Andys

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721.
by Andys 16y ago
I love my G1. It feels solid.. yesterday I dropped it down a flight of concrete steps and its fine!
722.
by Andys 16y ago
I have a great little app for my Android G1 that shows your location on a google map (GPS) as well as the location of the cell tower you're connected to. I suspect Apple don't provide an API for this sort of stuff..
723.
by Andys 16y ago
Now to wait for the Cyanogen Froyo ROM for my G1.
724.
by Andys 16y ago
This is a classic example of how the naieve plan of 'Get two servers and mirror them' can lead to downtime regardless of the best intentions of sysadmin.
725.
by Andys 16y ago
It is happening slowly and incrementally. These changes seem architecturally dirty, but don't rock the boat too much and so are feasible to deliver on time and on budget. Check out the population count and string compare/search instruction
726.
by Andys 16y ago
Today's GPU is a stream processor which is arguably less complex than a general purpose CPU. I think this is in the opposite direction of the spectrum to what the parent is suggesting.
727.
by Andys 16y ago
This makes sense to me, but I feel like there is some really clever usage of this (other than a chat server) that is yet to occur to me.
728.
by Andys 16y ago
Would it really be machined? or just cast?
729.
by Andys 16y ago
But.. this Core2duo mac mini isn't using an integrated graphics card anyway? It has an embedded nvidia geforce.
730.
by Andys 16y ago
Yeah, a G6950 (core i3 2.8ghz 32nm) would have been ideal for this form factor.
731.
by Andys 16y ago
Someone needs to make a dedicated hardware key-value store which would use way less power than even this dense atom box. If you have $10M spare, contact me ;)
732.
by Andys 16y ago
Its a custom-designed niche product. It will be priced accordingly. You can tell from their "dollar savings" chart that they plan to claw back the money you save in price of the machine!
733.
by Andys 16y ago
More importantly, Tony Abbot is what he says he is, which makes him more charismatic than Ruddbot.
734.
by Andys 16y ago
I got a new laptop with built-in 3G modem and Ubuntu was able to connect me to the Internet without me needing to load any extra drivers, which wouldn't be the case with Windows or OSX.
735.
by Andys 16y ago
Our (Sydney) streets are just not wide enough to do U-turns in one go. So people were doing them at traffic lights and causing problems as they misjudged then had to do a 3 point turn. I guess its preferable to let these 3 point turns happ
736.
by Andys 16y ago
Important side note: religious experiences are not always good :-)
737.
by Andys 16y ago
She must be pretty damn happy with it, if you're getting away with browsing news.yc whilst on honeymoon :)
738.
by Andys 16y ago
Its not just iPhones: almost every piece of electronics is now made in Taiwan by this "almost slave labour", including laptops, desktops, and the servers that run your favourite cloud computing provider. And it its not even for the solderi
739.
by Andys 16y ago
For me, its because I am happy with how I handle music, the same way I have for the last 10+ years: share mp3s with friends, buy the CDs online I like and rip them to FLAC, or purchase download directly from some great artists. Then copy t
740.
by Andys 16y ago
Its not like Facebook uses that much bandwidth. As the price of mobile bandwidth continues to fall, this won't matter.
741.
by Andys 16y ago
Booting off iSCSI is all the rage now. Any server with an Intel 1Gbe network port can be made to boot off iSCSI after flashing with special firmware from Intel.
742.
by Andys 16y ago
This is HUGE in the IT world. Corporate support is based on knowledge bases built up by customers "trying stuff out" and reporting in when it doesn't work.
743.
by Andys 16y ago
Last time I actually needed to do this, I allocated memory in larger chunks instead, and made a linked list of those chunks. The number of situations where this particular solution is the best solution is really small!
744.
by Andys 16y ago
I think the average is actually made up of a very low rate for big chain stores and much higher rates for mom and pop businesses with a physical presence.
745.
by Andys 16y ago
Reminds me of the all-hands meeting Microsoft had a few years ago concerning security flaws.
746.
by Andys 16y ago
I'd rather the government accept medicines with centuries of empirical evidence than lab-synthesised chemicals which have been pushed rapidly through official process using cherry-picked clinical trials and promises of lucrative paid positi
747.
by Andys 16y ago
It usually takes about a generation for bad ideas to pass.
748.
by Andys 16y ago
Amongst the half a dozen machines I regularly use, it crashes much more often than the browser. This includes a couple of Windows machines, where Flash is most at home!
749.
by Andys 16y ago
In other words, its an accurate port of the Flash platform to this new device.
750.
by Andys 17y ago
It requires 2.0 or greater

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