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by hapless 15y ago
Many, many LCDs still use fluorescent backlights. Turning that backlight on and off prematurely ages the lamp. Just like a CRT, you want to turn it off (put it into sleep) when the cost of the electricity outweighs the cost to lamp life -
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by hapless 15y ago
I have never met anyone who pays Oracle's list prices. It sure seems like every Oracle deal is a one-off.
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by hapless 15y ago
I believe their point is that deploying, for example, four types of NoSQL database creates four, separate sets of hardware etc. i.e. it is not that NoSQL systems are inefficient individually, it's that it is not efficient to maintain four s
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by hapless 15y ago
Let's see if I have this right. I could be wrong about the details here: Before it was called "Scheme," Sussman was writing papers about a lisp subset that could be optimized. Some folks tried to write an optimizing compiler, known as "T.
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by hapless 15y ago
Ah, but the file format is a proxy for a larger attitude problem. A firm that demands my adherence to arbitrary rules before they'll even look at my marketing flyer is not a firm I want to work for. It reflects an attitude I do not appreci
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by hapless 15y ago
This is a subjective matter. I'm not whining. I'm asserting quite clearly: you will never get a resume from me in a format other than PDF. You, as an individual, are free to apply to those jobs with a Word resume. I won't bother. I will
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by hapless 15y ago
I don't want a job at a firm where the HR department is free to dictate inflexible procedures to all and sundry. Requiring a Word document to make your internal workflow more comfortable for support personnel is bullshit. The workflow shoul
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by hapless 15y ago
If they only take a Word document, I don't want the job. It's that simple.
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by hapless 15y ago
This is substantially similar to my resume from circa 2005, and the template I was using was already old then. I think basically all latex users have been passing around variants of the same GPL resume template for ten or fifteen years no
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by hapless 15y ago
Handing out these cards is a ruder and more offensive practice than the behaviour that the card-carriers seek to control/prevent. It's not going to work on any large scale.
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by hapless 15y ago
McCann on criticism of Gnome 3: Unfortunately on the internet - and in free software in particular - we have a lot of people whose voices aren't heard very loudly, and we have to take their needs into accounts as well as those who are voca
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by hapless 15y ago
"The problem here is that while Apple can play the fashion game as well as any company, there is no evidence that it can play it fast enough." John Dvorak was right about the trends, he was wrong about the company. Apple can play "the fashi
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by hapless 15y ago
This column perpetuates a misleading theme in the debate. The author implies that the U.S. will suffer terrible consequence in the event of a default. This is true, but completely irrelevant: Under no circumstances will the U.S. actually
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by hapless 15y ago
This is exactly what I have wanted for years. I'm willing to bet $100 on a pair of them, just to see how it works out.
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by hapless 15y ago
Guys, this article is not about the existing LED light bulbs on the market today. It's a fluff piece about a very promising new bulb technology . The new bulb uses an unusual LED immersed in a "non-toxic" liquid. In theory it should ha
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by hapless 15y ago
"Comfortably use" my eye. Web browsers have always been bulky by the standards of their day. I remember using IRIX on a 64MB SGI Indy and cursing. It thrashed swap furiously with Netscape 4. Today's agony always seems new and fresh, but
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by hapless 15y ago
I consciously over-reacted, Matt. By its nature, I expect HN to be a predominately coastal audience. I came away from your blog post with a bad impression of Indiana, and I wanted to get in front of that problem in the HN thread. If it
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by hapless 15y ago
The OS presents a view of a flat memory space to userspace processes, but it's not real. Memory is really segmented into 4 KB pages. Every time an application accesses its flat memory space, there are layers of indirection to trace before
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by hapless 15y ago
Matt might be a little out of touch with the local IT community. Working for a small consulting group in Indianapolis, I've been pushed into Python and Django work more than once, and I was certainly not looking for it. I blundered into
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by hapless 15y ago
Important notes: - RHEL 5 and derivatives include ksm right out of the box. There's a script out there to make use of it: ksmd. - ksm breaks up transparent huge pages whenever a smaller page is found inside of a huge page. (In other wor
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by hapless 15y ago
On DNS, if you squat on someone else's trademark, ICANN will give it to its rightful owner. The only difference is cost and delay. That is to say, due process don't come cheap. On Twitter, the seizure happens instantly and no one pays leg
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by hapless 15y ago
Section I (EIC) was amusing. I didn't make it all the way through Section II (Taylorism). Citing such unreliable institutions as paragons of business virtue destroys your credibility. The American railroads that conquered the west were gro
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by hapless 15y ago
Obsessive micro-optimization obscuring the function of code is always a mess. You are correct that the mess is language agnostic. For example, if he'd attempted to discard the low order bit of his prime numbers in C, it would result in t
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by hapless 15y ago
"Very Bad Things" was a much funnier take on the exact same plot as "The Hangover." The latter is almost a bowdlerized version of the former. All the edgy material has been removed for your protection. Some bros go to Vegas. They cut a li
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by hapless 16y ago
This demo fails using mozilla.com's Firefox 4 build on my very vanilla core i5 Linux PC with Intel graphics. It's certainly not going to run on e.g. cr48, which has considerably less power to work with. "Unfortunately, while your browser su
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by hapless 16y ago
Exactly, they get a percentage of the sale price as a commission. 1% of a $300,000 house is $3,000. 1% of a $325,000 house is $3,250. The realtor has $250 to gain from holding your house price as high as possible, increasing the amount of w
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by hapless 16y ago
The figure I found suggested that a 486 averages ~0.8 instructions per clock running full-tilt. That seems impossible unless one hardly ever hits memory. I'm not 100% certain, but I think the pipelining would allow you to execute (some) re
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by hapless 16y ago
The 486 was pipelined but not superscalar. You could approach 1 instruction per clock cycle but you could never go over 1. --- 286: protected memory extensions for x86 386: useful protected memory extensions for x86. (Hardly anything use
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by hapless 16y ago
It's like real estate. Recruiting looks like easy money, so it attracts many, many entrants. Only a few are successful enough to stick to it as a full-time job. The incentives don't make sense. As a realtor, you get a huge, immediate p
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by hapless 16y ago
It's amazing that this would run halfway well on a 33 MHz 486. Doom had a 35 fps cap, and ran at 320x240 (square pixels): 2.7 million pixels per second at 35 fps (the cap). 1.4 million pixels per second at 18 fps (~50% of cap). At the more

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