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by herf 17y ago
ZFS handles the three-tiered model well (with the L2ARC implementation). Also, the authors of this paper didn't consider the "write-limited" implementation that the ZFS authors use: they write at a fixed rate to SSD (e.g., 8MB/sec) and pull
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by herf 17y ago
When using IPP, I had to rewrite the CPU detector, even for new Intel chips as they came out. This code should be better...really it should just benchmark all the options and catch processor exceptions to pick a supported path. Instead, the
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by herf 17y ago
Not sure I agree - most fonts are cached (as pixels) at a few offsets, so the ability to place a character is constrained by 1-pixel increments (or 1/3-pixel increments in the case of ClearType). A true vector placement of each character gi
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by herf 17y ago
At least HTTP keepalive helps slow-start once you've "warmed up" a connection to a particular server.
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by herf 17y ago
Seagate took about 4 months to fully resolve the issue (their first fix had a bug!) I had a drive that bricked when applying the fix several months after the initial firmware updates. Apparently a buffer overflow in the error log that locke
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by herf 17y ago
Most companies blacklist interview questions that are highly publicized. Maybe companies should also ask if you've read questions online before an interview begins. :)
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by herf 17y ago
Scrolling on Chrome is still really slow compared to Safari (uses 100% cpu!) Guess this test doesn't do any of that.
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by herf 17y ago
I think about this every week. The Photos Guy? Keep trying to do something new, but so much undone after Picasa. And when you have a TON of stuff going into an acquisition that never sees the light of day, you kind of obsess about making it
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by herf 17y ago
Great idea, and the editor looks nice! Really want them to hire a designer to do some good templates...you could rock PDF output a lot.
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by herf 17y ago
MongoDB appears to memory map its data: http://blog.mongodb.org/post/137788967/32-bit-limitations This is fine on 64-bit CPUs, but less good on 32-bit dev boxes that people are probably using. Very nice API, though.
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by herf 17y ago
Apple could make searching the store return the best match "per company". Doesn't help Apple with the review process, but it might be slightly harder for somebody to hurt the user experience...would have to incorporate dozens of companies r
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by herf 17y ago
Compared to authoring 3-D any other way, turning parts of the DOM to 3-D is just smart. Built-in textures, text, it's really 5x easier to author this than anything before it.
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by herf 17y ago
Most of these companies are pretty awesome in their own right. We shouldn't stop doing business with them. But we should ask them why they want their names associated with this kind of "news".
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by herf 17y ago
Does this generalize to a moving "fixed offset" in the compressor? i.e. can't it be done without the disassembler? (Assuming they're parsing x86?) x86 is variable length, so this isn't trivial, but surely it is possible. I guess I don't lik
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by herf 17y ago
The rather good Fiddler debugging proxy ( http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/ ) always flags HN for this. In a popup, no less. So it drives me nuts too, and if it could be fixed, I could click on fewer popups.
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by herf 17y ago
SSDs vary a lot by write speed. Most today are slower than HDD for write throughput. (Intel's SSD drives are actually fast, but expensive.) This will get figured out and make a big difference. But still no comparison to RAM.