Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

Re:Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. by cygwin98 on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @09:47AM (#2556319)

Great hackers can use whatever languages/tools they like. The fact that they're being great is not the consequence of the tools they chose, but of the masterpiece work they achieved.

I am always fond of such an analogy: in terms of efficiency, the greatest hackers has an algorithmic complexity of O(1); meanwhile, the majority of us may be O(n), if you can manage to get a O(log n) you can make into the club of good hackers. The tools, be it OS, programming languages, etc, are only a constant coefficient to that complexity, i.e., they can make you noticeably more efficient, but they won't improve your "greatness".

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Re:Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. by phaedrus on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @11:08AM (#2556570)

Close but I think you have your orders understated. A normal programmer faces O(n^2), while a great programmer achieves O(n log n). Really bad programmers do O(k ^n) amount of work to achieve the same, with k>2.

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Re:Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. by onewland on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @02:40PM (#2557355)

Why k > 2? k > 1 is bad enough. Otherwise, recursive fib(n) would be just fine (O(~1.618^n)).

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Re:Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. by Retric on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @08:22AM (#2559859)

Because 1.00000000000001 ^ N is not bad for most values of N that you will actually use.

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