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It is truly disheartening to see you'd been downvoted when I came into this thread. The truth is, the OP's domain was probably considered to be in a bad "neighborhood" because his …

And: Unknown said... Agreed 100% with Rachel's comment above. Also, what makes you think Groupon would even accept you? Top tier deal sites (LivingSocial, Groupon) expect establish…

It's close to the same thing, but having more named registers does provide more optimization opportunities. It shouldn't be completely ignored as a good thing. I mentioned function…

Yeah - the vast majority of x86 assembly written today is written to take advantage of specialized instructions that aren't available in this VM.

> But in hardware at least, the x86 registers have been found quite limiting on software and performance. While the doubled register count makes a big difference - especially with …

The instruction set is vastly simpler than x86, but it does inherit some limitations for no reason. x86 had 8 named registers for so long because the mod_rm byte in x86 only has 3 …

> "Closure" (at least to me) doesn't imply this bevaior in a language with mutable variables. I don't think I can name a single reasonably-known language with mutable variables and…

I'm sorry? Python is the same way: >>> i = 10 >>> def x(): ... print i ... >>> x() 10 >>> i = 11 >>> x() 11 The value is not closed over in any language I can think of off the top …

But what I pulled out from the Wired article amounted to "it's silly that if the file sizes are slightly different you need to upload your whole song." If file sizes are different,…

> However, the ruling makes clear that if MP3tunes scanned a customer’s music collection and found “Stairway to Heaven” ripped from a CD with a slightly different file size, the co…

You've repeated the burrito example in nearly every subthread here, which is poor form to begin with, and it is a horrible example. You are comparing ("chicken burrito" -> "beef bu…

Russ is pretty much describing Go as it existed in its developer's minds in 2007. He even explains nearly all of Go's (future) interesting features - with nearly identical syntax -…

> Is $10K/month necessary for living expenses? While at first glance, the "needing 10k/month" seems surprisingly high, it's likely he means "need 10k/month to maintain my present l…

Not having int64/uint64 is kind of a deal-breaker for any such library. Which means, in JavaScript, a big integer library. I don't see one.

Buying stocks and even bonds is an enormously different type of investment than buying a home and investing in it.

Sports bars certainly aren't my favorite bars, but this just seems rude. It's supposed to be a loud place.

This seemed like a developer-targeted article, though. I mean, who is having trouble with even 1 million directory entries, let alone 8 million, who is afraid of a compiler?

>>> "Don’t be afraid to compile code and modify it" I was a bit thrown by this advice. Are there folks out there that are afraid to compile code and modify it?

Close - they bought one gift card, and then used Starbucks' website to transfer the money from Jonathan's card to their own.

Considering Facebook uses Haskell to automate changes to their PHP codebase, I'd imagine PHP isn't doing them any favors.

You've done an excellent job of summarizing why Google does what it does: extremely few languages, and all code must pass readability review (or be written by an author with readab…

If string processing is a bottleneck in your system, either your system isn't doing anything else interesting to take up CPU time, or you've done something very, very wrong. Serial…