yohanatan

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by yohanatan 12y ago
I didn't say anything about violating Bell's theorem. Yes pilot wave theory is a better alternative that doesn't require spooky action at a distance but consistent histories doesn't require wavefunction collapse (which i
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by yohanatan 12y ago
That's only true if you take the Copenhagen interpretation. There are other interpretations (like 'consistent histories' for example). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation#Alter...
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by yohanatan 12y ago
The spoofing happens when talking to other devices (not themselves); i.e., there is some layer of the device that knows its true MAC address and the UUID generation code should use that layer.
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by yohanatan 12y ago
Yea, if you remove the dashes from regular UUIDs and base64 encode them they're not much longer than his custom ones.
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by yohanatan 12y ago
I am sure the Microsoft employees which will make up about 95% of the market share of this thing will be happy (until it goes the way of the Kin, Zune, etc).
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by yohanatan 12y ago
> Syntax of a programming language not being IP protected is probably a good thing for developers, regardless of what you think of the Microsoft situation. The API being protected is a separate issue But in the case you cited, the API wa
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by yohanatan 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers) This is pretty much the first thing that everyone writes in their new programming language.
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by yohanatan 12y ago
> Saying that you cannot hand code better than the compiler for a non-Pentium CPU nowadays sounds similar to saying that if you use too many set bits in your data then the punch cards will warp and tear apart from too many holes. If one
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by yohanatan 12y ago
There is also 'Atom' which is an embedded DSL in Haskell for writing real-time embedded systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(programming_language)
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by yohanatan 12y ago
You mean Qubes OS: https://qubes-os.org/ ?
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by yohanatan 12y ago
I think you are overlooking OCaml & Haskell (which can both be used skillfully to approach performance of C).
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by yohanatan 12y ago
Gene expressions are not binary. Code may not necessarily need to be modified-- merely activated or deactivated per expression levels. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if code does in fact get 'modified' over time (but ther
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by yohanatan 12y ago
a) Hunger is not an emotional state. It may be an input to one's emotional state but I think that its impact is usually quite weak. b) Overly simplistic example-- do mature adults really have such wide ranging emotions during a convers
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by yohanatan 12y ago
You're wrong on both counts. I mentioned MirageOS in the other thread, in fact. MirageOS merely links in the minimum portion of the operating system required to support a particular application. I still would not consider that to be &#
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by yohanatan 12y ago
Yes, I fully understand and agree with all of that. However, I think it is still not accurate to say that apps run operating systems. More accurate to say that apps embed operating systems or are themselves bundled with operating systems
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by yohanatan 12y ago
I was actually referring to 'VMWare Workstation'. This company apparently has a habit of putting the company name inside all of its product names. That doesn't preclude one from referring to each its product offerings by shor
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by yohanatan 12y ago
:) VMWare is an application that runs operating systems, yes. But a) original poster is talking about a web application; not a virtual machine or hypervisor and b) VMWare itself still requires an underlying operating system-- one could argu
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by yohanatan 12y ago
> Could you be more specific, what "features" precisely? Windows NT already takes a lot of concepts from traditional UNIX kernels and builds on them (unlike, for example, Windows 9x). cgroups and namespaces.
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by yohanatan 12y ago
Since when do applications 'run' operating systems?
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by yohanatan 12y ago
> That said, I think they should take all the lessons learned doing high performance implementations of C++ and start over to create a new language that doesn't suck with all the baggage. Oh, you mean Rust (programming language)?
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by yohanatan 12y ago
Compilation and unit testing will not catch suboptimal expression of logic/thought (which in my experience count for way more than 10% of code reviews).
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by yohanatan 12y ago
True. Actually, it probably wouldn't be too hard to just write AppleScript within Perl to begin with. ;-)
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by yohanatan 12y ago
The difference though is that Python is powerful enough to avoid the repetitive noise even if use of that power isn't the 'Python way'.
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by yohanatan 12y ago
Someone should marry Perl & AppleScript: the best read/write language ever invented!
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by yohanatan 12y ago
Yes, I know. But I figured that the author was not so misguided as to use actual tabs. Turns out it is Github's CSS that is to blame.
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by yohanatan 12y ago
8-space tabs? Yuk!
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by yohanatan 12y ago
The accessor variant of the existential operator in CoffeeScript (which Swift apparently has taken influence from) handles this nicely.
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by yohanatan 12y ago
Looks like you have an empty session list. Have you ever used Safari? Quick workaround might be to pop open Safari once (and browse a little) and then try again.
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by yohanatan 12y ago
Call me old school but I never had trouble downloading, ./configuring, making, and make installing.
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by yohanatan 12y ago
Yes, iOS.

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