bigdubs

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by bigdubs 13y ago
This is an important point and what I wish the author had made. Your choice of where to live is determined by a plurality of factors that are hard to boil down to 'satisfaction' vs. pay.
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by bigdubs 13y ago
Where do you think Blackberry is going though? I would wager it'll be worth less than 4bn in 2 years time, where-as investors are banking that Snapchat will be worth more.
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by bigdubs 13y ago
The .net benchmarks, the http listener one in particular, uses threadpool tuning that actually hurts performance. In my own testing there was another ~60% performance to gain with better tweaks.
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by bigdubs 13y ago
What are the downsides of a small TTL? Why wouldn't a low TTL be default?
425.
by bigdubs 13y ago
Or Postbox, which also still works just fine under Mavericks.
426.
by bigdubs 13y ago
It seems like they're trying to stoke artificial demand (similar to the Mailbox.app roll out). Except I doubt there is a real technical problem backing said slow rollout.
427.
by bigdubs 13y ago
The "consensus" isn't fungeable like that; it's derived from block chain length (i.e. the size of the chain of previous transaction blocks)
428.
by bigdubs 13y ago
The answer is always "no", and you can keep doing what you were doing.
429.
by bigdubs 13y ago
This is, actually, a real concern. So many companies that want to make a foray into enterprise sales don't think carefully about things that (on the surface) seem inconsequential but are actually hurting your business.
430.
by bigdubs 13y ago
We switched from Bitbucket to Github because of Bitbucket's reliability issues. YMMV.
431.
by bigdubs 13y ago
Yep, you set up each developers machine as a remote, but you pull from them (rather than push). Helps to pull to a separate branch though.
432.
by bigdubs 13y ago
Why can't you ship a basic driver with the kernel that is guaranteed to work with all modern video cards, and then have a website download board specific driver when it comes out? (i.e. the current situation on windows anyway)
433.
by bigdubs 13y ago
I'd settle for < 4 second load times on the pages within their shitty web based interface. The old steam was snappy and fast, new steam is a bloated pile of garbage by comparison.
434.
by bigdubs 13y ago
Unity has made good strides in making developers think about linux as a viable target for development (and streamlining the process). I'd say there is hope. Especially as most (and I'm guessing here) PC revenue comes from Steam an
435.
by bigdubs 13y ago
I would love to run mono in production, it's just so slow and buggy that this isn't possible. The simple fact is that server is not a priority for xamarin; mobile is. And this is probably a valid optimization. BizSpark helps thoug
436.
by bigdubs 13y ago
Nothing per se, but the TPL uses the thread pool as well.
437.
by bigdubs 13y ago
these distinctions are not for consumers, they're for IT managers when they're rolling out across a large number of machines, not all of which may be 64-bit compatible.
438.
by bigdubs 13y ago
Microsoft is focused on selling windows licenses. The xbox and its ecosystem is the exception.
439.
by bigdubs 13y ago
8k is also an OUTRAGEOUS amount of pixels to throw around. Unless you're eyeball to eyeball with a 40" display, your eye can't distinguish between 4k and 8k.
440.
by bigdubs 13y ago
This statement seems specious. I'd rather understand the idioms I'm using, otherwise their meaning and effectiveness becomes diluted.
441.
by bigdubs 13y ago
Not commenting on the article, just want to comment on the title for a sec. "The King is dead, long live the king!" is a special phrase used only when a ruler is dead and there is an immediate and available heir to assume the thro
442.
by bigdubs 13y ago
You misspelled "apache".
443.
by bigdubs 13y ago
This article makes it seem like Greenwald would be releasing the 'secrets' in a retaliatory manner, rather than (what I believe to be) his original intentions to release them anyway, to show that he is undeterred. Does this seem d
444.
by bigdubs 13y ago
Computers are also not cell phones, and Dell doesn't want to have as tight control over the operating system as carriers / phone makers.
445.
by bigdubs 13y ago
There were significant performance increases in Go 1.10 (see: http://golang.org/doc/go1.1#performance ), I would also suggest you benchmark a more current version.
446.
by bigdubs 13y ago
I have a 10,000ma/h battery pack i carry with me that I charge my phone with; when that runs out i charge it with any wall jack / usb port i can find. Effectively the same thing, and portable!
447.
by bigdubs 13y ago
Which is only partly true. Better way of putting this; why don't startups write their web apps in x86 assembly? Because not having problems in the first place is the sign of a 'good' programmer.
448.
by bigdubs 13y ago
I realize that, what I was referring to was the old model (TPL), which wasn't terrible to begin with.
449.
by bigdubs 13y ago
Tasks are still OS threads, though they get lumped into a threadpool so a lot of the overhead is mitigated (in most cases).
450.
by bigdubs 13y ago
It's pretty ironic that Mono was a reaction to MSFT's licensing issues. Now we'll need the Mono equivalent for the Xamarin iOS api's etc. Mono-ception.

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