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by mbell 12y ago
> We have reached out to Apple to understand the storage characteristics of this component and the role it plays in overall device operation. I spit out my beverage when I read that. They reached out to Apple to understand the 'stor
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by mbell 12y ago
> if you had $500 billion to spend and you had to choose between overhauling the nation's education system (which desperately needs it) and providing better Internet access to people, which would you choose? I don't think that
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by mbell 12y ago
Spark still has the same problem (or feature depending on your tilt): It exists only to avoid annotations. In my opinion Spark: get("/hello",(request, response) -> { return "Hello World!"; };
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by mbell 12y ago
I've seen a lot of articles talking about how huge Alibaba is, but they all seem to focus only on transaction volume, e.g 'Alibaba has more sales than Amazon and eBay combined!'. I was really surprised when I read their filin
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by mbell 12y ago
Why are you putting 200 lines of code into the console?
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by mbell 12y ago
The biggest problems I've found in tech interviews are: 1) Bad problems - implementing string reverse is a silly question. It has little to do with 'real world' optimization, which is often more about architectural issues: ca
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by mbell 12y ago
> What is a `machine level exchange instruction`? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap
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by mbell 12y ago
That article is a little light on the details of the test setup and measurement procedure but, if I'm reading it correctly, he played pink noise at a fairly high level for ~90 hours straight. The measured differences are likely due to
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by mbell 12y ago
You can't use google maps at all without a business account if the maps (and content) aren't 'publicly available'. If you're using their maps for internal apps or you charge for access to your app, you have to use a
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by mbell 12y ago
nganimate doesn't handle the actual animations, it just adds css classes or calls js at the proper points in the DOM fragment's lifecycle. The example site is using CSS3 for the animations.
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by mbell 12y ago
> One of the coolest thing about it is its mobile rendering performance (write one JS app, deploy everywhere with awesome performance across devices and browsers.) Again...WTF does that even mean? So they only use CSS3 transforms that ar
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by mbell 12y ago
Yesterday I came across famo.us and spent a good 20 minutes between between their github page and their home page trying to figure out what it is. I still have no idea what it actually is. My best guess so far is some sort of frontend compo
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by mbell 13y ago
I grew up in Maine. The area in green is rather rugged terrain. It's the end of the appalachian mountains with lots of sharp features cut by receding glaciers, then to top it off, it's very dense forest. Topo map ( http:/&#x2
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by mbell 13y ago
> What does a 18khz square wave look like wher recorded and reproduced in 44.1 kHz. It looks like an 18khz sine wave, possibly with slightly reduced amplitude depending on the anti-aliasing filter rolloff and fc, but not enough to be aud
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by mbell 13y ago
> Significant noise power at ultrasonic frequencies (or even a skewing towards higher audible frequencies) represents a problem for tweeters & amplifiers both in terms of the intermodulation distortion mentioned in the article and in
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by mbell 13y ago
> EDIT: I see it exposed in 0.9.8y. Anyone know of anything that builds against this specifically and uses it? I don't know of anything that builds against that version specifically but it is the version that is included in OS X as
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by mbell 13y ago
> And it sacrifices type safety Groovy is optionally typed, you can have as much safety as you wish. > and performance to do so If you use static types, you can use @CompileStatic to get most of the performance back.
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by mbell 13y ago
Angular is starting to remind me more and more of JSF + CDI which immediately triggers a negative visceral reaction for me. But, if I step back and think for a moment, most of what I despised about working with JSF was related to the amount
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Angular html5mode routing with yeoman and rails(mbell697.github.io)
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by mbell 13y ago
I would think you'd get a ton of bias by having the options labeled (particularly using words like 'old' and 'new') and always having the options in the same order, 7.1 on the right.
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by mbell 13y ago
This plane, like most other commercial jets, already had ADS-B onboard which transmits quite a bit of flight data. This is where most of the data on flightradar24.com comes from. In the case of the Air France flight it was way out in the o
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by mbell 13y ago
I'm not really following you. It's very common for linters to flag stylistic and formatting issues.
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by mbell 13y ago
Assuming it was in the dictionary. We're not talking about a time when going to webster's dictionary website was really an option, as in the internet wasn't really much of a thing still, at least not in my area. They had the
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by mbell 13y ago
She was a 50 year old high school english teacher in 1998 rural America. If you expect her to keep up to date with high energy particle physics then your expectations are ridiculous.
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by mbell 13y ago
> The smartest kids I knew were those with very intellectual, but hands off, parents. Parents are one part of it, but teachers are another. I grew up in a very rural but fairly rich community, not because the people were rich (quite the
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by mbell 13y ago
I'm not seeing much connection between the IC being talked about in that App note and what would be needed to support DDR3.
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by mbell 13y ago
That would be problematic at best given the clock speed and timing requirements of DDR3.
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by mbell 13y ago
> Doesn't the CPU need equal length parallel lines to the memory? Yes, but you could do that within the tower. Maintaining signal integrity through the connectors and/or propagation delay due to trace length would be the limite
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by mbell 13y ago
As an example of how far from the 'card' metaphor you could go using Hypercard: Myst was built in it.
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by mbell 13y ago
Here are the results from the 2012 Senate election by county: http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/Senate/2012/CA I'd venture a guess that 2 maybe 3 (if also looking at the numbers for t

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