maximusprime

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by maximusprime 15y ago
It's the equivalent of restricting programmers "lines of code typed per hour" in the misguided belief that will reduce bugs.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
What would be fantastic would be to overlay the speedcamera locations on the same map. What people would then see, is that there is no correlation between speed cameras and "accident blackspots". If you were able to also plot "hidden hedges
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Penalizing drivers based on their speed is like paying programmers based on lines of code. Speed != safety. Lines of code != productivity. It teaches motorists that instead of watching out for dangers, they should be constantly monitoring t
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by maximusprime 15y ago
No, they both involve software, writing to a framebuffer. (By software, I mean code - software/firmware/etc). A crappy 'hardware' accelerated GPU can be slower than a 'software' framebuffer write. My point was that saying "It's hardware acc
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Downmodders: Can you explain why? My point is, software is rendering the graphics. Either it's software running on one chip, or it's software on another chip. That's irrelevant. What matters, is how fast the graphics are rendered.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Hardware rendered vs software rendered??? :/ It's all just software. The only thing that matters is how fast it is.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Not to be harsh, but how many other transcoding services are there? I can think of none.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
> nice piece of code Too many developers are paying way too much attention to the code being "nice" or it being in a "nice" language, and not enough attention to "does it work" "is it fast".
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Or you could just use java... The title says only fast languages are interesting, then rules out using Java because it's not lispy enough :/ Either you want speed, or you want your favorite syntax and high level stuff. You can't have both.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
It could be potentially life threatening!!!!!!
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Find something you enjoy doing (love), and do it. Take a step back and asses - Do you really really love working 12 hours a day? If not, then stop doing it. If you're working 12 hours a day in the hope that some day it'll all pay off and yo
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by maximusprime 15y ago
I don't like a search engine that messes with results. Keep the ads separate. Just my opinion though.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
afaik they rewrite any amazon and ebay results to link with their own affiliate ID :/
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by maximusprime 15y ago
A lot of HN stories are there to tell us what is fashionable and what is not. If it weren't for stories like this, how would I know what technologies to use! </sarcasm>
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by maximusprime 15y ago
What's more surprising is that Windows Phones still exist. Would be interesting to do a poll to see if anyone on HN has one. I'm skeptical.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
> and obviously the majority thinks it's wrong Yeah... that's why people are clicking through, and converting to sales :/ Are you saying they click through, and sign up to buy product, and then suddenly feel duped because they didn't kn
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by maximusprime 15y ago
There's little difference between organic and adverts. It's just content that the webmaster has put there. It clearly says "sponsored content", which discloses the fact it's a paid advert. So personally, obviously it's not evil. If people w
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by maximusprime 15y ago
True, it's a different philosophy. Personally, I'm in the camp of "rely on as little as you can". This includes not shelling out to bash unless you really really really can't achieve the same thing with a bit of more code. Apart from making
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by maximusprime 15y ago
It's also weird IMHO when you see an advert or movie trailer, and they tell you to visit their facebook page, rather than their own website...
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by maximusprime 15y ago
I don't see any reason why LaTeX should be shelling out to bash. And having a mish-mash of loads of different languages creates unmaintainable bloatware.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
It's easy to make a secure platform no one uses... Just sayin'
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by maximusprime 15y ago
You're helping to prove my point - you're an outlier. Most people still buy magazines.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
That was a check for google adsense blocking.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Don't forget the time to ungzip, the time for the js VM to parse etc.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Last time I looked, only a tiny % of their expenses were on hosting. The vast majority was on research,salaries, business crap, idk what else. Take a look.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Commercial breaks are a special case. They prevent you from consuming the content until they end. Which is obviously not a great user experience (Although people do need to go make a cup of tea or have a toilet break). Online and print adve
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by maximusprime 15y ago
My own measurements put it at <2% (Based on visitors to my website).
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by maximusprime 15y ago
> Yes. I read the magazine for the content, not for the ads. The line between the two is very blurred. For example, a review of a new video card, is really just an advert.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Not really. That's pretty high compared to print advertising, billboards, TV/radio etc.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Look at their budget. They spend shedloads. On things they don't need. If wikipedia wanted to survive, it'd trim back it's massive spending.

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