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by iigs 18y ago
The Wide Finder 2 implies lots of IO activity, which proved to be relatively hard to optimize on the T2K, because it you can easily saturate a core by doing mere IO (i.e., a single core is barely able to cope with the sustained read rate o
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by iigs 18y ago
To me, the cloud-computing landscape feels like the Web search landscape in 1996. Back then, Everybody who’d thought about it had clued in that this was going to be really interesting and useful. There had been a few offerings, much better
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by iigs 18y ago
I think the difference between 1 and 2 is which side of the cash register you can see. I'd love to be the second player (producer) in a high margin category 1 situation, and I sure do like being a customer in the #2 scenarios I'm exposed to
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by iigs 18y ago
Just out of curiousity, where do you live? I can't name an international airport [1], in the USA at least, that isn't in a part of town that has traffic issues during rush hour. Industry pulls itself to airports possibly faster than any oth
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by iigs 18y ago
Welcome to the morass of professional life. Is your career progressing? Have you accomplished anything in the last year that you'll put on your resume? Yes? Good, continue. No? Consider other options. Is the project proceeding? How does you
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by iigs 18y ago
I believe a large-ish download icon is good user interface. I know if I go to a web page discussing a program and desire to download it, if I don't see a button (or the word "Download" in large, bold text), I immediately switch into find-th
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by iigs 18y ago
Wow, that turns my internal notion of the profitability of this scam on its nose. I had no idea this was profitable enough to pay for postage.
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by iigs 18y ago
I'm not trying to be this guy: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694 -- it's not something I'm serious about avoiding, my wife would love to have a decent TV, and I used to install them professionally and love the geeky aspects of h
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by iigs 18y ago
As someone who doesn't presently have TV in my lifestyle (we have a couple old CRTs in the basement that are unplugged, but nothing we use), I'm not sure how low prices would have to go to make me pick one up. I'm not sure that the quoted p
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by iigs 18y ago
I disagree, or agree only superficially. IT departments start off as innocuous places where the guy who knows how to fix the copier hides, but as things grow they're responsible for maintaining the security and availability of the company's
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by iigs 18y ago
People seem amused by the "antiquated" computers, but there are a lot of reasons to select a computer no bigger than needed for a job like that. Low power, cooler, big manufacturing process (rugged, maybe more resistant to gamma rays), lowe
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by iigs 18y ago
A few different possibilities: Phase one: http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=1099... Legacy form factor mules with advanced technology in them. Phase two: Performance tuning shops often pick up early versions of cars
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by iigs 18y ago
Eastside coffee option: http://www.kahilicoffee.com/default.htm on the main drag in Kirkland, decent size and not jam packed like the Rose Hill (85th & 122nd) Starbucks. Decent supply of syrups, and I believe the coffee is good, as w
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by iigs 18y ago
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :)
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by iigs 18y ago
I'm not entirely sure what aspects of car computing they're talking about here, but from what little meat there is it sounds like they're talking about entertainment and some body control (heat/ac/radio/nav/dvd), not the (to me) more intere
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by iigs 18y ago
Working (as an employee) at a company that was a startup in 2004. Selected "... but not at a startup" because it's pretty hard to call > 1000 employees and billions in investment a startup anymore :)
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by iigs 18y ago
1) A place called "Science Daily" using the phrase "x Times Smaller Than"... arrrgh. (offtopic: Google "times smaller than" in the next couple hours to get a peak into how Google seems to be ranking sites... I was surprised to see this topi
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by iigs 18y ago
Why? What if certain industries do this and find out that hours worked and productivity are negatively correlated?
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by iigs 18y ago
There's no way I could bring myself to do that. Between that, "My grandson is SO SMART he built his own computer from SCRATCH! You should hire him!" and "My niece is having open heart surgery and my cousin just lost her job" stories, I re
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by iigs 18y ago
I work at another company in the building in question. Several of my coworkers have been in the elevator at the same time he has. I can't wait to get my chance so I can ask him if computers are going to be chewy in the future.
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by iigs 18y ago
I see. I never thought to make a webpage a huge board of ads and put the content into the iframe. Ingenious. I wonder what that does to their pagerank.
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by iigs 18y ago
That thought crossed my mind as well. I guess there's no point in trying to retain our demographic since none of us read the paper anyway. I don't see how it would really help them, but they've got to do something, and this is something, so
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by iigs 18y ago
I'm not sure about this article, I think we're getting trolled here. Some of the quotes are questionable, but some of them seemed to sound like they came from larger "employees are people too" interviews. I don't think all of the people int
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by iigs 18y ago
Interesting article. Where did you find it?
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by iigs 18y ago
Don't sell asterisk short, it's a tremendous tool for businesses of all sizes. Even if you only use mobile extensions it's trivial to write an extensions.conf script to play "Press 1 for sales, 2 for support" and have it ring different queu
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by iigs 18y ago
Interesting that people are admitting it, but this has probably been true for longer than I've been paying attention (about a decade) -- it's generally recognized that the first cut is deadwood, especially if the number is low (like the quo
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by iigs 18y ago
Between the first glance at the tutorial and the twitter feed I get 40% why the lucky stiff and 60% Borat. Should be interesting. I haven't attempted Haskell enough times for the Monads thing to click, this looks like it might be different
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by iigs 18y ago
The protocol you'd use is iSCSI. You could hack this together with commercial iSCSI initiators on the working machine, and some kind of LiveCD target, but Apple would need to release an initiator in OSX to make it slick and easy. There is o
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by iigs 18y ago
It would be trivial to beat the 400/480/800mbit of FW/USB/FW800 with a LiveCD, and all of the pieces are more or less already there. Use the Gig-E wired ethernet connection.
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by iigs 18y ago
As someone who's watched this happen a couple times I definitely agree. Furthermore, the earlier the cycle you're in the better your packages tend to be. The first round got great severance. The second round got a small package IIRC, and th

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