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by jpablo 14y ago
He's only providing a lower bound for this numbers, he specifically spells your concerns. He mentions that any improvement on: * number of cores per CPU * number of CPUs per server * any improvements in cryptanalysis * instruction set impro
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by jpablo 14y ago
I wonder if Mike Goldman ever made a response after everything was published. I found very distasteful when he threatened to accuse Patrick of fraud. He should have recognized that the rules where vaguely stated and at the very least offer
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The $5000 Compression Challenge(patrickcraig.co.uk)
104 points by jpablo 14y ago|119 comments
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Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps (allthingsd.com)
2 points by jpablo 14y ago|0 comments
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IPhone 5 liveblog(engadget.com)
6 points by jpablo 14y ago|1 comments
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by jpablo 14y ago
humm, somehow I missed the caption. Sorry about that.
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by jpablo 14y ago
Anybody can explain the background behind this one: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/wp-content/gallery/silicon-vall... ?
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by jpablo 14y ago
Thanks for the DS Game Maker link, my nieces are all into NDS, I'll try it with them!
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Live Facebook stock value(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by jpablo 14y ago|0 comments
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The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia’s Source Code From Digital Death(wired.com)
1 points by jpablo 14y ago|0 comments
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In 1994, a hundred people set out to win a single game of solitaire. They lost.(gameological.com)
2 points by jpablo 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Upvote if you want to stop seeing comments about downvoting
5 points by jpablo 15y ago|1 comments
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by jpablo 15y ago
GET with randomized ids and checking referrer should be good enough to keeps things simple.
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by jpablo 15y ago
The setuid flags allows you to run a binary as someone else. Since processes inherit the credentials they have when they run another program, if you find a bug[1] in a setuid program that let's you run another program of your choosing you c
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Violin virtuoso plays in the subway, nobody notices [2007](washingtonpost.com)
10 points by jpablo 15y ago|5 comments
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by jpablo 15y ago
Because it's the standard in the Windows API.
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by jpablo 15y ago
It makes sense to me. His point is that calling UTF-8 "Unicode" is wrong, that just confuses people. Windows programmers usually also call UTF-16 "Unicode" which is also wrong. Unicode is not a text encoding, it's a standard that assigns a
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by jpablo 15y ago
Because they want to offer just enough for the money to be attractive to you, but no more.
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by jpablo 15y ago
Passing random garbage to a random function is not the same as passing random input to a program. Take for example one of the most common bugs in C (even more common than not null terminating strings I'll say) passing already freed memory,
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by jpablo 15y ago
Agreed, the example used seems very strange. Every function makes functions about it's parameters and in C null terminated string are to be assumed unless otherwise noted. The std library strcpy would just behave in an identical way. Yeah,
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by jpablo 15y ago
Slightly off topic: But why does those phones have barometers build in? What are those normally used for?
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List of patents that Microsoft is using to attack Android(networkworld.com)
2 points by jpablo 15y ago|0 comments
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The Times They Are A-Changin'(folklore.org)
4 points by jpablo 15y ago|0 comments
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by jpablo 15y ago
As a colorblind myself I couldn't agree more. But this is not limited to pie charts, any kind of graphics that uses more than 3 colors to identify labels in a list is completely illegible for me.
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Copyright extended from 50 to 70 years in the EU(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by jpablo 15y ago|1 comments
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by jpablo 15y ago
The directions that browsers are going is to prefetch the entire page ahead of time anyway, so this is a moot point.
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by jpablo 15y ago
Doesn't that go against all we have learned in CS? Early optimization being the root of all evil. And don't optimize what you think will be slow, but what you have measured to be slow?
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by jpablo 15y ago
Didn't Nintendo opened up to small devs with WiiWare ?
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by jpablo 15y ago
if battery weight is a problem, can't they attach a external power cord to it ? I mean it's not like the water pressure is coming from inside the robot.
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by jpablo 16y ago
This in no way compares to the Sony Rootkit fiasco. Even if the keylogger is still there I'll hardly doubt that Samsung installed it on purpose.

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