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  1. Re:Bullshit.... on A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World · · Score: 1

    very high compression has limited utility if it takes an extremely long time

    I don't see how the utility is limited.
    Most content is mastered once and viewed millions of time.

    How much time it takes to compress is irrelevant, even if you get diminishing returns the longer you take. What's important is to save space when broadcasting the content.

  2. Re: Each new GCC version has regressions on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    The front end and the back end are separate.

  3. Re: Each new GCC version has regressions on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    This one had pretty serious performance problems. 4.7 is one of the best.

  4. Re: Like China och USSR on In France, Most Comments on Gaza Conflict Yanked From Mainstream News Sites · · Score: 1

    The word you're looking for is 'propaganda'.

  5. Each new GCC version has regressions on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 2

    4.8 was even worse.
    That's hardly news.

  6. Already exists on Household Robot Jibo Nets Over $1 Million On Indiegogo · · Score: 1

    This is what Nao from Aldebaran is.

  7. Re: Code the way you want... on 'Just Let Me Code!' · · Score: 2

    Good domain-specific tools are written as command-line utilities, and are even better if you wrote them yourself for your project.
    Text editing (which includes syntax highlighting etc.) is also much better with a text editor.

    Editors are also more flexible, scale better for large projects, and can do anything you need them to do.
    An IDE is extremely constrained and won't work properly whenever you need to do something that wasn't planned by the developer who coded it.

  8. Re: Code the way you want... on 'Just Let Me Code!' · · Score: 1

    I guess that depends on the market, and possibly on your price.

  9. Re: Code the way you want... on 'Just Let Me Code!' · · Score: 1

    And finding new clients and negotiating contracts doesn't take time?

  10. Re: Code the way you want... on 'Just Let Me Code!' · · Score: 0

    Why are you even using an IDE? If you want to be the most productive, use a multi-purpose text editor.

  11. Re: This obsession with everything in RAM needs to on Linux Needs Resource Management For Complex Workloads · · Score: 1

    Garbage collection necessarily wastes memory by factor of 1.5 to 2.
    The collection itself also slows down the program, and in some languages cannot even happen asynchronously.

    Finally, the most important aspect for program performance is locality and memory layout, something you cannot even optimize for in a language where every object is a pointer to some memory on a garbage-collected heap.

  12. Re: The future turned out to not be so cool on Mozilla Doubles Down on JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Not if they use pngcrush first.

  13. Sexism at work on Coming Soon(ish) From LG: Transparent, Rollup Display · · Score: 1

    Why is it women who are showing off the product?
    Surely they were not involved in the design of this technology.

  14. Re: Not France vs US on The Least They Could Do: Amazon Charges 1 Cent To Meet French Free Shipping Ban · · Score: 1

    I own a website in France with a payment service that I subscribed from my French bank.
    I am not allowed to store anything.

    Amazon is in another country so that they can provide the one-click purchase thing.

  15. Re: Not France vs US on The Least They Could Do: Amazon Charges 1 Cent To Meet French Free Shipping Ban · · Score: 1

    This is already what Amazon is doing to circumvent French regulations that prevent websites from storing credit card information.

    They're still subject to other laws though.

  16. Re: Is it still braindeadly single-threaded? on Dwarf Fortress Gets Biggest Update In Years · · Score: 1

    There are research papers on the subject of finding the best path, it isn't exactly simple.
    Take a look at what Microsoft has done for Bing Maps for example:
    http://research.microsoft.com/...

  17. Re: Classic 100 years from now? on Dwarf Fortress Gets Biggest Update In Years · · Score: 2

    In Chinese. But when speaking about the game in English, people use 'go'.

  18. Re: Is it still braindeadly single-threaded? on Dwarf Fortress Gets Biggest Update In Years · · Score: 1

    I see, I thought you meant for a single path.

  19. Re: another language shoved down your throat on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 1

    What sort of software project doesn't enforce proper indentation?
    Badly indented code doesn't pass code reviews.

  20. Re: another language shoved down your throat on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 1

    Curly brackets are most aesthetically pleasing.

  21. Re: another language shoved down your throat on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 1

    How is a language without personality and history any good?
    Natural languages are not meant to be formal.

  22. Re: Classic 100 years from now? on Dwarf Fortress Gets Biggest Update In Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who the hell calls 'go' 'weiqi' ?

  23. Re: Is it still braindeadly single-threaded? on Dwarf Fortress Gets Biggest Update In Years · · Score: 1

    Path finding isn't embarassingly parallel. It can be parallelized, but it's quite challenging.

  24. $250 from 4 years ago is fine on Watch Dogs Graphics and Gameplay: PC Vs. Xbox One, With Surprising Results · · Score: 1

    I bought my GPU for 250 dollars 4 years ago and it still runs all games on high settings.

  25. Re: Just think of what you can do with this! on New Single Board Computer Lets You Swap Out the CPU and Memory · · Score: 1

    One of the most famous personal robot (Nao) uses an Intel x86 processor, which is bigger and uses more power than a Pi.