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by frankchn 12y ago
ARMv8 has more registers in addition to 64-bit address space support, so almost all applications should benefit from the minimization of register spilling.
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by frankchn 12y ago
These companies definitely pay property taxes for their buildings to the city/county.
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by frankchn 12y ago
I am fairly certain that the median salary for engineers at Google is (much) more than that. If you count bonuses and RSUs, the pay package for new graduates in 2014/15 is already more than $130k.
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by frankchn 12y ago
Chaos Monkey (and related software) is open source: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki
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by frankchn 12y ago
Not sure about your first point. ARM does license out its architecture/ISA (i.e. for you to implement your own processor with an ARM instruction set) in addition to complete cores (Cortex-A57, etc...). This is how Apple and nVidia can
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by frankchn 12y ago
Amazon S3 is US$0.0275/GB per month at high volumes. I assume Backblaze's operational cost of keeping each Backblaze pod hooked up and online is much much less than US$0.05/GB/month.
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by frankchn 12y ago
I think the idea is that most of those companies are large (compared to a 10 person startup) and have manufacturing expertise, which most start-ups may not have. Even companies like Parker Pens are part of large companies -- (e.g. Parker is
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by frankchn 12y ago
Here is Coursera's official response: http://blog.coursera.org/post/96686805237/response-to-report... . We have already implemented fixes and mitigation strategies for all of the vulnerabilities - including co
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by frankchn 12y ago
They are - in fact they can take photographs of it and bring it down to the benches: http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/football/0-t... Apparently they have started replacing the physical photogr
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What to expect from the iPhone 6, Apple A8, and beyond(forums.macrumors.com)
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by frankchn 12y ago
Although not primarily a review site, Lens Rentals has a very detailed blog about all things DSLR and mirrorless camera related ( http://www.lensrentals.com/blog ). Lens Rentals and its blog was also started by a doctor (Roge
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by frankchn 12y ago
And to fix your propagation delays you introduce longer and longer pipelines... then you basically end up with Prescott.
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by frankchn 12y ago
64-bit support on ARM entails the implementation of AArch64 - not just widening the current registers to 64-bits and nothing else. AArch64 has a better instruction set and more general purpose registers (31 vs 16), so applications recompile
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by frankchn 12y ago
As a Singaporean who is now in the US, it is the same thing over here (with a bit more secrecy pre-Snowden). I will be very surprised if Comcast (my ISP) doesn't have fiber splitters along their backbones feeding my (and other people&#
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by frankchn 12y ago
> The fact that you had to go back to the 60s to find a similar incident helps the GP's point, not yours. The other fact that one of the examples was in 1964 - Singapore only became an independent country in 1965 - probably didn&#x2
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by frankchn 12y ago
It will definitely still be offered -- that was one of the questions we asked him at All Hands yesterday :).
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by frankchn 13y ago
We hear about the 5-4 decisions because they are often the most controversial ones and ones that the media will report on. Based on last year's statistics ( http://scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06
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by frankchn 13y ago
The calculation the Economist Intelligence Unit uses is very different from the one presented in this blog post. For instance, the price of a car is not factored into the blog post as the author assumes a "student lifestyle." For
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by frankchn 13y ago
An example of a "big-money" part of the banking system, Fedwire, the money transfer between banks run by the Federal Reserve, cleared an average of 2.85 trillion dollars per day in Q3 2013.
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by frankchn 13y ago
A COO is in charge of daily operations of the company and reports to the CEO. A famous COO would be Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook.
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by frankchn 13y ago
We unfortunately cannot accept payment from students in these countries but we were advised recently that even providing free educational content as a service would fall under export control regulations.
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by frankchn 13y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Coursera as a Software Engineer. We have already lifted restrictions for Syrians as the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) has a general license for educational content (Syria General License No. 11A) issued. We
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by frankchn 13y ago
There may be more than you think, for instance: Stanford Computer Science is headed by Jennifer Widom. Berkeley EECS's Associate Chair is Tsu-Jae King Liu.
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by frankchn 14y ago
Any pending charges on wallet.google.com?
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by frankchn 14y ago
I've got 2x $900 pending charges shown on Google wallet after attempting to purchase the ticket.
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by frankchn 14y ago
In fact I have two pending $900 charges on my Google Wallet account.
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by frankchn 14y ago
To be honest, the absolute smartest Math/CS-types I know (with a few exceptions) went to the United States or the UK for their undergraduate studies and decided to stick around rather than return to Singapore. Start-ups in Singapore probabl