delano

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   by delano 18y ago

   I spent so much time on Maniac Mansion but I never got into Day of The Tentacle (I don't remember why). Was it good?
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   by delano 18y ago

   To clarify, a specific piece of hardware should not knowingly be a limiting factor unless you're testing for a specific case (for example, specifically testing for performance with a slow hard drive). I'm advocating a balance across all
3. 753.▲
   by delano 18y ago

   Does Linux perform poorly on laptops? I've never looked into it. I'm not suggesting that performance tests should not be run on laptops. As I said in my reply to palish, When you're comparing software to software, hardware should not be a
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   by delano 18y ago

   I answered that question in my reply to palish.
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   by delano 18y ago

   You're right. It's valid and necessary when you want to compare the performance of different machines. When you're comparing software to software, hardware should not be a limiting factor unless you're testing for specific cases.
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   by delano 18y ago

   That's a different type of test. You're talking about testing the performance of your laptop with various configurations. This article is comparing the performance of several versions of Ubuntu and the reason you don't want to use a laptop
7. 757.▲
   by delano 18y ago

   What's with all the terrible articles today? Just desserts, I suppose.
8. 758.▲
   by delano 18y ago

   There are a lot of superfluous details in this article. After doing a few initial benchmarks it should have been obvious that the largest performance decline occurs between the 7.04 and 7.10 releases. The article should have answered that q
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   by delano 18y ago

   Keep in mind the SLA is only 99.9%. They definitely go down (and occasionally instances lock you out) but it's getting better all the time.
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    by delano 18y ago

    Another argument we don't hear often is that the EC2 model encourages (and almost insists) that you build in failover from the start of a project. S3, SQS, and SDB provide the same low barrier to entry as EC2 for bootstrapped startups but w
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    by delano 18y ago

    I don't know enough about Dijkstra to know whether he considers his approach appropriate for all types of programs. I can understand the value for mission-critical applications (like his Apollo example). This type of software needs to be co
12. 762.▲
    by delano 18y ago

    Or, the forth way.
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    by delano 18y ago

    Ya, the command line is your friend. We do something really similar using git. Our "done" directories are dated ("done-08-q4") and we also have "testing" and "delayed" directories. Issues are moved to the testing directory in the same commi
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    by delano 18y ago

    I'm late reading about this coin but I'm going to the Post Office tomorrow to see if they have any left. Do you want me to get an extra one?
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    by delano 18y ago

    The term one-hoss shay in John Walker's crisis letter ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349676 ). I didn't know what it meant, so I looked it up and found that it referred to this poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes gives this descrip
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    The Deacon's Masterpiece or, the Wonderful "One-hoss Shay": A Logical Story(rpo.library.utoronto.ca)

    4 points by delano 18y ago|1 comments
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    by delano 18y ago

    The researchers put a site up with the videos mentioned in the article: http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/keyboard/
18. 768.▲
    by delano 18y ago

    I'm okay with this as long as past planes and cars stay as metal or fiberglass.
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    by delano 18y ago

    What is a DE event?
20. 770.▲
    by delano 18y ago

    This is the first time I've realized that I don't feel comfortable clicking on faces to navigate a website.
21. 771.▲
    by delano 18y ago

    Ya, the vendors of alternating current are the electrical utilities. And the issues your talking about happened in the 1880s, between Edison's DC vs Teslas's AC. Obviously 110V AC won (not 220V) and market forces and regulation have kept th
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    by delano 18y ago

    What is Richard Stallman's stance on the electric utilities?
23. 773.▲
    by delano 18y ago

    Liability is one problem. Another is that labor costs will go up as the business develops.
24. 774.▲
    by delano 18y ago

    How would you handle a customer claiming to have gotten sick from a meal?
25. 775.▲
    by delano 18y ago

    Food is not as simple as it seems.
26. 776.▲
    by delano 18y ago

    I hear that. I spent two weekends back in the day helping another department get through a backlog of envelope stuffing. That and the phone book ripping competition were two of the highlights in that office.
27. 777.▲
    by delano 18y ago

    The benchmark is useless because the machine was testing itself.
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    by delano 18y ago

    These are my notes from the first 5 minutes (the rest is worth watching too): Single most important thing that a VC is looking for when you're pitching to them: you, the people. The entire purpose of a VC pitch is to convince them that you
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    by delano 18y ago

    Geniuses! I thought I had tried everything.
30. 780.▲
    by delano 18y ago

    The BBC has a special version of RealPlayer that doesn't have the adware or nag screens: http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/categories/plug/real/newreal.sh...