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by bgirard 9y ago
It's really subjective based on your computing resources client CPU + network speed and your server CPU if you can't compress ahead of time. Here's a great page that captures this: https://quixdb.github.io/squ
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by bgirard 9y ago
Performance wise it's far from ideal. In your N block you're going to spend a lot of time, per-byte, to compress while leaving trivially compressible data in the remaining blocks. For N=50, you'd get much better compression f
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by bgirard 9y ago
Particularly committing to memory the license plates of visitors.
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by bgirard 9y ago
> Even if the military kept things under wraps, I'm not so sure that stationing nukes in orbit would provide a significant advantage, as you would only be able to strike a particular target when it rotates under your orbit, which me
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by bgirard 9y ago
new Thread('sampler') { run() { while (true) { samples.add(Thread.getAllStackTraces()); Thread.sleep(1ms); } } }.start(); Then you export all the stacks to a visualizer. The real java
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by bgirard 9y ago
> even as there is an exodus Citation?
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by bgirard 9y ago
I noticed this last year getting my first pair of glasses in the bay area. My VSP plan doesn't cover high index lenses which is $100 upgrade, which is mandatory for my prescription, and there's non covered add-ons for scratch resi
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by bgirard 9y ago
And the fact they're only including base salary instead of looking at total compensation. Bonus and (public) equity would probably skew the numbers and thus change the conclusions drawn here. This kind of distortion makes the Toronto m
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by bgirard 9y ago
Would be an interesting defense against a bandwidth overage charge.
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by bgirard 9y ago
And I've seen a new complex in the bay where, for reasons unknown to me, it shows you the scans of all your neighbors.
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by bgirard 9y ago
Ideally you should be budgeting for discretionary monthly spending. If I want to buy a Nintendo Switch then it might be, say, a full month of discretionary spending.
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by bgirard 9y ago
Thank you for clarifying. Plain text source code is just not a good way to ship code. Browsers have a warm shared copy of a highly tuned VM. However to make use of it sites have to talk to it via plain text source code heavily penalizing st
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by bgirard 9y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html TL;DR: A planted advertisement article.
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by bgirard 9y ago
> With destination shopping, e.g. to buy a new sofa or bicycle, customers have invariably been online already and chose the store that way. Not necessarily. For $100-$1000 items I'll walk into a store without an intent to buy that d
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by bgirard 9y ago
I was imaging something like unvested equity. Yes that's a lot more aggressive. Contracts often require employees to pay some of the back signing bonuses and relocation fees if they leave within a year. I've heard rumors that it&#
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by bgirard 9y ago
It depends what kind of candidate the exec is. Personally I don't enjoy working for places that are known for not firing low performers. I'd rather work somewhere that has higher stakes and higher rewards. That kind of mentality i
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by bgirard 10y ago
Using the optimized video code paths for GIF was discussed by the Mozilla graphics team several times. Basically the conclusion is that it's a lot of work when there's a perfectly good alternative which is using a video element. E
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by bgirard 10y ago
This doesn't explore where the additional savings are coming from so that they can be contributed back into minifiers.
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by bgirard 10y ago
RE 2: Firefox uses a lot of threads for image decoding, GC, compositing, running the UI. So it's nothing like running on a single core machine. Threads != processes.
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by bgirard 10y ago
I recall in ~2009 my university (UWaterloo) had a referendum to increase tuition by $50/term (now $80/term) to increase city bus routes to the university and provide free service to students using your student card. I voted agains
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by bgirard 10y ago
It's an interesting idea. In practice I bet it would push business for more automation and to for splitting into a highly profitable R&D entity with highly payed workers and 'independent' contracting firms that are barel
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by bgirard 10y ago
Because it's a good demonstration of how the Web is advancing by showing that this kind of thing is possible. It's also a good project to learn about both the web and POSIX. Not that this kind of project is required when applying
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by bgirard 10y ago
I'm moving to the bay area to take a job at Facebook in 2 weeks. When comparing all my offers, my wife and I made a budget for each offer to understand the salary differences and their cost of living. We know exactly what we can afford
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by bgirard 11y ago
It's not just about cost. AIUI, from browsing /r/spacex, it's about feasibility. Less demanding payloads will have enough fuel to return to launch site, some will have enough to land at sea and some payloads will require
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by bgirard 11y ago
> we need something that does more than just show aggregates, like a sampling profiler would. This isn't really a limitation of sampling profilers. This is really a limitation of the front-end nearly every sampling profiler stick th
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by bgirard 11y ago
I was wondering what it was. That explains the 'Critical Xen Maintenance' reboot ticket I got from Linode 11 days ago.
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by bgirard 11y ago
At Mozilla we're actually currently working to run some of our tests continuously under RR ( http://rr-project.org/ ), our record-replay debugger. When a flaky test fails the replay can carefully studied to understand wh
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by bgirard 11y ago
| The page isn't redirecting properly ... yup
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by bgirard 11y ago
Even people that have a good connection might not have a ton of upload bandwidth. I only get 8 Mbps for instance.
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by bgirard 11y ago
It's not. It's right next to the 'buy/long' field/dropdown for most online brokers. The broker might make you jump through a trivial hoop to get a margin account and fax in an additional agreement. Stock short

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