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NT Vs.Unix: Is One Substantially Better (1998)(itprotoday.com)
4 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Solaris has event ports which are equivalent to Windows IOCP. So not all *NIX systems are deficient in that regard :) I know, but IOCP badly fits into the "UNIX philosophy", i.e. in this case how input/output is "t
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Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)(itprotoday.com)
186 points by wolfgke 8y ago|96 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> There's a whole world of solid, reliable, but unbelievably boring "institutional computing" out there that hackers usually don't touch because it's... well... boring. I can imagine if the salaries would be suff
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Linux and DOS/Windows have far more in common with each other than mainframe OSes, despite their huge differences, because they evolved from mini/microcomputers and UNIX. Surely Linux and the Windows NT line (don't confu
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> ARM has distinctly not been popular in the data center (despite years of work). That's for many reasons but one is surely the fragmentation of the platform. At least for the server realm, ARM defined the "Server Base System
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Annoyingly this chip lacks the Compressed (RVC) extension, making it incompatible with all existing Linux distros. These will either have to be recompiled without any Compressed instructions (which increases I-cache pressure on other C
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It's possible that real world code that converts to double uses temporary variables and a more complicated expression involving other operators with different precedence. The primitive types in Java and their operators have always
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> No, but the right way should at least be easier than the wrong way. Let us compare: > bigDecimal.doubleValue() + bigDecimal2.doubleValue() vs. > bdResult = bd1.add( bd2 ) The first code is longer (two methods calls, which each do
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I guess that question gets answered when the last email was sent and all communication happens through WhatsApp or similar. Not so easy: There are lots of other factors than cost which decide what wins in a market, such as - trends&#x2
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Are you saying that engineering has no benefit to society? Surely it has. But you are compensated for it, because it has a financial benefit for some company.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Pretty saddening to read- instead of spending their billions to fight climate change A pretty good way to fight climate change would be to mostly stop breeding, because fewer people means less energy consumption and thus less climate c
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Counterexamples: Optimization: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public/pull/24/files Improvement in build system: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public/pull/33 Bugfix in b
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Look at the open pull requests.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
What a pity that lots of people seem to want to create (often small) enhancements to xv6 > https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public/pulls but the authors (probably because of lack of time and/or academic obl
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by wolfgke 8y ago
I disagree, since making things more effective often makes things very political. I just want to mention that in many cases, the law requires time-intensive tendering procedures, which are clearly not very efficient or effective. There do e
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Everyone should try to work in government at some point to understand why things so relevant to your life happen the way they do, and to be better citizens. I disagree: Working in something government related makes you deeply hate the
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Why don't they start making CPUs 3 Dimensional like a cube with 6 "processors" each with multiple cores as its "sides" with the pins on the opposite sides of the cube wall. Not directly an answer to this specif
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I'd pay for one month of Netflix every two years instead of monthly, without question. I can imagine that in this case Netflix would just have to change the price model somewhat: Make the first month much more expensive than the f
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I might just not have to imagination, but a DRM free Netflix wouldn't seem to work -- you pay a low monthly fee for temporary access to a huge library. What would you prefer? I do not get your point. Perhaps I misunderstand it, be
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> To me, Netflix is evidence that there's no point to DRM. I still can torrent any content I want, but I almost never do. To me, it is rather the other way round: As Netflix offers no DRM-free version, I will never subscribe. So in
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I think you have an idealized view of how most people use PCs. I don't think that he has an idealized view per se. It is rather that people who bring up such arguments often are surrounded by similar minded people, which is some k
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Is Oculus still the only real attempt at it these days? At least HTC Vive and PlayStation VR (if you are a console player) additionally come to my mind.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Why are complex numbers not called duonions then? Why are pairs not commonly called duples?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> As an aside, complaints might have been even more numerous if the game were actually good, as of now Civ 5 has a peak of 30K users playing daily, while Civ 6 a peak of only 20K. A question to the gamers on HN: What makes Civ5 in your o
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by wolfgke 8y ago
What you are joking about is in my opinion much more serious than it looks like at first appearance. Why do you think so many rich people love to spend lots of money to have e.g. buildings named after them (for example at reputable universi
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Cause Rembrandt actually teached that apprentice how to do his work. And a modern artist told his technician how to do his work. In this sense, I think the boundary is much more fluent. In my personal opinion, the artist is the person
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> "Our machine is broken, we only take cash etc" If you care about privacy, this is not a bug, but a feature.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
But you can look at the individual services and tell them what alternatives there exist and what "dubious" terms of service these companies avoid. It is not an all-or-nothing, but an "avoid, except for these two exotic use ca
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I'm very curious how this story develops. Usually, a tech company ending on the front page of HN for messing up is shamed into fixing the mistake, often quietly and without providing any explanation to the victim. The company shou

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