loxias

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by loxias 9y ago
On the one hand, you're right -- in that I can see and respect why you say that. On the otherhand, what the heck is wrong with using the syscalls? Every time I write a new high performance networking application, sure, i lose a day or
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by loxias 9y ago
This is great news, I was just thinking that I was annoyed at their paywall... What's the catch?
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by loxias 9y ago
This is not a "rebellion". This is common sense. :)
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by loxias 9y ago
A+ and thank you for using an article, instead of saying "to be seen on iPhone" ... (like the marketing guidelines decree).
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by loxias 9y ago
Pixel? That's their tablet, right? Nexus is for their audio device.
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by loxias 10y ago
I can't fit them in my ears either, I tried once and it hurt :( The sad thing is, we have the technology to make Real Wireless Earbuds that DONT suck! It's a totally doable engineering project! That don't have horribly loss
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by loxias 10y ago
> balk at anything about $15. Check out the Sennheiser HD 202! they're around 30 bucks last time I checked and great fidelity and durability for the price. edit: ok ok sorry you're right, $15 > $30 "heck, it's
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by loxias 10y ago
Looks like some advanced level trolling to me. The only way I can imagine 98% of a group being satisfied with such a product is some variant of Stockholm syndrome. Some days it feels like the "Next "Great" Apple product will
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by loxias 10y ago
It's true, there is a price for some API requests, but it's actually quite low if you're using the cloud storage to populate a local cache! Backblaze categorizes download as a "class B" transaction with 2500 free pe
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by loxias 10y ago
Speaking for myself, I'm excited about using B2 as a replacement for more expensive local disk in not-heavy-iops-role machines. It's not the most exotic use, but if you look at every vm provider (linode, digital ocean, even amazo
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by loxias 10y ago
"-if an API call failed, I have to check for an additional error: a invalid token" In general it's considered good practice to always check return values and error codes. Not for all code, but just for the code you would l
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by loxias 10y ago
I would love this! Great idea. So far, B2 beats S3 on nearly every metric, with the exception that with S3 I can process data more cheaply with EC2. A crosspromotion deal between Linode and Backblaze would be fantastic.
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by loxias 10y ago
Uh, what's your complaint? Why in the world would you assume that it has to have the same API as S3? I also don't understand your comments about "cool". You need an auth token so that the subsequent API calls, well, k
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by loxias 10y ago
Does anyone have any idea, or even educated guess on if and when we might see a price drop on other, now ""outdated"" (not really) GPUs? I was just starting to plan building a desktop with plenty of CUDA cores, and now
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by loxias 10y ago
Pianoteq is without a doubt the best sounding piano synth on the market today. Uses all sorts of interesting physical modeling algorithms (including string-to-string resonances, with a more-than-first order model...), unfortunately, unpubl
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by loxias 10y ago
What a cool idea! Writing is my least favorite part of development, just sent an email (loxias AT mit DOT edu), can't wait to try it out.
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by loxias 10y ago
This is a fantastic idea!! Do you have a github link or a project page I can bookmark and periodically check on? How hard would it be to adapt to C and/or C++?
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by loxias 10y ago
This is doable. If one were, uh, hypothetically, to write a library that did this, how would the HN community recommend monetizing it? I have no experience selling my wares to anyone but a large company, let alone an app store or somethin
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by loxias 10y ago
Any suggestions on how you find contract jobs? [I write C, C++, do algorithm development, and also automation -- anything from embedded firmware to large optimized math for HPC, to even the (non-UI side of) mobile apps. I've done some
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by loxias 10y ago
!! Cool! Thanks for this, I hadn't seen it before. A bit more than a decade ago (ugh), I wrote a plugin for Adobe Aftereffects which implemented a continuous version of GOL a whipped up on the luminance channel. Made for some really
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by loxias 10y ago
Really? Hm... Clocks/accurate timing && cellular automata/dynamic systems are things I'm passionate about. (and know how to build) For a hypothetical device you'd "buy in an instant" how are you imagi
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by loxias 11y ago
> Mostly I'm confused why a nearly 15 year old, poorly-written journal article appeared on HN today with no comments. Agreed, some context would be nice, and also agreed that it is poorly-written. I appreciate it much more when a p
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by loxias 11y ago
With the disclaimer that I have not worked through proofs of what is asserted, I read through the paper and it makes sense to me. Though it does have plenty of editing mistakes, which are somewhat distracting. The paper might very well
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by loxias 12y ago
What a great overview! Thanks for putting the time and effort into collating and normalizing all this data, and making it accessible to the rest of us. One peeve though, it seems you've missed what is probably the most important criter