andos

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by andos 15y ago
Exactly. It's a Function.bind clone: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global... Unfortunately, bind is a 5th edition feature, not widely available.
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by andos 15y ago
Nope. It's a local (geographically speaking) slice of a huge database of hotspots. There is a concentration of points downtown, a few points at the local airport, others at touristic destinations nearby. Most are places I've never been at.
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by andos 16y ago
What made our migration from CVS to Git a breeze was using Gitorious. It helped that our team was very supportive of Git, but Gitorious alleviated the shock of going from centralized to distributed. Our server guy had a hell of a hard time
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by andos 16y ago
I believe the problem is more like using their weight as a company to "steal" resources (volunteers, data from governments and what not) from the open initiative to generate a product that is closed. Seen from that point of view and taking
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by andos 16y ago
This is just how revenue is collected , no? I believe the Irish subsidiary must have a lot of american clients.
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by andos 16y ago
What about the trends? Is Google losing ground?
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by andos 16y ago
On western keyboards, Japanese is typed using an input method. Basically, you spell the words using a phonetic convention and the computer guesses what sinograph you meant: you type zitensha , press space, and it hopefully becomes 自転車 (bic
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by andos 16y ago
You're probably right. Not all values have been assigned a glyph yet.
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by andos 16y ago
You really mean hyeroglyphs? Or ideographs/ideograms?
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by andos 16y ago
You can thank Marissa Mayer for all the boring UIs Google puts out. Engineers making design decisions, you know. (I'm an engineer myself, btw.) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html
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by andos 16y ago
My point was that, as innocuous as it may seem, a message of support can make a few of the people in distress feel better. Maybe they've been materially taken care of, but there's still something amiss. That's where I believe emotion counts
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by andos 16y ago
Do you know that feeling that a song is specifically about you and what you're going through? It's not, of course. The composer doesn't give a damn about you, but isn't it great to feel good about it? Not all benefits necessarily have to
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by andos 16y ago
I always understood Khan Academy as complementary to conventional classes. To cover all topics of high school and college curricula doesn't necessarily mean supplanting high school and college or redefining education. If that is the case, I
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by andos 16y ago
The International Declaration of Human Rights establishes secrecy of correspondence as a basic human right (article 12). It is echoed in the constitutions of many countries. Shallow packet analysis is akin to reading the address of a letter
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by andos 16y ago
Why not adaptive framerate? Project the film at 60fps but gradually switch (this is the tricky part) between low and high framerate as the scene demands?
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by andos 16y ago
> Da Vinci with a mop and a bucket of mud would be a better painter than me. Maybe. But Da Vinci would never paint the Mona Lisa with a mop and a bucket of mud. If he did, it wouldn't have survived to modern times. Am I stretching the
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by andos 16y ago
Yes, exactly. I was mentally enumerating all the meanings of the Trojan Horse allegory and wondering why this has anything to do with iOS in particular. Yet, I cat't see what the point of the OP is. It reads like the script of a horror movi
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by andos 16y ago
How does the "Render - No IO" case work? Does it take a different code path? (E.g. render "No entries found" instead of iterating over each entry and rendering it?) Or, put differently, what are you measuring in the "Render - No IO" case?
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by andos 16y ago
I would complement this by noting that some people online, particularly at SO, cannot ask questions properly. Optimization problems are often about context, but context is seldom properly presented, if presented at all. One can always ask f
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by andos 16y ago
Well, on SO you can always downvote the answer. It would be more effective if it were the community norm to downvote the condescending answers, of course. It's not the case, unfortunately.
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by andos 16y ago
This could explain the supposed disregard for the new trend. Concurrency was just not an issue for him.
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by andos 16y ago
Yeah. And it's Java and all but I think there is something pretty odd if the mean time per request for Play is 1.5 seconds.
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by andos 16y ago
Even GUI programmers need to be aware of performance. Painting can be expensive, especially on mobile devices, and event handling must be swift or else the app will feel unresponsive.
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by andos 16y ago
Great observation! It's really up to us to imbue those apparently automatic gestures with some meaning. And maybe it shows when we do. I can see how sincerely greeting a customer could help "reset" the mood back to positive.
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by andos 16y ago
My experience, too. I feel relieved that even Linus himself thinks it difficult to explain how important the distributed nature of Git is. I wave hands a lot when I'm presenting Git to friends.
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by andos 16y ago
That or your laptop is sitting on a fluffy mattress and is having a hard time dissipating heat. Just kidding, of course. If you're pointing at the poor performance of Flash Video on a Mac, I think the video decoder is written in C or C++, i
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by andos 16y ago
You are right. I kept that in mind all along while reading the post, though I perhaps showed less sympathy in my remark. I really regret if I sounded like a smart-arse. The link you posted is great; the chart alone speaks volumes! Already a
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by andos 16y ago
I find it rather queer that, for the author, two data points are enough to "put performance into proper perspective". Now that performance is gained from scaling, it matters like never before.
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by andos 16y ago
I remember this bug report. Since October 2010, Linus has posted a "me too" reply, then helped pinpoint the issue, then explained why shifting the blame to Adobe is wrong, then provided a workaround for everyone, then ran a benchmark provin