Andys

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by Andys 17y ago
Its quite possible a kid leaving college not only fails at the startup, but fails at networking and building contacts, and also fails at learning anything at all.
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by Andys 17y ago
Doesn't match up with my reality. I have an original G1 and am yet to run out of space. (I do delete applications that I don't use.) I was able to upgrade storage with 16gb microSD card for a very low price - the ability to do this is the
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by Andys 17y ago
Intel just released new 32nm laptop CPUs with embedded GPU, so there'll probably be some new laptops with those chips.
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by Andys 17y ago
Does it really come as news to anyone that if Intel wants to show their CPU in best light, they'll use their own compiler? Caveat emptor. The bulk of the x86 world uses Microsoft C++ or GCC - end of story.
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by Andys 17y ago
Sensational headline: this article is only about the Intel C Compiler, which as far as I can see, is only used for benchmarketing and research purposes.
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by Andys 17y ago
Exactly what I did to get my G1 here in Australia. Bought it outright for around $600 and then went on a $5/month plan with calls and data that are cheap enough ($15/GB). As far as I can see, buying outright always works out cheaper than a
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by Andys 17y ago
Australia has big reserves of Uranium in the ground, but no nuclear power stations. Currently in Australia, it is politically impossible to even talk about the need to look at nuclear power for the future.
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by Andys 17y ago
Yep, you can use the same certificate for email (IMAP, POP, TLS). Only works without warnings if your clients connect to the same hostname as the certificate is for (so I usually register something other than www.domain.com for the SSL sit
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by Andys 17y ago
Wonder how many of them are just almost idle, running something like memcached?
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by Andys 17y ago
And don't forget all the extra shielding you need to protect circuitry from solar winds.
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by Andys 17y ago
The problem for RethinkDB is that the firmware on Intel SSDs is advanced enough that it can speed up the normal, free MySQL engine (or postgresql, or oracle, ...) to almost the same sort of speeds. I am yet to see any evidence that RethinkD
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by Andys 17y ago
Why would it be cheaper than an iphone?
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by Andys 17y ago
Ahh, but see, what if we also took away the laws which governed who could run a Telco? For example, there's cases where cities have been forced to remove their free wifi networks. The technology exists now to make (slow, but) free wifi mesh
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by Andys 17y ago
Traditionally, Intel and its partners have prevented the microserver market from taking off by limiting their Atom (and other low power) platforms to small amounts of RAM, usually 2-4GB. It sounds like they're finally willing to open this
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by Andys 17y ago
The console, hilariously, looks like someone pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del and killed explorer.exe and just left a DOS box running. They've done a remarkable job trying to remove Windows from Windows Server, but (they admit) they are still not quite
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by Andys 17y ago
Programmer here. Canvas tag excites me because for years the desktop programmer in me has wanted simple pixel addressing so that I could implement my own full-featured input/form controls, such as a grid control.
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by Andys 17y ago
I don't understand why someone would care about whether one program (wave) eclipses another program (gmail)?
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by Andys 17y ago
Did you see the bit about the DJ booth? That part pushed it over the edge for me.
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by Andys 17y ago
Think of a magnet link as hyperlinking to another, different, website which contains the actual downloads & download links.
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by Andys 17y ago
Really good point. I usually find it difficult because I don't even drink coffee and don't know how to make it. Yet culturally, I need to learn this in order to close some deals.
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by Andys 17y ago
I calculated it out once... it turns out that planes consume a very similar amount of fuel per kilometre of travel to a person driving a car. However, the distances involved in flying around are much greater than most would attempt to drive
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by Andys 17y ago
> get politics the hell out of our science. We need to rethink the standards we hold science to in the modern world If only this could also apply to medical research / health science!
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by Andys 17y ago
It is analogous to Variable Bit Rate mp3 audio encoding. It is a way of using slightly more bandwidth to increase the framerate of video, instead of just the usual increasing resolution of each frame. It should also provide a way to degrade
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by Andys 17y ago
Is there some unwritten universal law that says, all demo must fail when you are feeling nervous?
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by Andys 17y ago
It was the exact reason I chose the G1, its generous 5 row qwerty keyboard makes daily use of SSH possible. You can type numbers and symbols in your password easily and quickly, and you get a full 80x25 display.
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by Andys 17y ago
Many ZFS users already leave compression enabled which uses more CPU time than SHA256 and is still fast enough.
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by Andys 17y ago
I can't bring myself to trust dedupe without verification after every hash match, so I plan to use it with a fast hash algorithm with full verify enabled. CRC32 is faster than ZFS's default of Fletcher2 and has less frequent collisions.
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by Andys 17y ago
New Intel CPUs now have a CRC32 instruction, which I am hoping Sun engineers will take advantage of soon and add as a choice for ZFS.
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by Andys 17y ago
Its the price we pay to be able to listen to mp3s whilst GPS navigating in the car! Or leaving my SSH session open while replying to a tweet and checking a website. My point: until a super-fast android is released, would you rather have thi
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by Andys 17y ago
You can usually update the tools by using parts of openvmtools. http://patrickmylund.com/blog/how-to-install-vmware-tools-on...

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