Comment HTTP Header Rick-Rolled (Score 1) 204
BTW, if you check out the HTTP headers for vg.no, you'll find out you've been rick-rolled.
X-Rick-Would-Never: Give you up
Comment Tea, Earl Grey, Hot (Score 5, Funny) 342
How hard is it for a computer to understand the sentence: "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot"? That takes care of 90% of the use case scenarios right there. Next is "Computer, initiate auto-destruct sequence" is the next 8%.
Comment Bond Villain (Score 1) 25
I like that the voice over was done by an actor who played a Bond villain (Robert Davi).
Comment Would C++ Actually Be That Much Faster? (Score 1) 752
A site like Facebook isn't computing the value of pi or calculating jump coordinates for the Galactica, things that would benefit from a more efficient implementation. I don't know anything about Facebook's site, but many web applications use the application layer to essentially pull data from and send data to databases. Parsing data back and forth typically isn't sped up with C++ or even C that much compared to PHP. All many PHP sites do is draw HTML, and a lot of SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE queries. Hard to imagine C++ having a big impact on that, certainly not 10:1.
Comment Vegetables and Marathons (Score 1) 366
I'm an IT worker, and my health routine is pretty atypical: Vegan diet and marathons.
Net Neutrality, Schlocky Salesmen vs Monopolist Plumbers 385
Andy Kessler has written a short tongue-in-cheek summary of the net neutrality debate over on the Weekly Standard. Kessler identifies the two sides as the 'schlocky ad salesmen' (Google, Yahoo!, etc) and the 'monopolist plumbers' (Verizon, AT&T, etc) and when you add the politicians to the mix it creates a pretty untenable situation. From the article: "But the answer is not regulations imposing net neutrality. You can already smell the mandates and the loopholes once Congress gets involved. Think special, high-speed priority for campaign commercials or educational videos about global warming. Or roadblocks--like requiring emergency 911 service--to try to kill off free Internet telephone services such as Skype. And who knows what else? Network neutrality won't be the laissez-faire sandbox its supporters think, but more like used kitty litter. We all know that regulations beget more lobbyists. I'd rather let the market sort these things out."
