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Comment Higher demand should mean higher price (Score 1) 180

but rather a reduction in price on PHP hosting due to high demand

I thought "high demand" (movement of the demand curve to the right) caused an increase in price level, not a decrease. Are you claiming that the demand curve moved so much that hosting providers were able to build in enough economies of scale that they could move the supply curve so far to the right that it more than compensates for the increased demand? Or is there some particular shitty aspect inherent to PHP that happens to push its supply curve to the right?

Comment Up-to-date education (Score 2) 553

If employers lose lawsuits over this, they'll probably change it to "up-to-date education" and "3 years of active use of a major social network, iOS or Android operating system, and electronic bill payment". This allows older people to technically qualify by having taken a relevant class at a local college and joining Facebook.

Comment Time is the difference (Score 1) 76

You do not know how the assembly maps to uops in modern cpu

And someone cant take the time to figure it out?

I have been watching these hacking videos and watching the master piece of reverse engineering of the MAME/MESS team for many years. It is only a matter of time and knowledge.

And "time" points to the major difference. The MAME project tends to wait years after a game's release before emulating it. Server operators, on the other hand, expect to use a cryptography library on servers with new CPUs immediately.

Comment Re:PHP: The Good Parts (Score 1) 180

Charging a premium for not-shitty languages encourages continued development of applications in the shitty language because site owners know they'll be able to get a discount by paying only for the use of the shitty language. Do you agree at least with this point? And what should have been done in the first place to discourage widespread use of the shitty language?

Comment Working around a missing Kinect sensor (Score 2) 240

Most PCs do not include range finding hardware. If they do include a webcam, it isn't stereoscopic. So you'll need to tell the window system explicitly how far away you plan to sit. Divide 2688 by your viewing distance in inches (1 m = 39.37 in), increase it somewhat if you have poor vision, and put that into your window system's DPI field.

Comment People rejected decimal time (Score 1) 299

The last time fully decimal time was imposed by law, the people rejected it. It was imposed in France on 22 September 1794 after the French Revolution and revoked 7 April 1795 when France adopted what is now SI. Swatch tried again privately in 1998, dividing the day into a thousand 86.4 s millidays called ".beats", and it didn't catch on either. This is why the hour, day, and year still "are accepted for use with SI" (source). Thus, the kilowatt hour isn't an SI unit proper, but it's still "accepted for use with SI" with the value 3.6 MJ, much as the kilocalorie of food energy is 4184 J.

Comment Re:Mozilla's made mistakes, but people exaggerate (Score 1) 240

If Google really cared about free software they should remove the non-free bits and make it just free software.

Most people are not free software purists and thus would prefer to use a web browser capable of playing Hollywood movies instead of a browser that is free software. Shipping a binary distribution of only the free parts would incur extra quality assurance costs that Google is likely unwilling to pay. So how should Google remove the SWF player and DRM components without compromising functionality that the end user expects?

Comment Re:sudo apt-get install chromium-browser (Score 1) 240

The reason it's not in their official repositories is more an ideological one, supposedly the packaging of customised dependencies rather than integrating more naturally with the ecosystem goes against the ideals of whomever has authority over what does and does not go in the official list.

If forking a library for use in Chrome is considered harmful, what is Google supposed to do instead when upstream rejects Google's patches to the library?

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