai 18y ago
That's like saying "Of course, get a non-sucky version of ruby going, then you can make a fair comparison."
237.
by vegai 18y ago
Behold: http://www.suckless.org http://xmonad.org
238.
by vegai 18y ago
1) Name. "Kijiji"? 2) Layout. Craigslist is beautifully simple. Kijiji looks like "web 2.0".
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by vegai 18y ago
" Linux won because free trumps $500 per cpu, and it was really the same thing as Unix." Linux won the hearts of many in mid and late 90's because it was VASTLY better than the mainstream OS back then. That Linux was the first many tried be
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by vegai 18y ago
Mm, seems like a kind of thing that shouldn't be on the web... How about a reliable tested platform and a web interface on top of that? These guys have done something in that direction: http://about.psyc.eu/ Or perhaps just plain IRC.

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