acg

5 ms·

1.
by acg 14y ago
That wasn't the point. Is the network really "slower by orders of magnitude" than disk? Why is using the network such a silly idea, considering network speeds are more than keeping up. Was the reference just referring to protocols. I was h
2.
by acg 14y ago
Isn't he replacing disk I/O with network I/O, and unless you are talking about SSD isn't the network faster? http://serverfault.com/questions/238417/are-networks-now-fas... Doesn't google's search engine demonstrate this?
3.
by acg 14y ago
Not sure that the message really has sunk in. The way to a good reputation is to be good and exceed people's expectations. Not complain that the world isn't a good judge.
4.
by acg 14y ago
I'd go further than this, if this is confusing architecture with development. This is not to say that a senior developer or systems engineer could take on an architecture role: but this wouldn't be the check-list in my view. An architect i
5.
by acg 15y ago
In our neighbourhood we've been calling working with particularly difficult legacy code software archaeology: where it's not not clear what some piece of software was supposed to do. http://media.pragprog.com/articles/mar_02_archeology.pd
6.
by acg 15y ago
If copyright were just to protect the investment of a company in development of an artist or product I'd broadly agree with this argument. Where copyright seems objectionable to me, is where the initial cost of development was non-existent
7.
by acg 15y ago
I'm sure "where am I" is next
8.
by acg 15y ago
I remember people being pretty sceptical of android when it first came out, and it took time for the issues to be ironed out. If google are going to use the same gameplan, then the prices will eventually go down and the usability up. It see
9.
OCaml for the masses(queue.acm.org)
14 points by acg 15y ago|2 comments
10.
by acg 15y ago
I find this unsurprising, companies don't resort to court before having a conversation. Even if the conversation is I think you should pay us licensing. The court actions are born out of disagreement.
11.
by acg 15y ago
Is this surprising since chrome uses a sandbox model, It is firefox's apparent memory leaking that's the worry.
12.
by acg 15y ago
An illustration of why some of the software industry wants to be more like the music industry and why the music industry doesn't want to be like the software industry. Imagine if you were still making money off a program you wrote in 1960.
13.
by acg 15y ago
Also worth looking into tcmalloc: http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html Which comes with tools: http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/heap_checker.html http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/heap_profiler.html
14.
by acg 15y ago
My understanding is the use of Open was used before this by Symbolics and possibly other lisp machine manufactuers. I'd argue too that their systems were more open, where the user could read the system software and patch it in while it was
15.
by acg 15y ago
Doesn't north korea have a "private internet" and it's rubbish: if you're centrally managing content it's not an internet.
16.
by acg 15y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this is more about Twitter's other customers rather than Twitter's attitude to Google+. There are many who would pay a lot to get one over Google.
17.
by acg 15y ago
If tax is for anything it ought to be to help the less fortune in society. Once you start discriminating on who is the most deserving of basic medical society you have to start questioning the society you live in. The state funding some bas
18.
by acg 15y ago
Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051967
19.
by acg 16y ago
This appears to be an interview problem, possibly to determine how candidates think. It reminds me of stories like this: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html
20.
by acg 16y ago
The specification ( http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-file-format.txt ) reads like this format allows the application of a chain of compression "filters". Perhaps the most interesting, and least portable is the filter that modifies code to make co
21.
by acg 16y ago
A competitive marketplace is proving better than stagnant monopoly. Long live the competition.
22.
by acg 16y ago
Seems a superficial argument, C++'s features have not been added into Java to create Scala. Even the Java community is pushing Java7 in a direction with richer features, except the language is beginning to get in the way. Generics are not
23.
by acg 16y ago
Rather than going it alone it sounds like you ought to be partnering with someone. Studying IT even at a higher level courses aim at giving you a grounding in the subject, I'd imagine you want to target the pieces that you are interested in
24.
by acg 16y ago
Not only is these problems difficult to reproduce this post is highly irritating. I find the attitude ignorant.
25.
by acg 16y ago
Decline is different from dead. The language is not dead, less people might use it. You cannot judge the popularity of a language just from, say, the position of a web programmer. Computing is so diverse now, perl will always have an act
26.
by acg 16y ago
Good tools may be the new battle ground for developers: Sproutcore and other tools could be demoed. So designers can create applications in a more flash-like way?
27.
Google I/O 2010 Keynote(youtube.com)
2 points by acg 16y ago|0 comments
28.
by acg 16y ago
This isn't support in the sense that Microsoft will ship this codec, just if you install it you'll be able to use it. For me "it's up to the user", is not really supporting it any more than Microsoft supports any other third-party softwa
29.
by acg 16y ago
This could be seen as a success of chrome, given Google's stated reasons for releasing the code: Primarily it's because one of the fundamental goals of the Chromium project is to help drive the web forward. Open source projects like Firefo
30.
by acg 16y ago
This article refers the the original: http://www.sadanduseless.com/2010/05/steve-jobs-vs-bill-gate...

More ›