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by jrabone 14y ago
That is not necessarily nonsense, but it depends on the speakers. Digital clipping is one of the worst things you can do to speakers with a separate high frequency driver - it radically changes the power distribution due to the additional f
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by jrabone 14y ago
Until someone comes to do major rework and your tests take ten times longer to change than the code. It happens - a lot. Badly structured tests are worse than no tests to the extent that it's often cheaper to throw the lot away and write ne
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London Startup Weekend: day two(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by jrabone 14y ago|0 comments
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by jrabone 14y ago
Why is it any worse than the current state of the browser SSL world? When was the last time anyone went through the built-in CA certificate list and deleted all the ones from countries with dubious human rights records, or companies with le
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by jrabone 14y ago
Good. It's time for a better business model. Ads suck - they're badly implemented, bloated, bug-ridden, privacy invading security holes at worst, and not much better at best. Every network I have admin for gets a Privoxy HTTP proxy by defau
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Unit testing best practices(howtodoinjava.com)
22 points by jrabone 14y ago|16 comments
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by jrabone 14y ago
Regardless of all the other issues here, that is a triumph of form over function. Consumer hard drives are not noted for their reliability (or they'd come with 5 year warranty like the enterprise version).
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by jrabone 14y ago
The lower figure of 20W is pretty standard: go take a look at the battery in your laptop. Most Dells are 65Whr batteries - ie. 20W for 3 hours of battery life (to a first approximation, LiIon is a bit more complicated than that). The ubiqui
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by jrabone 14y ago
So who makes, say, 4GB E(E)PROM chips? I'm thinking Windows here, not Android. Clearly the technology isn't the problem but the largest ROMs I've worked with are all in the Mbit range.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Curious - does DNSSEC add much to the amount of trust one can assign to DKIM verification? Or are there better solutions (both for trusted DNS and DKIM-alike)?
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by jrabone 14y ago
Plenty of crappy DNS web admin "tools" limit the maximum length of a TXT record. Sometimes it's harder than just typing "1024" instead of "512"...
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by jrabone 14y ago
Batteries aren't static sensitive, and ROMs aren't available in gigabytes, but apart from that there is a certain appeal in a more secure OS environment. It's a shame that (for example) Windows doesn't make it easier to make the entire syst
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by jrabone 14y ago
A typical x86 desktop machine will draw between 300-500 watts. With a beefy GPU, perhaps. The new i3 3220T CPU is only 30W MAX TDP, flat out - a typical (ie. non-gamer) rig is looking more like 150W max, and a lot less idle (20W should be
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's the Metro - it is given away free on UK public transport (at least here). Not quite a tabloid, but it's not exactly the Financial Times either.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Depends a lot on your data. Our custom bit packed compression scheme is ten times smaller than protobufs using Google varint and about half the size of bzip2. We have a very specific, well-understood domain for these numbers and a lot of da
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by jrabone 14y ago
What's the licensing situation with such models? I seem to remember Lucasfilm ( http://www.lucasfilm.com/divisions/licensing/ ) being pretty active ($3 billion in licensing revenue in 2011), but presumably they're not interested if there's
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by jrabone 14y ago
I have one word: hashpipe !
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by jrabone 14y ago
Hmm, another triumph for the "Github will get you hired" crowd. And so soon after the "Github will get you kicked off Coursera" debacle. Actually this is a good use case for DVCS - at least you have a second chance to clean up your commit m
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by jrabone 14y ago
You'd be surprised. Every Halloween they make a resurgence. Considerable developer effort goes into keeping pictures of the damn things off the (U-rated) front page of certain large e-commerce sites.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Do you speak Bocce?
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's not a gimmick, but it's also a double-edged sword. They also do fun things like spinning down on an aggressive timeout, which can lead to early SMART warnings about head load/unload cycles if you keep waking them up to write periodic l
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by jrabone 14y ago
So, for lack of a long term plan and bulk-buying arrangements with manufacturers, instead you screwed over all the other customers who wanted to buy a hard drive. Classy. I just can't WAIT for the first major shortage of something significa
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by jrabone 14y ago
For login screens, this is the problem that the Secure Attention Key ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key ) was intended to solve. IMO this is why the constant pushing of the browser as a platform is more trouble than it's wo
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by jrabone 14y ago
Most of the web was built by people who don't know what B-trees are. By number of sites, perhaps. By revenue, I don't think so. The big names that dominated what the web is to most people certainly do know this stuff, at least insofar as
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by jrabone 14y ago
Some things you can look up quickly. Being functionally innumerate is not something you can fix with Google. The tedious details of whatever god-forsaken CRUD framework is flavour-of-the-week with the cool kids probably WERE beneath him.
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by jrabone 14y ago
This is universally true.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Not strictly true. In the bigger companies, everyone knows that DBs (which is really just a special case of I/O) and I/O are slow (we tend not to hire them if they don't - one of my favoured systems & arch. interview questions[1] is on
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by jrabone 14y ago
But the problem (much like a qubit) can go one of two ways. Either D-Wave have built a 512-qubit quantum computer - in which case the CIA / NSA will be strongly suggesting that they don't tell anyone, or they haven't - in which case they wo
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by jrabone 14y ago
Except they don't - they do whatever their woefully inaccurate speedometer thinks the limit is. Since I drive something with cruise control and GPS-indicated speed, I invariably find myself iterating cruise control settings to match with th
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by jrabone 14y ago
Both my Android tablet (Nexus 7) and phone (Galaxy S2) have a software rotation-lock button.

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