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841.
by minimax 15y ago
I hadn't thought about it in the general case, but I do frequently find myself adding a sleep for PID mod some appropriate constant to the beginning of big distributed batch jobs in order to keep shared resources (NFS, database, etc) from g
842.
by minimax 15y ago
http://reader.google.com When you find a post you like on HN, add it to your RSS reader. I find my reader feed to be generally more interesting and relevant than the HN frontpage, but I keep coming back to HN for new sources.
843.
by minimax 15y ago
There is an embarassing amount of whinging in this thread about paying $0.50 per day for what is probably the best newspaper in the country. I've been paying for the Times for several years now and it isn't even a blip on my budget.
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by minimax 15y ago
I don't think you're getting his point. I can still replace GC with malloc() and we end up with the same criticisms of C that you have of Go and Java. > I'm saying that much system level work has to optimize by not using malloc(). I've
845.
by minimax 15y ago
Some people are using this post as an opportunity to bash Texas, but the article says he was arrested by DHS (federal authorities) in Seirra Blanca, which is in New Mexico. This doesn't have anything to do with Texas.
846.
by minimax 15y ago
Cabo is 1500 miles away from SF. Vancouver is closer to SF than that.
847.
by minimax 15y ago
> corporate sales job making $600K per year This job does not exist.
848.
by minimax 15y ago
Any car needs to recharge the battery after cranking. Higher compression engines require more energy to crank. The "top of the line" performance of your bimmer is inexorably linked to the time it takes to recharge the battery. As a BMW ow
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Austin-based Sharp Skirts assists women entrepreneurs(statesman.com)
2 points by minimax 15y ago|0 comments
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A visual sample of DDoS attack tools & services(ddos.arbornetworks.com)
4 points by minimax 15y ago|0 comments
851.
by minimax 15y ago
> Brogrammers Can we please not make this a thing?
852.
by minimax 15y ago
Fair enough but afaik WebKit frowns upon STL usage (exceptions too), and it's still going quite strong.
853.
by minimax 15y ago
This is a false dichotomy. There is much more opportunity out there than working for MegaCorp or overhyped low-paying RoR startups, especially if you have the chops.
854.
by minimax 15y ago
Surely you must see the irony of typing up your zing about C++ being relevant only to the "mil-aero" crowd into a web browser that is almost certainly written entirely in C++.
855.
by minimax 15y ago
If they were tech support, which is what it sounds like from the post, then they would be at the bottom of the org chart, not in the middle. Not that that excuses your stupid sandwich analogy, which is fucking stupid.
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US teacher tracks his bike rides by GPS - and creates some stunning artwork(road.cc)
14 points by minimax 15y ago|4 comments
857.
by minimax 15y ago
As long as you're worrying about the double copy, you may as well worry about chasing the pointers in your map through the cache hierarchy. Usually I'd use unordered_map here unless there was a good reason not to.
858.
by minimax 15y ago
It's the same topic but it's a different story. The science and engineering indicators report linked in the first paragraph hadn't even been published when the first story was written. Also she provides a link to the previous NYT story yo
859.
by minimax 15y ago
You sure about that? https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/2844
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by minimax 15y ago
> If we could tell our 1998 selves about the modern "personal branding" craze our old selves would never believe it. I think this is a fascinating comment. I was using my real name on the Internet in 1998, and now I mainly stick to pse
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by minimax 15y ago
A more idiomatic way to phrase the awk in the Selection example: awk -F ":" '{ if ( $3 != $4 ) print }' /etc/passwd would be like this: awk -F ":" '$3 != $4 { print }' /etc/passwd The first is obviously valid awk, but the
862.
by minimax 15y ago
This is a case of one small company acquiring another slightly smaller company. I think that is as important as anything in terms of the Ordered List employees being happy as Github employees. In many cases the acquirer is several orders
863.
by minimax 15y ago
strace tip #31415927: If your program is I/O bound, sometimes you can improve performance by increasing the size of the read buffer. A bigger buffer means fewer system calls and potentially increased performance. How do you know how big
864.
by minimax 15y ago
He's nearly there, but the reason for the number 23 is staring you right in the face. It's not arbitrary. A heap allocated string requires 8 bytes for the length, 8 bytes for the pointer to the string, and 8 bytes for the capacity / refer
865.
by minimax 15y ago
The "aux" union contains either the reference count or the string capacity. The idea must be that shared strings are immutable so the capacity is not meaningful. Conversely, if the string is not shared, the reference count is not meaningf
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by minimax 15y ago
> the only library of note anyone ever uses is boost. I think the Qt people might have something to say about that.
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Scaling Caste Walls With Capitalism’s Ladders in India(nytimes.com)
2 points by minimax 15y ago|0 comments
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BATS Global Markets will start listing stock(bizjournals.com)
2 points by minimax 15y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 15y ago
With respect to the OP's specific problem, namely serving up compressed static assets, why use Node.js at all? They're static files. Host 'em on a CDN or let lighttpd take care of it. There's no need to add the complexity of Node to a re
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by minimax 15y ago
I don't think it's fair to lump Wolfram Alpha in with Cuil and Color. I use Wolfram Alpha at least once a week. It's great for sharing plots of arbitrary equations and running through back of the envelope calculations.

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