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by mbell 14y ago
I despise hibernate. I will never use a self managed 'session based' ORM again, it creates far too many messes.
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by mbell 14y ago
You seem to have not read the ToS before or after the change. It was actually more restrictive _after_ the change. All this 'outrage' seems to fundamentally be about the user being reminded that the ToS actually existed in the first place,
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by mbell 14y ago
> 'Use Xinerama' box Xinerama is old, buggy and more or less deprecated at this point. Also compositing doesn't work with it enabled which causes other issues.
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by mbell 14y ago
Honestly this post is a perfect example. You've classified "Americans" as one group when your really talking about "American Nationalists". It sounds like your attributing nationalist propaganda you see on Fox News to all Americans. This
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by mbell 14y ago
I could make an almost identical argument about the usage of terms like "Americans". The states and even cities themselves are all very different.
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by mbell 14y ago
Could have been nice, if they supported other types of matching. e.g. contains or regex. The vast majority of the time when I want to switch on a String I'm parsing a URL in a session filter into several categories or something like that.
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by mbell 14y ago
Seriously is this a phishing site? Amazon page being served off a phx.corporate-ir.net domain?
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by mbell 14y ago
> Bad patents can get submited as many times as the holder wants, but the USPTO can only mistake a bad patent for a good one once, and it's granted. The problem is that the USPTO doesn't even seem to want to make the decision that early
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by mbell 14y ago
Slightly off topic but this project is listed in one the 'top lists' in the article and I haven't heard anything about it before: https://github.com/saltstack/salt Looks interesting, a quick search on hnsearch shows a post from ~6 months
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by mbell 14y ago
I find it interesting that I've gotten downvoted for this comment. Building an MVP and then iterating seems to be the modus operandi of the HN community. Building a detailed spec is the anti-thesis of this movement. How does this correla
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by mbell 14y ago
> My experience has been completely different, and I'm curious as to why that is. The majority of people who request 'software' haven't a clue what they want, they can't possibly describe it, you can't possibly write a spec for it. See
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by mbell 14y ago
> Since when did specs become immutable? Needs have changed? Patch the spec. It's faster than patching the software. I don't understand how this can be faster. You patch the spec, then patch the software to match. I can't see how the
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by mbell 14y ago
> Specs are a way of life where I work. I would hope that everyone would be good or learn to become good at writing useful precise specs. I was honestly hoping this was a joke, but I don't think it was. By the time someone writes an ac
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by mbell 14y ago
I'm just going to assume I worded my post poorly. I pointed those out and identified them as niche markets, because they are. Some how it appears the impression I gave was "there is no need for 64bit, ever!!!!!".
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by mbell 14y ago
It doesn't, and I don't see where I've made that claim. I'm refuting the opposite. The initial claim was: > I didn't explicitly call that out, but as soon as you have more than 4GB of memory, there's going to be an application that wa
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by mbell 14y ago
Apparently we're crossing wires here. I'm in no way shape or form saying these applications don't exist (I'm currently writing one). What I am saying is that for ever such application there are probably more than a thousand sites hosted on
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by mbell 14y ago
http://www.princeton.edu/~chouweb/publications/223%20Chou_Ul...
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by mbell 14y ago
It'll be noteworthy when they get close to current cheap silicon PV cells (which they still need to get 3-4 times more efficient to reach). Keep in mind the efficiency they managed to achieve is only 4.4%. Not saying it isn't an important
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by mbell 14y ago
Misleading title. They have tripled the efficiency of a specific type of solar cell (organic photovoltaics), that is extremely inefficient to begin with. They are still almost an order of magnitude away from the efficiency of the best sola
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by mbell 14y ago
> but as soon as you have more than 4GB of memory, there's going to be an application that wants to use more than 4GB Maybe, but my desktop has 32GB of ram, has a 64bit CPU, and I've rarely seen a single process use 4GB of memory unless
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by mbell 14y ago
ARM64 isn't required for > 4GB physical memory. The cortex-a15 can already address up to 1TB and is already shipping. Only the per process limit is locked to 4GB on a 32 bit core.
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by mbell 14y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but that blog is a tour of System Electronica, a 3rd party contract PCB manufacturer, not an Arduino owned factory.
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by mbell 14y ago
The linux attempt at this in Gallium3D[0], which is the previous work I was alluding to in my last post. I believe a D3D 10/11 state tracker exists for it but the problem is that only the open source ATI and Nvidia drivers support it. Unf
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by mbell 14y ago
I doubt its going to be pushing "develop for linux" that will be a problem, most games aren't using many os calls and those are generally easily ported anyway. The challenge will be getting developers to program for opengl/sdl/openal instea
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by mbell 14y ago
That would explain the cost (that is a really slow pick and place). For comparison I designed a board a few years ago that was a 6" by 8", 4 layer PCB, parts on both sides, 163 parts, several orders of magnitude more complex than an Arduin
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by mbell 14y ago
> etching the PCBs, drilling the PCBs, the cost to buy the pick-and-place machine and reflow machine Your correct on the cost of the headers/ports being much higher than most would think (certainly higher than the AVR). However, the ard
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by mbell 14y ago
And of course I got slf4j and log4j backward in my examples.
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by mbell 14y ago
That doesn't fix anything. Examples: One dep want log4j-api 1.6.4 one wants 1.4, this doesn't matter to the client but I have to make sure to override one in maven to make sure the API version matches the back end version. When your projec
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by mbell 14y ago
Not to be a pessimist but, I can do without more versions of log4j. The pain and annoyance of fighting version conflicts from multiple dependencies and the desire of some to include slf4j directly in their jar files gives me FAR more pain t
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by mbell 14y ago
Exynos is a brand name of the family, not a single product. The Arndale has the Exynos 5250 SoC (dual-core A15) not the Exynos 4412 (quad core A9) which is used on the board mentioned in this thread.

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