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osi

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About osi

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    Comment #44306442

    UDA enables both approaches. each has its place.

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    Comment #39152650

    that’s been a problem longer than phones. worse, maybe, but not new.

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    Comment #37117424

    bravo sir very well explained.

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    Comment #34564917

    i worked at a then-web3.0 startup in the 00’s that had built something that could have been pivoted into this, but instead the CEO wanted to be like Digg instead. the commercial co…

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    Comment #28589904

    i use property based testing for the external api of my business domain service. yes, the test code is an “oracle”, knowing what the service _should_ be doing. it’s a parallel impl…

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    Comment #28162536

    We're using jqwik's stateful testing to achieve this, https://jqwik.net/docs/current/user-guide.html#stateful-test... It's essentially as you described.

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    Comment #15600710

    agreed. if it is a "2 hour" project, have that be part of the on-site interview (with the expectation that people might not complete it)

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    Comment #15595407

    and _even if it were_, the ASF doesn't mind. contributors are free to dedicate their time to whatever they choose.

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    Comment #15443505

    ah, Student Congress. I did that and loved it too. I enjoyed it more for learning how to effectively troll, since I wasn't as good as the "politics" part needed to win.

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    Comment #15139890

    heh, i remember writing a fake "memory clear" program on my TI back in 1994/1995 (i don't remember the exact model).

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    Comment #15131955

    the OP observed the problem on a raspberry pi. sounds like it could be a problem with the ARM JVM that is being used.

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    Comment #15125088

    Also lost to history is 10gen's original intent of being more of a complete platform, with Mongo just being the storage layer. Business Insider ran on that platform. Some details i…

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    Comment #14788044

    i train brazilian jiu jitsu 4-5x a week. most of Mon-Thurs evening for classes, then sometimes an open mat session on the weekend. when i started the goal was weight management, as…

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    Comment #14237046

    for me, it wasn't just the ESPN cost, which was buried in the package. it was also the "regional sports fees" that Comcast lists as separate line items and have very obvious increa…

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    Comment #14219113

    I was just reading https://blog.openai.com/adversarial-example-research/ and it struck me that an understanding of geometry might help. For the examples and scenarios cited, the ge…

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    Comment #14081919

    i helped build a triple store on top of postgresql back in '06-'08. company is gone so i don't know where the IP ended up, but it was a good foundation. we were competitive with th…

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    Comment #13783569

    makes me wonder how long they would have lasted had the initial implementation been done simpler (ie, not in their PyDatalog fork).

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    Comment #13430742

    dunno- just copying what was in the original article :)

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    Comment #13430473

    Java would be disqualified due to GC: > It is worth noting that Go came nearest disqualifying itself entirely here. If it were not possible to lock out Go’s GC in critical regions …

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    Comment #13359617

    I think that's back when Gotham died :/ http://randsinrepose.com/archives/rip-gotham/

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    Comment #13223814

    yes, exactly this. and by having scalable GC algos so you don't need to do "off heap" tricks in java, things are much easier.

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    Comment #13219959

    Look at what Erlang's BEAM VM does. It has per-"process" heaps iirc.