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by zvrba 14y ago
He's asking valid questions. I'd ask a succint question: what features can make it more productive to me in comparison with, say, Windows 7 desktop? > There is no motivation or desire on the part of the developers to sell anything to yo
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by zvrba 14y ago
Um... maybe it's verbose because you're trying to be too clever? :-P How about auto it = channel_widgets.begin(); while (it != channel_widgets.end()) if (it->getType() == type) goto found; // error found: // wha
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by zvrba 14y ago
I haven't yet seen a product that emulates a disk over the network with acceptable latency over anything other than LAN. Until this happens, networked storage (except backup) is a no-go for me.
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by zvrba 14y ago
Meta-comment: I've read the article in english and norwegian side-by-side, and I'm impressed by google's translation.
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by zvrba 14y ago
> STL's limitation is its design. Care to elaborate more on this?
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by zvrba 14y ago
He overlooks a lot of related work on data flow languages. Also, 1) and 3) remind me of I-structures ( http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=69562 ). Otherwise he seems to have described asynchronous message-passing style, except with convolute
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by zvrba 14y ago
Not everybody agrees that Moore's law will continue, see for example "Dark silicone and end of multicore scaling" http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2000108 ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/dburger/papers/ISCA11.pdf They use existing data to mo
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by zvrba 14y ago
Care to show some signs of appreciation by those who complain?
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by zvrba 14y ago
People bitching about MS misusing the term "open-source" are, IMO, ungrateful SOBs who have never attempted to implement a non-trivial algorithm based on nothing but a stack of academic papers. For me, the greatest value in having the sourc
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by zvrba 14y ago
Somehow their logo reminds me irresistibly of Opera's logo.
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by zvrba 14y ago
> to uncatchable signals like SEGV in unix and uncaught exceptions in C++ or Java. SEGV can be caught. There are only 3 uncatchable signals: KILL, STOP and CONT.
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by zvrba 14y ago
Also ironic is that real numbers may not be "real" (i.e., exist) at all. The uncountable part which is THE part that completes rationals to continuity cannot be described or generated in any way since there are only COUNTABLY many different
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by zvrba 14y ago
From the OP's question: > When I tried to calculate the square root of -1 on my calculator, it gave me an error. This was a red flag to me. This person takes the answer from a calculator as the ultimate truth, whereas it (obviously) is
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by zvrba 14y ago
Bah, this post reads like a 5-year old bitching because he didn't get his ice-cream [1]. May it be that these problems aren't fixed because they arise from a subtle interaction of hung routers, failing hardware, other installed software tha
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by zvrba 14y ago
> Sure B-trees are hard to write from the ground up but there are plenty of good implementations already the Internet that can be modified. Care to name some, also having a non-restrictive license? (That excludes GPL).
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by zvrba 14y ago
But these arguments are pretty much invalid today: C++11 introduces explicit support for concurrency, and the compiler MUST be aware of it, even though it may look (on the surface) as a "library".
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by zvrba 14y ago
> R* and kd-trees are preposterously slow on the JVM compared to the old libANN C++ library, or naive kd-tree implementations. Factors of 100k to 1E6. I may be wrong, but I’m guessing trees confuse the bejeepers out of the JVM Is somebo
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by zvrba 14y ago
"Closed as not a real question" is really a ridiculous reason. You have asked how to implement a transformation of a well-defined input to a well-defined output using elisp. If that's "not a real question" by SO's standards, then it's about
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by zvrba 14y ago
I was an active user once, but got tired and bored by the recent flood of 'questions' that are best answered by "Learn how to use a debugger" or "RTFM". I'm especially annoyed by people pasting a rather large chunk of code with a vague desc
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by zvrba 14y ago
He's Japanese. When I visited Japan a few years ago, it looked like cartoon-land to me.
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by zvrba 14y ago
Norwegians. The BankID system is used by many online banking systems for 2-factor authentication.
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by zvrba 14y ago
> But seriously: what is patentable in video codecs? Isn't it just math function? Give input in the domain of function and you get output. It's akin to asking "what is patentable in a medication; it's just a chemical formula, a diagram
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by zvrba 14y ago
It's not that simple anymore... In modern CPUs, NOPs are discarded by the decoding units so they never occupy the exeuction units. If decoding BW is not saturated (and most often, it's not), NOPs are indeed "free".
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by zvrba 14y ago
comm is another very useful command
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by zvrba 14y ago
> software is math No, it's not. Math does not have side-effects. Software does have side-effects since it runs on physical devices connected to the physical world.
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by zvrba 14y ago
> The ratio of autoconf to non-autoconf programs on my system is probably 10:1, but the ratio of build problems is something like 1:20. I guess you're running Linux, right? I'd be VERY interested to see this ratio if you ran Solaris.
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by zvrba 14y ago
When I first loaded the page, I was unsure about whether they have no sites, i.e., whether they're just showing a proof of concept. The text said they were planning to review ToS of major sites by middle of july, so that prompted me to fir
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by zvrba 14y ago
Early C++ compilers actually translated C++ source to C source for compilation by C compiler. Does that mean that the original source was C, not C++?
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by zvrba 14y ago
Hardware became commodity because of abudnance of mass-produced cheaper IBM clones (producers of "IBM PC-AT compatibles"). Harwdware "grew up" thanks to the innovation by the big guys: IBM, Intel, Apple, [even MS] etc, and their products ha
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by zvrba 14y ago
So what was the last scene about? Was he on a date with a real person or testing a robot prototype?

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