It was LSC, the Lecture Series Committee, not LCS, the Lab for Computer Science (now known as CSAIL) that invited him. They're a student group that shows movies and sponsors talks like this.
/. linked to the second page of photos; The first, which isn't entirely obviously linked from the linked page, has some excellent photos of the balls falling from the hatch.
I would hope to get a bit closer to the drive's native speed with some optimization
You'll never get particularly close to the drive's native speed like that. Hard drives (and the HD is gonna be your big bottleneck when you're searching more data than can fit in the block cache), are really, really, good at burst reads of lots of consecutive pieces of data. Your 10GB mail folder, which presumably has thousands of files in it, is probably spread all over the disk, even if individual files are pretty unfragmented (many filesystems even *try* to do this to spread data around, to reduce individual file fragmentation).
An index, on the other hand, will all be stored in one or two files, which on a decent filesystem, will be pretty much continuous, and you can burst-read it all into RAM, and scan it scary-fast.
The cool thing about the parenthesis notation has nothing to do with function programming -- it's macros. Having code all be in the s-exp form makes it very easy to treat code as both code and manipulable data, making macros possible. That's not to say that you can't have macros with more syntax, but, to the best of my knowledge, no one's figured out how yet.
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head would be something that needed to install a kext, which is pretty rare... Preference panes, frameworks, Input managers, and the like can all be installed user-specifically in ~/Library without needing admin.
Technically, if I recall my stat, that's (part of) the criterion for a simple random sample. A random sample just has to have some element of randomness in it. I could be remembering wrong, though.
Looks potentially cool, but do you have a reference that isn't a PDF'd powerpoint presentation? That one's awfully hard to follow without any background in the methods or a presenter filling in the blanks...
dollar-oriented programming (everything has a mandatory dollar sign at the beginning)
You mean PHP?:)
(At least in perl the dollar sign indicates type, and separates variable namespaces. In PHP, I think about all it's there for is to allow string interpolation...)
That one line bash script, that I just pulled out of my ass with 30s of thought, is equivalent to one of these new so-called ``Monad viruses''. Whoop-de-fucking do.
Now, I'll admit that the last console I owned was the N64, so I'm behind the times, but back when I played video games regularly, there was little that pissed me off more than extended jumping puzzles, where you had to leap between 10 platforms in a row flawlessly, restarting if you failed.
Have they wised up yet, or did these guys just miss it?
That gives me an interesting, absolutely absurd idea. Would it be conceivably possible to hack a GreaseMonkey plugin that gave you a pseudo-moderation dropdown for every post, and used that info to train a Bayesian filter that would automatically hide or show posts based on inference from your past, personal moderation? There are a number of obvious issues, but it seems like it could potentially be a cool idea...
To pick some of the best examples, making the map live-scrollable so that you can actually examine the area you will be driving through without waiting a minute for the page to load every time you click one of those little scroll arrows a minor improvment?
What about the ability to search for a movie based on some event in it, or an even more ill-defined criterion, such as "Awesome Car chase", to pick the googleblog's example. That's a completely different service from anything RT offers.
That would be correct if he said the new batteries had 300% the power of the old ones. But the old ones already have 100% of their power, so the new ones have (300 - 100)% = 200% more power.
No... really. Under X11 on OS X, at least, OOo is incredibly ugly and slow. (dual Ghz G4 tower, here). I'm sure it's faster, at least, under Linux, and at the very least the UI doesn't stand out so much, but he's not trolling. It really does hurt to use, at least in my experience.
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I would hope to get a bit closer to the drive's native speed with some optimization
You'll never get particularly close to the drive's native speed like that. Hard drives (and the HD is gonna be your big bottleneck when you're searching more data than can fit in the block cache), are really, really, good at burst reads of lots of consecutive pieces of data. Your 10GB mail folder, which presumably has thousands of files in it, is probably spread all over the disk, even if individual files are pretty unfragmented (many filesystems even *try* to do this to spread data around, to reduce individual file fragmentation).
An index, on the other hand, will all be stored in one or two files, which on a decent filesystem, will be pretty much continuous, and you can burst-read it all into RAM, and scan it scary-fast.
The cool thing about the parenthesis notation has nothing to do with function programming -- it's macros. Having code all be in the s-exp form makes it very easy to treat code as both code and manipulable data, making macros possible. That's not to say that you can't have macros with more syntax, but, to the best of my knowledge, no one's figured out how yet.
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head would be something that needed to install a kext, which is pretty rare ... Preference panes, frameworks, Input managers, and the like can all be installed user-specifically in ~/Library without needing admin.
Technically, if I recall my stat, that's (part of) the criterion for a simple random sample. A random sample just has to have some element of randomness in it. I could be remembering wrong, though.
Looks potentially cool, but do you have a reference that isn't a PDF'd powerpoint presentation? That one's awfully hard to follow without any background in the methods or a presenter filling in the blanks...
dollar-oriented programming (everything has a mandatory dollar sign at the beginning)
:)
You mean PHP?
(At least in perl the dollar sign indicates type, and separates variable namespaces. In PHP, I think about all it's there for is to allow string interpolation...)
From the installer:
You need at least one user to log in to your system. All users created are administrators
That strikes me as a questionable decision with no clear advantage, and definite potential security implications...
#!/bin/sh
find . -name '*.sh' -print0 | xargs -0 cp $0 {} \;
That one line bash script, that I just pulled out of my ass with 30s of thought, is equivalent to one of these new so-called ``Monad viruses''. Whoop-de-fucking do.
Jumping Puzzles.
Now, I'll admit that the last console I owned was the N64, so I'm behind the times, but back when I played video games regularly, there was little that pissed me off more than extended jumping puzzles, where you had to leap between 10 platforms in a row flawlessly, restarting if you failed.
Have they wised up yet, or did these guys just miss it?
Tactile feedback >>>> audible feedback for buttons. And it has the bonus of not driving everyone else in the room insane, like the iPod's click does.
Out of curiosity, have you ever seen the movie Office Space?
That gives me an interesting, absolutely absurd idea. Would it be conceivably possible to hack a GreaseMonkey plugin that gave you a pseudo-moderation dropdown for every post, and used that info to train a Bayesian filter that would automatically hide or show posts based on inference from your past, personal moderation? There are a number of obvious issues, but it seems like it could potentially be a cool idea...
Mind you, cøpyright nøtice bites can be pretty nasty..
Now, I'm neither an AOP nor a lisp guru ... but does this sound like CLOS :around methods to anyone else?
Well, I'll be, we actually slashdotted the torrents. I'm having trouble getting to them. Anyone got a torrent for the .torrent? :-p
Ironically enough, yes.
UNIX nazi time!
tar -jxvf whatever.tar.gz
-j is for bzip2
You want -z (filter through gzip)
by making a few minor improvements.
To pick some of the best examples, making the map live-scrollable so that you can actually examine the area you will be driving through without waiting a minute for the page to load every time you click one of those little scroll arrows a minor improvment?
What about the ability to search for a movie based on some event in it, or an even more ill-defined criterion, such as "Awesome Car chase", to pick the googleblog's example. That's a completely different service from anything RT offers.
That would be correct if he said the new batteries had 300% the power of the old ones. But the old ones already have 100% of their power, so the new ones have (300 - 100)% = 200% more power.
Error: Expected end of line, got "end tell"
No ... really. Under X11 on OS X, at least, OOo is incredibly ugly and slow. (dual Ghz G4 tower, here). I'm sure it's faster, at least, under Linux, and at the very least the UI doesn't stand out so much, but he's not trolling. It really does hurt to use, at least in my experience.
1. Practical use: software, manuals. ... You can qualify them objectively
So I guess emacs and vim aren't in that category.
And neither are, say, perl and python...
Valid, but in their defense, I believe the API to choose default browser is public, so any browser can add that feature
as long as you trust the courier and have good physical security around the CDs.
You say that as though it were simple...