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by cube13 13y ago
It's in YC's best interest for every company accepted by them to succeed and get funding. When a YC partner funds startup A instead of startup B, the perception(which, again, probably is not reality) is that startup A has someth
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by cube13 13y ago
The problem isn't really whether or not the YC partners are good investors, it's really more of a question if they know something that the startups aren't telling everyone. Early investment by any of the YC partners after a s
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by cube13 13y ago
Make damned sure you know what you're doing. That means making sure you have enough memory allocated to avoid overflows, and that any input is sanitized before putting it down. Meaning, if you're using a function that's exp
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by cube13 13y ago
Newer Intel chips have this feature as well, where the CPU itself will underclock if not under load. Which is fine, if it's documented and the OS is properly handling it, and turning it off... It's a problem when this doesn'
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by cube13 13y ago
> IT is so Anglophile that programs can become slower if you deviate from ASCII... Well, switching from a simple, 7-bit character set where all you need to do is parse and display byte by byte to a potentially multi-byte processing and a
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by cube13 13y ago
Well, if you want to make absolutely sure you'll be blacklisted in whatever you're doing and don't want to commit a felony, this is definitely an option.
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by cube13 13y ago
You're talking about word aligned boundries, which is absolutely an issue with certain architectures(I remember dealing with the issue with older SPARC processors). The article is talking about L2 and L3 processor cache hash collision
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by cube13 13y ago
> I wonder if there was a bit of 'tech' clash with old school 'medicine' clash. Basically tech folks take the position of move forward and fix things that break, rather than wait until you are 99.999% nothing will bre
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by cube13 13y ago
Optimizing code is really the closest thing to experimental science in programming, because it really is a purely experimental exercise. Restricting your variables is important, because you can't be sure exactly which change resulted i
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by cube13 13y ago
>At a relatively early stage startup many of the techniques are overkill, or simply out of reach, but it's nice to peer around the corner and get an overview of the approaches and problems of performance at the next order of magnitu
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by cube13 13y ago
Because the US already has laws on the books for handling foreign currency, which Bitcoin could also apply? There's noting really different between handling piles of physical cash and bitcoin. In fact, Bitcoins are probably easier to
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by cube13 13y ago
Is this a SEC problem or a problem with British regulations? I'm completely clueless on how this works for international stuff.
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by cube13 13y ago
This is really a problem with Intel's branding and CPU numbering more than with Apple, unfortunately. I can't tell you the difference between an i7-4500 and i7-4500k, but I can tell you that sandy/ivy bridge gives a heck of
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by cube13 13y ago
There's a difference in the claims. Soylent as a simple meal replacement makes quite a bit of sense. It's the same as Weight Watcher shakes and the like-something you can eat to replace a meal once a day at most. That product ca
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by cube13 13y ago
Github submissions are typically terrible with it. Especially because people use their personal repos as a blog of sorts, which means that it's hard to tell when a submission from Github is an official blog post, a code repo, or an ar
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by cube13 13y ago
Uh, the "outside law firm" is Samsung's council. They're the ones representing Samsung in court. If you seriously think that Samsung is an innocent third party in this, you're completely mistaken. The lawyers goi
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by cube13 13y ago
No, it wouldn't. Take the word "patent" out of the picture, and you still have very unethical and possibly illegal behavior. The information shared was confidential contracts between Apple and other companies. This informat
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by cube13 13y ago
My 2009 Civic doesn't move the pedal when I turn cruise control on. That's entirely controlled by the car's computer. I would imagine that the Tesla does handles it in exactly the same way.
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by cube13 13y ago
Valve's had a surprisingly good track record with getting companies on-board with improving their code. They managed to get a lot of improvements into Apple's OpenGL implementation, which is something that Blizzard couldn't
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by cube13 13y ago
Back events as a whole are problematic. Android's OS back button behavior is application defined up until you're at the base "level" of the app, at which point the behavior is OS defined and it takes you to the home scr
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by cube13 13y ago
This is true of currency as a whole. Money only has value if people are willing to exchange things for it.
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by cube13 13y ago
If you're paying for yourself and either buying used or slightly outdated hardware(or getting a new Nexus 4), this is probably completely true. If you're bundling several smartphones and regular phones, the contract price can win
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by cube13 13y ago
Are you positive that the binary blob of the open source project you just downloaded is 100% from the code in it's repo? If you're not, then it absolutely is not an improvement. The attack vector has just shifted slightly.
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by cube13 13y ago
>Also, open-source is of course safer and some of us have been repeating for years that you can't trust binary blobs, security being just one reason out of many. Only if you're auditing the code and building it yourself, or hav
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by cube13 13y ago
So this happened 3 years ago... and they're doing something about it now? If this was important, wouldn't it have made sense to deal with it, say, 3 years ago?
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by cube13 13y ago
Unless the service maintains a log of all the transactions, which I would imagine they would have to do to ensure that the BTC was properly transferred, and that the transaction has been properly executed. So you're still just a subpoe
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by cube13 13y ago
Like chollida1 noted, it's more likely that pretty much everyone(even HFT outfits) are getting their data through one of the major providers like Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters. The real difference between HFTs, online retail brokerages,
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by cube13 13y ago
If you want to have privacy, don't let anything get onto the internet. That's been true from day one. The NSA hasn't changed that.
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by cube13 13y ago
>1)Groklaw doesnt' depend on anonymous tips. The site could simply put up a huge disclosure statement on a web form that THE NSA might get what you say. Or not accept tips except via public comments but still operate. That's wh
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by cube13 13y ago
Absolutely not green. Green is people.

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