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by bnolsen 13y ago
The company I worked for back ended some of these datasets. Definitely a bunch of usgs imagery. At the time several racks of solaris servers were required to serve up the imagery using tomcat for the requests. Those machines were in cana
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by bnolsen 13y ago
Pretty much all of the existing ARM socs out there suck majorly for gpu support. I really believe Bay Trail will shove arm out of the chromebook/netbook market just because people will be able to tinker with the thing. As much as I ha
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by bnolsen 13y ago
I really expect the "netbook" category to bump again now that Bay Trail has been released. Finally an actual speed bump in the atom family after all these years! One positive is that with chromeos being more stable and backed by
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Intel announces Quark system on a chip, the company's smallest to date(engadget.com)
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by bnolsen 13y ago
mega bonus points for dumping the number pad! a typical ergo keyboard with number pad is too big for many undershelf keyboard trays. ugh, they jacked the Esc key. I guess the war with VI users is full on.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
I've seen some programmers get fancy and try to overengineer what they are doing. It's the temptation of premature optimization. They just need to be forced into doing some maintenance and refactoring work for a while to realize
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by bnolsen 13y ago
i suspect something like "clay" would float your boat but I haven't followed it for more than a year now.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
the problem with linked list is the cost of cache misses from memory fragmentation killing any iteration. On a current x86 processor a linked list is death for performance. For light insert/deletions work vectors still outperform. H
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by bnolsen 15y ago
By going with android Nokia would have sold phones and definitely would have seen their overall unit sales increase. As we've seen of late, google itself makes almost nothing per mobile phone sold. That means any revenue/profit made off
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by bnolsen 15y ago
"Nokia's challenges have been exacerbated by rampant competition - notably from Apple and Samsung who are extracting a disproportionate amount of margin from the industry at present," Disproportionately high or low ? I guess what they are
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by bnolsen 15y ago
"fossil fuel" is likely a misnomer. Read to your heart's content here: http://trilogymedia.com.au/Thomas_Gold/usgs.html