lukesandberg

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by lukesandberg 15y ago
The other clear distinction to make here is that it isn't exactly Google's fight since the content that is being targeted is merely being indexed by Google not created by Google. So logically it is the content owners/creator (website owner
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
I don't think it is cowardly for Google to obey the law and court orders. At least they publish information about this kind of activity http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/...
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
I very seldom find myself missing unsigned types in java. Most of the time using a BitSet or an EnumSet is probably what you want. What problem are you trying to solve that needs unsigned arithmetic?
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
In my investigations i did find the overhead to be fairly high and in most of my benchmarks i found that using simple fixed size fifo queues was significantly faster. However my benchmarks were generally simple cpu bound tasks you would de
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
I think a lot of the complaints about the AbstractFactoryFactoryProvider nonsense in many java programs is that it unnecessarily adds complexity to projects that do not require it. In the examples provided there were clear performance char
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
Read the article. He was talking about how you need to be able to instantly switch between implementations in the same code base. Sometimes even at run time.
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
Luckily these days people are designing algorithms/data structures that don't rely on DCAS :) So you can actually implement them on real hardware
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
I've done it. You need hardware support to do it without locks. Here is a paper describing an implementation using CAS http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~tsigas/papers/JPDC-Lock-free-ski... in order to do work stealing in general you just need
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
I was working with a small library that i implemented (with help) on a grad school research project. We were experimenting with various low level techniques/approaches to how one would implement an operating system for a 1000+ core chip.
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
cilk is definitely cool, but i don't think it makes designing parallel programs any easier, it just removes a lot of boilerplate. I have worked with similar infrastructures (not the language support) and found it to be extremely difficult.
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
This is just a guess but my intuition is that a company issues stock in order to raise capital. So if the company has a useful investment opportunity that would affect its long term profitability then raising the capital in equity markets
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
This doesn't strike me as particularly interesting. CL is just a programming language, a functional assembly so iit seems intuitive that it would be infeasible to cache all computations. Even just caching all programs up to a given size i
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
I meant the Google Reader app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.app...
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
why don't you just use the app?
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
You assume that skimming is a primary use case. That is not how i use google reader (if there is a feed that i consistently do not want to read i unsubscribe). Maybe they were optimizing for my use case, where you read everything (or clos
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
This is compatable with ANSI C. Also it has a fairly large number of features, especially around non blocking data structures and memory management.
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
The major new interesting metric on the report is the disclosure of the number of users or accounts that were 'targeted' by requests for user data: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/...
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Google Updates its Transparency Report(googleblog.blogspot.com)
4 points by lukesandberg 15y ago|1 comments
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
How so? China owns ~10% of US treasury bonds, which makes them the largest single holder of Treasury Bonds. This does not mean they bought anything other than a promise for repayment at a stated rate.
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
Government Bonds are not like equity. You could own every single Treasury Bond and still not have any claim of ownership. Obviously governments still try to appease the bond markets but that is not due to obligation, it is self interest.
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
Who is they? are you worried about not being able to access reader anymore because access to G+ may be blocked? That is interesting. Do you have trouble with the new share box on google search because it is a G+ product? Where are you f
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
sharing is already opt in on Google Reader. So you would have to click "share" and then (most likely) select a circle, there will probably be a default circle but it won't just start spamming G+ whenever you read an article
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
Launch and iterate is why i think they delayed on this. prioritization is difficult (especially for such a large project) and I'm sure that many other things were prioritized over this feature. Now whether or not that prioritization was c
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
My strategy so far on lending club has just been to diversify widely, and it has worked out pretty well so far. Plus it has the added benefit of being easy to implement. It would be interesting to see if someone could make a loan recommen
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
Why would you need to unroll a loop in C#? Isn't that what JITs are for?
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
a lot of people search for facebook. search is just faster than navigating or bookmarks a lot of the time.
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
In the case of android, Google doesn't even have relationships with every carrier that sells android phones so 'activations' are the only metric that would actually cover everything. why do you think that they are not using a 30-day active
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Google Transparency Report releases Raw Data(googlecode.blogspot.com)
2 points by lukesandberg 15y ago|0 comments
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
maybe we should use the stackoverflow flag concept? that way you could flag an item for being: * off topic * inappropriate/offensive * low quality or 'noise' * other (which would require a comment) then down votes could be removed entirely
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by lukesandberg 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Messaging_and_Presen... XMPP is pretty much the standard instant messaging protocol these days and it is supported by google talk... im not sure about Huddle though... i assume it is also through go

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