cube13

30 ms·

241.
by cube13 14y ago
Which also can happen with a terribly coded application running on Linux. Or with a terribly configured apache server. This was a meatspace failure, more than anything else.
242.
by cube13 14y ago
I think you need to read the entirety of tptacek's post.
243.
by cube13 14y ago
> Apple does things like use non-standard screws and connectors. Apple does use standard screws. They're just Torx or tamper resistant Torx. You can buy the screwdrivers at most home repair shops, even for the tamper resistant ones. Wh
244.
by cube13 14y ago
The opposite is what happened with the company I work for. They brought all the email server management in-house, probably cost a lot of money, took a while, and when they finally turned it on... half the company was without reliable email
245.
by cube13 14y ago
>The difference between the Windows 8 app store and Ubuntu's Software Center is that you can easily add 3rd party repositories to the latter. Or just install the other store's software onto Win8 or OSX. Still FUD.
246.
by cube13 14y ago
I also think it's a political issue, but not specifically because of lack of trust of the government. I think it's lack of competition for the US as a whole. For the first time in the history of the US, the primary international problems f
247.
by cube13 14y ago
I'm arguing that this isn't a merger or an acquisition. The numbers don't add up for either a merger, a full-on acquisition, or an aqui-hire. It's simply too low to fend off the investors. This sounds, very strongly, more like Apple has d
248.
by cube13 14y ago
Why would Apple feel that it's necessary to keep the investors happy? It's not Apple's fault that Color's board is unable/unwilling to attempt to keep their employees. California's an at-will employment state, remember. Non-compete claus
249.
by cube13 14y ago
Or Apple just went to the team directly and hired them, and the $2-$5 mil are signing bonuses. This isn't an aquihire situation, this is just Apple hiring a bunch of people. It's unlikely Color has any real leverage in this case.
250.
by cube13 14y ago
Don't forget about IBM! Seriously, Glass and the car projects are simply slightly more practical outputs of Google's research division. MS and IBM are doing a lot of research in areas that simply aren't as practical.
251.
by cube13 14y ago
Well, considering Color's history, the promise of a steady paycheck for a few years might be enough for that team right now. And the $2 million could be signing bonuses for the engineers, which would be a decent chunk of one-time money.
252.
by cube13 14y ago
Then it's weird that the board did not go out and deny that the email was authentic at all.
253.
by cube13 14y ago
Re: 1 It was an "interesting idea" in that most people really didn't know what the heck they were doing, or what problem they were trying to solve. All anyone really knew was that they got a boatload of money, and spent a lot of money to ge
254.
by cube13 14y ago
>However that's censorship. And it's OK as long as controlled platforms are a minority, but when it becomes a monopolizing problem leaving consumers with no choices left, then it should really be against the law. I have trouble acceptin
255.
by cube13 14y ago
All of which are CYA statements that are there to remove MS' liability for any app used for any of those purposes. It's worth pointing out that Google has roughly the same requirements in their Google Play content requirements( http://play
256.
by cube13 14y ago
In all honesty, the requirements aren't that bad, especially for game designers that aren't just attempting to make a quick buck. There's really nothing in there that should force good developers to really have to stretch to follow them.
257.
by cube13 14y ago
>Before finally the "Why wouldn't you use skip lists?" and that classic answer. That answer was a non-answer, though. Saying "You pick the best structure for the data" doesn't answer the question "Why would you not use a skiplist". A fe
258.
by cube13 14y ago
The benchmarks were JIT running time versus C compile time + runtime. Not exactly apples to apples.
259.
by cube13 14y ago
It's important to note that even at the hardware level(for intel x64, at least), atomic increments and decrements are, in fact, just the operations with locks around them. So relying heavily on them in multithreaded cases with heavy content
260.
by cube13 14y ago
>If memory usage is so much higher than CPU usage, I have to wonder what it is that Mozilla is doing wrong with their architecture. Are they using pre-fork-style servers? Are they just provisioning poorly? What is it? Or are they just s
261.
by cube13 14y ago
All of the above, actually. The exchanges have a per-trade charge, and for the data, they charge fees on a per data stream basis, and charge for colocation. And they already do make each tier more expensive than the previous.
262.
by cube13 14y ago
He was truthful about the patents, which I think are a bigger flag than the entire Seagate thing.
263.
by cube13 14y ago
Which does place a lot of questions with what Samsung's legal team was doing during the jury selection. One of the questions asked of him was whether or not he had obtained a patent. He answered in the affirmative, and that should have be
264.
by cube13 14y ago
>And worse (or better, depending on your tastes), just over the horizon is an explicit Patent Office rule change that will grant a patent to the first filer, regardless of whether or not that person has any connection to the creation of
265.
by cube13 14y ago
But at her level, as a partner to the firm, she would be expected to deal with litigation. So yes, her behavior here is absolutely a professional issue. Her Quora post is such an insanely bad idea that it does cast some doubt as to her pr
266.
by cube13 14y ago
New releases are listed in chronological order. So a dump of of non-game software would, naturally, push games down the queue.
267.
by cube13 14y ago
I probably should have been a bit more clear about what I meant. I meant that HN's purpose isn't to directly generate revenue for YC. Quora, on the other hand, is supposed to be a product that makes money.
268.
by cube13 14y ago
But let's be serious about the purpose of HN. It's to give PG and YC a direct advertising channel to people who care about the startup world. Maintaining a high level of discussion is just a tool to further that end, especially because as
269.
by cube13 14y ago
It's worth pointing out that Samsung should have had this overturned a month ago when the jury made it's verdict( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/judge-cant-lift-b... ), but could not, because they appealed the initial decision
270.
by cube13 14y ago
The fundamental problem, especially wrt to 1 and 2, is that you're starting to deal more with the design and implementation of the hash table than anything else. There are two things that need to be considered for a good hash table impleme

More ›