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by mbell 13y ago
While this is an important patent I believe MS went after Android manufacturers for around a dozen patents[0] so I'm not convinced this ruling alone is going to have a large impact on the royalty agreements. [0] http://www.n
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by mbell 13y ago
Kahka is written in Scala, not Java. The only Java in the project is for a JavaAPI and hadoop connectors. Comparing languages in absolute performance terms is bad idea, it's an extreme simplification of what really goes into creating
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by mbell 13y ago
I don't think this is true at all. How many unskilled laborers does a single corn combine harvester + skilled operator replace? How many unskilled laborers does a single skidder/tree harvester with a skilled operator replace?
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by mbell 13y ago
> Not to mention it would increase the possibility of the fuel pre-igniting inside the combustion chamber. Detonation isn't all that much of a concern with F1 engines. When running at 15,000-18,000rpm there just isn't enough ti
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by mbell 13y ago
> (hint, hit more and enable stereo, I find that much more interesting for some reason) I haven't played with this site in particular but they are probably using incoherent sources for each channel. i.e. using two separate random no
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by mbell 13y ago
Most 'white noise generators' aren't producing white noise. White noise has equal power in each linear band, e.g. 100Hz to 120Hz would have the same spectral power as 19,000Hz to 19,020Hz. Humans hear in a logarithmic fashio
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by mbell 13y ago
Sort of... It'll drive it @ 30Hz via HDMI as is today. The hardware also supports 60Hz via DisplayPort 1.2 through the thunderbolt ports and I've heard it works in windows but I don't believe Mavericks has driver support yet
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by mbell 13y ago
I'd bet it's panel type. The 32/24 may be IPS while the 28 may be IGZO.
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by mbell 13y ago
In general I think you're right but I'm not sure why you would have 5,000 connections to each node. There isn't any reason I can think of to maintain more than 1 connection per client (application process) to each node. You d
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by mbell 13y ago
Presentation is always important. It doesn't matter if it's a scientific paper or blog, presenting in a clear and intelligible way is critical to communication in all forms. As for the content: I've dealt with numerous develo
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by mbell 13y ago
I have to say, that headline font is awful and the link highlighting on the blog's front page is worse. There is a bit of oddness in declaring yourself a front-end person by talking about not needing to be tested as a back-end person w
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by mbell 13y ago
> Sure, you should ideally do this in your application code. But if there is multiple interfaces (such as a REST api etc) to your database then you have to remember to put them in place everywhere. Whenever I've done this I've
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by mbell 13y ago
The original developers all departed in 2003/2004, winamp has been maintained / extended by whomever AOL could find to work on it for about a decade now. That doesn't bode terribly well for the current state of the code base.
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by mbell 13y ago
> I'm not sure if there are even any modern alternatives for Windows that still optimize for a large library of local music with poor ID3 data quality. I've been off windows for a few years now but I used to use Media Monkey (
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by mbell 13y ago
I've tried Clojure. I just can't do it, I don't find it terribly expressive. I like functional idioms and immutable data but I just find Clojure to be a never ending sea of parenthesis and brackets that bury the expressivenes
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by mbell 13y ago
Groovy works extremely well with Intellij Idea. I often mix Java and Groovy in projects and for the most part it's seamless. I'll start something in Java and as soon as I run into something that should be done with a closure or fu
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by mbell 13y ago
You can get up to DDR3-3000 from what I've seen but performance varies with application. The problem is that throughput isn't the only important metric, latency determined by the timing specs of the module are also very important.
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by mbell 13y ago
I agree that git doesn't strictly enforce a team workflow, but 'pull requests' predated github and many use a pull request based workflow without github. Having a local fork, a remotely accessible fork, and asking the repo ma
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by mbell 13y ago
Alternatively use git the way it was meant to be used, as a distributed source control system. It appears that they had 678 people sharing access to these repos instead of working off their own forks. I'm amazed they haven't
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by mbell 13y ago
I find that HN has a slightly different version of worship. Posts by some folks such as PG get auto-voted to the top, but at the same time quite often the replies to the post are far different than on other sites. To use PG as an example I
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by mbell 13y ago
For what it's worth, mp3s do not store the signal as a DFT. The frequency domain data is produced as a MDCT (modified discrete cosine transform). A DFT is performed during MP3 encoding, but it's used to apply the psychoacoustic mo
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by mbell 13y ago
It's hard to imagine using an ORM for anything high volume that just got around to adding (still very limited) connection pooling. I'd tend to think anyone overly concerned with performance would use SQLAlchemy, if they use any OR
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by mbell 13y ago
Most of what they 'demo' in the video are nonlinear sources, they'll need a lot more processing smarts than a simple FFT to sort that out.
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by mbell 13y ago
Most consumer routers actually work fairly well as APs. Once you've turned off all the routing functionality, which are the most complex and resource intensive bits, they seems to actually be pretty stable. I'm currently using an
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by mbell 13y ago
I haven't tried it on an embedded platform, e.g. a Geode or Via CPU. I'm using an old mini-ITX IPC board from Jetway with one of the first dual core Atom cpus, 1GB of ram (overkill) and 4 x Gbit ethernet ports. With a slim case &#
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by mbell 13y ago
If you want a more hardened setup I recommend pfsense, a freeBSD based firewall/router disto [0]. It'll run on any number of mini/nano boards and several companies sell prebuilt boxes. It can run as a wifi AP as well but I fi
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by mbell 13y ago
Finally adding OpenGL 4.1 support is pretty big as well.
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by mbell 13y ago
I'm sure there are faster ways but a quick and dirty approach would be to count how many of each digit are in the input string, then compare to the expected result, which is easy to figure out. This will tell you what digits are missin
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by mbell 13y ago
> Apple should buy beefier power supplies if this is the cause of the problem - probably they are trying to shave 3% off the unit price by ordering whimpy power plugs. Apple has not historically been one to skimp on power supply costs, t
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by mbell 13y ago
To use an example: the RMBP comes with an 85W power supply but it's CPU has a TDP rating of 47W and GPU a rating of 45W for a total of 92W. Without even getting to powering other circuitry, the display, or including conversion efficie

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