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by jbarham 16y ago
Note that Dalvik is essentially just an alternate stack-based virtual machine for bytecode that's been converted from the standard stack-based JVM bytecode. You still need a standard Java SDK to develop Android applications in order to com
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by jbarham 16y ago
I think it's more likely that the Go ARM compiler will be getting more love.
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Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android(marketwatch.com)
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by jbarham 16y ago
> Take tons of photos, they change a lot very quickly. Speaking of photos, make sure you have an SLR/interchangeable lens camera with a good fixed ("prime") portrait lens. The image quality of large sensor cameras is way ahead of compac
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by jbarham 16y ago
Hah, would these be the same financial models that were used to rate sub-prime securities AAA?! :)
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by jbarham 16y ago
In my experience owning a motorcycle in Canada or the US is more expensive than owning a small car. Even medium sized sport or sport touring motorcycles (e.g., Honda VFR) aren't cheap to run. The engines are tuned for performance not fuel
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by jbarham 16y ago
That doesn't mean renting is cheap. I'm paying $2165/month for a 3-bedroom apartment in Irvine (i.e., $25980/year). I'm not complaining since I earn a good salary as a programmer and our apartment is in a well-managed complex in a nice nei
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by jbarham 16y ago
He removed those boxes from his office in Toronto. Since when does US law have jurisdiction in Canada?
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by jbarham 16y ago
A lot of those laid-off people who "simply stop receiving" their paychecks are losing their houses. And the whole point of incorporation is that if the company goes bust, the owners are not personally liable. The risk-reward incentives for
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by jbarham 16y ago
Well a lot of those math, physics and CS grad students end up in finance anyway.
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by jbarham 16y ago
How is working for Google, one of the world's most profitable companies, taking a risk? I'm not averse to risk but I am skeptical that everyone working late at Google is doing so because they're having so much fun as "rock star" engineers t
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by jbarham 16y ago
Seconded. Being home for supper w/ wife and two-year-old son is the highlight of my day. Read a different way "Last night there were at least 400 people eating dinner at 8:00PM" means that there were at least 400 people who either don't ha
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by jbarham 16y ago
FWIW before the introduction of electronic computers as we know them, "computer" was a job description (think of folks, usually women, who calculated tables for e.g. artillery).
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by jbarham 16y ago
Speaking as a US resident, I know I'd much prefer to memorize general trivia than the US tax code!
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by jbarham 16y ago
Intel only supports ECC RAM w/ its Xeon chips, in contrast to AMD where almost all of its chips support ECC (w/ the appropriate motherboard of course).
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by jbarham 16y ago
One big advantage that China has over India is reliable physical infrastructure (e.g., power, roads, ports). In China when you turn the lights on, they stay on. In India, not so much, unless you're in a private industrial park with its ow
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by jbarham 16y ago
I think it's supposed to be a pun...
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by jbarham 16y ago
As a Canadian I will admit we are generally sane (aka "dull"), but there are enough crazies around to keep things interesting, especially in BC (e.g., Bill Vander Zalm, Svend Robinson). So, although it is generally overlooked, my vote is f
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by jbarham 16y ago
The Unix manual is divided into sections ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Manual_sections ). Section 2 is for system calls. Specifying the section number allows you to disambiguate which section of the manual you want to look in if
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by jbarham 16y ago
I've found the same thing in California. The only place I've seen a Thinkpad in the wild is at Fry's or (once) at the Microsoft store. Certainly never at Best Buy. But I suspect that the real customers for Thinkpads are corporate IT purc
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by jbarham 16y ago
The Sony Vaio series laptops are generally pretty slick.
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by jbarham 16y ago
I'll admit to being biased since I'm waiting for my new Thinkpad T410 to arrive, but I think the Thinkpad line is pretty logically segmented and named. The current convention is that each segment has a common prefix ("T" for their standard
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by jbarham 16y ago
Even if are any "civilian" internet users in North Korea (unlikely since using the internet requires government approval), I think it's safe to say that being stymied by US export restrictions on Sourceforge is the least of their problems..
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by jbarham 16y ago
Unless your definition of a "modest lifestyle" includes driving a Lamborghini ( http://www.google.com/search?q=dhh+lamborghini ), I'd say 37signals is doing very well financially. And that's probably because they're intentionally staying s
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by jbarham 16y ago
In particular Sybase IQ is popular in finance companies since it's based on a column storage engine which makes for very fast aggregation queries (albeit at the expense of slower inserts and updates). Speed matters when you're working with
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by jbarham 16y ago
Well, if you want to talk about "hardcore compiler guys", I'd say that Google has the advantage since e.g. Ken Thompson and Rob Pike have chosen to work there and not at Apple. They are on the team that's developing Go and the pace of impr
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by jbarham 16y ago
Microcontrollers (e.g., the Atmel AVR chip line which is the basis of the Arduino open source hardware platform) are often modified Harvard architectures, where the instructions are read from flash and SRAM is used for volatile stack/heap m
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by jbarham 16y ago
Crucially, and somewhat surprisingly, the Beagle Board does not have on board Ethernet. You need to add it via a USB dongle.
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by jbarham 16y ago
And how is removing an incentive to save for your own retirement (vs. relying on "social security") a good thing?
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It's a different Paulson: "John Paulson [founder and president of Paulson & Co. referenced in the SEC link] is not related to former Goldman Sachs CEO and U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson." (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_

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