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  1. Re:Why not tup? on GNU Make 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Because tup is experimental software.
    It's similar to ninja, except ninja is production quality and actually even more efficient.

  2. Re:Obligatory SCons plug on GNU Make 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Autotools are obsolete technology.
    If you want something similar, but truly multi-platform and modern, try CMake.

  3. Re:Obligatory SCons plug on GNU Make 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    It can't be that large if you're using scons.
    SCons is known for being inefficient and scaling badly. It is however fairly powerful at scripting your build rules.

  4. Ninja on GNU Make 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Hasn't everyone moved to Ninja yet?

  5. Re:Open source browsers? on Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 · · Score: 1

    Crap no I got it confused with the other Internet guy, too bad I can't delete this.

  6. Re:Open source browsers? on Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 · · Score: 0

    Tim Berners-Lee works for Google.
    Need anything else be said?

  7. Re:XMir is dead. on Ex-Red Hat Employee Matthew Garrett Comments On the State of XMir · · Score: 1

    A number of people also use Linux Mint and Debian, especially since 2011/2012 when Ubuntu fucked up pretty badly with Unity.

  8. Re:It's from the USA on Cassini Probe Sees Plastic Ingredient On Titan Moon · · Score: 1

    The USA generates a significant portion of trash and pollution (and it refuses to reduce this amount because it would affect the economy), but AFAIK it is still behind China.

  9. Re:Durable but not portable? on New Headphones Generate Sound With Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    Like anything else made out of wonder materials.

  10. Re:Go, France! on Google May Face Fine Under EU Privacy Laws · · Score: 2

    You seem to live under the assumption that it is easy for a powerful armed force to coerce any country.
    Need I remind you that the US lost several wars in the past half century, Vietnam being the one most well known? And that was despite fighting uneducated people armed with sticks in the jungle or caves and using banned weapons or torture techniques.

    Now imagine attacking France, which has its own elite forces, fighter jets, submarines, intercontinental missiles and nuclear weapons. And that's just one country. There would be a lot to lose and very little to gain from warring with any European country.

  11. Re:Go, France! on Google May Face Fine Under EU Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    When a company in country A sells a product or service to a person in country B, it has to comply by country B's rules.
    That's how international sales work.

  12. Re:In Soviet USA on Did NIST Cripple SHA-3? · · Score: 1

    Most of the needs for encryption actually come from the various departments of the government. A lot of software introduces encryption just to be able to be compliant to government regulations and sell on the federal market.

  13. Re:maybe at basic intersections on Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan · · Score: 1

    Surely you mean "misread" not "miss read".

  14. Impressed by the most unimpressive aspect on Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan · · Score: 2

    Detecting a red light is probably the easiest thing in the whole system.

  15. Re:All touch devices are unusable on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 1

    The haptic feedback option on my phone must be a fake then.

  16. All touch devices are unusable on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is a terrible mistake. As has been demonstrated with smartphones, touch devices are unusable.
    People want sticks and directional pads.

    The placement of most of the buttons is also terribly awkward.

  17. Re:Will kill Java, not just casuals on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 1

    I never said it was. Java is supposed to be a programming language for general-purpose programming, with the goal of being more accessible than C.
    I personally don't practice it much, since I'm only interested in high-performance parallel low-level system stuff, but my understanding is that Java is heavily used for most applications that don't require actual programming skill.

  18. Re:water bottles like you'd take to the gym? on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    Even in metric countries, people still use pint to refer to beer.
    In a metric country, a pint is 50cl though. (a pint is actuallly between 47 and 56.8cl in the US or UK)

    In any case, two pints is not a couple of bottles. A normal-sized bottle of water is 1.5l. So you'd need 3 pints to make a single bottle.

  19. Will kill Java, not just casuals on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 1

    Most significant software is open-source.
    This will therefore entirely kill Java, and not just for "casuals".

  20. Re: Heh... chalk it up to... on Woz Expounds On His Hacking Shenanigans and Online Mischief · · Score: 1

    You had a class dedicated to Role Playing Games?

  21. Re:A wrap-up of new features on LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, you could also attend conferences that are not over-sponsored by Microsoft and that despite having an all-star cast manage to be behind the times.

  22. Re:!GNU/Linux on LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support · · Score: 1

    As of this writing, the reference toolchain for android is GCC 4.7.

  23. Re:GNU excitement on LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support · · Score: 1

    The only people that think this is a good idea are the people who don't understand how a processor actually works.

  24. Re:GNU excitement on LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support · · Score: 1

    The correct way to use SIMD is to use intrinsics.
    There are also libraries that wrap the functionality portably.

    Using inline assembly is about the worst thing you can do, unless you don't care about composability at all.

  25. Re:GNU excitement on LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support · · Score: 1

    From my experience with both the latest GCC and Clang, Clang is about two times faster and uses 25% less memory (40% less than GCC 4.8 which somehow uses much more memory than its predecessors).

    Optimization with clang is also slightly better. It depends what sort of optimization you're looking for, but Clang is quite good at getting rid of the abstraction penalty, which is the only thing I really care about.