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by johnm 18y ago
Why do these polls get repeated so regularly? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=323041
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by johnm 18y ago
This is by the creator of SQLite. It is its own distributed SCM which does seem a bit silly given that there are already some very good ones out there. I.e., I'd much rather see this work with Mercurial and Git rather than competing with th
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Fossil: Distributed Revision Control, Wiki, and Bug-Tracking(fossil-scm.hwaci.com)
8 points by johnm 18y ago|1 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
Mercurial
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by johnm 18y ago
0) The company has no customers. 0.5) The growth rate of customers is linear. Of course, if you're in the "hype" phase rather than trying to make any money, those issues may not be that high a priority.
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by johnm 18y ago
That makes sense if you're using Emacs on a laptop. However, when you're at your desk, the most awesome Emacs upgrade is to buy a Kinesis Ergo "Contoured" keyboard ( http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/ ). It moves all of the control/alt/Apple/Met
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Bumper-sticker API Design -- Josh Bloch(infoq.com)
1 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
Depends very much on who you're "marketing" to. I.e., two of the most valuable "markets" are the primary attendees of e.g. DEMO... investors and press. The next tier can also be a boon: partners. Another facet that's typically overlooked i
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The Networking ABCs(devcentral.f5.com)
1 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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A Talk with Tony Segaran (Author of Programming Collective Intelligence)(youtube.com)
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by johnm 18y ago
FWIW, OmniGraffle is the commercial solution on the Mac that pretty much everybody uses. If you're going to be doing diagrams more than every great once in awhile, it's worth investing in something good. I've been using it for years and i
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by johnm 18y ago
Some good basics that go a long ways. Though, I don't think most hackers really need to bother buying fonts. That's an extra. :-) Other good info: Presentation Zen ( http://www.presentationzen.com/ ) -- both the blog and the book. Guy's 10
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Fear Makes The Wolf Look Bigger(flickr.com)
1 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
Meat popsicle
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BREAD, not CRUD(paul-m-jones.com)
11 points by johnm 18y ago|9 comments
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The Trickle List(randsinrepose.com)
14 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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VisualVM v1.0 released(visualvm.dev.java.net)
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BOSS: The Next Step in Yahoo's Open Search Ecosystem(ysearchblog.com)
1 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
Naw, it's way wacko different and relatively hard to switch back to a QWERTY when you need to. Check out the Kinesis Ergo Contoured keyboard instead, http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/ . While it looks daunting, it's easy to pick up and it's su
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Flaws in medical coding can kill(baltimoresun.com)
5 points by johnm 18y ago|3 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
You seem to be talking about something different than the skiplists and their effects on the cache. Unless you're building the actual chipsets, you don't get really any say in the amount and style of caching that your skiplist code is runn
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by johnm 18y ago
Joe Bob says: check out Radix/Crit-Bit/Patricia Trees http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_tree
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by johnm 18y ago
In terms of cache friendly and massively scalable, check out Cliff's work on non-blocking hashtables: http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2007/03/a_nonblocking_h.h...
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by johnm 18y ago
But that's another argument of where skip list are not appropriate. Or do you have a real example?
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MC2: High-Performance Garbage Collection for Memory-Constrained Environments [pdf](cs.umass.edu)
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Robust Java Benchmarking(ellipticgroup.com)
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by johnm 18y ago
Discussion started on LtU: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2868
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Revisiting Coroutines(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
2 points by johnm 18y ago|1 comments
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by johnm 18y ago
I'm reminded of: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_pmarca_guid.html
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by johnm 18y ago
:-) However, if they've put this sort of crap into their employment agreement, I will bet dollars to donuts that they also have very onerous IP ownership clauses as well. I.e., be careful that they will probably claim to own everything tha

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