akdubya

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by akdubya 15y ago
My 'buntu desktop environment is the most solid I've ever used, with the caveat that once a year I can expect to spend a few hours in driver hell. I think this balances out with the once-a-year BSOD hell I encounter on Windows. I agree with
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by akdubya 15y ago
The patent by itself does not describe a skip list, but the most common skip list implementations use a multilevel list data structure similar to what's described in the patent.
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by akdubya 15y ago
The underscore.js source ( http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/ ) also serves as a great primer on the effective use of 'this'. My rule of thumb is to never rely on 'this' unless 1) the function is already bound to an object or 2) I
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by akdubya 15y ago
I'm working on a distributed app that shares code between the client and server, and there are already a multitude of open-source libraries that are designed to run in any JS environment.
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by akdubya 15y ago
"On my minimal Debian box, you point your web browser at http://localhost:631 and click shit and then the printer works." I just learned something.
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by akdubya 15y ago
I had this problem until I disabled vertical refresh. Based on posts in the ubuntu forums this appears to solve most people's problems with the AMD drivers.
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by akdubya 15y ago
I was thinking less about the conflict in Iraq than the conflict in and around Israel, where small groups of insurgents have over the past decade mounted increasingly sophisticated attacks on Israeli armor in the open. The deterrent factor
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by akdubya 15y ago
Any battle tech that's an order-of-magnitude cheaper to kill than to produce is destined for obsolescence. You can see this happening now with main battle tanks, which are easily knocked out by IEDs and increasingly sophisticated man-portab
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by akdubya 15y ago
Am I the only one who thinks it looks like a high-tech baby stroller?
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by akdubya 15y ago
Bitwise operations pop up fairly often in advanced data structures (Hash Array Mapped Tries, Bloom Filters, etc). The big advantage in my view is being able to perform complex, data-intensive tasks in otherwise limited environments (e.g., m
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by akdubya 15y ago
Yep. To upgrade the memory on the compact macs one needed a hex driver, a soldering iron and a spare resistor. I'm still shocked my Dad let me tinker with expensive university property like that.
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by akdubya 15y ago
Good background from the bitcoin people: "A number of Byzantine Generals each have a computer and want to attack the King's wi-fi by brute forcing the password, which they've learned is a certain number of characters in length. Once they st
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by akdubya 15y ago
Sounds like the Feynman algorithm: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3. Write down the solution.
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by akdubya 15y ago
"The only thing even remotely close to the bubble of old would be Twitter, and they have 200 million users. Name one service during the dot-com era with anything approaching that number." The raw numbers may have changed (there are more peo