Swannie

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by Swannie 15y ago
LOL, what? You're seriously telling me that they were stumped with "set?foo:0"?? And you stayed ? :-)
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by Swannie 15y ago
Especially for the people in the audience asking themselves "is this like X, but with i and j?" ... "Ahhh, it IS like X with i, j AND k. Now I get it." Which you hope to lead on to "Now why can't X just add these features? What makes /this/
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by Swannie 15y ago
Doesn't surprise me if it's in a 20k loc program. Very easy to overlook the obvious. That said, like the previous comments, if someone had seriously looked for this issue, you'd have hoped they'd have found this pretty quickly.
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by Swannie 15y ago
I think "Side effect free" in assert() is the biggest takeaway from this.
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A C Heisenbug in the wild(jacquesmattheij.com)
26 points by Swannie 15y ago|29 comments
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by Swannie 15y ago
Yep, I remember that discussion. There was some doubt over it's use case. If I had an iPhone, I'd be paying for this.
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by Swannie 15y ago
I think it is unlikely that Apple would buy Sprint. It is an extremely US centric option, and whilst Apple's home is the USA, they are a global company. Clearwire is a little more likely, but WiMax is just not matching the performance:power
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Should Apple buy a phone company?(thenextweb.com)
26 points by Swannie 15y ago|30 comments
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by Swannie 16y ago
Bad/good. Forget those descriptors. Fructose found in fruit is indeed no different. But it is in fruit, bound up with fibre, protein, and many enzymes. In HFCS it's just fructose. The delivery mechanism is more important here than the
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by Swannie 16y ago
Brilliant. Thanks for taking hte time to share your story!
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Orbiting Data Centers for Global Connectivity [video](blog.ecomm.ec)
1 points by Swannie 16y ago|1 comments
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by Swannie 16y ago
But most of that data stored is things like illegal music and film downloads.[* ] With the rise in popularity of Netflix, Spotify, Pandora, etc. people will only use local storage for a cache. Why would you waste time downloading it, when i
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by Swannie 16y ago
Millions of people don't appear to share your concern when it comes to their personal email accounts, which are arguably more valuable than a few documents... Actually the majority of computer users have no form of backup, despite how easy
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by Swannie 16y ago
I guess in their instance the lifetime of the server was never likely to be eclipsed by that of the battery. In telco, 15-20yrs of operation is not uncommon, so a single set of replaceable/easily service batteries is important.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Pretty standard in telecoms. Never quite understood why Google went per server.
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What CIOs Really Think About Tablets (45% think tablet would replace notebooks)(blogs.forbes.com)
1 points by Swannie 16y ago|0 comments
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by Swannie 16y ago
"Here are some common misconceptions about the JVM and how it works, and a few interesting titbits. These are some things people want in, or to believe about the JVM. Here are some things which we would do to fix the odd bits, and make thin
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Twitter's datacenter plans "spiral out of control"(pcpro.co.uk)
2 points by Swannie 16y ago|0 comments
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by Swannie 16y ago
Talk to any startup founder or early employee about the emotional roller coaster they went on. It's an important part of it. Start up and hacking are emotive subjects.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Can we say use common sense? They'd cover Facebook IPO on TV. Yet it would have an impact on a lot of small startups that frequent here. "Common sense isn't all that common"
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by Swannie 16y ago
Thanks, now I don't need to do that to satisfy my curiosity :-)
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by Swannie 16y ago
Why post a link to compete.com when pg has just discredited as a source for meaningful information? A similar comparison on Google reflects little change for the others: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=news.ycombinator.com%2Ct... That
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by Swannie 16y ago
Wow, nice graphs, great info, thanks.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Is mobile app store popularity a fad? In some ways I think not. In many ways it looks like the latest GameBoy, Nintendo DS market, combined with the PDA market. These are not new markets, only their ease of use is new, and for PDA type apps
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by Swannie 16y ago
Well I'd argue Warren has bought into tech, just physical delivery tech, not pure software tech. This is understandable tech. Particularly I'm thinking of Iscar, who use some of the most advanced manufacturing techniques to make special too
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by Swannie 16y ago
ISP's like Comcast are well on their way already. I think really it's a case of hunting for an IPv6 capable ISP/webhost and home router.
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Microsoft spend $7.5m on IP addresses ($11.25 each)(theregister.co.uk)
7 points by Swannie 16y ago|4 comments
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by Swannie 16y ago
Ms Connie Jones, Thank you for your offer. However I am always distrustful when offers appear to good to be true, as I am sure you are yourself. In my circle, it is customary for such investments to be accompanied by a Ruby, some railway tr
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by Swannie 16y ago
Brilliant writing :-)
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by Swannie 16y ago
Buffet himself does not believe that will happen. If you read the 2010 letter to shareholders, he states that going forward he does not expect growth in the order they have in the past. That he and Charlies biggest challenge is to maintain

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