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by white-flame 11y ago
Right at the top of the article they call it a labor of love for those inside the company.
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by white-flame 11y ago
I was working with Erlang for about 2 years in a multi-language environment, and we based our networking messaging infrastructure on top of the Erlang protocol. It's still there, but we're migrating from it. One major thing that
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by white-flame 11y ago
America is home to thousands if not millions of volunteer groups, social change movements, debates and university studies on these sorts of situations. There isn't any sort of central government ministry dealing with stuff like this,
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by white-flame 11y ago
I think it was back in the 0.54-0.59 version range.
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by white-flame 11y ago
You might want to do some googling about it, but I also seem to remember that SBCL might decide to use large or small MMU page granularity depending on the size of the heap. That might be the watershed trigger for performance. (or just so
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by white-flame 11y ago
We deploy distributed, multi-language, centrally Lisp/SBCL servers as well. A few specifics that I'd point out: Many of SBCL's optimizations are fine grained selectable, using internal SB-* declarations. I know I was at lea
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by white-flame 11y ago
The DMCA outlaws bypassing copy protection schemes and access controls. It explicitly _exempts_ (ie, does not make illegal) bypassing copy protection for legal reverse engineering activity, including security research. Read the DMCA. It&#
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by white-flame 11y ago
These are the important skills in software development: Abstraction Communication (in person, in documentation, & to the computer) Understanding the use & environment of the software These are intertwined, contain the org
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by white-flame 11y ago
Let's look at the sweet spots, because that's really what many people will buy: Best $/GB HDD on pricewatch.com: $0.024/GB for 2TB at $48.95 Best $/GB SSD on pricewatch.com: $0.387/GB for 240GB at $92.95
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by white-flame 11y ago
The best defense is a good offense. In other words, you should not be locked into your relationship with your employer, especially as a new hire. It's always your option to quit if things aren't as advertised, and not worth salva
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by white-flame 11y ago
The specific strawman that is being presented is the free intermixing of functional and imperative. We have really nice codebases where the execution of side effects is specifically constrained to known locations. From an optimization pers
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by white-flame 11y ago
The standard "for" structure is necessarily ordered. Either an index is incremented/decremented, or an iterator object's next() comes in. Since there are side effects that can affect either the iterator or the index, a
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by white-flame 11y ago
Even worse, I've sometimes done things like $(...).addClass("bg" + getSomeClassIdentifier(obj)) Linking some string hanging off some runtime object to its CSS class usage quickly runs into halting problem issues. There
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by white-flame 11y ago
Much of his thrust seems to boil down to being really offended by the cost of safety of allowing concurrent writes while reads are going on. When dealing with analysis workloads, his line of thinking can yield fast runtimes and doesn't
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by white-flame 11y ago
No, quadrillion in the common short scale: 35,000 = thousand 35,000,000 = million 35,000,000,000 = billion 35,000,000,000,000 = trillion 35,000,000,000,000,000 = quadrillion In the long scale, this would be a "thousand b
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by white-flame 11y ago
The microbes are not an intentional additive in many foods, like sauerkraut. The 'wild' bacteria and yeasts naturally found on the ingredients carry out their reactions and proliferate, so the actual quantitative concentrations a
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by white-flame 11y ago
Absolutely. Two languages that anybody who wants to truly understand computing, programming languages, and compilers are Lisp and Forth. - Lisp is a fundamental, extensible, simple, unbounded AST system (and brings in interesting lambda ca
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by white-flame 11y ago
The issue is moreso in how the conference itself is perceived. By taking a line like this, it becomes perceived not just as a technical conference, but one that's aligned for/against a particular external agenda. I don't thi
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by white-flame 11y ago
While not very familiar to many, this is highly similar to the old Lisp Machine environments. Those were similarly a clean break from prior OSes, with: - a powerful REPL to call either apps, inline tools, or direct commands - interac
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by white-flame 11y ago
I take a more classical view on University: It never should be "job training". It should be about general life enrichment, beyond-industry research, philosophy about the world and its workings, and broadening horizons. Sure, peo
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by white-flame 11y ago
You missed the point. Doctors in the US take 4 years of generally medically-unrelated undergraduate schooling before they're allowed into medical school. Why not just allow them into medical school?
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by white-flame 11y ago
You do know that crappy Minecraft videos are a direct result of people pursuing money through systems strongly influenced by copyright legislation, right? YouTube's financial incentivization optimizes towards crappy Minecraft videos mo
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by white-flame 11y ago
I am a musician as well. I don't make money out of it, and I understand how hard it is to make money in arts. The question is, should these sorts of economic incentives exist, and to what scale, given their downsides? Any incentive
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by white-flame 11y ago
Most maze generators build a giant tree, starting from an arbitrary point and sending out branching corridors until the area is full. By its nature everything's connected.
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by white-flame 11y ago
Do they actually use tiny tape recorders? Is the media smaller than the old microcassettes? :-)
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by white-flame 11y ago
The term "useful Arts" is not about "art" as we use the term today. To my understanding, that phrase was specifically about practical skills in the language of the day this was written. It is not "my" restric
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by white-flame 11y ago
From my reading of the architecture, it's not just parallelism, but _streaming_ parallelism. The individual cores really don't have memory or cache to do "real work" on their own. In many cases, they're all compet
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by white-flame 11y ago
The two natural states of "intellectual property" are public domain and trade secret. Everything else exists only because of legal systems creating new concepts. My problem is that copyright is misapplied: "To promote th
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by white-flame 11y ago
Most ATMs now in my experience scan & return your card to you at the beginning of the transaction, so you don't forget it in with all the other details.
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by white-flame 11y ago
A better option, and easier for users, would be for them to subscribe to a privacy setting upstream which configures popular sites for them. This would have to be non-canonical, such that popular upstream options that get influenced by adv

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