Comment Re:Hello (Score 1) 276
Well spoken.
It's "Tuttle", not "Buttle".
Comment Re:cool! (Score 1) 46
Memcached is a distributed in-memory cache implementation, it has nothing to do with noSql. See: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/
Incorrect
Memcached is a key/value store, which doesn't use SQL or RDBMS concepts and is therefore by definition a noSQL project.
The fact that it is an in-memory cache implementation is irrelevant.
Comment Re:cool! (Score 1) 46
Memcached is a distributed in-memory cache implementation, it has nothing to do with noSql. See: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/
Incorrect
Memcached is a key/value store, which doesn't use SQL or RDBMS concepts and is therefore by definition a noSql project.
The fact that is an in-memorty cache implementaion is irrelevant.
Comment Re:Wattage (Score 1) 497
I try not to plug in more than one vaccuum cleaner.
You don't know what your missing. There's nothing more satisfying then vacuuming together with your mother/girlfriend. Using the same socket definitely adds to the excitement.
We've just bought our sixth vaccuum cleaner to expand our vaccuum cleaning parties.
Comment Re:Wait, carbon trading wasn't a scam to BEGIN wit (Score 1) 228
Offer companies tax credits to reduce emissions and fine them for exceeding but letting them pay to pollute is a joke.
So what is the difference between fining them for exceeding and letting them pay for exceeding?
Comment Re:How long will we have to tolerate cars? (Score 1) 606
Why would you imagine that tubes would be easier or cheaper to build underground? Tunnels are expensive! No, our tubes will be mostly above ground, which will also provide a better view while we're using them.
They might provide a better view while we're using them but not while were not using them
Eventually, transportation will become a commodity that we will not consider worthy of spending our precious and rare ground-level space for.
Comment Re:How long will we have to tolerate cars? (Score 5, Interesting) 606
Now that would be an interesting poll: how long before our cities get rid of these dirty, ugly & dangerous cars?
Agreed. The transportation of the future will not be in the air but underground where tubes can be kept at almost vacuum and "cars" can move very fast using magnetic leviation at very low energy consumption.
The future cities will be beautiful
Comment Re:Comment your data too! (Score 1) 590
"Uncompressed ASCII is universal."
Big endian or little endian? It's not as universal as you may think.
Endianness is irrelevant for ASCII. It only determines the order of bytes within multi-byte words. ASCII is 7-bit and therefore, there is no difference between "big endian ASCII" or "little endian ASCII".
Comment Re:Comment your code (Score 1) 590
No. They are not compiled and therefore lag behind the state of the code in almost every software project I have encountered so far. If you can choose between naming and commenting, use naming. For example, a parameter called ZeroBasedIntegerIndex will be in your editor's autocompletion and therfore visible where you use it. A comment is only visible where you define it, and therefore gets lost in usage. And if the ZeroBasedIntegerIndex happens to be defined as a string, you'd change it immediately. The comment would probably stay wrong for a very long time.
So you are actually promoting the use of variables named like ZeroBasedIntegerIndex?
That name really sucks, dude. I understand that you want to clarify the advantage of good variable naming, but ZeroBasedIntegerIndex is NOT a good example. Names should describe what the variable means semantically.
Comment Re:Assange and his team are doing great things (Score 1) 454
No, he is not arguing that at all.
Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 228
Rob Muntz did something very similar for the great duch program waskracht
Comment Re:Diesel (Score 2, Funny) 1141
Why isn't this ranked informative?
Cause the moderators have learned what "Le" means?
Submission + - Chess ratings - move over Elo (kaggle.com)
databuff writes: Less than 24 hours ago, Jeff Sonas, the creator of the Chessmetrics rating system, launched a competition to find a chess rating algorithm that performs better than the official Elo rating system. The competition requires entrants to build their rating systems based on the results of more than 65,000 historical chess games. Entrants then test their algorithms by predicting the results of another 7,809 games. Already three teams have managed create systems that make more accurate predictions than the official Elo approach. It's not a surprise that Elo has been outdone — after all, the system was invented half a century ago before we could easily crunch large amounts of historical data. However, it is a big surprise that Elo has been bettered done so quickly!
Comment Re:Third Rule of Fight Club (Score 1) 314
Well, that's stupid.
Rule #1. 0
I didn't post the whole algorithm for the sake of brevity and humor.
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Comment Re:Summary misstates the problem (Score 1) 981
You have read correctly.
When it is given that one of the children is a boy there is no difference between the statement that "the other child is a boy" and stating "both children are boys". There is no ambiguity there.
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