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by dorianj 15y ago
Disk speeds have increased greatly in the last 7 years. Compare an 80gb 7200rpm hard drive from 2005 to a 1tb 7200rpm drive from now and you'll see a very large sequential read/write speed improvement.
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by dorianj 15y ago
Further, on OpenDNS, you can disable these ads if you so choose.
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by dorianj 15y ago
They appear to have fixed it? When I click on sign up, it goes to the gmail oath page...
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by dorianj 15y ago
Cortex M3 is an excellent microcontroller, but not much more. It critically lacks a memory manager, meaning it can't run Linux or other full-featured operating systems. You also run into severe memory/flash limits.
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by dorianj 15y ago
>I’m also intrigued to see how far they are prepared to go with this. They already annoyed and inconvenienced a lot of people with the Samba and GCC removal. Having wooed so many developers to the Mac in the last decade, are they really
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by dorianj 15y ago
From the paper: "Based on our complexity analysis and a number of computers available for our collision search, we estimated that it would take approximately five weeks. As this was feasible enough, we started the actual search. It was our
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by dorianj 15y ago
Conversely, I wonder if his extraordinary luck of being the only known long-term survivor of ALS has pushed him to accomplish more.
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by dorianj 15y ago
Tiffany and other luxury brands believe SOPA will reduce counterfeiting websites.
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by dorianj 15y ago
Likewise, I keep all my git repos backed up to Time Machine. As long as I'm at my desk, I can never lose more than an hour's worth of work. I don't think I'll ever understand git well enough to solely rely on it.
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by dorianj 15y ago
I'm a college student, and pay cash for nearly everything, so I have very little credit history. After trying 3 or 4 merchants earlier this year, I still couldn't find one that would accept me, even with my father co-signing. Stripe is good
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by dorianj 15y ago
Not to mention, MS made a (then) superior product. I agree, the analogy doesn't work.
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by dorianj 15y ago
Correct. The ARM M series doesn't even have floating point hardware. The M3 is intended for real-time, low power applications, and is indeed a fantastic replacement for 8 or 16bit microcontrollers.
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by dorianj 15y ago
Despite Microsoft's what late entry into robust virtualization, they've really put together a solid product quickly. I've found it much easier to use casually than KVM or Xen, and the Linux support is surprising quite good. The integration
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by dorianj 15y ago
Also interesting: a Sun engineer uses dtrace to show HDD latency spiking after he yells at his disks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
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by dorianj 15y ago
My university does this, and sends me an email the second my bandwidth usage is showing 'unusual activity', usually triggered by skype (since it uploads a lot). So, not too hard.
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by dorianj 16y ago
Kevin Rose has a spotty track record for Apple predictions. See: http://www.technobuffalo.com/blog/apple/rumor-kevin-rose-let... "Digg co-founder Kevin Rose has a track record with announcing Apple products that is spotty sometimes. Prio
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by dorianj 16y ago
"shorter work weeks for salaried individuals basically means you are paying more for less" -- not necessarily. Ass in seat time is not equal to production, especially concerning developers.
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by dorianj 16y ago
It's too much if they're going to a public school. And it's more like 22 years, since all of the money isn't needed at the second they turn 18. If you want to give your kids a full ride experience at a private school, of course it's going t
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by dorianj 16y ago
On MySQL / InnoDB, this is innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit and how the buffer log is flushed can have a tremendous impact on the latency of writes.
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by dorianj 16y ago
They obviously didn't do the proper due diligence. They did what was legally required, but they did not do what was necessary to avoid to avoid the business nightmare they're in now.
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by dorianj 16y ago
I'd probably do like 1Password does and require DropBox. It doesn't take all the pain out of syncing (there's still a lot of conflict management that the app has to take care of), but it would make low-level stuff easier. But, it's a moot p
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by dorianj 16y ago
A really neat idea and something I think could be beneficial for kids. I don't know what else has been done in this area, but I remember cutting my teeth on Visual Basic when I was about 12, and I am grateful for the shallow learning curve
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by dorianj 16y ago
Clickable link: https://crashpool.com/
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Show HN: CrashPool, a web app to help Mac developers fix crashes
1 points by dorianj 16y ago|1 comments
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by dorianj 16y ago
It won't get you the fastest performance, but usually it will get you fast enough performance. Knowing enough to not do bone-headed things is what gets you acceptable performance. And, it gives you the ability to know where your critical pa
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by dorianj 16y ago
Wherever you are. If you find yourself unable to find the things you need in your area (peers, people to hire, etc), then move. But getting yourself in the right mindset and creating a burning passion that this is what you want to be doing
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by dorianj 16y ago
If it is US, they're not following US sweepstakes law, which is the reason every other sweepstakes you see advertised says "no purchase necessary". So it seems anything goes for their contest?
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by dorianj 16y ago
Do you respond to abuse reports? I've sent a bunch, and while I'd imagine at least some were actually followed up on, I've never received even one thank-you.
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by dorianj 16y ago
The video claims there were no injuries in this project, though there's no way to tell how veracious that claim is.
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by dorianj 16y ago
Another unmentioned aspect of this is Blizzard's involvement. If this build is truly unstoppable in most cases, then Blizzard's balance team will simply nerf some aspect of Zerg to make it harder to abuse. For example, when the balance team

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