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by jpollock 12y ago
New Zealand http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/births/...
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by jpollock 12y ago
Both the compiler and CPU will reorder operations. Proper locking requires a memory barrier which will prevent both CPU and compiler from doing that. For more information I recommend reading up on double checked locking. DDJ had a good pai
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by jpollock 12y ago
The iPhone wasn't the first capacitative touch smartphone. LG announced and got to market before them. I don't remember if anyone else was earlier or not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
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by jpollock 12y ago
If you can have one thread per transaction then you can avoid event loops. If you cannot then you will need to write an event loop. In the systems I work with, the transactions are long held (months) and high in number (millions). Unless w
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by jpollock 12y ago
I'm sorry, this is probably a newbish question, but why didn't he use mmap for writes?
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by jpollock 12y ago
Yep, nuts. :)
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by jpollock 12y ago
This is probably a dumb question, but why didn't he use mmap for writes?
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by jpollock 13y ago
That would be nice, and some locations do that. New Zealand fixed line broadband is a good example. The US market, for some reason, doesn't.
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by jpollock 13y ago
That's the breakage. When the average is under the maximum, the remainder is there as a comfort buffer for the customer. Think of it this way, "The expectation is that you will use 500MB/month, but you are allowed to burst t
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by jpollock 13y ago
The goal is to have all mail which the USPS would deliver to your address redirected. This includes advertisements. Upstream forwarding still results in the USPS putting junk into your local mailbox.
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by jpollock 13y ago
Couple of comments. First, this is caused by "unlimited", or other large plans (1GB+) plans. Unlimited can never mean unlimited, anymore than it does with electricity. Carriers are selling those plans to give people comfort aroun
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by jpollock 13y ago
The Southern Institute of Technology [1] in New Zealand has had free tuition funded by the local city council for over a decade now. The city justified it because the students bring a lot of money into the local economy. Much the same as
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by jpollock 13y ago
Actually, there are substantial secondary benefits to going legal. Giving back to the creator, guaranteed quality, avoiding legal entanglements, cheaper traffic, higher speeds, etc. All things that aren't typically offered by pirated
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by jpollock 13y ago
There isn't a working jailbreak for AppleTV3. People have injected themselves into the existing apps changing where they look for video, but that's different to having local root.
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by jpollock 13y ago
Comcast will sell you an HBO subscription unbundled from their TV service.
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by jpollock 13y ago
They don't die _from_ cancer, but they tend to _have_ cancer when they die. Tumours in old people grow slowly.
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by jpollock 13y ago
It's not about Greece, it's about Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy and then possibly France.
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by jpollock 13y ago
Chip and Pin has already been attacked successfully. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/banking/relay/
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by jpollock 13y ago
Seriously, rhythm method is not effective birth control (24% failure rate/year). Please don't rely on it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_met...
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by jpollock 13y ago
From what I remember, the US doesn't allow "sweat of the brow" arguments to protect databases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow#US_copyright_... So, while the data would be protected in oth
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by jpollock 13y ago
No, it doesn't work like that, because it doesn't take the house's capital gain into account. Given the ability to grow the housing supply, there is typically a fixed return for a property. That return will be split between
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by jpollock 13y ago
Legal intercept legislation would likely require them to patch customer systems to allow the reporting of the key.
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by jpollock 13y ago
I don't know, I've never lived in the US as an adult. I just moved here from New Zealand.
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by jpollock 13y ago
Sure, here's some off the top of my head. 1) Everyone calls me "Sir", but they don't use that term with others. 2) I have a jacket that sets off store alarms. I never get questioned, but others do. 3) I've seen apa
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by jpollock 13y ago
I never realized what Scalzi was talking about when he said that being white male was "Easy Mode" until I moved here. Being white is a superpower around here.
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by jpollock 13y ago
Yes, RCD - Residual Current Device is the same thing as a GFI.
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by jpollock 13y ago
My house had residual current devices in the main circuit board (like the bathroom socket, only centralised). That meant that when devices such as the toaster, kettle, dishwasher and exterior lights developed ground faults, they would take
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by jpollock 13y ago
Your house probably has a 100A main line, at 110V, that's 11kw. Do you use 7920KWh per month? No? The power companies are only selling the illusion of electricity!
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by jpollock 13y ago
The article was not about the technology, but about the ability for Google to unilaterally affect the ability for the Chinese government to surveil their population. The premise relies on Google being irreplaceable to the Chinese economy.
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by jpollock 13y ago
Are you sure Google's big enough in China to have an impact? http://www.chinainternetwatch.com/4371/search-engine-market-... Even worse, that's by revenue, not searches: http://www.chinainternetwat

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