angusgr

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by angusgr 16y ago
If anyone's looking for alternatives on other platforms, I find "GNOME Do" quite good on GNOME/Linux and "Launchy" is decent for Windows.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Strange, I'm on the same config as you and apart from 'wump' I was in nostalgia-wumpus heaven. :) Chrome 10.0.648.204 (amd64 linux.)
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by angusgr 16y ago
The source code is quite readable as well. pdp11.js has cases for stepping each instruction. 2Mb hard disk image loaded into an array via an ajax request (rk05.js) Is it possible to benchmark this on a modern PC/browser, against a real PDP-
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by angusgr 16y ago
encode.me & base64.me are taken, but encodify.me is not. Doesn't have the same ring as hashify.me, though.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Splitting hairs because it's closer to a common understanding, but bit.ly URLs aren't hashes they are just alphanumeric IDs. The difference is that AFAIK there's no algorithm to take a URL (plus or minus a username) and give you a bit.ly ID
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by angusgr 16y ago
Phil Torrone at Make made a passionate if somewhat optimistic call to Cisco to open source the Flip tech now it's being killed off: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/04/rip-flip-camera-hey... Although if it was a technology acquisitio
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by angusgr 16y ago
This will apparently do it from the desktop: http://gs.fhtino.it/gdocbackup You can also do it direct from the web UI. Just select all your documents from the Google Docs homescreen, click on the "Download..." link in the righthand column
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by angusgr 16y ago
That's a very good point, even besides the contributions there are some Apache licensed components in AOSP that Google have brought in themselves rather than had donated. I guess in my hypothetical scenario, they could relicense them as GPL
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by angusgr 16y ago
I don't see how GPL would make much difference to Android here. Even if AOSP (Android Open Source Project) was GPL licensed, Google owns the copyright. Which means they can still make early releases to vendors (like Motorola for the Xoom) u
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by angusgr 16y ago
If you don't explicitly pass the objects referenced in TLS to outside or to other threads, I don't see it breaks the concurrency isolation. Sure. That's the same as if you never share any resource in any shared global heap between threads
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by angusgr 16y ago
That's one of its major intentions. There's a fairly good summary here: http://ulf.wiger.net/weblog/2008/02/06/what-is-erlang-style-...
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by angusgr 16y ago
From my memories of Java ThreadLocals, these are still common/shared memory. The ThreadLocal property is a reference - a convenient way to scope access without locking - but the objects stored are still in shared memory. For example, correc
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by angusgr 16y ago
I think the "race to the top" people are talking about is the psychological tendency of most people to think they are better than average. So, if you know the average salary is $X and the top salary is $2X, and you're making $1.1X then you
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by angusgr 16y ago
Except cpufreq (kernel CPU frequency scaling) isn't running during the early boot stages when the BogoMIPS value is calculated. Like I said, it's possible the bootloader starts up at @250Mhz or so and leaves the kernel to later switch up to
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by angusgr 16y ago
I asked the OP and they responded to me offline and confirmed vxWorks.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Probably a sensible explanation It could be as simple as "runs at 250Mhz during early boot" but it also might not be. :)
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by angusgr 16y ago
I noticed something fishy. The /proc/cpuinfo BogoMIPS value reads off as 569.5 in the video. A PandaBoard 1Ghz Cortex-A9 reads around 2000 per processor[1]. I realise the Bogo means _bogus_ but AFAIK within a CPU model it should still scale
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by angusgr 16y ago
You might as well splash out on a device you're going to use I have two of that device's immediate predecessor, the $100 WM8505, and I support this assertion. I've used them mostly for messing around, reverse engineering, and playing with
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by angusgr 16y ago
I know the OP probably isn't reading this, but I'd be curious to know what OS the Airport Express runs. I always wondered. My guess is maybe a proprietary RTOS to perform its simple functions? Back in the day I figured it'd make a great Ope
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by angusgr 16y ago
Maybe. There's certainly a lot of FUD there. A lot of it still seems pretty adolescent though, like the post wholly about the "Gmail" icon or throwaway lines about "14 years old’s feeling". The Twitter account looks like someone is curating
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by angusgr 16y ago
Although the blog makes legitimate individual points (apart from the flamebait closer), I think you're 100% right that the overall motivation is a thinly disguised fanboi polemic. * a 99% chance of being corporate sponsored astroturfing* Th
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by angusgr 16y ago
Also, I didn't mean to suggest the author is necessarily a myopic programmer who believes that now he or she knows C... - just that the way this essay is positioned, I see it as appealing strongly but superficially to such programmers.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Yeah, you're right about Fortran, my mistake. I actually skipped that chapter because I've never written Fortran. I did read the other chapters, paying particular attention to languages I've used at least a bit (Haskell, Java, C++ from that
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'm deeply conflicted about this article because I agree with many of its premises. For instance: that C is superior to full-blown C++, that object-oriented programming is no panacea, that simplicity is good. I have serious concerns, howeve
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by angusgr 16y ago
The engineers who invented the touch screen has done more for the field of usability than any UX or usability expert could ever hope for. Which is interesting in itself because for the first 30-odd years of touchscreens they were largely
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by angusgr 16y ago
It doesn't do that, and that's the first method I used in my hack. Fair enough. :) If you feel like sharing then I'm very curious as to what the additional methods were.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Wow, I didn't realise grep had a separate --mmap option. Interesting. I don't think it would make much difference in the parent's case of many, small, fragmented files because if you're mmapping each file in turn and it's not cached, it sti
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by angusgr 16y ago
Original FB blog post, which has more facts less fanboi trolling: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390751
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by angusgr 16y ago
Or use mg, which is a very fast and light Emacs workalike There's also zile, another mini-emacs (great if you run Linux on small embedded computers.) I haven't used mg yet, so I don't know how they stack up against each other. I do have a
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by angusgr 16y ago
(Still on my mind) The thing about playfully insulting people in advertising is that IMHO you really need to do it well and cleverly, preferably as a subtext. For the ultimate example, see Isaiah Mustafa on a horse.

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