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by eliben 14y ago
I did say "... unless he cleared it with some Google authority, which I doubt he has." So what are you specifically objecting? My saying that I doubt he cleared it with Google? I'm entitled to my doubts, thank you :-)
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by eliben 14y ago
I don't know. But reading his post it's obvious he discusses a lot of details of the internal development methodology in Google which seems like something you should ask for approval to publish.
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by eliben 14y ago
I'll second this. I think such a post from a contractor is inappropriate, unless he cleared it with some Google authority, which I doubt he has.
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by eliben 14y ago
Awesome, so you didn't even try using such a device - all your criticism is based on hearsay and reviews. I do appreciate a more elaborated reply though - I think you should've written all that from the beginning.
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by eliben 14y ago
I believe such comments were once called "FUD". Are folks still being paid by M$ and others to randomly reply in various forums and discussions? What do you base your "cheap crap" comment on? Using the laptop and not liking it? What did you
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by eliben 14y ago
While I applaud the self-publishing, promising to teach "all of math and physics" in two weeks is preposterous at best.
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by eliben 14y ago
Calculus 101? I recall that learning that lim(1 - 1/n)^n with n->inf is 1/e, was one of the first things learned in Calculus. I think we even briefly touched this in highschool.
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by eliben 14y ago
I'm surprised no-one said Dropbox yet. I upgraded to their 100GB account which is now my main backup drive. Also paid for some iPad games for my daughter :-)
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by eliben 14y ago
ack is a great tool for searching within text files, not for parsing them. [shameless plug] Try also the pure-Python based alternative to ack called "pss" (pip/easy_install or https://bitbucket.org/eliben/pss ).
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by eliben 14y ago
This is why I love BitBucket's unlimited free private repositories.
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by eliben 14y ago
I applaud your witty use of sarcasm. However, if you think Apple vs. Dell is the same as Intel vs. ARM, you're deeply misunderstanding the market.
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by eliben 14y ago
As always, the devil is in the details here. Does this lamp produce enough light for a family to be motivated to actually lift it every N minutes (e.g. does it produce enough light to read comfortably, or to cook a meal)? Is it durable enou
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by eliben 14y ago
Why can't it grow? Server builders still want the fastest CPUs. For them, x86 still gives the best performance per watt and dollar. Yes, ARM servers are starting to appear but I don't think they're up to par with Intel yet. And the cloud ne
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by eliben 14y ago
Did anyone say it could not be "Nexus X" ?
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by eliben 14y ago
They're involved in efforts like https://www.tizen.org/about , but I don't really see this one lifting.
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by eliben 14y ago
Oh the horror. What a bunch of random, clueless and non-technical crap. I especially like the part where he compares the operating costs of Intel (a company owning a number of multi-billion-dollar fabs that are far above the competition in
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by eliben 14y ago
Is that C language features or compiler-specific extensions? Arguably, sticking to the standard is actually the better alternative here in terms of portability.
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by eliben 14y ago
I'm happy that BitBucket keeps evolving as a viable alternative to Github. Alternatives are good. Competition is good and healthy. I personally prefer BB because I like Mercurial more than I like Git. IMHO it provides all the same benefits
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by eliben 14y ago
I think it's important not to reason in absolutes. Taking an obviously multi-person, multi-year project like Starcraft and arbitrarily setting a 2-month deadline "because some code is there from Warcraft II" is not good use of crunch-time.
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by eliben 14y ago
A really nice initiative. Well done, Mozilla.
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by eliben 14y ago
I don't mean to sound patronizing, but if you're implementing counters or banging out numbingly-boilerplate business logic for websites, comments are indeed useless. But when you're reading an obtuse 50-line function that implements some we
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by eliben 14y ago
Their offerings seem nice, but UK only?
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by eliben 14y ago
BlueHost bashing is a whole different topic ;-) It suffices to say that I'm not even considering staying with them and using one of their more expensive and supported offerings.
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by eliben 14y ago
For $20/month Linode gives 20GB disk, 200GB bandwidth For $20/month, http://prgmr.com/xen/ gives 24GB space, 160GB bandtwidth, though more memory which I don't really need. You do, however, have a 6-month subscription lower price which is
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by eliben 14y ago
Thank you for the advice. However, it appears it's even pricier than Linode ?!
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by eliben 14y ago
$20/month is acceptable as long as I can get somewhat more storage and bandwidth. I care less about CPUs for instance, because I expect them to be idle most of the time.
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Ask HN: Which VPS do you use/recommend?
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by eliben 14y ago
I wouldn't say "for free", but yes, LLVM definitely contains some non-mainstream backends, and you can write your own.
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by eliben 14y ago
Look at IR as a layer of its own, separate from Clang. You can even use it as your source language (although it's inconvenient, of course). For example, the Kaleidoscope language developed in the LLVM tutorial is target independent. The sa
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by eliben 14y ago
> LLVM IR is a lot easier to generate than machine code and unlike machine code, it can be optimized after it is generated. Just a small nit: it's possible to optimize machine code. In fact, LLVM has some peephole optimization passes on

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