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by fzltrp 12y ago
I have to admit that, while I knew these documents existed, I was not aware they included as much information as they do: I was under the impression that it was merely an xml version of the original C headers to facilitate their parsing. Ha
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by fzltrp 12y ago
In my humble opinion, they should write formal specifications which are not just targetting a C API, but may degrade consistently to a C API. With a more formal description of each function call, including predicates for parameters, and pos
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by fzltrp 12y ago
> Then, if someone writes a popular API wrapper, Khronos can take that API and standardize it as the next version of OpenGL, no design-by-committee required. If that wrapper actually supports all the features evenly, and doesn't fav
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by fzltrp 12y ago
> Oh. Ocaml again. Nothing forces you to read the posts you don't like. > Well, I'll chirp on the opposite side of discusion. The syntax is completely <->:%^&#$^ $% %^&*% up. Unreadable. Yes, it maybe somewhat
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by fzltrp 12y ago
This is the ability to abstract concepts and then recognize them in different settings (for instance, the idea of a child being a miniature version of a given animal, with less pronounced traits). In order to understand the clues you are ta
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by fzltrp 12y ago
Yes, this is correct. Thank you for pointing that out. If a company is producing new ideas, and stock pile them in the form of patents, are they playing the game correctly? Is it (just) an issue in the case of sotware patent?
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by fzltrp 12y ago
I meant that mentor thing in the context of IBM. I agree that it would not be much better in the case of Project Zero. That said, I still think that a positive approach (positive criticism) cannot be worse than plain critics. > "You
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by fzltrp 12y ago
> Playing Devil's advocate Actually you raise a good point. ARM has been always doing that though, they built their own cpus when they started, iirc. That would have large consequences on their current business model, it's true
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by fzltrp 12y ago
The original point of patents is to provide protection to inventors and give them a head start in implementing their inventions. A company which hold patents without implementing them is basically not following the spirit of the law. Hence,
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by fzltrp 12y ago
> isn't it still positive for the economy? Why? Where's the benefit for the economy? If somehow the patent trolls reinject the benefits they make (ie what they obtain from the law suit minus the lawyers/legal fees) in the
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by fzltrp 12y ago
The insight there is that one should always try to wrap criticism with praises: people don't like being told that they suck at their job, even if it's true. If instead of showing themselves as destructors, they'd adopted an i
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by fzltrp 12y ago
Thanks for correcting me: indeed, it's an open architecture which was used by Sun, Fujitsu and TI for their CPUs, and it's unrelated to MIPS.
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by fzltrp 12y ago
Oh, ok. So every python implementations follow that practice?
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by fzltrp 12y ago
However, how difficult would it be for a foreign fab to rig the design of a customer and include backdoors?
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by fzltrp 12y ago
Someone else mentioned that the architecture is based of Sparc technology (Sun's line of CPUs, which is a mips derivative iirc). It's hardly a completely new architecture.
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by fzltrp 12y ago
True, what I meanbt is that the consumer software marketplace is originally built around those platforms. During the last several years, the market has been largely fragmented by tablets, but I have the impression they still represent a maj
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by fzltrp 12y ago
> In my opinion schools should stick to basic teaching, Define basic teaching. > a high percentage of french teenagers cant even write french at the end of highschool, Reference?
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by fzltrp 12y ago
China has a team developping a mips like architecture, with several produced iterations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson I don't know if Russia has the industry to mass produce it, but surely it has the ski
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by fzltrp 12y ago
> This makes it non deterministic because objects in OCaml can destruct at different times in your program depending on the inputs. There's clearly a different notion of deterministic there! If your program using ref counting gets a
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by fzltrp 12y ago
> OCaml uses non-deterministic garbage collection, whereas python mostly uses reference counting (in CPython). This is another case where the first system was safer in one aspect. How is reference counting safer?
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by fzltrp 12y ago
Afair, we had close to 100Mbit/s on our lines. The building wasn't very old, apparently we had good copper wires (I can't comment on the average quality of those across the country, but knowing Japan, it should be good).
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by fzltrp 12y ago
I've seen this kind of setup in Japan more a few years ago, with vsdl as the technology for "the last meters": fiber optic was used by service providers down to neighborhood/building concentrators, and then the signal wa
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by fzltrp 12y ago
> The problems with google's approach have been pointed out almost immediately after their policy became known. I've been the devil's advocate til now, I will not give up so easily. If people knew about this policy, then t
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by fzltrp 12y ago
>That harm and those people are apparently not as important as some business goal. That offends me. I understand your point. > Why would an insult convey more offense than all the criticism in the article already does? That really dep
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by fzltrp 12y ago
Well sure, as long as the real name policy is actively enforcable by G (which I doubt, but someone else apparently had to go through their enforcment practice), there's a risk. Then maybe it means that G isn't the right medium to
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by fzltrp 12y ago
I don't think that G+ was a mistake. The only real issue is the real name policy, though I fail to see how they'd be able to enforce it. People could create alternate email addresses with fake names (and some did), and use it when
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by fzltrp 12y ago
> HFT provides liquidity For those like me who don't understand, what does it mean? What are the benefits? What are the drawbacks?
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by fzltrp 12y ago
> There is functionally no chance of that software bug ever getting patched; card vendors don't care about older versions of their technology, Well, is that an OpenGL issue? Wouldn't you get that very same problem with D3D? &gt
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by fzltrp 12y ago
A bus will drive you on a fixed itinerary...
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by fzltrp 12y ago
> "OpenGL is broken" refers to the market adoption of the standard, because when you're developing graphics software for consumers that's the aspect you care about. (This isn't the only point the OP is arguing ab

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