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by wladimir 15y ago
A big reason to use GWT, from what I've heard, is code sharing between client and server code (for example, data validation). Of course, nowadays you can do the same by using javascript both server and client side...
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by wladimir 15y ago
Note that this page is almost 10 years old, I wonder if the system call interface changed since then.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Sorry, I meant "part of the repository" as "part of the timeline", not "part of the directory structure". You don't need to fetch the entire history.
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by wladimir 15y ago
He certainly got that wrong, at least for now. However there may come a trend to move out of the cities sooner or later. For example even now a lot of people get tired of 'busy city life' and would like to move to the land and have some mor
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes, the virtual world is in no way safer, cleaner than the real world. And certainly not always more colorful. It's a bit of a misconception based on the fairytale told by marketing departments of tech companies, which try to push their h
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by wladimir 15y ago
Sometimes describing a problem can be useful, even if you don't have a solution ready. But that's only the first step... He's not a luddite; I think the alternative that he poses is to be more suspicious of technology and the companies that
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by wladimir 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that git does allow working with only part of the repository. You need to provide some specific options when cloning...
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by wladimir 15y ago
It's not just baseless ranting (well, not all the time), as he does provide arguments. But he's very contrarian in this day and age. His views sometimes border on Luddism :-) But there is some truth in it. In a way, in our quest for efficie
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by wladimir 15y ago
You might also be interested in Nicholas Carr's blog, he writes about similar things. I think it is worth following it, if only as a contrast to the tech-utopianism of HN: http://www.roughtype.com/index.php
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by wladimir 15y ago
I think it's good that students get the chance learn some things outside their immediate subject area. Some experience in the more creative areas such as photography and design can't hurt, even for a CS student. You never know when it will
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by wladimir 15y ago
Agreed -- you can get large code size wins. This would require actively managing the instruction set so that the most common instructions are shortest. In theory, this could be done. However, this doesn't work for a legacy architecture li
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by wladimir 15y ago
This is why you should use bionic implants based on open source hardware and software! :-)
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by wladimir 15y ago
"The public doesn't care" : it seems they do, at least here in the Netherlands I see a lot of people (non-techies) angrily complaining about Apple now. There are a few fanboys/apologetics, but most people realize that competition in the sm
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by wladimir 15y ago
This is indeed ridiculous. I've always been pretty neutral towards Apple but I this is just appalling. Seemingly they cannot compete with Android in the normal way so they try the patent troll angle. I hope this backfires on them big time.
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by wladimir 15y ago
"Are programmers top government advisors? Are they national heroes? Do doctors and lawyers and policemen tell their children that, if they work hard and practice, one day they can grow up to be a programmer? No. Obviously not." No. Becaus
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by wladimir 15y ago
That's pretty close to how the first NVIDIA GPGPU (G80) worked. There was no cache, but only different kinds of memory, of which one was as fast as registers. Optimal access to RAM memory was possible with a limited set of access patterns,
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by wladimir 15y ago
Looks very promising. One thing I wonder, though, is why WYSIWYG editors still use explicit markup (bold, italic, font size) instead of allowing the definition of styles. This is a hassle if you want to write consistent documents. Even Goog
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by wladimir 15y ago
It would be nice if you added "for MacOSX" to the title next time, would save me a click in vain.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Frankly I'm surprised that people haven't cracked the MS DRM just out of spite for this move. Because it's not worth it. People that want to pirate simply leech the movie off some torrent, instead of cracking a DRM then still paying for i
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by wladimir 15y ago
In reference to you seeing Python in your environment I would assume it is because you already have Python in your environment At one of the companies, they were using only C before (and some PHP/Java). Python was chosen for its merits (l
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by wladimir 15y ago
Do you have solid numbers that confirm your claim that Python is becoming less popular? This is a honest question, in my environment I see Python being adopted in various places now that is maturing. BTW: it hasn't been a "new and hip" lang
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by wladimir 15y ago
It might be somewhat better with multi-party democracies, instead of two pretty much equal options you have 3 or more... I think Iceland's experiment in (somewhat more) direct democracy is very interesting.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Same agenda, different face That seems to be the common pattern in democracies these days. You either vote the devil you know or the other devil you know... And if they do promise change it's forgotten as soon as the election is over.
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by wladimir 15y ago
X86 is not very well suited as platform-independent code, as the instruction set is way too complex and convoluted to allow for efficient emulation / translation. ARM assembly might qualify for this, though I'd personally prefer PNaCl as it
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by wladimir 15y ago
So instead of improving on the state-of-the-art of telepresence and have people work remotely from any place in the world, certainly possible with today's global communications infrastructure, they want to put actual physical boat with deve
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by wladimir 15y ago
I think that's pretty much the best solution. For old browsers in general, have a legacy HTML-only fallback site. This makes IE6 and Lynx users happy alike :-) It doesn't need to be pretty but it needs to be functional enough to do all the
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by wladimir 15y ago
It's not like the current system is not heavily gamed and exploited. This may be more, or less, robust.. who knows, only time can tell. In any case, this kind of experimentation is very important for taking governance into the 21th century.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Currently it seems the special case is for software developers, though. Everyone in my environment is finding it terribly hard or impossible to find jobs, or are going out of work, and I get job offers from all over the world. It feels unfa
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by wladimir 15y ago
Then all my code is OK by default, thanks :)
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by wladimir 15y ago
I guess it depends on the specific architecture, if you use something like Mongrel2 messaging is used for everything, even for routing HTTP requests and responses to the processes/servers that handle it. Also, hasn't it always been the case

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