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by ehsanu1 14y ago
From the link: Although we have not run SPDY in production yet, our implementation is almost complete and we feel qualified to comment on SPDY from the implementor's perspective.
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Anybody know what his 5th mode of transportation is? The description at first made me think of http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_t...
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
The idea is that automated driving, when it's good enough, increases road capacity enough that jams no longer occur. Capacity improves because all cars are now able to go much faster and with smaller distances between them, and without cons
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
For those without showdead one, hamburglar's comment: Yeah, and in fact the fact that it looks crisper can be misleading. You can't rely on a detail that a method like this infers from the low resolution image. Look at the green tiles on t
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
You can check using the network tab in the webkit inspector, or firebug. I don't see any async loading. The html pages have this header: Transfer-Encoding:chunked This means the html is streamed. The response on the sever-side is n
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
This can be true if by "textual content", you're not looking at things like the raw html (and obviously not images/videos/etc), and looking at only content - and comparing that to some gigs of random data and images and whatnot. Probably no
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Even if it was for purely selfish reasons, it can make great sense to recommend better things to improve others. The world is not zero sum.
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Not the GP, but the quote gives undue importance to a number of websites that have been successful. You have to consider whether some early software (say Unix and the C compiler) was more instrumental to the transformative effects of softwa
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Had some fun messing with the variables for number of particles, acceleration and other things. There are some interesting patterns (kinda like interference patterns) if you make the acceleration large (change the denominator from 2000 to a
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Cranks don't really put their money where there mouth is. If you haven't seen it yet, I'm sure you'll enjoy looking at the STEPS project: http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php In summary, the goal is a user-facing system in 25k SLOC, from
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
I think konstruktor was talking about iOS.
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Perhaps this alludes to all copies of DNA in a human body, which is much larger than 851MB.
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
So they actually had a great fix recently where they managed to largely stop addons from causing memory leaks: http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/category/memshrink/
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
A lot would need to change with the language to make it suitable for OS development I keep hearing this, or statements along these lines. But I never see an explanation for this. Performance? Managing memory from other processes? Bit twid
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
5 sigma is kind of arbitrary, isn't it? Just a nice "round" number. Obviously better than 4.9, but the line is fuzzy, if it even exists.
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Really striking what a large percentage of the words are jargon. Sometimes I understand less than 10% of the words in a sentence. I think I might now better understand how a non-programmer feels when seeing a talk related to programming.
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Most people develop motor skills just fine, but are not that great with symbolic manipulation. It's not easy to predict the kinds of effects early exposure to this kind of stuff can have on a human being in the long term, but it may be sign
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
The article mentions using custom origins with CloudFront, and I don't understand why setting up origin.mydomain.com was required. At work, we use mydomain.com directly as the custom origin, and setup was super simple (just tell CloudFront
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Not weird at all. Companies the size of Amazon are practically bound to be schizophrenic.
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
max-width also works here.
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Buying a download is another case - can't revoke that.
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Thanks for making the distinction, but the word "fallacy" can also be used more loosely than the way you define it. Googling "fallacy definition" gives me: 1. A mistaken belief, esp. one based on unsound argument. 2. A failure in
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
This is a common fallacy about evolution, and is explained beautifully by the anthropic principle, or in other words, the innate selection bias of our existence. I'm a little confused about how the anthropic principle explains this fallac
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
He might be referring to blue brain, though I recall that simulated 100k neurons from the neocortex (not quite half a mouse brain). The thing is that they simulated the physical processes in the synapses and more for a more accurate represe
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Also, consider training time. I doubt babies are recognizing 20k objects at 15% success rate after just a few days. Though to really compare that, the speed of the brain vs the speed of the supercomputer has to be normalized for, and traini
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
scotty79 means to showing a human only the 10 million 200x200 images. We probably see a lot more than that, in 3D from different perspectives with continuity in motion, and in a lot more detail and possibilities for filtering.
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
Eh.. I know 2-year-olds who know how to do things on the iPad that the adults around them don't! It's ridiculous to think kids aren't learning at these early ages - it's when the brain is most plastic after all. The fundamentals of language
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
di" is one of my favorite commands. Delete everything inside the quotes not including the quotes. You usually want to replace what's inside the quotes, so hence use ci" cit is pretty nice for replacing a tag's inner html. And of cours
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
But that doesn't give you autocomplete within the editor, it seems like it just opens up the editor and evals the file after exiting the editor.
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by ehsanu1 14y ago
I think it's actually a bit more random than that. Sometime in the last few years on HN I seem to recall reading that it was a function of whether the URL posted is in some cache or not. If that's true, then recently accessed article can'

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