zerothehero

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by zerothehero 15y ago
This post is pretty vague. Having heard of Couch a few times over the years but not used it, it would been more helpful if he said something like: "I started a company and forked the open source CouchDB project that I founded. The company
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by zerothehero 15y ago
It's great to see a researcher with such passion and love for his subject. I never knew about Oberon -- my only exposure to this side of the universe was programming Pascal in high school. This was a great read.
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by zerothehero 15y ago
I meant actually give code for the exploit.
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by zerothehero 15y ago
This is cool, can someone do the same for Python? (And other languages?)
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by zerothehero 16y ago
Yeah I fail to understand why a separate interpreter is desirable for this problem. Seems like something for a Python library.
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by zerothehero 16y ago
This article is pretty disgusting... I'm surprised that the wall street journal would print what is essentially a big troll.
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by zerothehero 16y ago
Is it really? Scaling today means running on more than one machine (google, facebook, twitter, etc.) That means no shared memory. He helpfully makes this distinction on his front page ("I'm mostly interested in shared-memory system, so if
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by zerothehero 16y ago
Exactly, tons of different technologies are POSSIBLE. But it's a matter of what's economically feasible (what consumers will pay for, etc.) We could have had Web TV in 1995 if it was really economically feasible... but no on figured out th
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by zerothehero 16y ago
Absolutely... have to say Michael Pollan is onto something with "nutritionism". Food isn't a linear combination of nutrients.
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by zerothehero 16y ago
> So, the only reason you would now use yacc is parsing speed. "speed" means a couple different things. Someone might say the only reason you would use C++ rather than Python is speed -- i.e. you can always get within a constant factor