Hoff

87 ms·

331.
by Hoff 16y ago
Alan Parsons did become rather well-known for his abilities as an audio engineer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Parsons
332.
Don't try this at home; You can't build a new Silicon Valley just anywhere.(foreignpolicy.com)
7 points by Hoff 16y ago|0 comments
333.
by Hoff 16y ago
Most any X Windows box had this back in the 1990s and late 1980s, and (in the case of DECwindows) including "dead rodent" mode where you could navigate the cursor with the arrow keys; without the benefit of a mouse. One of the simple innova
334.
by Hoff 16y ago
What a staggeringly horrid web site, and content-free article. Pop-ups, ads all over the place, sign-in boxes, and an article in a slot-sized window. tl;dr: security attacks continue to evolve, and targeted attacks are tough(er) to detect
335.
by Hoff 16y ago
Microsoft continues to long pre-announce their products - the first US widgets are November? - which implies they're going to continue to under-deliver on their execution, to detract from the work of all the bright people over there, to fol
336.
by Hoff 16y ago
The web server is overrun, and the article accordingly inaccessible. I implemented a system for an OS bootstrap that uses a scheme similar to this, though I deliberately placed the boot partitions "underneath" (carefully double-mapped) file
337.
by Hoff 16y ago
Here is an earlier incarnation of the "writing a compiler" thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1608129
338.
by Hoff 16y ago
In short, you're leveraging your product and your business credibility on your beta and your plans and your customer engagement. High-risk, but it can pay. Miss large on product or roadmap or customer requirements, and you're in deep sneake
339.
by Hoff 16y ago
Do you think so little of the vendors that you believe they won't want to fix an error in a widely-used security-critical OS component? Do you think so little of the ability of the Mozilla team to communicate on the details on a matter of p
340.
by Hoff 16y ago
There are a number of (large, quiet) sites with ginormous Oracle databases. Sites which often fill large rooms with multiple and well-populated versions of storage controllers similar to the HP XP2400 series to house all those Oracle databa
341.
by Hoff 16y ago
The RG8 was originally quite good for this use. Used cable? Test it. The usual "fun" with the vampire taps were fragments of the shielding that became entrained by the drill bit or when the tap was removed. And after all these years, corr
342.
by Hoff 16y ago
tl;dr: No Flash on iPad; differences in book formats from vendors; proprietary formats; oh, scary. Mr Winer needs to upgrade the version of blog-post generation software in use over there, too.
343.
by Hoff 16y ago
FWIW, that's thick-wire with a vampire tap. Not ThinWire. The early DEC H4000 transceivers were rather larger than that transceiver, too.
344.
by Hoff 16y ago
That Oracle chose to go "knocking on the front door with a sledgehammer" implies they want something fairly big. Could be patents, yes. Could be a yacht-load of cash. Could also be software source code, or data center or fiber access, or se
345.
by Hoff 16y ago
Depending on the outcome of the negotiations, Google (and somewhat less directly, the telcos and end-users) will have clearly taken hit points against a critical part of the Android stack. A discussion of vertical integration and competitio
346.
by Hoff 16y ago
Consulting can provide an income source, and can broaden your knowledge, and can improve technical and customer skills, and can lead you into new markets and opportunities for new products. Consulting is not without its downsides. It doesn'
347.
by Hoff 16y ago
Don't get too literal. Each launch is different, and the environment for each business differs. For some prospective projects, you might well get a launch with just one (good) customer to start with. And from your list of businesses, you're
348.
by Hoff 16y ago
tl;dr: there are no spam filters at (some?) SMS providers, and (apparently) no incentives and no mechanisms for SMS providers to filter unwanted traffic. For spamming or harassment or whatever the sender might want, based on the OP. The po
349.
by Hoff 16y ago
The word-tearing case had unrelated data values packed within the same granule of cache storage, and that derailed the running environment in a very subtle way. With just the right (wrong) timing, you very occasionally saw slightly differe
350.
by Hoff 16y ago
If you don't know some basics, you can get in trouble. But if you do and if you get particularly clever, you can get in trouble on the next generation of whatever you're designing for. TANSTAAFL. With some of that C code shown, I'd try a "s
351.
by Hoff 16y ago
An environment that combines the most intractable features of the La Brea tar pits and an industrial-scale cash furnace, with attendant performance and maintenance issues, dependencies on custom kudzu code, and all of which is in aggregate
352.
by Hoff 16y ago
Without intending to make any comparisons with other events and locations, nor to imply any "coolness" might be involved with the death and destruction, some of the US events that could serve as fodder for photographic and historical retros
353.
by Hoff 16y ago
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/brochures/commerzbank/comm... A moderately technical article on some of the issues that arise, and (for your question) see the end of the following: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/v1/disastert
354.
by Hoff 16y ago
When you're working at this scale, geographic redundancy of DCs is commonplace. I know of several cases where entire DCs were destroyed, and production continued unabated. There are commercial platforms that are explicitly designed for this
355.
by Hoff 16y ago
Don't presume that you're operating with sufficient domain knowledge to make those judgements, and don't presume that the folks that are making those judgements are ignorant of the options and alternatives. When you're operating at the jugg
356.
by Hoff 16y ago
There can be substantial differences among what's technically feasible and what's economically feasible and what's politically feasible. An existing environment is usually a large pile of twisty dependencies on operating system calls, on da
357.
by Hoff 16y ago
Source code is not tainted beyond reproach after the patent expires in the existing patent system, though the source code does reverts to whatever copyright the producer might have. Source code that's been patented under the proposed system
358.
by Hoff 16y ago
This scheme makes patents part of adding to open-source, and also uses the comparative "allergy" that many commercial entities have to open source. The folks seeking patents will have to decide if they want the patent enough to open-source
359.
by Hoff 16y ago
Why? Because it (also) places indirect costs and additional onus onto the submitter of the patent; costs beyond the existing filing fees and legal fees. Because it also provides (some) tangible results for the community. (Now whether the c
360.
by Hoff 16y ago
FWIW, here's the information on the Start-Up Chile program that was mentioned: http://www.thisischile.cl/Articles.aspx?id=4387 http://www.startupchile.org/

More ›