Andys

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by Andys 16y ago
If only electric cars were free like Linux.
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by Andys 16y ago
While you might think of these sorts of problems as simplified, they really do work well to filter out the sort of programmers you definitely don't want to hire. And for many programmers you might want, its a simple enough problem that it i
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by Andys 16y ago
The same concept can apply to web applications in general, not just iPad.
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by Andys 16y ago
They won't let me log in, the recover/change password feature doesn't work, and all my emails to them go to /dev/null. I'm scared by how much data they'd have on my life and it being out of my control how they use it.
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by Andys 16y ago
How many just don't care that they're running XP?
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by Andys 16y ago
Sounds good to me. I would like a workplace where it is accepted culture to work 4 days, or equivalent on average, since I'd probably rather work a few of weeks and take a long weekend.
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by Andys 16y ago
But remember, they are already working a 4 day week, so the chance of being burnt out and forcing themselves to work is lower than normal.
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by Andys 16y ago
Was the visualisation done with a free library? Anyone know the name of it?
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by Andys 16y ago
Are your computer check-ins anything like your computer voting machines? All boarding pass destinations silently changed to Texas!
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by Andys 16y ago
Solution: Use a GA to evolve the GA parameters. I'd better go and patent this brilliant idea ...
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Intel invests in high volume 22nm fab for mobile devices for Q4'11(xbitlabs.com)
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by Andys 16y ago
Its been noted before, but I like to keep in mind that PostgreSQL is pretty damn fast if you turn off write sync.
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by Andys 16y ago
For load testing, I use tourbus: https://github.com/dbrady/tourbus
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by Andys 16y ago
Awesomeness is being able to use C instead of Java if your heart desires it.
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by Andys 16y ago
If I buy physical goods, I have an expectation that I completely own it and can do with it whatever I want, and can share my experience completely with others. What Sony is trying to say is that when you buy a PS3 you are sort of renting it
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by Andys 16y ago
You don't realize what has taken place in the market, to enable you to have a portable web-browser in your phone. Costs have been cut in every place possible in order to maximize shipment volume to make consumer-level smartphones possible o
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by Andys 16y ago
Right. Technology is not the issue here. Technology already can give us a quadcore x86 CPU in a smartphone - the question is just how much are you willing to pay for it. As long as Intel can keep making chips 5x bigger and sell them for 20
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by Andys 16y ago
I would love it if it the browser could run it natively. But if we're replacing browser language, can I just have plain Ruby?
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by Andys 16y ago
Apparently the Atom SoC (system-on-a-chip) is shipping any day now (early 2011). Intel also has a 32nm SoC process developed, unlike the cheap taiwan/korean fabs which churn out most ARM-based designs.
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by Andys 16y ago
If commitment is important, being able to concentrate on what you're working on must be important. Junk foods tend to send me off to sleep or procrastinate... the opposite of coffee.
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by Andys 16y ago
On the contrary, I wish javascript had more Rubyisms. Don't you get sick of typing function(){..} when just {..} would do?
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by Andys 16y ago
Staying alive is quite different from performing at peak mental fitness.
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by Andys 16y ago
Annoying to have such a big new dependency when I'm using Ruby 1.9.2 for everything else Ruby-related. Would make more sense to me to use a Ruby editor if it actually ran on the mainstream Ruby interpreter and not jRuby.
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by Andys 16y ago
Where "the planet" is only a subset of the planet.
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by Andys 16y ago
Unfortunately, it depends on jRuby.
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by Andys 16y ago
Yep, taking a look at a modern x86 core in 32nm (and 22nm is just around the corner), the x86 decoding is now just a tiny part of the core. Intel has been been picking low-hanging fruit and not trying particularly hard to make things very
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by Andys 16y ago
I am curious about learning what it is like to work for Canonical. eg, Linking to some blogs of people already on the team would help.
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by Andys 16y ago
Heh - indeed. Is blending any less wasteful than someone using this notebook to download a bunch of porn, post a few hundred vacuous tweets, and then toss it on the trash heap after 11 months when a newer slimmer version comes out.
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by Andys 16y ago
I held this view ("hold own in server hardware") until I actually tried to run FreeBSD on modern server hardware. The Intel 10G NICs worked, but slower in benchmarks than Linux and Opensolaris. SCSI/SAS support has been rotting slowly, wit
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by Andys 16y ago
I see virtualisation as a promising way forward for FreeBSD. Hardware support has always lagged Linux (and still does). The limited resources of BSD hackers could be more appropriately concentrated on needed areas instead of constantly pl

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