Dunbar

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by Dunbar 15y ago
My theory would be that choosing a non-existing word for the name instantly created a brand, whereas before it had just been an anonymous app with a name that referred to what it did.
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by Dunbar 15y ago
Who writes the drivers for this software that 'Just Works'? Over and over again I see commercial OS vendors implicitly credited for writing drivers that were actually supplied by the hardware manufacturers themselves. The vast majority of t
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by Dunbar 16y ago
Any language that is only pure is about as useful as write-only memory. Haskell was historically pure and had side effects added as a way to interact with the world. The language enforces (discounting unsafePerformIO) the separation of pure
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by Dunbar 16y ago
"Design patterns" has become an ambiguous term. There are a lot of design patterns for object oriented programming that were created specifically to overcome structural flaws in C++ and Java. These simply don't apply to some languages. Depe
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by Dunbar 16y ago
I think they are supposed to represent 'aspects' of your life.
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by Dunbar 16y ago
The value comes from eliminating electromagnetic crosstalk and reducing the amount of PCB real estate dedicated to those buses. A single line of fiber can outperform several lines of copper, is made of cheaper material and sidesteps a whole
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by Dunbar 16y ago
I find it interesting that he compares the value of phone apps to the value of the mobile web. There are thousands more apps than the user can process, and the majority of apps that the user downloads will be abandoned/forgotten within a fe
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by Dunbar 16y ago
Which could be construed as a synonym for hardened.
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by Dunbar 16y ago
I'm not sure that the Inception on Fisher Jr. ever actually occurs, as I doubt that Cobb ever escaped Saito's dream from the beginning. It is suggested in the movie that the subconscious attacks the architect of the dream first. In the begi
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by Dunbar 16y ago
It does speak volumes, but not about her site or her blog post.
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by Dunbar 16y ago
The one thing I've learned in the years I've worked with Perl is to never underestimate the ability of the Perl community to achieve the incredible. To compare the performance of the mature, optimized Perl 5 core to the freshly baked, featu
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by Dunbar 17y ago
"What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?" -- Dream, From Neil Gaiman's Sandman So yes, take care when choosing your dreams.