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Comment Re:Scalzi on Stross on ST (Score 1) 809

Exactly! Mod parent up. I was going to say something along the same lines.

TV is not cheap so it must be attractive to a broad audience and episodes are produced in merely a week or two. It's insane to expect a tv serie to be seriously interesting.

Also, he should improve his own writing before talking down other people's stuff because I don't find his books that much interesting when compared to, for example, John C. Wright or Alastair Reynolds. (but that may be just my taste for action talking here)

Comment Re:Can a layman get an explanation in English? (Score 1) 192

It makes patches smaller by doing a few extra voodoo pre and post processing steps. Many changes in the binary can be tracked back to only 1 change in the original source code, the voodoo knows how to do this and stores just that one master change instead all of the resulting changes. Car analogy: instead of storing the activity of each piston in a car engine it just stores the fact if the engine is running or not.

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