lallysingh

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1. 3991.▲
   by lallysingh 18y ago

   Simple, require registration. Ask gender. If they answer Male, tell them to fuck off.
2. 3992.▲
   by lallysingh 18y ago

   If they're going to sell x86 workstations, at least sell some more powerful than the macintosh I can buy down the street. They've been shoving COTS motherboards into x86 boxes for a few years now, how about keeping up with the idea of some
3. 3993.▲
   by lallysingh 18y ago

   AMD, the only sparcs available were obscenely slow IIIis. Without workstations, how's anyone going to dev for solaris? It's not known for its hardware support of non-sun hardware. I've been in an office with a rackmount in it. The rack is
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   In my book, Sun's officially dead now

   5 points by lallysingh 18y ago|8 comments
5. 3995.▲
   by lallysingh 18y ago

   In LaTeX you'll spend your time learning how to get it to do the right thing. In Word, you'll spend your time coercing word to do what you want. The difference: you learn, Word doesn't. Oh, and Word doesn't do emacs keybindings, which is ri
6. 3996.▲
   by lallysingh 18y ago

   I'm not related to the parent poster, but I'm happy to see that. There's some good work done in HCI, and I'm glad to see appreciation for it.
7. 3997.▲
   by lallysingh 18y ago

   In the Wash. DC area, the local Board of Trade had a lot of small companies that wanted to network for each other's services & business. Web devs should do pretty well there, or in similar orgs wherever you are. I did a bit of consulti
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   by lallysingh 18y ago

   I just finished a job-search for NYC. Some hedge funds are hiring, and aggressively. I get the idea that those hiring are suddenly flush with plenty of good applicants. I went with Bloomberg, who's still hiring aggressively. But, I got good
9. 3999.▲
   by lallysingh 18y ago

   Alternatively, there's the Ban-Hammer. Simultaneously more crude and precise, as you only get the worst ones. Works for Kotaku. However, it'd require that we properly characterize what is and isn't wanted from users. Trolling's obvious, b
10. 4000.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    Here, just set this as your default URL: http://www.merlinmann.com/rightnow/ It actually helps a little.
11. 4001.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    Can we just buy Honda out and give them GM?
12. 4002.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    But.. they're putting OpenGL ES in HTML5's canvas as is. Quoting from: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-canvas.html "A future version of this specification will probably define a 3d context (probably based on the OpenGL ES API)."
13. 4003.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    IMHO, they should let go of search as a focus, and go with apps. They've got decent properties in that area, and Google's weak anywhere they can't use their index or relevance ranking abilities.
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    by lallysingh 18y ago

    Homestarrunner.com has a pretty good 404 page: http://homestarrunner.com/404 Not helpful in any way suggested by the article, but a reasonable laugh for the site.
15. 4005.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    I think you mean restricting your developer base. You know.... as it's Java. It should run (with modest effort) on a few platforms.
16. 4006.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    No, the latter does matter. If a system's performance significantly degrades under load, it doesn't scale. Quoting the wikipedia article: 'its ability to either handle growing amounts of work in a graceful manner, or to be readily enlarged.
17. 4007.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    I'm no fan of x86, but the inside of these chips have kept pretty up-to-date. Also, they're pretty fast. PCI & the Pentium's APIC took out a lot of the old kludgey stuff of the old PC arch. IMHO, a removal of the older 16bit instructio
18. 4008.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    Thoughts on the x86 Solaris workstations? <$900. IMHO, the Niagra chips are nice, but are fairly specialized vs desktop chips. They're pretty well set up for lots of threads, but I donno how they'd do on the desktop. They're still sp
19. 4009.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    Well, there's two ways to look at scalability: - The ability to handle lots of load at all, which comes down to a stability and fault-tolerance issue. - The performance of the system under load. Both are pretty valid.
20. 4010.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    Seth's really been going on about this Tribes kick. I suppose it's fair, considering one can see tribe-building as the goal of marketing.
21. 4011.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    They mention zeroing out the disk to prevent the next owner from recovering your data.. actually using a 7 pass method. How does this apply to SSDs? While I suppose a global use increment by 7 isn't terrible, it does make me cringe a littl
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    by lallysingh 18y ago

    ddd's nice, but CW made it a lot easier to stay close to the machine-level. Nothing like a good window'd hexdump to browse :-)
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    by lallysingh 18y ago

    Q: What's the difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman? A: The used car salesman knows when he's lying.
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    by lallysingh 18y ago

    What really helps in that situation is a good debugger, that lets you quickly look up blocks of memory (e.g. where the pointer references). Obviously it should be stable enough to handle bad pointers (giving an error message instead of cra
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    by lallysingh 18y ago

    Hmm, nlogn(60,000,000) ~= 1,560,000,000 ops per sort, before your coefficient. If you want that done at 16.67 KHz (1 million times/min), you'll need some work. You can do it, in certain cases, with certain hardware & good skills, but
26. 4016.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    Also, if you're doing something game-ish, talk to me privately. Scalability of video games is my phd topic...
27. 4017.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    First, relax. Look, you've got ~4 GHz processors available, and you're worried about a million hits a minute. That's nearly 240k clock cycles per hit. Next, you've got 60 +/- 10ms of latency between you and your clients (unless there are d
28. 4018.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    Hey, I've got a nice-and-healthy fear of the robot apocalypse, thank you.
29. 4019.▲
    by lallysingh 18y ago

    Or, you know, automating them out. I really wonder how long we are going to keep an unskilled proletariat around given the advantages in computer & robotic animation. OTOH, I'm also really surprised how ancient some of the manufacturing
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    by lallysingh 18y ago

    I'd like to point out that the current administration's (no matter who they are) focus tends to manifest itself in various small business programs. Notably, SBIR/STTR: http://www.sba.gov/SBIR/indexwhatwedo.html