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by gfody 10y ago
There are billions of dollars made annually that depend on the web being a complicated clusterfuck of spaghetti. It's all about tracking and targeted advertising that wouldn't be possible if a random website couldn't indirect
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by gfody 10y ago
Once our sensors are dense/sensitive enough (it doesn't necessarily have to be very large) physical lenses will not be necessary. The Lytro link is about interesting post processing. Today's lensless cameras are very new and
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by gfody 10y ago
Sensors capture light. Lenses can be entirely virtualized in software. Whenever very large sensors become cost effective I'm sure smartphone cameras will all be "lightfield" cameras and there will be no more lense bulge. Post
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by gfody 10y ago
I think large sensors are the only thing required for high quality images. Capture enough light data and we can do everything in software - no lenses. Focus on this this and that, Bokeh blur algorithm #5 here and there - voila.
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by gfody 10y ago
Along the same line - here is Scott Hanselman with some Word basics: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VIDEODoYouReallyKnowHowToUseMi...
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by gfody 10y ago
It's like any time there's a non-story that any one of them spin into some controversial click-bait they all have to follow suit to avoid being scooped. Journalistic integrity for internet news sites seems to be at an all time low
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by gfody 10y ago
Something about this bothers me. Time-keeping is already not straightforward for an engineer. Because the work is done in our heads and doesn't necessarily stop just because the workday is over. You don't have to be sitting at a k
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by gfody 10y ago
It's because Javascript has rendered the whole current generation of web developers deathly allergic to anything XML. JSS will be huge though.
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by gfody 10y ago
I keep one-line blocks unbraced when possible and my reasoning is definitely not to feel like a tough macho man. It's more like a mild form of OCD where any syntax that's not necessary just bothers me if I don't omit it.
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by gfody 10y ago
If you spend a lot of your time coding, you are preferring an activity that also others can do to something that only you can do. For some reason this sentence took a while to make sense
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by gfody 10y ago
Betteridge's law
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by gfody 10y ago
Yep, this is just vintage click-bait.. you can bet more than sorting routines will fail with numbers approaching 2^63. It doesn't matter because if you're running quick sort on a list of 2^64 entries then something else is going w
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by gfody 10y ago
woman has itchy scalp, no doctor can figure out how to cure it, article ends with "maybe the same mirror box therapy that is used to treat phantom limb pain will work" - no follow up if it was attempted or if it worked. All-in-all
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by gfody 10y ago
Pretty unexpected that it turned out to be a literal itch and not metaphorical.
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by gfody 10y ago
I think it's common for young men to attach their self image and overall worth to how much better they're doing vs. other young men their age. They're basically Pirsig's "ego climbers" and would certainly do we
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by gfody 10y ago
I discovered NTRU while searching for a fast alternative to RSA for asymmetric encryption. It's said to be quantum resistant as well but I can only vouch for its speed (it is very fast and served my purpose perfectly). https:/&#x
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by gfody 10y ago
In Microsoft land we have SSDT and stored procedures live in source control right next to the schema and any CLR functions. The whole thing is built, compile-time checked, and deployed. It's all pretty wonderful.
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by gfody 10y ago
It's still one of the fastest CPUs available. Here's how it compares to the most modern chip I could find on cpubenchmark.net: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=2332&cmp%...
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by gfody 10y ago
> A low-end, low-power, low-margin x86 system AMD A-Series?
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by gfody 10y ago
Facebook has one of the largest Vertica installations in the world.
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by gfody 10y ago
I didn't mean to imply that the new generation of devs are lazy and stupid. They (and you apparently) are influenced by the perception that RDBMSs are relics not designed with modern hardware in mind. This perception is wrong. Vertica
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by gfody 11y ago
Knowing what indexes you need and why is far from being some kind of esoteric specialized knowledge of database internals. That and some basic relational modeling techniques are the very minimum prerequisites to being able to leverage an RD
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by gfody 11y ago
RDBMSs are as powerful as ever and are still improving rapidly. If you look at "what's new" in Oracle 12c, SQL Server 2016, VoltDB and Vertica; you can see they're not maintenance mode. I think calling them fossils that
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by gfody 11y ago
I'm not trying to imply that offshore workers don't care about their work. If you take an existing project and send it far away from everyone who was involved with that project, that project will probably suffer, especially with s
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by gfody 11y ago
Offshoring then. Talent probably isn't even the problem. It could have more to do with putting 8000 miles between the devs working on some project and the people who care about that project. If you try to get an app built for $50 you&#
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by gfody 11y ago
> Around this time, the core development team was reformed in India rather than Redmond and some of the key Softway developers moved on to other projects like Monad (PowerShell) or left Microsoft. This is indeed very sad. It seems like e
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by gfody 11y ago
n*(3+n) on the right side of a left shift, you're only moving the iteration into whatever big number library is executing that monster division
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by gfody 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Issues There is always what we had before: ASCII + Codepages, 128 standard fixed chars and 128 "extended" chars dependent on the selected Codepage. We could've just
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by gfody 11y ago
There doesn't seem to be any free or commercial software that converts high res scans of vinyl records to high quality digital audio. I remember this post from 2002 http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle&
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by gfody 11y ago
there are some tiny jvms out there - uJ meant for microcontrollers gives a functional jvm in 60kb

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