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by anonymous246 16y ago
Fair enough. Noted. Thanks for replying.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Dear downmodders, the submitter should have at least put the fig leaf of an "Ask HN" sentence around this to make this interesting. Otherwise, a post to the homepage of a 12-yr old project makes no sense and is polluting HN.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
What? That's it? Flagged.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
I stand corrected wrt Redhat's ownership of KVM. Thanks for the clarification. I re-read some more web pages in the light of your comments, and I remain unconvinced that nerd pride wasn't at the root of the Linux kernel devs dismissal of Xe
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Dear downvoter, in case it wasn't clear, the IEEE and ACM both have elected officials. I was suggesting he run for office within the IEEE or ACM, not for public office. Thanks.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
I suggest he run for office on a platform of changing the policy. I'm sure he'll win.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Xen is a classic example of a technology and company that never reached its full market potential due to nerd pride. In this particular case, Redhat/Linus/kernel hacker's obstinate refusal to add it to the stock kernel. They exhibited NIH a
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Are you serious? You want Nordstorm service for fleamarket prices? Oh, I forgot, the Internet is gonna change everything.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Last sentence of the article has the phrase "sufficiently intelligent compilers". :) Intentional in-joke? Wikipedia's definition: "Sufficiently Smart Compiler, any of a family of theoretically possible compilers able to perform sophisticate
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Amazon's Prime Streaming Will Disrupt Netflix, Here's How(seekingalpha.com)
2 points by anonymous246 16y ago|0 comments
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Wasnt intuitive, undocumented, had to jump thru lots of setup even for simple things (no smart defaults), I had to manage the memory for all buffers including temp buffers myself. It almost seems like ffmeg allocates no memory on its own. S
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Weak article. I thought he would talk about some more examples. And then talk about the difficulties in learning a library vs. rolling your own. Easy-to-copy code (MD5) was copied. Well duh. Lots of people have talked here about the difficu
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by anonymous246 16y ago
I tried Mac for some time and LOVED LOVED the lack of crapware, but I found it overrated: 1. Blurry text :) 2. iLife apps are nicely approximated by Windows Live. Before I checked out Windows Live Movie Maker, I was very impressed with
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Thanks for the clarification. So the video files are directly hosted by the CDNs? OK, in that case, Amazon can't get insight into Netflix by gathering network statistics.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Their recommendation engine is a key strength. I LOVE it. Second, at <$10/mo, the cost is not high enough to make bother with switching. I would rather pay $10/mo have the best streaming experience than pay $6/mo have a second-rate
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by anonymous246 16y ago
I'm pretty sure getting data about # of bytes transferred on a hourly basis from Netflix's instances would be valuable to estimate # of movies viewed. Further subdividing the flow by (src, dst) IP will give a good idea about # of minutes wa
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by anonymous246 16y ago
See my comment above. You're confusing outsourcing, offshoring, and offshore outsourcing.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
PSA: outsourcing, offshoring, and offshore outsourcing are all different things. What the WSJ article was describing is offshoring.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Doctors and hospitals bill you more if you're uninsured. TFA mentions this as one of the reasons to get a high-deductible plan in which you will be paying most of the cost out of pocket.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Yes, exactly. Which is why I haven't used it ever except in that one case where it turned out to make the code clearer (at least to me).
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by anonymous246 16y ago
I've never seen it used (except by myself once). :) Because the control flow becomes hard to understand, and the called function becomes extremely context sensitive. But I think it has its uses within libraries' private functions or in cod
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Can you explain how continuations apply here. I don't really have a good idea about that. Wrt setjmp/longjmp, I think the key differences are the lack of a 'setjmp' and that you don't have to pass in the setjmp buffer down the calls. If you
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Would you care to explain?
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by anonymous246 16y ago
My favorite cool feature of Tcl: A return statement that can return by arbitrary number of levels instead of 1. http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/return.htm#M15 I found this very useful, for example when writing a webapp that expected a
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by anonymous246 16y ago
This is the sort of law that I thought only existed in sclerotic zero-sum societies: stupid laws that exist to be selectively applied to harass people. Either repeal it or enforce it. Reminds me of the USSR. Note, just like this "socialist"
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Aren't you the same guy that was "ecstatic" that Apple was taking a 30% cut of subscription revenue? Here you're worried about Amazon's easily-replaced static file hosting service, while having no problems becoming 100% dependent for key pa
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by anonymous246 16y ago
You make some decent points. But will you concede that prohibiting differential pricing, thereby preventing sellers from passing along the HUGE Apple tax, is anti-competitive wrt other lowest-cost payment services, and raises prices for c
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by anonymous246 16y ago
I'm sorry, it's not clear to me why you're "ecstatic". Are you thinking that your SaaS strategy won't work without the Apple tax? Second, a lot of people have pointed out that taking 30% of ALL subscription revenue just sounds unconsciona
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Ask HN: Apple 30% tax a sign of desperation?
2 points by anonymous246 16y ago|4 comments
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by anonymous246 16y ago
> It costs Apple to distribute (and market, and support) your App Give me a break. You used the weasel word "costs" which is technically truthful, because it is greater than zero. But it is not material, IMHO. Because developers PAY $

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