6ren

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by 6ren 13y ago
"In Life*, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. "On the other hand, the world is littered with thousands of spare words
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by 6ren 13y ago
Of course you're right (and I agree - that's why I said there's many challenges). I was questioning your analogy with Apple. I'm sure they could win the low-end; but they don't want to. Addressing the question of
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by 6ren 13y ago
Apple "should" have made a low-end phone, but couldn't bring themselves to (iPhone 5C is their best try), because it's against their market image externally, and their self-image internally. They have to keep inventing g
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by 6ren 13y ago
Toyota or General Electric are reasonable comparisons, both around 10x Telsa: TSLA Tesla Motors Inc 182.14 -1.42 -0.77% 22.13B TM Toyota Motor Corp... 129.95 -0.29 -0.22% 205.93B GE General Electric ... 24.30 -0.06 -0.23% 247.50
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by 6ren 13y ago
They are also fab leaders, at 22nm while everyone else is at 32nm. So, e.g. they could manufacture ARMs, and command a premium (say, for apple, leapfrogging them 2 years ahead of the competition). The striking thing is that, per Hz, x86 is
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by 6ren 13y ago
Is there a performance problem with losing proprietary GPU drivers? Keeping them seems one benefit to dual OS (reusing the Chrome kernel). It's nice to be able to watch HD video without hiccups.
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by 6ren 13y ago
It has a USB 3.0 port, and 70MB/s cards/sticks are around. Not sure if that's fast enough, but at least it's better than the typical 20MB/s for USB 2.0.
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by 6ren 13y ago
I'm disappointed it doesn't (seem to) do regenerative braking... so elegant, don't waste that power, reuse it! But I don't think this is a big selling point, and you can always add it later. I think your marketing approa
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by 6ren 13y ago
faster too $ time sort < t > t-sh real 0m0.016s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.008s $ time py -c "import sys; open(sys.argv[1],'w').writelines(sorted(open(sys.argv[2]).readlines()))" t-py t real
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by 6ren 13y ago
I'd expect part of the definition of "scripting language" to include being interpreted. He addresses this as an extra: compile time with -O3 is roughly the same as Python VM startup and has to be done only once It&#x27
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by 6ren 13y ago
Once you remove the redundancy, you'll see it is pure information!
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by 6ren 13y ago
Analogous to the materials cost of batteries is the information content in software - what information do we have, what information do we want, what is the theoretically minimal possible transform? But, like materials->batteries, finding
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by 6ren 13y ago
This HP Chromebook 11 seems very similar to the Samsung Chromebook in specs. Both use Exynos 5250, 11" screen etc. The Acer C7 Chromebook (Celeron) was much better performing. Running some javascript graphics, it seemed at least twice
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by 6ren 13y ago
I have to refresh the page to see the score change (FF24, ubuntu). Also, if the page is too old (e.g. if you read the article and spent time considering it), then your vote might not register. So, refresh (to get a fresh page), vote, and re
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by 6ren 13y ago
The following is a tangent. When designing something, there are often many choices. If they interact, it quickly becomes intractable. It's tempting to try to keep them in mind, and work out the answer, but with exponentially increasi
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by 6ren 13y ago
Help: I scroll down past the large image, get comfortable, and read the first paragraph or so... then the page fully loads, and suddenly resets to the top of page. It's a minor irritation, but it happens very often, and seems so unnece
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by 6ren 13y ago
Yes, http://www.rationaloptimist.com/ . Though this guy traded (barter).
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by 6ren 13y ago
GP comment was questioning, challenging and critical, but objective, precisely qualified and not mean-spirited. The hope you describe is for comments that are feel-good rather than think-good . Your comment is angry, attacking and perso
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by 6ren 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
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by 6ren 13y ago
For the meaning of tinkling. EDIT ah, you probably meant "inkling".
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by 6ren 13y ago
Optimize for Java? (it needs this more than other languages do). But, to be fair, typing is (or should be) a tiny fraction of your coding time. Even in Java.
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by 6ren 13y ago
Do you have a reference for that, or are you Humpty Dumptying?
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by 6ren 13y ago
This is so cool, it looks CGI. Unbelievable. At first I thought the camera was in a helicopter, but a drone makes more sense (and is even cooler). Elon Musk is Tom Swift.
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by 6ren 13y ago
half-life 3 confirmed Valve gets their platform launched. Strategically, in the long-term, a platform is worth far more than any individual AAA title, or even a franchise. Note: not a "linux version", a "steambox ve
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by 6ren 13y ago
tinkling?
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by 6ren 13y ago
Since the title (headline) of a news article usually summarizes it, TextTeaser arguably is less an article summarizer than a headline expander... EDIT it would be nice, from a UX POV, to request the title if it's missing, rather than
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by 6ren 13y ago
Mouse over the text "Returned the wrong result" at the bottom to see the test results. Move mouse right to view other test results. The background colour of the text indicates fail/pass, murky brown/green vs solid green.
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Java Challenge(kittybyte.com)
9 points by 6ren 13y ago|9 comments
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Acer C720 Chromebook(google.com)
1 points by 6ren 13y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 13y ago
"new scientist" etc also play this role. Though fairly accurate as far as it goes, it is pop-science. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1777

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