jvickers

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by jvickers 10y ago
I may write something like you have described. It would use OpenCL rather than CUDA. Though I would like it to be scalable, the starting goal will be simplicity and ease of deployment on a range of devices. Do you have any suggestions for t
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by jvickers 10y ago
I wonder if they would be open to fabbing AMD Zen chips.
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by jvickers 11y ago
Things can indeed be both cheap and expensive. It takes two different perspectives, both being correct in their own right, and not directly contradicting each other. There can be different ways of looking at the cost of an item: 1) The cost
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by jvickers 11y ago
In my experience, the quality variance with teachers is much higher than with iPads. iPads have never had the attitude problems that some teachers have had (except some Siri edge cases perhaps).
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by jvickers 12y ago
> If you Google very carefully today you’ll eventually find RencourtBlitzenMcPhail I did perform a Google search for 'RencourtBlitzenMcPhail' and all I got was that one article! Perhaps other users of the Google search service
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by jvickers 12y ago
It's useful having some code in JavaScript. Even if its not fast enough for some things, having a nicely organised and documented library can be very useful. Optimizations, using Typed Arrays, could make the code considerably faster. C
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by jvickers 12y ago
Then if I did release something identical to Firefox, I'd be releasing Firefox. I doubt it would be controversial at all, if anyone noticed.
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by jvickers 12y ago
I went to an interview once, for a company that makes online games (gambling). We spoke about my education and lack of a degree. They seemed to be saying how it important it is for them that the team is good at maths. I said I had a decent
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by jvickers 12y ago
Sometimes when I've had a module of about 500-2000 lines, I have thought that much of it could be represented pictorially in a way that could also be understood by a machine.
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by jvickers 12y ago
Ideally you'll be able to fix bugs and handle the growth as it comes. Is your app free?
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by jvickers 12y ago
In a home, size and weight is a bit of a factor. Is the building strong enough to support the weight? Space also has a cost. It would also cost more to manufacture, transport and install big and heavy equipment, because it is big and heavy
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by jvickers 12y ago
My impression of Java UI components was that they looked boring and old-fashioned. It's a subjective judgement, but I guess others would have thought that way too. If Java Swing or other parts of the Java UI toolkit looked better than
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by jvickers 12y ago
Does anyone know if or when the GPGPU acceleration will be available in the normal Postgres install? Is / will this acceleration be switched on by default?
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by jvickers 12y ago
In order to go to Mars, and come back quickly and safely, it would make sense to send supplies of various sorts on a robotic mission (or a number of them). This way there would be plenty of fuel on Mars. Another possibility would be having
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by jvickers 12y ago
Thanks for that reply. It's not made it that much clearer in my mind though, because C and C++ can be used to write fast web servers.
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by jvickers 12y ago
Do you have an opinion on how Rust compares to Go?
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by jvickers 12y ago
With both libraries MIT licensed, there could easily be movement of code from io.js to node.js once the team at Joyent were satisfied that the code has been done correctly. I fail to see how there can be controversy over forking MIT license
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by jvickers 12y ago
I'm very shortsighted (about -8). When I squint, my eyelashes act as a rudimentary lens and make the image clearer. The image is distorted differently when I squint, but less blurred. I suggest that those with better eyesight may also
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by jvickers 12y ago
It's occurred to me that competing for business by making the process better for the founders, rather than worse, would be the way to go, or at least one business model that other incubators should explore.
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by jvickers 12y ago
https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler/wiki/GettingStart...
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by jvickers 12y ago
I'm not yet excited about these getters and setters and new features in the latest JavaScript. I've put a lot of time and effort into developing ECMAScript (JavaScript) 3 patterns that overcome various limitations, and have got ac
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by jvickers 12y ago
Alternatives to getType and setType functions (while still not using getters and setters): Have a single polymorphic function called type: type() gets the type, type(value) sets the type. Have .get and .set functions, called like: get(&#x27
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by jvickers 12y ago
You could show some relatively small (such as 600x250) images of parts of live sites that you have worked on, with those images showing some parts that you feel more responsible for having done, without having done the whole site. Those ima
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by jvickers 12y ago
Thank you for your support in this difficult time.
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by jvickers 12y ago
Generally I want to look at properties from the prototype chain too.
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by jvickers 12y ago
In my programming, I have not built it in a way to prevent a malicious developer from changing object prototypes. If there is actually an attack vector that gets closed by checking hasOwnProperty I'm interested.
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by jvickers 12y ago
If I were to run the code Object.prototype.d = 4; I'd be asking for trouble.
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by jvickers 12y ago
Why do you need to use .hasOwnProperty anyway? var map = { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 } for (var key in map) { console.log(map[key]); } outputs 1 2 3 in the console, like I expect
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by jvickers 12y ago
Any chance of Mozilla releasing a node.js plugin that wraps the library? I'd also be really interested in an ASM compiled version that's easy to use from node (and possibly the browser).
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by jvickers 12y ago
If I did write a code sample and replied here, would you get to see it? I don't think there is a way to send messages on Hacker News, and I don't yet know if you'll get alerted to replies to old posts.

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