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by jaydub 18y ago
It's not necessarily all about speed (or what theorists would refer to as single-task completion). It's also about increasing throughput. Google adds a pinch of concurrency to its web browser (each tab running in another thread) and it impr
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by jaydub 18y ago
Since clock speeds have pretty much hit a barrier - the only way to go faster will apparently be to leverage parallelism. It's worth pointing out that the "speed-of-light collides with 20+GHz serial processor" See http://www.hppc-workshop
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by jaydub 18y ago
Let's also not forget that Paul, as an employee of Intel has interest in boosting his company's strategic direction (many-core). I think this may explain the ostensibly inflammatory headline. Nevertheless, you can still see what Paul is t
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by jaydub 18y ago
The cumulative experience and knowledge of YCers isn't something which can be conveyed remotely. I would definitely agree with that. I think another reason might be simple "peer pressure." When everyone around you is working on a startup,
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"Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it"(software.intel.com)
52 points by jaydub 18y ago|98 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
I would guess that the deal is structured to incentivize the bankers to make more money for their clients.
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by jaydub 18y ago
Professor Hellerstein essentially stresses the distributed nature of MapReduce: " it works on 'shared-nothing' clusters of computers in a data center", "the MapReduce framework is a parallel dataflow system that works by partitioning data a
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Computer model reveals cells' inner workings(web.mit.edu)
1 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
Computer Architecture, Fourth Edition: A Quantitative Approach - John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson The Black Swan - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
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by jaydub 18y ago
I would just like echo the same sentiments. Poor UI, particularly with respect to menu navigation.
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by jaydub 18y ago
C/MPI!
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by jaydub 18y ago
Accessing NY times articles from a Google search will let you view the article without logging in.
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Windows Live Adds Support For OpenID, Calls It De Facto Login Standard(techcrunch.com)
6 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
For the likely fate of this submission see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=344359
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by jaydub 18y ago
I must have been 11 or so, and I remember having a brief instant message exchange with Hoon Im, one of the founders of Electric Gravity (they made "The Village", which Microsoft bought became the basis for what is now MSN Games). I don't re
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by jaydub 18y ago
Why do people freaking care? How many websites get NY Times coverage for adding 11 words to their homepage? People care because of the significant weight this ostensibly small change carries.
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Is 39 the New 28 at Google?(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
11 points by jaydub 18y ago|7 comments
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How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands(businessweek.com)
1 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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A Short Banking History of the United States: Why our system is prone to panics.(wsj.com)
3 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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New machine prints sheets of light(cnn.com)
3 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
Not particularly shocking -- which is exactly the point. Of course its amazingly easy now to make connections looking backwards. But I do think that it is safe to say that there are plenty of working systems/services that people are okay wi
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The seedling of the inspiration of Facebook?(web.archive.org)
3 points by jaydub 18y ago|1 comments
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A.M.D. to Split Into Two Operations(nytimes.com)
25 points by jaydub 18y ago|3 comments
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I.P.O. Crisis Could Have Lingering Effect on Start-Ups(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
I once heard someone say, programming is to computer science what skating is to ice hockey. (Just don't tell that to a theorist)
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Robot wheelchair finds its own way(web.mit.edu)
2 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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Canvas set to boost AJAX(infoworld.com)
1 points by jaydub 18y ago|0 comments
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College Panel Calls for Less Focus on SATs(nytimes.com)
9 points by jaydub 18y ago|26 comments
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"A New Kind of Venture Capitalist Makes Small Bets on Young Firms"(nytimes.com)
44 points by jaydub 18y ago|9 comments
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by jaydub 18y ago
I would say keep going. It's more important that you focus on delivering a better product. The customer doesn't care who was first. Personally I think the "impact of a launch" is a bit overrated. Besides, who's to say that the same thing wo

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