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by microarchitect 16y ago
Sometimes, I've had trouble convincing other people that thing X is distracting me so much that I can't work. So perhaps one other interpretation of the results is that folks who are creative are more likely to be distracted by a certain di
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by microarchitect 16y ago
That's a pretty impressive resume. Is it ok to steal your design?
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by microarchitect 16y ago
Where did you get the notion that he couldn't even pass his quals? Moreover, what does that have do with the correctness of his complaints. On an unrelated note, I find it mildly interesting you say it was your "fault" that you weren't cut
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by microarchitect 16y ago
I just want to clarify that I'm not making a normative claim about the behavior of low or high NFC individuals. I'm just saying it might be useful to know what kind of audience you're targeting when building your application.
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by microarchitect 16y ago
The paper (unfortunately behind the ACM paywall) makes for very interesting reading. There are a couple of points in the paper that aren't mentioned in the article. The first one is the the difference between low and high NFC (need for cogn
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by microarchitect 16y ago
The title should really be 787 Dreamliner teaches Boeing a costly lesson in due-diligence. This sort of thing has nothing to do with outsourcing and everything to do with poor decision making by management.
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by microarchitect 16y ago
I think all your points are valid, but they're referring to a different problem - which is how get control back from the banks to the customer about chargebacks. This problems wasn't introduced by 3D secure, it was always there and it was a
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by microarchitect 16y ago
Notice how they made the post on Feb 14, but show only data for Feb 1. Is it really surprising that the first day with the new system saw fewer transactions? Making claims that this move "permanently hobbles India's mobile commerce" based o
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by microarchitect 16y ago
So what do you suggest an ordinary citizen should do? Don a cape and black mask and hunt the scammers down?!
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by microarchitect 16y ago
> It's long overdue for Nigeria to get their act together. What do you mean by get their act together? In my experience living in a third world country, it's hard enough to get the establishment to prosecute violent crimes. So I'd say a
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by microarchitect 16y ago
He said 'internet population', not population. Do you realise that 70% of the country is below the poverty line? It seems like I'm missing something, so I have a question for those who upvoted this comment. Do you all seriously think that t
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by microarchitect 16y ago
This advice applies to organisations as much as it does to people. Companies need to take some time out to think about what worked, what didn't and why not. And they also need to encourage folks to speak up about failures and be prepared to
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by microarchitect 16y ago
I assume you're referring to the ultra low voltage sandy bridge parts parts. AMD's Ontario and Llano, coming out later this year, will be very competitive with these parts. Not to mention cheaper to produce.
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by microarchitect 16y ago
You're right. The other good thing about 3dNow was that it was the first attempt at cleaning up Intel's x87 mess.
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by microarchitect 16y ago
> There's no real reason they also shouldn't be fabbing PowerPCs and ARM chips in bulk. At least in order to extend the life of older fab facilities. I believe the reason is money. Margins on x86 products are _way_ higher than those on
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by microarchitect 16y ago
> AMD always just seems to be a little behind the next big thing. Not really. They were the first to vectorize - with 3DNow! They were the first x86 with the on-chip memory controllers on the Opteron, which Intel were able to copy only
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by microarchitect 16y ago
My dad used to work for an NGO that ran schools in northern Karnataka. He told me unscrupulous microfinance lenders used to badger rural women into taking loans at ridiculous interest rates and then harass them when they couldn't pay up. Th
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by microarchitect 16y ago
It'll be interesting to see how this data changes over the next 20 years given the current state of US politics.
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by microarchitect 16y ago
The way I see it, any time you are building a system, you're an engineer. Theoretical computer scientists aren't really building systems, they're uncovering the mathematical foundation for the work that we do, so they don't count as scienti
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by microarchitect 16y ago
> * Low latency GPU-CPU interaction via L3 cache Intel's GPUs kinda suck so I'm not sure how much performance you're going to get out of them even with the so called "low-latency" interconnect. On the AMD side, they have better GPUs,
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by microarchitect 16y ago
The article is correct in saying that we have more choices open to us now than a few year ago. This is partly because of GPUs, and partly because of technological considerations. However, the article seems to suggest that there is a dichoto