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by cube13 14y ago
If you're doing systems level programming, you shouldn't be counting on anything being portable anyway. Reimplementing it is worthless for projects are on a single OS. If you're implementing the OS, then these decisions need to be made an
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by cube13 14y ago
>He's using the negative association of what douches are for. You seem to be making a "taking it back" argument when he clearly did not intend that meaning. Modern medicine considers douches to be dangerous to use. Not sure how making
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by cube13 14y ago
>He could have gone with anything (asshole for instance!) but chose to Other women and likely not intentionally, which is still no excuse. Which is insulting to donkeys. EDIT: The problem is that you need to pick your battles. His word
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by cube13 14y ago
My objection to the idea is really contingent on what YC is trying to do: 1. Get groups without an idea or product to cultivate and implement their own ideas. I think this is their primary goal, but to be honest, I have absolutely no clue
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by cube13 14y ago
GCC and Sun Studio offer different compilers for C and C++. You can compile C code with Sun Studio's CC, but normally you would use cc for C code.
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by cube13 14y ago
When I was going to UIUC, there were 3 Computer Science programs offered: 1. Computer Science 2. Computer Science and mathematics 3. Computer Science and Statistics The first was through the engineering department, and the last two were
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by cube13 14y ago
Just fine the equivalent of their combined earnings(salary, bonus, and any stock options) for the years that they lied on SEC forms. The people don't have to spend money in taxes imprisoning them, and it provides enough deterrence to just
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by cube13 14y ago
Honestly, I wonder what would have happened if any other company bought them instead of Zynga. I imagine that it wouldn't be dropping users quite as quickly. It still would drop users, because the game itself isn't that deep. But I don't
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by cube13 14y ago
The problem is that the industry, as a whole, is still extremely young, and simply hasn't had the time to develop a standard set of good, let alone best, practices. Tools and processes are changing at a rapid rate, and it will simply take
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by cube13 14y ago
I agree completely. Frontend optimizations can probably give a lot more in the short term than these kinds of backend optimizations. Unfortunately, even if it's paying down technical debt, if you're trying to squeeze out more cycles with y
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by cube13 14y ago
That's tangential to the problem at hand. MPEG LA's entire purpose for existing is to be a one stop shop for the essential H.264 codec patents. So instead of going to MS, Apple, Samsung, Hitachi, etc. individually, you just go to MPEG LA,
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by cube13 14y ago
Google. Amazon. Bing. Twitter. Facebook. When you start hitting massive amounts of traffic, these kinds of optimizations can save you a TON of money in equipment and bandwidth.
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by cube13 14y ago
It's hard to tell. The author is clearly not too fluent with English, so it's difficult to tell exactly what he's saying. It sounds like it's based on a decompiled and recompiled version of the core Skype kernel dlls and not a clean room
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by cube13 14y ago
>It's not clear that Motorola didn't offer "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" for licensing. Microsoft claims licensing would cost them $4bn/year; Motorola disputes this claim. It's not clear why Motorola should be able to
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by cube13 14y ago
So computers and the internet don't have value... Why are you here?
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by cube13 14y ago
>See, I like to think of a startup as any other brick and mortar business. If it manages to leap into a world-wide success, nothing wrong with that - but don't expect it. Have a game plan that focuses on the reality around you. A startu
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by cube13 14y ago
>Not saying that those 5 ms are important, if anything constant 25 ms is better than 20 ms with +5 ms spikes, but reaction times have very little to do with actually hitting the other player. But when you have server side hit detection
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by cube13 14y ago
I'd assume that Carmack was going by the same distance that the key was depressed in the reference frame for each test. The variance on that would be about one frame, would would add up to 4 ms for each test. However, since the input devic
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by cube13 14y ago
There are 3 mutually conflicting goals of JSON: 1. Machine parsing/generation 2. Human parsing/generation 3. Ability to transmit it in a parsable format through HTTP #1 conflicts with both #2 and #3. It conflicts with #1 because binary
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by cube13 14y ago
By that definition, Amazon wasn't a tech company, either. Remember that it started purely as an online bookstore.
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by cube13 14y ago
The problem is that Dropbox may, at their sole discretion, decide that providing ads is part of "the Service". Under their TOS, they could do that without changing it. Realistically, Dropbox won't ever do that. But the key thing here is t
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by cube13 14y ago
>Problem is: the rights as worded by Google allow a whole lot more than the reasonable-use wording by Dropbox. They actually don't. Google specifically enumerates the rights that you're granting them. Dropbox actually does not state s
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by cube13 14y ago
Google can only do those rights. They cannot sell your content, for example, because it is not enumerated in the list. Dropbox, on the other hand, could, theoretically decide that they want to sell your information as a part of the service
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by cube13 14y ago
If Google compresses, re-encodes, or encrypts the files, they're creating derivative works. Google needs those rights in order to actually store the data.
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by cube13 14y ago
>Anyway, why would staring Netscape not be enough value already? After all he himself wrote the Mosic browser that became the basis for all of today's browser. I think very few people have produced more "value" in their lives. No, he wa
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by cube13 14y ago
>No, it's not. "Publicly perform"?! Tell me in what reasonable backup scenario would google need the right to publicly perform your content? It's not reasonable at all; it's egregious and honestly insulting. Youtube.
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by cube13 14y ago
Keep in mind: MS is publishing games on Steam and the other DD services right now. Unlike OSX, where Valve probably didn't get as much traction with Steam before the mac app store was released, Steam IS the primary gaming service for Window
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by cube13 14y ago
Valve usually doesn't say anything publicly about their projects until they've reached a fairly advanced phase of development(either very late alpha or beta). There won't be much official word until they're either making a major marketing p
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by cube13 14y ago
Language proficiency, by and large, is the easiest thing for anyone to pick up. Again, new CS grads are, on average 21 or 22 years old. I was programming C/C++ for around a decade at that point, and I was still a terrible programmer. Wor
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by cube13 14y ago
>elite universities don't write world-changing software, educated, motivated people do. Mosaic, which was the precursor to Netscape and IE, came from a project at NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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