joelwilliamson

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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
There are more than 5x as many Android users than iOS users.
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
Dell has a 5K monitor. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l...
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
If he thought Curtis had robbed him, I suppose it was okay to hire someone to murder him.
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
Dell sells servers with 96x64GB RAM. There is a huge (7x) premium for the 64GB DIMMs instead of 32GB, so it runs around 500k, with almost the entire price going to RAM.
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
I think you're reading too much into the idea. If all memory is word-aligned, you only get 2 bits on a 32-bit machine and 3 bits on a 64-bit machine. If your property can't be encoded in 2 bits, it's probably not worth the tr
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
It seems auctioning H1-Bs to companies would let the companies that can't find enough talent to hire at market price, and force companies that just want cheap talent to pay for Americans. Solicit bids from every company stating how man
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
Why not link to the newspaper article, rather than the summary? http://www.torontosun.com/2015/03/05/i-built-the-mystery-tun...
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
I don't think GCC can take any credit for C becoming a popular language. GCC 1.0 was only released in 1987, and prior to that most people were stuck using proprietary compilers. I would rather say C succeeded because it was tied to Uni
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
A 99% literacy rate is nothing special. Canada, New Zealand, the US and the UK all have 99% literacy rates.
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
> Canada really just has the one bank Is this supposed to be a figure of speech suggesting Canadian banks policies are so similar they are essentially the same bank? The three largest of the Big Five (RBC, TD and Scotia) are so similar
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
If you use -ffreestanding -nostdlib, libgcc doesn't pull in libc. You'll need to write the syscall(2) function yourself.
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
Macau was governed by Portugal and was handed back in 1999. It had been rented by the Portuguese since 1557.
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
There has been quite a bit of discussion on ghc-devs about fixing records. The most promising approach seems to here: http://nikita-volkov.github.io/record/
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
It's a name example.
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
recordval.fieldname would have the same syntax as function composition func1.func2 Since you should know the type of the first argument to '.', it is possible to disambiguate, but it would be a pretty significant corner case in th
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
The term for royalties doesn't have to be linked to the term for copyright. If all scripts already pass through the WGA, they could impose conditions on producers for royalties even after the script is out of copyright. They could use
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
Did you read the article? It is producing gas, not oil. It is much easier to move gas from Australia to China than from North America.
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by joelwilliamson 12y ago
The US has more arable land. In terms of total land, China is the second largest contry in the world, behind only Russia.
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by joelwilliamson 13y ago
Offline mode was possible within two weeks of release. That's better than most forms of DRM, but hardly a full year. http://www.cinemablend.com/games/SimCity-Offline-Mode-Achiev...
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by joelwilliamson 13y ago
Either that or he was intelligent for trusting the works of Plank, Maxwell, Lorentz, etc. that demonstrated Newtonian physics was seriously lacking.
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by joelwilliamson 13y ago
Qt is dual licensed so a company that isn't willing to GPL their software can pay for a license that allows distribution without releasing source.
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by joelwilliamson 13y ago
I'd go further than that: most books probably go out of print after a single run, and will be unavailable within a single year. Remember that when you go into a big chain bookstore, all the books you are seeing have already outperformed mos
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by joelwilliamson 13y ago
If A is also allowed to call, it solves the problem of B and C splitting the pizza.
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by joelwilliamson 14y ago
Firefox on Linux (where I assume DirectWrite isn't used) also displays it fine.
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by joelwilliamson 14y ago
What I'm interested in is how they determine someone is one-click scanning to email. Do they just bulk mail to businesses and hope their targets use this system?