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by andrewf 14y ago
What sort of data are you looking to compress? Most of these "fast, small implementation" compressors don't crunch down common bytes into <8 bits, but instead focus on encoding repeated multi-byte patterns only. (That's what "LZ" is). F
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by andrewf 14y ago
Sparrow bled the product dry a week ago by having a sale and then doing this. It seems underhanded. This is implies that either (1) the profit made from selling the app a week ago was distributed to the old shareholders before the s
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by andrewf 14y ago
I work for a site which gets a lot of traffic from mainstream Australia (ie we're not in the tech space). We still get a significant amount of traffic from IE7.
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by andrewf 14y ago
- cache disabled in response headers FYI you can run a Squid cache which is configured to ignore all that stuff - see http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/refresh_pattern/
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by andrewf 15y ago
I think it's pretty.
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Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly)(github.com)
379 points by andrewf 15y ago|70 comments
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by andrewf 15y ago
Quake was, IIRC, the first mass market game which used the floating point unit. 486SX owners just couldn't run it. It also suffered more than most games on 486es and non-Intel chips, since the Pentium FPU was streets ahead of any other x86
458.
by andrewf 15y ago
It's been claimed they did - http://melanie.io/2011/09/30/techstars-lies-videotape/ HN discussion @ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3132954
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by andrewf 15y ago
What did Linode do at hostingcon? I've been using them for a couple of years on small- to mid- sized projects and am very happy. My needs aren't elastic at all, though.
460.
by andrewf 15y ago
Not quite the same. Unlike taskman, the Close Program dialog appeared on a screen by itself and all the other programs are suspended.
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by andrewf 15y ago
Wikipedia has more details, but essentially, in the Windows NT line bringing up all the security options has always been what Ctrl-Alt-Del does, with the task manager sometimes being presented as an option. Since about 1993. Jumping strai
462.
by andrewf 15y ago
This only considers HTML5 <video> tag support. It does not count browsers with Flash installed as H.264-capable.
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by andrewf 15y ago
The sqlite source is well put together and pretty small. The (now pretty much obsolete) sqlite 2.x source was a lot smaller and might be a better starting point for pure learning purposes. Bonus: in the sqlite command line tool, putting "EX
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by andrewf 15y ago
I think the Internet has conditioned me to think of Evony whenever I hear the phrase "Free Forever."
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by andrewf 15y ago
KpyM seems to do a decent job of providing SSH access to a cmd.exe prompt (and anything you care to run from one). It's free although the provided binaries do an annoying nagware thing on login. I've been using it for SCP access to Windows
466.
by andrewf 15y ago
Google's shown something like this off before. Video at http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/07/google-liquid-galaxy/
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by andrewf 15y ago
All of the above would work, but feels less than ideal. I'm pretty comfortable using a well-schema'd relational database to manage data, but I don't think it fits something I'm working on atm. I'm collecting and parsing data from a few diff
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by andrewf 15y ago
Can somebody recommend a database with an API like Mongo's, but performance and durability more like Postgresql or Oracle's? What I want to do is throw semi-structured JSON data into a database, and define indexes on a few columns that I'd
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by andrewf 15y ago
Links to one video per speaker: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos?page=1
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by andrewf 15y ago
"Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv" is the default title. The broadcaster can change it. I think they can even go back and snip out, say, 40:00 - 1:15:00 in a video and make that available as a separate 35 minute "highlight" with its own title
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by andrewf 15y ago
Android.
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by andrewf 15y ago
The point of those hardcoded URIs is to be a unique identifier. You really aren't supposed to load them all the time. HTML 4.01 documents are supposed to start with: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" " http://www.w3.o
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by andrewf 15y ago
The lower rotating 10 bits should give them a reasonable safety margin. If they're creating less than 128 entries in a particular shard per second (right now they're doing that across their entire datastore), their clocks would need to be o
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by andrewf 15y ago
I doubt this is Quake in 1995. Maybe WinQuake / QuakeWorld / GLQuake, or even Quake2. * It looks like Visual Studio on a post-Windows-3.x GUI, which means Windows 95 (unlikely) or Windows NT 4+ (1996 or later) * Quake was developed on NeXTS
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by andrewf 15y ago
AND your input with 0xAAAAAAAA (ie 101010...10 binary) to turn all the "11" values into "10".
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by andrewf 15y ago
POPCNT sounds like a more suitable instruction, and it's modern (ie not likely to be slow-pathed; although pre-Core iX processors won't support it at all!)
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by andrewf 15y ago
Similar language appears in the Windows EULA: Where allowed by your local laws, Microsoft excludes implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. [1] And OS X's: TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMIT
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by andrewf 15y ago
Different calling conventions. The calling convention for my target (32-bit x86 Mac OS X) says that all arguments have to be passed in on the stack. For your 64-bit target, the arguments go into registers.
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by andrewf 15y ago
Typically, at the assembly level, doing a "compare" will change the contents of some CPU flags, but not registers. Normally, those CPU flags would then influence future instructions - most often a "GOTO if this flag is set" instruction. In
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by andrewf 15y ago
SoftLayer has the nicely formatted table. The prices on it seem quite reasonable - except they charge up the wazoo for RAM.

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