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by buff-a 15y ago
However, you take no chances of offending by not swearing, but you guarantee to offend someone if you do. Good. Fuck them. Believe me, we aren't going to get along. Best to know now. Also, I believe in evolution, think the earth is more t
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by buff-a 15y ago
A better example than the music player would be the Mac and Xerox PARC's WIMP. Pretty cut and dry there.
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by buff-a 15y ago
You can't create a restaurant without any money, for example.. Or customers.
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by buff-a 15y ago
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c3e49548-088e-11dc-b11e-000b5df106... 2007: Asked how Google might look in five years’ time, Mr Schmidt said: “We are very early in the total information we have within Google. The algorithms will get better and
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by buff-a 15y ago
Lets say that in a system where you go to this huge effort to develop and then advertise a self-selection system (circles) that there is no wrong way to do pseudonyms. Larry Page thinks without Google+, Google is doomed in 10 years I'm a
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by buff-a 15y ago
Yeah, I killed my Google+ account today.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Another sign: not reading this article because you couldn't possibly be a bad programmer and therefor this article can't have anything to offer.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Gosh! That is incredible! I was genuinely expecting a detailed breakdown of the lenses and hardware. Instead what we got was a comparison of images from each camera. And an ad for a camera app.
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by buff-a 15y ago
"I'm confident that when we meet and discuss the matter we can resolve it to our satisfaction that he is actually not holding those files any longer." How the fuck are you going to do that, Mr CEO?
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by buff-a 15y ago
Can you give a coherent explanation why the Republicans and Democrats should not merge? EDIT: Thank you, downvoters. I look forward to your excellent answers that do not involve politics and ideology. I'm sure you just downvoted me while yo
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by buff-a 15y ago
"Why I'm scared...." Don't be scared. Have fun! Make BASIC for the iPad or something silly like that.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Saying "No" to my boss on a significant issue that got me fired was the most important thing I have ever done in my life .
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by buff-a 15y ago
"I have an important message about negativity. Please watch this 34 minute video to find out what it is." No.
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by buff-a 15y ago
If he'd come on here and talked about their marketing strategy, such as how they are having to deal with a vastly superior product but which fortunately their customers don't have access to, then I'd be all over it, and HN would be a great
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by buff-a 15y ago
you'll see in very multi-threaded applications (like compression or encoding) the AMD CPU actually keeps pace with the 2600k; Er, no it doesn't. In integer limited operations, such as winzip it keeps up. In anything using floating point,
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by buff-a 15y ago
2600: $299: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115... FX-8150: $279: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103...
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by buff-a 15y ago
"Conversational?" Conversational like the automaton I get when I phone my bank? It looks to me that the system is a canned response / limited expected response / state machine that every motherfucker on earth can do. If you want to do marke
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by buff-a 15y ago
voice recognition != voice comprehension
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by buff-a 15y ago
Your comments would be even more germane 100 years ago. Why didn't that lead to a crisis? Fingers.
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by buff-a 15y ago
"commercial reality" appears to be "if we can make money from this then lets do it, and RFCs be damned". If we accept that ISPs can interpret RFCs any way they chose, then I propose a new interpretation of RFC 793 (TCP). Specifically, where
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by buff-a 15y ago
The problem is that, in order for this to work, your computer doesn't get an NXDOMAIN, it gets a "valid" domain with IP address. It does this for any DNS query, not just web browser queries. As for "happening to conflict with a 13 year ol
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by buff-a 15y ago
Cloud SQL is available free of charge for now, and we will publish pricing at least 30 days before charging for it. Yeah. We know how well that went with GAE.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Ok, its the former then. Slower than what? The great thing about HN, and similar discussion systems you'll find on the internet, is that you can read the conversation. So when I say "slower", and reference "antrix", a sentient (or even a
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by buff-a 15y ago
The "This webpage is not available" page is even better! ars is still up at least: http://live.arstechnica.com/Event/iPhone_5
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by buff-a 15y ago
Fuck this is a shitty way to have to view an event in this century.
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by buff-a 15y ago
So you concede Antrix's point that mutlithreading is not slower? I'd just like to confirm that you are even able to determine when your argument has been refuted, as you seem to think that that the proper response is to just pretend it didn
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by buff-a 15y ago
There is hardly any "context switch" if you run one process per core There is hardly any context switch if I don't run any software at all on my server. Zero bugs either. Back to the real world, and the point of this discussion , we run
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by buff-a 15y ago
manage which of your data structures are shared and which are not That is exactly what you are doing when you decide which of your data structures go in memcache and which don't.
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by buff-a 15y ago
The idea that a customer should pay you to install your app is naive and out-dated. You will simply be beaten by competition who allow customers to install the app for no cost (i.e. everyone else ). But beyond that, if your only way to exc
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by buff-a 15y ago
threading doesn't come "for free", in that you need to pay a performance cost in terms of locking in your interpreter and/or a code complexity cost in terms of access to your shared data structures vs there are out-of-process cacheing te

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