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The Google – Youtube – Conundrum(blogmaverick.com)
12 points by aminuit 17y ago|10 comments
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by aminuit 17y ago
And the search box on the right bears more than a passing resemblance to the login box for GMail. http://gmail.google.com
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by aminuit 17y ago
In other words, it's classic Ted Dziuba. It looks like uncov is gone (again), but he has been posting pieces like this for years.
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The Incredible App Store Hype(stromcode.com)
67 points by aminuit 17y ago|41 comments
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by aminuit 17y ago
You're being ridiculous. The marginal cost per kilobyte of data transfered during off peak hours is approximately $0.00. The marginal cost per kilowatt of electric power, while lower during off peak hours, is still material.
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by aminuit 17y ago
This makes sense for heavy bittorrent users who are generally bright enough to realize how much data they are sending back and forth, but do you really expect casual YouTube viewers to know how much data is transferred when they watch a vid
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by aminuit 17y ago
The issue of metered billing has been criticized here and in other places. It makes for a pretty popular punching bag, but I don't think it's fair to dismiss it as a non-issue. The ISPs have to manage oversubscription rates. It's a real
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by aminuit 17y ago
It might also be useful to indicate whether you are interested in local candidates only, plan to provide relocation compensation, or can deal with remote employees.
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by aminuit 17y ago
This article will make you dumber. At least he linked to the jemalloc whitepaper, which he clearly didn't read. http://people.freebsd.org/%7Ejasone/jemalloc/bsdcan2006/jema... I especially like the part near the end of the post where it
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by aminuit 17y ago
I totally missed it too. People are using this to bash C++ which is probably fair, but it's worth noting that lots of modern C++ folks default to using RAII pointer types (std::auto_ptr, boost::shared_ptr) to guard against these types of e
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by aminuit 17y ago
I agree with your sentiment regarding halfhearted graduates 100%. I've been a professional developer for about 4 years now and have been on the interviewer side of the table for about the past 18 months. The sheer number of crappy enginee
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by aminuit 17y ago
You omitted a line. { object* p=NULL; p = new object(); p->foo() delete p; } // ?? Whats wrong with above 1) Missing a semi-colon. 2) The developer knowingly checked in broken code as ev
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by aminuit 17y ago
Python is popular in scientific computing circles because of NumPy and SciPy, which use C++ and Fortran (!) libraries for the heavy lifting. If you want to stick to the original phraseology, then I think "The CrossTwine Linker engine reduce
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by aminuit 17y ago
From the link: "The CrossTwine Linker engine reduces the execution times by a factor of up to 4×." So let's say my program takes 10 seconds to run, then this will reduce my run time by 4 x 10 seconds, so it will run in -30s? I know it's p
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by aminuit 18y ago
From the FAQ: TinEye was created by Idée Inc. Idée develops advanced image identification and visual search software for photo wire agencies, stock photography firms, entertainment media companies and some of the world's leading i
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by aminuit 18y ago
You learn these things when you are a junior X from someone who is a senior X who learned it the exact same way. I bet you can trace these little nuggets all the way back to some junior sysadmin who was looking over Ken Thompson's shoulder
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by aminuit 18y ago
The article suggests that HTTP caching is "a fairly common practice nowadays." The claim is totally unsupported by any data and is likely incorrect. Most of HN probably have access to a web server on the Internet. Try throwing up some st
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by aminuit 18y ago
I see where my examples were largely limited to coding conventions, but the point was that when we are free to work on our own we all have our preferences for everything. And we all do our own thing when it only involves only ourselves. He
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Ask HN: How to avoid arguing over trivialities?
1 points by aminuit 18y ago|3 comments
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by aminuit 18y ago
I've never heard of IOS having anything to do with Linux. Cisco owns Linksys now, and most (all?) Linksys routers are based on Linux, but that's no secret. Cisco branded products run some form of IOS, and IOS has always been Cisco secret s
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by aminuit 18y ago
Cisco frowns upon purchasing second hand equipment from "unlicensed" vendors. They claim that their software is non-transferable meaning that you technically don't own any of the IOS that comes with used routers. So if you need an upgrade
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by aminuit 18y ago
HN has a strange fascination with strlen implementations. For anyone who missed it a few months ago, cperciva put up an interesting article about strlen for UTF-8 (variable character width) strings. http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-06
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by aminuit 18y ago
This is great advice. I did EE and I don't think it was until about the 2nd or 3rd year that we got a treatment of systems and signals that was sufficient to understand DCT. You seem to be focusing on the cosine part but it turns out that
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by aminuit 18y ago
It's true about there being a ton of talent in Austin. The problem is that most of it works for the really big hitters like Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, AMD, Dell, etc. Most of the entrepreneurial focus seems to be centered around well-paid
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by aminuit 18y ago
It makes a lot of sense. Some of Cisco's recent products, the ASA comes to mind, are essentially x86 servers to begin with. Also, while the VMWare Infrastructure client is pretty handy, an IOS-like virtual machine management console would
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by aminuit 18y ago
This is a pretty good idea. You could probably even get a night or weekend shift in a NOC for a small to midsize ISP if you have the networking chops. It usually goes something like this: wait for alarm from monitoring, run a few circuit