It seems to make sense to me, if only because the two are complimentary problems.
Yeah, but with caching, if you're wrong, you only get a performance hit. With GC, if you're wrong, your program crashes. Not quite complementary, or even complimentary to you if your GC fails!
Actually, if you want to go Physical with measurements, let's use the Planck units of length, time, and mass. The Planck length and time are (not rigorously speaking) the smallest possible measurements, while the Planck mass is the largest mass you can fit in a Planck space-time interval.
You take the universal constants G, h-bar, and c, and manipulate them until you get your unit.
G is 6.674*10^11 m^3/kg*s^2
c is 2.998*10^8 m/s
h-bar is 6.626*10^-34 kg m^2/s
Interestingly enough, you don't use Planck's constant, h, but Dirac's constant, h-bar (which is h/2*pi). I'll use the letter H in the below equations to stand in for h-bar.
And so, the Planck length is: sqrt(GH/c^3) = 1.6*10^-35 m
The Planck time is: sqrt(GH/c^5) = 5.4*10^-44 s
The Planck mass is: sqrt(cH/G) = 2.1*10^-8 kg
Now, let's name some prefixes:
10^34 = "slasha"
10^43 = "dotta"
Now let's also give better names to the measures:
Planck length = a hair
Plank time = a jiffy
Plank mass = a big
So a meter is 6.25 slashahairs, a second is 1.85 dottajiffies, and a kilogram is 47.6 megabigs.
I'll post this in a few dekadottajiffies, so everyone within 125 megaslashahairs can read this.
They just shook their heads and said that the metric system is so much better. Personally, I agree... but it's hard to change what you first learn. That's why I give it another 40 years...
The term "canola" is a bastardization of "Canadian Oil", used by canadian growers in place of the less consumer-friendly name of the actual crop "rapeseed".
That's a particularly apt name for Monsanto's product.
I have a Linksys 8 port gigabit switch and I can definitely confirm that it's a bit of a beast when it comes to noise (for a switch anyway).
I have one of those noise cancellation devices that reverses the phase of sound to cancel it out. I pointed it at the Linksys, and it made the switch a whole lot quieter.
Only problem is, the noise canceller has a noisy fan in it.
From purely capitalistic point of view, the moral thing to do is to maximize profits in short term
That's called the fallacy of reification -- using a word, in this case, "moral", invalidly. One may as well argue that to a killer, the moral thing to do is murder as many people as possible, and therefore killing people, objectively, is good.
I have never heard of radiation producing visible evidence (immediately, that is), but then again, there was a lot of it. What is this "shinning" all about?
There's a saying that goes, "You will get exactly what you want."
In this case, I think you should implement the policy to the letter, and let the company get exactly what it wants. Namely, untimely notification of problems.
I just figured it had run off with a poodle, until I learned that there are no poodles on Mars. Then I though it landed in a puddle, until I was told there are no puddles on Mars. I guess that rules out a poodle puddle too.
...and then I realized that it probably had to take a piddle. And that was the reason. It was a poodle piddle puddle.
Of course I wont reveal the secret, but I can tell you this: he's wrong. The dirty work does not happen in the toss. The coin actually do spin, and the secret move is done at an offbeat moment.
And then pendersempai foolishly responded:
When you catch the coin, feel it with your finger. If it is right-side-up, just open your hand. Otherwise, slam it down on your opposite wrist, which flips it over.
pendersempai, I think those are Templar Knights knocking at your door...
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Yeah, but with caching, if you're wrong, you only get a performance hit. With GC, if you're wrong, your program crashes. Not quite complementary, or even complimentary to you if your GC fails!
--Rob
Not a good argument for a Prius, if it only works well on Mars.
--Rob
Nasty hobbists! Greedy hobbists! Smeagol should KILL the nasty hobbistses!
--Rob
You take the universal constants G, h-bar, and c, and manipulate them until you get your unit.
G is 6.674*10^11 m^3/kg*s^2
c is 2.998*10^8 m/s
h-bar is 6.626*10^-34 kg m^2/s
Interestingly enough, you don't use Planck's constant, h, but Dirac's constant, h-bar (which is h/2*pi). I'll use the letter H in the below equations to stand in for h-bar.
And so, the Planck length is: sqrt(GH/c^3) = 1.6*10^-35 m
The Planck time is: sqrt(GH/c^5) = 5.4*10^-44 s
The Planck mass is: sqrt(cH/G) = 2.1*10^-8 kg
Now, let's name some prefixes:
10^34 = "slasha"
10^43 = "dotta"
Now let's also give better names to the measures:
Planck length = a hair
Plank time = a jiffy
Plank mass = a big
So a meter is 6.25 slashahairs, a second is 1.85 dottajiffies, and a kilogram is 47.6 megabigs.
I'll post this in a few dekadottajiffies, so everyone within 125 megaslashahairs can read this.
--Rob
You mean 4 dekayears, you archaism!
--Rob
At last! Someone on /. from my generation! We can get together and help each other eat!
--Rob
Tragedy of the Commons, maybe?
--Rob
--Rob
That's a particularly apt name for Monsanto's product.
--Rob
Prates made of shit?
--Rob
Man, I hate when they only offer the relocation package to one guy named Andy.
--Rob
Linus: It's you!
Gates: How are you gentlemen? All your platform are belong to us.
Linus: Move every zig.
Gates: Ha ha ha.
--Rob
They're called geriatric concentration camps. They give me the creeps.
--Rob
Ahhhh, I've fallen! And I can't get up!
--Rob
I have one of those noise cancellation devices that reverses the phase of sound to cancel it out. I pointed it at the Linksys, and it made the switch a whole lot quieter.
Only problem is, the noise canceller has a noisy fan in it.
--Rob
I think I'd be pretty happy if it took the US IT industry 200 years to die, instead of 10 years.
--Rob
In the icy pond at the bottom?
--Rob
That's called the fallacy of reification -- using a word, in this case, "moral", invalidly. One may as well argue that to a killer, the moral thing to do is murder as many people as possible, and therefore killing people, objectively, is good.
--Rob
It's telepathy.
--Rob
--Rob
Why stop there? You could just up and smack your communicator! Bad communicator!
--Rob
"Computer, locate Dr. Vidal!"
Dr. Vidal is taking a dump in the third floor men's lavatory.
--Rob
In this case, I think you should implement the policy to the letter, and let the company get exactly what it wants. Namely, untimely notification of problems.
--Rob
--Rob
And then pendersempai foolishly responded:
pendersempai, I think those are Templar Knights knocking at your door...
--Rob