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by wlievens 16y ago
Addendum: except of course the internet!
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by wlievens 16y ago
That's not what the he meant. The Apollo Project inspired people to go into sciences and engineering to an extent that nothing since has done. That effect is, after four decades, ebbing away.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Full text: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In_Event_of_Moon_Disaster
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by wlievens 16y ago
OpenCL is a proposed framework for GPGPU-like computing. I worked at ARM in their Belgian office, and when they announced considering shutting us down, one of the alternative proposals was to redesign the technology we were working on to su
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by wlievens 16y ago
> I wonder if combining ARM with GPGPU could help it push into x86 platforms... OpenCL's the name of the game, but ARM missed that train when it had the chance (and the tech) in-house and got rid of it.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Because nobody here knows anything about how stuff works at that depth. And a million other reasons. You can't "hack" this can you?
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by wlievens 16y ago
A lot of people said that in 1969. Don't get your hopes up too high.
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by wlievens 16y ago
So would "design -> test -> implement" work for you?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Can we please get over all this and just go with the one mantra: use the tools you're productive and comfortable with. End of story. I'm a Java developer, but I also recognize the amazing influence that more dynamic languages have had on
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by wlievens 16y ago
10% is a lot more than I would have thought, wow. Good job looking that up.
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by wlievens 16y ago
This probably applies best to specific needs. For instance, I can imagine that a lot of people would accept small errors in images rendered by their GPU in exchange for greater performance.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I'd like to pick up on that "detachment from users" concept. In my (limited) experience, it seems that the more interesting the technology is you're working on, the further you're typically removed from the users. For instance, in a typical
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by wlievens 16y ago
Oh no is it that late yet? Then the stress begins
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by wlievens 16y ago
You forgot about Grace Hopper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
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by wlievens 16y ago
You should be downvoted for the horrendeous crime you just commited; but instead I upvoted and managed to avoid going to that site . I'm either growing up or growing old.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Is time dilation essential to GPS? I know the satellites' clocks have to compensate for time dilation, but that's not the same thing. Or am I too simplistic? I just figured that, if the engineers who built the GPS hadn't accounted for time
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by wlievens 16y ago
Oh please. If anything, he's shown to be quite well equipped to debate a reasonable opponent, and therefore has no reason to complain about said opponent "getting a voice".
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by wlievens 16y ago
He raises valid points, but the obvious difference is that people expect building a bridge to cost millions and take months, whereas most customers think building quality software is easy. This is made worse by the fact that it is in fact
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by wlievens 16y ago
How is (maintain-order (parallelize employees)) vs MaintainOrder(Parallelize(employees)) "admittedly more attractive"? I enjoy functional constructs, but now you're just talking syntax right?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Tangential point: I don't get it... the guy makes fantasy games and he's never heard of Warhammer? Or was that irony that I somehow didn't get?
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by wlievens 17y ago
Ultimate solution: use both systems. Elect half the chamber directly, and half proportionally. Problem solved.
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by wlievens 17y ago
Absolutely. Isn't this ridiculous either, though? http://yvespernet.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/zetels2009.jpg Proportional representation is more correct, but certainly not more stable or efficient. Update: that image is only HALF of the
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by wlievens 17y ago
I'm struck by the irony of them getting the award for staff development and retention after making several of their European sites (including where I worked) redundant last yaer.
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ARM awarded EE Times Company of the Year(arm.com)
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by wlievens 17y ago
True in theory but not in practice: jQuery changed a lot of typical JavaScript usage patterns.
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by wlievens 17y ago
Reinforcing his point even more.
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by wlievens 17y ago
Where I live, these things are set by law.
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by wlievens 17y ago
The modern cartographer (GIS expert?) is interested more in data than in style, I daresay.
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by wlievens 17y ago
Bonus points for realizing it yourself and editing your post accordingly!
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by wlievens 17y ago
I read on HN once that someone had figured out that the amount is typically $20k. But I can't recall the context, so this is probably nex to useless. I don't have a corporate credit card :-)

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