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by hapless 12y ago
Linux has supported little-endian POWER for several years. It makes porting userspace software tremendously easier since that the major architectures in use with Linux (x86_64, ARM, MIPS) are frequently LE. The big news here is official su
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by hapless 12y ago
The Intel chip, as benchmarked, is 2.1 GHz. The same design is available in 3.6 GHz, as of Q2 '12. We're comparing a top-clocked, circa 2013 SPARC to a 2012 Intel product running at 60% of the commercially available clock rate, a
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by hapless 12y ago
I mentioned that SPARC performance stopped being a central focus with the death of Rock, in favor of massively-multicore, low-cost designs derived from Niagara. You pasted an Oracle press release that focused on parallel performance. I comp
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by hapless 12y ago
Those are the SPECint_rate benchmarks, for throughput. These are different from the regular SPECint, and they're published separately. Oracle has published no regular SPECcpu scores. Even the rate benchmarks are not very impressive.
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by hapless 12y ago
Oracle's current chips are derived from the massively-multicore Niagara, not from Rock or UltraSPARC III/IV. As a result, you might notice that the benchmarks Oracle brags about are SPECjbb and TPC-C. These are benchmarks that re
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by hapless 12y ago
SME (Sun MicroElectronics) did exactly this in the 1990s. You could buy a standard ATX motherboard with an UltraSPARC II and PC DIMM slots on it. It was called the Ultra AXmp. Unfortunately, the internal cost structure was such that the U
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by hapless 12y ago
A particularly desperate move from IBM. This is uncomfortably close to SPARC's story. Sun opened up SPARC designs in 2005. Four years later, the "Rock" project was canceled, marking an end for world-beating SPARC performance
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by hapless 12y ago
Item #1 isn't a problem at all. Every day, courts have no trouble differentiating a business from what you do with your friends. Courts aren't stupid. Additionally, laws are not executable code, not every hair has to be split u
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by hapless 12y ago
I have a Greasemonkey script to force single-page on slate: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/bed5ea2ca0ee555b1259 If I have to use Greasemonkey to fix your design, your site is broken.
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by hapless 12y ago
It's not impossible for it to be both. Special-interest hotel owners AND average citizens both have excellent reasons to see illegal hotels stamped out. As a member of the community at stake, I applaud Albany for pursuing AirBNB'
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by hapless 12y ago
They're accused “of being bad neighbors and bad citizens.” “They’ll call us slumlords and tax cheats." If the shoe fits, wear it.
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by hapless 12y ago
The big problem with recruiting out of the Midwest is that nearly anyone with a marketable skill in the Midwest has stayed there by choice. It's not as if Midwestern engineers are unaware that working on the coast is an option . It i
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by hapless 12y ago
If it costs you 10% of your company to attract a top engineer, and it's not worth that much to you, you're going to make do with less than the top engineers. At best, you will be recruiting people not smart enough to ask importan
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by hapless 13y ago
At the time, DOS and the original (8088) IBM PC primarily competed with 8-bit micros: 8080 systems running CP/M and the 6502-based Apple II. In that context, they were probably talking about the upcoming generation of microcomputers, b
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by hapless 13y ago
There never was any credibility behind an unconfirmed transaction.
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by hapless 13y ago
I seem to recall this was Twitter's original model, at the very beginning. "Let your team know what you're doing" or something along those lines. Retweets and replies and the whole pile of other things made Twitter int
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by hapless 13y ago
If he's not governed by a non-compete, yes, this is outrageous behavior on the part of his former employer. I had not even considered that possibility.
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by hapless 13y ago
NY and CA have laws that limit the scope and length of valid non-compete agreements. In many other states, wide-ranging, long-term non-competes are practically universal. Personally, I've been asked to sign contracts that would effect
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by hapless 13y ago
This is a matter of non-compete agreements, signed by private parties. Personally, I think it's totally reasonable to ask employees not to work on competing products in their off-time. As an employee, I have signed such agreements my
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by hapless 13y ago
He was paid to work on a CI tool, by a firm that sells development services. Even if we assume that tool would never, ever be sold to customers, releasing a product that erodes their competitive advantage is still foul play. It's dir
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by hapless 13y ago
This is a sad story, but it could have been seen coming from a mile away: - He worked on a personal project during company time. Edit: Oops. I misread this one as the inverse of what the author was saying. He only worked on it while emplo
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by hapless 13y ago
Allowing game creators to profit from their creations incentivizes game creation. I took that as a "given." (One might as well ask why Apple doesn't take a 100% cut from game sales.) As for the HTML 5 game, that's a di
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by hapless 13y ago
This is much easier for console titles, played in your living room on a 46" screen. AAA FPS titles offer virtually identical gameplay, but their art assets and thematic direction differentiate them for players. Selling mobile games ba
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by hapless 13y ago
Funny you should mention Dune and Wolfenstein: both of those games had console releases, and neither was the only example of the genre on their consoles. It is possible to limit boring clones while retaining a vibrant software market. This
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by hapless 13y ago
You argued that game designs should not be protected, because they are easy to clone. I attempted to point out how a game design is very different from the design of a manufactured article: There are no "patents" for games because
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by hapless 13y ago
It took Threes' developers over a year to hone the gameplay concept, but once it was finished, it took only a day to clone it. This creates deeply perverse incentives for mobile development.
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by hapless 13y ago
Games do not compete on features, they compete on concept and gameplay. I don't see how the obvious clones offer anything to market participants. Does anyone actually want to browse 200 variants on flappy bird, or "threes,"
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by hapless 13y ago
The word "patent" means open or obvious. Technology innovators are offered an exclusive license in exchange for opening up their manufactured devices, making their designs patent to the reader. Game designs are open by default.
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by hapless 13y ago
A "Nintendo Seal of Quality" would be really great for games. You can't copyright a game design, only the art, so the markets always fill with clones What scares me about this sort of program is the possibility of a similar
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by hapless 13y ago
Right now, Firefox is the only browser on Linux that supports non-standard DPIs.

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