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by ffk 12y ago
Mikeal's response: " @ddtrejo @izs @piscisaureus it’s a fork as in the GitHub fork button sense." https://mobile.twitter.com/mikeal/status/520285400279965698 This article acts as if they are going t
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by ffk 12y ago
They will be able to pull in customers who cannot afford to spend 3 million on hardware for a database but still need very high performance. There should be enough to build a business in that niche. Those who can afford the high price tag w
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by ffk 12y ago
This is definitely true. The Yorba Foundation is a recent relevant example where the tax code failed. I think the risk that the IRS is trying to mitigate is for companies to establish a development only organization and single-licensing it
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by ffk 12y ago
This is why non-profit organizations such as the Apache Foundation and the Linux Foundation are extremely important. They act as a conduit for funds and resources to these important projects. Organizations like Team Cymru also play an impor
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by ffk 12y ago
I know the author. I asked him a similar question and he replied saying that he wanted it to be a learning experience for himself so he chose to write several components from scratch over bringing in pre-existing libraries.
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by ffk 13y ago
Mono isn't just a c# compiler, it is also a CLS Machine (virtual machine) and a set of libraries, among other things. If the VM was also put under apache 2, it is also unlikely that it would run on Linux out of the box. To use java as
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by ffk 13y ago
From what I understand, Manhattan is based on the ideas from ElephantDB. Unfortunately, development has pretty much stopped on ElephantDB despite the fact a book by Nathan Marz is being written about big data that is dependent on it. http:
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by ffk 13y ago
A few thoughts... Is it possible the CDC estimates are off by half? Two main points come to mind: * How many Type II errors do doctors commit? * How many people with the flu do not visit a doctor? People with good health coverage are probab
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by ffk 13y ago
While this works with many basic firewalls, this does not work at the IP routing level. The IP address is in a binary format long before it hits the routing tables on the Internet. [edit: cleaning up wording]
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by ffk 13y ago
I recall hearing about this around 2-3 years ago. Unfortunately, I am unable to find the source.
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by ffk 13y ago
Freenode is still heavily used and is worth frequenting to both meet people with similar interests and get help on a specific project.
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by ffk 13y ago
I agree. I am not arguing that Comcast should be allowed to go unregulated either. I strongly support net neutrality and do not want to see it thrown under the bus. Assuming it wasn't harmed is also speculation and we should definitely
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by ffk 13y ago
Comcast will likely get better customer retention, less service calls for higher quality netflix streams, a direct line to Netflix's core networking team to resolve problems, and a transfer of cash for the initial peering. Comcast will
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by ffk 13y ago
The deal was a paid-peering deal, which would likely drive down Netflix costs. We don't have any information on whether net neutrality was harmed. Hopefully netflix will provide information on this. Peering is a practice where two side
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by ffk 13y ago
This might not be an anti-net neutrality deal. Here are the details we know at this point: 1. Netflix is currently using Cogent 2. Comcast offered them a direct connection to their network via paid-peering. 3. Netflix agreed and will move o
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Here’s What Steam’s New Virtual Reality Interface Looks Like(techcrunch.com)
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by ffk 13y ago
This reminds me about how many people don't use domain names at all anymore. Many people probably type the name of their bank into the search bar and visit the first result. I've seen people literally pull up google to search for
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by ffk 13y ago
I'm familiar with this, which is the reason I mentioned "PAE and other expensive workarounds" which allows you to break the 4GB limit. It was badly worded on my part, I was in a hurry. :)
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by ffk 13y ago
"But now Apple can also claim an advantage in raw horsepower. The new 64-bit A7 chip is the smartphone equivalent of a big V12 engine." Except these performance gains most likely would of been seen on a 32 bit version of the chip
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by ffk 13y ago
Except it isn't just auto complete he is describing. It is also code generation. The example he gave would come with an auto import. Other examples would include class and method generation, exception handling, parenthesis matching and
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by ffk 13y ago
Using null instead of None means you are more at risk of hitting a NPE. Here are a couple examples: myVar match { case Some(val) => doSomething(val) case None => handleNone() } myVar.getOrElse("else") In both of th
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by ffk 13y ago
This was quite a while ago, but Square announced they would not do a FFVII remake until another FF outsells it. FFVII had around 10 million sales. The closest was FFVIII with 8.15 million sales. Sales data: http://vgsales.wikia.c
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by ffk 13y ago
The wording of the article suggests it has never been played to an audience until this year. I suspect it was never built until now.
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by ffk 13y ago
Sorry for the miscommunication, I specifically meant the tools created by his company such as Mathematica and Alpha.
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by ffk 13y ago
If scientists can build computational models and test ideas in a significantly easier way, then this is definitely an important project. Wolfram has a large following in the academic world and improvements to his product line can turn into
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by ffk 13y ago
I think this is the wrong question to ask. It's clearly enterprise ready considering enterprises are actively using it in their critical infrastructure. A better question is "Will scala ever have major release backwards compatib
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by ffk 13y ago
Skype moved away from peer to peer for supernodes. Here's the article: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...
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by ffk 13y ago
All I can find on their developer webpage that they appear to support is Skype URIs. It's basically HTML tags that register the skype: service to send commands to skype. The functionality appears to be completely one way. The app sends
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by ffk 13y ago
Yea, that definitely sounds more useful than what the post alludes to. Any chance you can post a screen shot?
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by ffk 13y ago
This most likely was not the author's intention, but it reads like an ad. We can pay them money to auto translate our own website. The learning stage appears to come from the manual corrections that come after that, and having a friend

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