lallysingh

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4081.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Because transmission and switching equipment would be cheap?
4082.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Kinesis advantage pro. The keys are placed very well, and require little movement to register. A small speaker goes off when it registers the stroke, so you know when you can stop pressing.
4083.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Well crap. That's a lot of student loans :-(
4084.
by lallysingh 18y ago
First, I hope you weren't using the obscenely slow version of Perl that ships with RedHat. Second, for more perf analysis, there are some very good unix tools for profiling & optimizing C code. Many of them free.
4085.
by lallysingh 18y ago
I've been running opensol/zfs for almost a year now. Zero problems, good perf & reliability. My research is on two mirrored sata/160gb drives. The most important stuff is on a FS on there with copies=2, making 2 copies on each drive.
4086.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Note that it mentions that SATA has a higher bit-error rate than SAS/SCSI. Apparently through the use of fewer ECC bits. But yeah, ZFS rocks.
4087.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Another example: Applescript
4088.
by lallysingh 18y ago
WOULD YOU PREFER ALL CAPS? Sorry, that was rude. The periods were just a bit of melodrama :-)
4089.
by lallysingh 18y ago
I hop around town a bit for different parts of work. Newsreading is at home, a desk in a very small efficiency. Writing (academic) is at on or two coffee shops downtown. Research is at the CS dept, a desk with my sun box, 2 monitors, keyboa
4090.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Agreed. Also, it's finally a way to get customers onto subscription models, which has seemed the holy grail of desktop apps for some time. Write once, bill forever...
4091.
by lallysingh 18y ago
HTML5's canvas tag has an OpenGL ES 3D API. Well, that's what they've said. We'll see. And frankly, they should've gone for the more DOM-like X3D.
4092.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Ack! $5,800! I know good software tools are often worth it, but that's gotta be one fantastic set of tools!
4093.
by lallysingh 18y ago
A debugger's a great way to go through a source base of under/badly/not documented code. Ironically enough, GDB's probably the only way to get a good handle of what GCC does internally. I love gdb's ability to call an arbitrary routine of
4094.
by lallysingh 18y ago
I'm suspicious because it sounds like a popular business book.
4095.
by lallysingh 18y ago
It's not the voting scheme causing the herd mentality. People tend to subscribe to one train of thought until convinced otherwise (which, deep down, is as much a popularity contest as anything else). It's the human herd you're really comp
4096.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Simple answer: you can't. Best you can do is ask people why they bought from you, but usually their response is suspect. Most will say "through a well-balanced comparison of your competitors" when the answer is really "your ads had the be
4097.
by lallysingh 18y ago
One of my favorite things about graduate school is that you can be a complete information glutton. Go as ridiculously far as you want in your research, and then justify some of it later with a degree :-) If you've got the time, money, and
4098.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Open Letter to the Tech Media: Please, please just stop the bad Apple puns. If this was 1976-8, it would be ok. But it's 2008. We've heard them all and it's just terrible. Please. Just. Stop. It doesn't matter if you're for
4099.
by lallysingh 18y ago
That's hardly fair. Give Google a chance to alienate developers as well! :-)
4100.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Helps in a few ways: 1. Fewer synchronization points. You now have a two-level hierarchy (threads & procs) vs just 1 (just b/w threads). You can reduce the scope of the hardest-hitting syncs (e.g. malloc) to contend within a smaller a
4101.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Flash animations come to mind. As well as a background Pandora tab.
4102.
by lallysingh 18y ago
What I don't like about the policy is how it changes the risk equation for developers. How do you see if Apple will "get" your app without spending the full $$ on developing it? Will developers go into any real risk in developing for the i
4103.
by lallysingh 18y ago
Ah, another cock-stroking "Real programmer" post. Real programmers don't write about real programmers. Real programmers write code and get on with their fucking lives.
4104.
Candy Button Paper - old but good.(xkcd.com)
2 points by lallysingh 18y ago|1 comments