jrogers65

>the kontanthjælp, "cash assistance"

It's nice to see that your government is respectful towards those in need. In the UK, they call it "jobseeker's allowance" - like the type of allowance a parent gives a child.

I think that there is more to the pool of information than the points you rightly outlined. Other key pieces of data are that Redis is designed to be extremely fast and that it has a strong reliance on the speed of the memory it is operating on. Those facts, coupled with the statistics sniglom mentioned above, very strongly indicate that performance will be terrible.

An analogy I can think of is testing if a stock Ford Fiesta can reach the speed of sound. You know what the engine is capable of, the environment it is operating in and the tires it is running on - you simply don't need to floor the accelerator to come to a conclusion.

That saying about picking ones battles comes to mind. The mindset is certainly of a sharp character, but what good is a knife without a hand to guide it? The map is not the territory but it does save a lot of time if used strategically.

From what I can tell, OP appears to be correct in saying this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_(2013_video_game)

>SimCity is ... a reboot of the SimCity series.

I'll do some testing this weekend by mounting an SSHFS as my swap partition and removing all but a 256MB RAM module then opening several dozen instances of FireFox. My calculations show that this will have terrible performance but I want to ensure that my software engineering is robust.

Testing your assumptions is something that you're supposed to do when you hit a wall, not when you're driving through a field.

> Right, and taxes are the government robbing my family at gunpoint.

To be fair, they will come after you with guns if you stop paying taxes.

There is a tradition of keeping discussions on-topic or at least insightful. Off-the-cuff humourous comments are not really suited for a site like this. There are myraid places where that kind of expression is the norm already. This brings the benefit of increasing the quality of the discussion and results in there being less irrelevant text to sift through.

Kindly stop making comments like these or go back to Reddit.

They mean that each function does relatively little work, so to render a given web page, the number of function calls (and therefore vtable lookups) is higher than in other browsers. This translates to more overheads and slower execution.

In any industry dominated by a given gender, there is prejudice against the opposite gender. People fear what they do not know.

http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/rss/1056170/New-calls-end...

Off-topic:

I love SparrowOS's (dead) comments - they're so off the cuff and random. Trying to make sense of them is like doing a really hard crossword puzzle. I have noticed one thing about them, however - when he speaks as himself they make complete sense. E.g.

> I had a problem with discipline. I worked at Ticketmaster while in college, but I know I wouldn't have studied more, just knowing my personal psychology.

> If you love programming more than anything, you are probably the kind of person who wants to know assembly language. If your full heart is not into programming, maybe not.

> I wrote my own compiler. Doesn't use REGs to pass values to functions.

They only become incomprehensible when he is relaying, as he puts it, what God says. E.g.

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It seems almost like his thinking is split into two modes - one rational and the other a stream of consciousness. The first makes sense to the rest of us since there are commonalities which we can relate to (i.e. logic) but the second must contain a great deal of personal references which only he can understand the meaning of. "God's words" are his feelings put into text in a completely unfiltered way.

I second this. I've been working out of hours a lot recently and find that my productivity is boosted dramatically when I am alone. Open plan offices need to go the way of the dinosaur.

In my opinion, it would be better to create an OS abstraction layer for the application so that conditionals do not have to be added everywhere and people are able to use whatever tools they are comfortable with.

> Unless you lie and tell them that it's something other than a sheet of A4 paper

Which is exactly what has happened here on two counts -

1) it is not a world first - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4156

2) it is not a 3D printing pen, it's just an extruder - exactly the same mechanism as that used in a glue gun.

If I sell someone a sheet of A4 paper for $100, have I not swindled them?

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they have swindled over a million USD for a glue gun which you can assemble at home in 20 minutes. Sure, people can spend their money on whatever they want but it doesn't make it any less ridiculous.

> It is a sad day in a civilized, modern society when fundamental decisions on healthcare are made purely on finances, not quality of life.

I don't understand how you were sold on the idea that you are in a civilised society when one of the fundamental aspects of living in one is that your neighbours will help you when you can't help yourself.

It seems I was mistaken about there being much GNU code in Android.

I'm complaining that the software which came with my hardware is not fit for purpose and does not make good use of the horsepower. It would have been easy to include the things I mentioned in Android and a niche market would have been catered for as a result. A different decision was made and some of the customers are unhappy. I'm well within my rights to complain about something I paid for.

The cost of your developers using environments that they aren't adapted to is higher than the cost of dealing with inconsistencies introduced by the fact that they use Windows. It's more of a hassle for you, sure - but it's not your needs which matter in this context. I say that from the experience of having worked with people with a similar mind-set.

The job of a manager is not to bend the environment to his needs but to aid the people that do the work.

I'm glad that ARM tablets are finally getting a decent operating system.

Android is a pain for productivity - only one visible window, applications are killed in the background when you want them to persist, switching windows is tedious if you have many applications open at the same time, various deficiencies in third party applications like waking the screen and draining your battery, a Google account is required to do basic things like download apps, it's not possible to download APK's from the market in case you want to perform offline installations, plugging in an external hard disk results in a crash and reboot too often, media sound volume is reduced whenever an email notification comes in. That last bug has been around for three years - http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5012 - and this is a piece of commercial software, not someone's hobby OSS project!

Not to mention that it's based on GNU/Linux [EDIT: NOT GNU, just Linux] yet misses important features like a good package manager, X11 and alternative window managers. Things like Debian Kit For Android address some of these issues but it still feels like a compromise.

I understand that it was originally designed as a smartphone OS but it just doesn't scale well to tablets.

Another alternative which is looking extremely promising, even moreso than Ubuntu, in my opinion, is Plasma Active - http://plasma-active.org/

Technically Google is an advertising organisation which uses technology as a means.

> Emacs has a useful mode which highlights hexidecimal colors in CSS and SASS with the color represented by the text.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2937

> The biggest hole, however, is the lack of refactoring and smart completion.

http://eclim.org/

It'll be even more fun when argiculture and currency become distributed. I know that we already have bitcoin but imagine if it entered the mainstream. The powers that be would be reeling since they would effectively no longer be relevant and would have very little influence left.

Personally, I think that this is all going to cause today's authorities to become increasingly violent until they collapse as a result of the new ways making them obsolete. Then we just might see another golden age for humanity. My forecast is thunderstorms followed by bright sunshine.

Diablo was a Windows game - it didn't run on MS-DOS.

> As far as I know only the US had sperm donors pay child support so far.

I did not think that this kind of insanity was possible outside of a mental institution but apparently it is.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/01/02/us-sperm-donor...

The insanity is that it's not the woman who recieved the donation who was fighting for child support but the state.

This comment seems to make the assumption that something being illegal makes it wrong.

You can buy soft and hard drugs in your local supermarket, just a very small subset of them. Caffeine is used by almost everybody and it qualifies as a soft drug. Alchohol is used by the majority of the population and it is a hard drug. Tobacco is a soft drug in terms of psychological effects and a hard one in terms of it's physical impact. If the law is so irrational as to categorise many other soft and hard drugs as a danger, why should people not side-step it? What is the benefit of jumping off an intellectual cliff just because the majority of people are doing so?

Copyright infringement is based on similarly irrational laws. They are for the benefit of the few and harm society as a whole. Culture has traditionally been free to share. This brings the benefit of giving people access to materials which inspire thoughts and feelings that they might not otherwise come across. This, in turn, provides a greater probability of innovative and novel ideas coming about, which benefit everybody. Intellectual property has been described by many people as an oxymoron.

In my opinion, the questionable activities are not of those who use bitcoin to buy illicit substances or use Mega or Torrents to access cultural artifacts but of the governments who subscribe to the notion that these activities are negative and that violence must be used against those who participate.

healthenclave: your comments are dead, looks like you've been hellbanned. Can't quite tell why since you literally only have that one comment.

That's a great point. Perhaps one resolution is to take turns working instead. One person goes on the grind for half a year, then the one they were supporting takes over and they get to indulge in life instead. The sense of fairness would remain that way. Only issue is that both people need to be highly skilled (since low skill jobs will be the ones to go). Another approach might be that in every family there will be at least one person who is capable of doing complex technical work - they could support their family and, in turn, their family could take care of some of their immaterial needs. In other words, the giving would be an act of love, not a transaction which is balanced on the books.

I really don't have a good solution for this, have not given it much thought. It's a complex problem. Perhaps the issue is that we are currently locked in this state, as a society, and need to reach a certain threshold before the character of it changes. I'm not quite sure what that looks like or how to get there, but I get the feeling that it is achievable. There must be better ways to live than this. What we have now just isn't good enough.

I've always seen this as a social problem - why, when we automate things, does the demand that people have jobs persist? Surely if there's less work to do then everyone should be working less, not finding new things to do. There's an implicit assumption in our society that everyone must work, even when there is nothing to be done. Productivity is put on a pedestal when it is just a means to an end - undesirable means, at that.

I strongly believe that putting people out of work and allowing them to continue living comfortably will bring hidden benefits. There will be more time to think, reconcile and determine the best path to take as opposed to mindlessly doing as much as possible just to earn enough for bread and shelter.

Bertrand Russell wrote a good essay on this - In Praise Of Idleness: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

As a software developer, someone who will stay employed in the coming years, I'm willing to give up some of my salary so that the newly unemployed can continue to survive and do what they want with their free time. They pay people in our profession more than enough to live well. Unfortunately, I haven't found a decent mechanism to make such a contribution, aside from helping family and friends. There really ought to be one - a voluntary communism, so to say.

Because you can write web applications without having to use crippled, half baked JS frameworks. GUI programming was solved over a decade ago. The things we do in the browser these days, in terms of complicated web apps, mostly consist of reinventing the wheel. Backbone, ember, knockout, etc are all toys with missing wheels in comparison to a serious GUI toolkit. In contrast, Qt is well tested, very well designed and elegant. It's been around since 1992 - 21 years old!

"Don't be evil."

I guess that they couldn't stick to their motto.