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by ismarc 17y ago
What, no one got the irony of the server(s) hosting a blog post about how to increase page load performance was down for maintenance in the middle of the day?
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by ismarc 17y ago
Funny, The system is down for maintenance as of 14:26 PST. It'll be back shortly.
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by ismarc 17y ago
Yeah, I knew about the lag, but 1 1/2 years of lag seemed to signify other issues to me.
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by ismarc 17y ago
Looks like someone changed something near the end of June '08 that prevented archive.org from storing the site. Gotta suck.
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by ismarc 17y ago
I hate rotated monitors. I love the dimensions, but the way the LCDs are designed, I just can't get a good crisp picture for the full length of the monitor. Now, if a company with design a 9:16 or 10:16 monitor instead of 16:9/16:10, I'd
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by ismarc 17y ago
In trying to make it sound "less bad" you've confused what the real question is. It should have been "Have you every exploited the fact that something is publicly available for your own gain?" Take any design pattern (code design pattern)
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by ismarc 17y ago
I primarily use Chromium on Linux without the flash plugin. Sure, I miss like 1/8th the internet, but I didn't care about most of that anyways. If there's something in flash I really want to see, I'll fire up Konquerer (which will use the
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by ismarc 17y ago
I'll go ahead and recommend ANY vendor for bringing in a providing WiFi for a conference. If you're doing any sort of tech-heavy conference, you have to assume that the venue's internet traffic will at least double, will be of a different
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by ismarc 17y ago
Any behavior or opinions they expressed, true or otherwise, would have built that mental model, and thus with implied consent by providing the information to them. If you provide information to someone, you are giving them consent to colle
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by ismarc 17y ago
Your logic is flawed (as is nearly every "solution" to one of these problems I've seen). The question wasn't "How many barbers should there be?" It was "How many barbers are there?" This is an important distinction as your approach shows
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by ismarc 17y ago
I forgot to add above...the reason I was looking for interest rates was I was looking to understand how you were prioritizing what to be paid off. I wasn't sure if it was biggest + minimums first, or if it was prioritized to prevent growth
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by ismarc 17y ago
I checked it out real quick because it actually looked pretty presentable/useful for other folks (I have 0 debt, literally, not even a quarter to a co-worker now). Playing with the test account, there's no way to view the annual interest r
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by ismarc 17y ago
The -S flag was invaluable for me when I was moving from C to assembly. Then again, I used it in an iterative fashion, do something simple -S, do the same thing -S -O1, -S -O2, -S O3, and then a spattering of the different optimization tec
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by ismarc 17y ago
The database can make all the disk I/O operations asynchronous because it provides an interface on top of file system itself. What you had listed would require either your own implementation (which you'd be better off using existing DB/Ber
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by ismarc 17y ago
Disk I/O is a huge limiting factor in a filesystem based approach to data persistence. Using a database for the persistence of data allows the db to schedule flushing the state to disk, independent of the actual requests. The situation yo
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by ismarc 17y ago
Forget to read the rest of the paragraph? "In fact, according to its sensors, peer-to-peer traffic still accounts for about 18 percent of all traffic. (That’s by looking at packets — by protocol, P2P fell to less than one percent of traffic
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by ismarc 17y ago
I type 80+ words a minute regularly. It would be insanely difficult to type at that speed without the little nubs on f and j keys, as well as the tactile feedback as fingers slide over keys preparing for what they're going to be typing nex
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by ismarc 17y ago
Why do you think there are wars? It has to do with the moral standing and beliefs of the leaders who wage those wars. These types of tests are actually very appropriate for "treating" the problem of war. One life for one more important o
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by ismarc 17y ago
I would actually have to disagree. They are different situations cast around the trolley problem. For me, the settings of each situation actually played a large amount in the weighting. Trying to not reveal much, in my opinion, the lunch
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by ismarc 17y ago
1) What the internet is, how to use it, how to protect themselves, how to find what they want. 2) Email, crafty/informational websites, getting pictures onto/off of cameras and adding annotations to pictures. 3) Screen size, resolution and
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by ismarc 17y ago
Immanuel Kant, if nothing more than realizing he was wrong and spending over 10 years trying to discover what may be right.
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by ismarc 17y ago
I first convert it to a 1-2 word description of what it does, then translate to Japanese, then mangle it to sound cool (a lot of the time, no need to mangle). Note that there's no real creativity required.
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by ismarc 17y ago
Your perception of experience is flawed. Ever user interface application is multi-threaded. It's actually fairly rare to run across a single threaded application anymore. Most single threaded applications are going to be daemons (system
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by ismarc 17y ago
I hate to be the guy to say it, but this isn't an engineering novelty, it's duct tape. I was expecting to see a jet engine or turbofan used for driving the drive shaft rotation. Instead, this is just as novel as putting a jet engine on a
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by ismarc 17y ago
So you want to create a virtual personal assistant that has instant access to real-time information to provide you with the best formulated advice given your request? You want it to additionally adapt to the decisions you make based on the
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by ismarc 17y ago
The Pomodoro technique is phenomenal. I actually end up doing ~50 and 10 rather than ~25 and 5. The trick is, when the buzzer goes off, I hit save, mash make && make test and go grab a cigarette. Chat about the weather, video gam
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by ismarc 17y ago
There is a reason. I'd like a reasonably priced 10Mbit synchronous internet connection at my residence. Heck, 5Mbit synchronous would work fine as well. You can't get it for under $700 a month. I couldn't even find a deal that had cheap
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by ismarc 17y ago
I've been considering an ISP co-op recently, and if the economy finally hits me, I will probably give it a start. There's a lot of core pieces that are going to cost the absolute most. Telecommunications is heavily regulated and there is
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by ismarc 17y ago
I had an idea at one point that the current sites go about it the wrong way. They charge money to talk to the people, encouraging the catalog effect. My idea was that you charge a reasonable fee to join, and then the system makes some gue
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by ismarc 17y ago
To learn about Zen you can't just pick up a book and read it and go "aha!". Zen is about personal enlightenment and someone can go many years without really understanding Zen. I would suggest reading 公案 (kouan) as a means to understanding

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