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Re:Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising on Thursday October 26, 2017 @11:08AM (#15559493)
Wait, who are you talking about?
Re:Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising on Thursday October 26, 2017 @11:05AM (#15559467)
Did you respond to the right comment? I’m having difficulty figuring out where the OP compared reaches.
Re:China's Silk Road Illusions on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @07:25PM (#15555165)
While I agree with that sentiment, the idea that large investments are risky is not in itself interesting. What does this add to the conversation?
Re:Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:19PM (#15553225)
Not to mention this is the point of the < operator.
Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:16PM (#15503727)
Yup, this is a problem of money draining from rural america. There are many symptoms.
Heh, it’s slightly ironic you use the sequential programming model as the basis for modern computing when that’s less true each year, both at the language and the instruction level. A better way to term it would be interleaving data dependencies and computation.

Heh, in some ways llvm ssa is the closest you get to a natural programming language for the modern processor.

Re:Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:19AM (#15499351)
Thankfully people actually using the software is more meaningful than awards :)

Also why is it so weird to see your company wants you to be replaceable? It’s up to YOU to differentiate yourself.

Re:Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:11AM (#15499276)
Well if you refuse to learn from mistakes you’re going to keep missing. Gchat is still better than whatever half baked, whitespace filled crap is there now.
Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @04:12PM (#15494473)
It’s hard to tell the difference between your narrative and the narrative that you can only be hired at failing companies because they can’t afford someone who will stick around.
Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:38PM (#15494167)
18 months is a lot different than 6 months. You can’t even ramp up fully on a codebase in 6 months, arguably.
Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:09PM (#15493217)
Jealous after bailing after six months? Are you sure it’s not pity? How many times have you quit in a row?
Probably just blocked the port.
Re:The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune on Monday October 16, 2017 @09:32PM (#15488002)
It decoded to a phase vocoder on the nearest semitones.
You could also throw the tor browser on a usb stick when i graduated.
Heh, we have a similar experience here in the bay area from all the wild fires.
Psh 808s and Heartbreak is a classic. Don’t tell me T-Pain doesn’t just make your heart soar; I know you’re lying.

/humor

Driving to the right of a car turning left isn’t even illegal in all cases.
Re:New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior on Monday October 16, 2017 @12:35AM (#15480836)
It really depends on the route in SF; some DO have express busses.
Well, it’s still working for NK, regardless of who funded it.

Also, I think China is exceedingly unlikely to be the source here, especially when it’s been established the recent nuke technology came from the Ukraine.

Re:What is Nix and why you should try it on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:39PM (#15480143)
Ouch. Is this at a legal or community level?
Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:30PM (#15478416)
Agreed. However, C++ pragmatically does have restrict in both clang and g++, which is still useful in cases where you can deductively prove the lack of aliasing.
Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:28PM (#15477826)
Fortran is easier to optimize compared to c/++ if you don’t use restrict for the c end. If you do use restrict (iirc) the compilers are competitive.
Re:DragonflyBSD v5.0 released on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:26PM (#15477815)
The language is a barrier there. Maybe if we could use go!
Re:Recompiler: Porting Xbox360 Executables to Windows on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:25PM (#15477812)
Sorry, i was speculating on running xbox one and ps4 executables on the desktopp. Assumably microsoft would add support for xbox executables in this scenario. I don’t see Sony ever doing that; we’d need something like wine, or an actual emulator/dynamic recompiler.
Re:Recompiler: Porting Xbox360 Executables to Windows on Saturday October 14, 2017 @06:47PM (#15474743)
By far the biggest issue would be graphics drivers, I think.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is good, but not enough yet on Saturday October 14, 2017 @06:46PM (#15474733)
Enlightening; thank you!
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is good, but not enough yet on Saturday October 14, 2017 @03:03PM (#15473647)
Ehh, I’m not so sure this is true. I think people are open to, erm, analagously powerful forms of computation. I was under the impression that, at least before powershell, the ability to compose programs and form scripts was super limiting, and by now bash is realistically far to entrenched to replace on the unix side, and people don’t really want to target two scripting languages.

However, there are alternative ways of doing this that seem quite powerful, like the lisp machine—it didn’t fail because it couldn’t handle tackling abstract problems, it failed because unix ended up doing it cheaper and faster. There might even be arguments for visual shell scripting.

That said, if you’re doing anything like unix, you might as well go full unix :)

Re:Atom's new concurrency-friendly buffer implementation on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:49AM (#15463690)
What is a web programming language? Is that like C++ because I write all my servers in it?