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by gvb 10y ago
The problem with the article is Amdahl's law: he is speeding up the part of the code that takes a small fraction of the time and handwaving the bottleneck that takes most of the time. "Currently the bottleneck is writing to the fi
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It is very simple and very annoying: <noscript> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=https://pragprog.com/no_js"> </noscript> Disabling autorefresh on F
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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitching_Betty Lots of [citation needed], but interesting historical background on voice warning systems.
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Odoo, formerly known as OpenERP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoo
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Books in the 1700s and 1800s are no longer under copyright, they are now in the public domain. Anybody can sell them for whatever the market will bear. Since they are not longer under copyright, there is no longer a copyright holder whose r
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by gvb 10y ago
There are two ways to look at Mayer's payday: 1. She is getting rewarded even though her performance as CEO of Yahoo! was way less than expectations. Expectations being the salvation of Yahoo! as an independent company. 2. She is being
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by gvb 10y ago
The quote about Woz using a TRS-80 for phone phreaking is a misquote of the referenced Wireless article. I'm sure the "one" that Woz bought was a touch tone dialer, not a TRS-80. Read about the biggest tech stories of the 20
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by gvb 10y ago
The OP said due to tax policy, not taxes. Due to perverse incentives (pandering to various classes of voters) and unintended consequences, tax policies have become byzantine horrors.
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Japan’s Softbank to buy UK semiconductor giant ARM for $32B(cnbc.com)
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We need "humans driving in a single lane on a highway" for a control group for the experiment - the number of miles driven by a human in equivalent situations as driven by the Tesla autopilot. It may be possible to "control f
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by gvb 10y ago
How big is the base image, e.g. printing "hello world" to the console? Is it modular, e.g. if you don't need networking[1] how hard is it to not include networking? [1] I'm using networking as an example package, not kno
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by gvb 10y ago
June 7th AND 8th: Weiner and Hoffman each chat (separately) with Nadella, telling him the $182 offer just isn’t good enough, but that they are open to a $200 per share offer in cash. Sure, Nadella says, but we need to find “cost synergies”
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by gvb 10y ago
This should be good news for people looking to getting rid of Computrace, effectively a rootkit, from surplus Thinkpads. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=114641 Yes, I bought a surplus Thinkpad (T61) and found it
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by gvb 10y ago
June 7th AND 8th: Weiner and Hoffman each chat (separately) with Nadella, telling him the $182 offer just isn’t good enough, but that they are open to a $200 per share offer in cash. Sure, Nadella says, but we need to find “cost synergies”
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The story of how LinkedIn shopped itself to Microsoft, Salesforce and Google(recode.net)
3 points by gvb 10y ago|1 comments
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Facial recognition systems stumble when confronted with million-face database(techcrunch.com)
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Myth debunking: WebViews suck, everything should be native(m.signalvnoise.com)
89 points by gvb 10y ago|60 comments
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Stability here is being used in the chemical sense, as in "how fast it oxidizes". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_stability A gas generator (airbag inflater) does not detonate, it generates a large vol
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by gvb 10y ago
It is not the force that changes, it is the rate of gas generation (burn rate). You need to generate airbag gasses fast enough to inflate before your face hits the airbag, but slow enough not to tear itself apart (especially the metal formi
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by gvb 10y ago
Also check out Buildroot: https://buildroot.org/ It uses Kconfig to give pretty fine grained selection of what packages are included in your file system and supports (painless!?) cross compilation by building the proper com
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Tips for a Joyful Return to a Software Project(spin.atomicobject.com)
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The car ahead of the Tesla handled the situation just fine.
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The contest required a cost analysis, but had no cost requirement. http://aero.larc.nasa.gov/files/2014/09/2020-E-GA-design-con...
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by gvb 10y ago
Two reasons: 1. Multicast is 1:N so one stream can be played on all phones. Pulling the files from a server would be N:N so your network bandwidth would be consumed unnecessarily due to all the phones streaming the same data. Also, the phon
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by gvb 10y ago
More relevant information: "What are the 37 Java API packages possibly encumbered by the May 2014 Oracle v Google decision?" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23583968/what-are-the-37-... From the #1 an
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How tainted drugs “froze” young people but kickstarted Parkinson’s research(arstechnica.com)
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Heres a live flashback for you: http://www.fastcgi.com/ Best viewed with Netscape 3.0+ or Internet Explorer 4.0+. ©1996-2002 Chelsea Networks
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We need a corollary to Betteridge's law: newspaper headlines that start with "Why..." do not answer the question.
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No. Your lens is the collection surface area. Trivia: According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight#Solar_constant The sun puts out approximately 1.361 kW/m²
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> its result can be accurately factored into a probabilistic model of a patient's overall health. But my health with respect to an illness is not probabilistic[1] . I either have the illness or don't have the illness. Probab

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