Comment The real missing option (Score 1) 85
The only cryptocurrency I'm interested in is CowboyNealCoin.
Comment Re:No. (Score 0, Troll) 267
Haskell is a fairly conventional language, depending on what conventions you're used to. If you've ever only known imperative languages, then Haskell will be new and scary to you. OP was talking about people with a broad enough background where Haskell isn't inimidating. Just neat.
Comment what languages? (Score 1) 267
Most of those were platforms, frameworks, tookits etc. for domain-specific applications. Those almost always pay more. The only language in there was Object-Pascal. Unless that is used to solve a very pressing problem in a very competitive industry, it probably doesn't pay all that much.
Comment Just 1: USB 3,1 (Score 1) 301
Then package a small hub with the laptop that includes ethernet, 2xUSB 2,0, HDMI, and maybe VGA.
Comment Re:systemd vs initd (Score 1) 442
well last time i was on /. it was emacs vs. vim, so I'm very glad we moved on.
Comment Re:Apple may outlive Acer - But will they make PCs (Score 1) 417
Yes there is. Apple doesn't want you to. They want to control how you use their platforms from planning to release. OS X and their lineup of personal computers are meant for that.
Comment Re:Mandatory xkcd (Score 1) 229
[something].js would be nodejs os
Comment Re:for a moment there... (Score 1) 40
I had a similar thought, post-consumption of a lot of coffee. There's no hope for today.
Comment String concat in java (Score 1) 486
is an expensive in-memory operation, as it is in many other high-level languages. Unsurprising that writing a 1MB string to disk is faster.
No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory 486
itwbennett writes: It's a commonly held belief among software developers that avoiding disk access in favor of doing as much work as possible in-memory will results in shorter runtimes. To test this assumption, researchers from the University of Calgary and the University of British Columbia compared the efficiency of alternative ways to create a 1MB string and write it to disk. The results consistently found that doing most of the work in-memory to minimize disk access was significantly slower than just writing out to disk repeatedly (PDF).
Comment Hatred (Score 3, Insightful) 333
The proletariat would cry out in fear, calling the extraterrestrial visitors everything from demons to terrorists. If the aliens' intentions are peaceful, then that would only encourage violence faster. The leaders of the world would try to pick them apart politically for financial gain, sending armies to meet them in battle hoping to grab a part of their (assumed) abundant technology and wealth.
There's a good reason we're alone.
Comment Re:Depends on use (Score 1) 82
unless you're talking about a shop in middle Africa or even Outback, China that proposes to utilise such a system in a mesh network to bring remote communities one step closer to being Facebook zombies.
Hell, for that matter - how much processing power do you need to run a DHCP router? Or a DVR? Or a home automation system? Something as simple as an automatic garage door opener? An RFID reader?
There's a BUNCH of uses for low power/small iron that Big Iron would be utterly WASTED on. The aforementioned is not, by any means, exhaustive.
Keep in mind that modern Android phones have quad-core processors and will continue to grow in performance.
Comment Re:Hardly new (Score 1) 823
Motorcycle riders seem more conductive to new technologies such as eletric vehicles. So unless the electric HD handles like the current motorcycles they make, then it'll probably do fairly well.
