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by minimax 15y ago
It's just a bad analogy. For starters, power hitters tend to get better with age (up to a point).
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by minimax 15y ago
Have you looked at Shark? It can show you where your program most frequently encounters L2 cache misses (or really any event your cpu has a hardware performance counter to track). Intel VTune and the "perf" tool from the Linux kernel also
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by minimax 15y ago
San Paolo is what it would be in Italian.
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by minimax 15y ago
I find myself using Python for application development and dropping into R for interactive data analysis. ggplot2 is really pleasant to use while matplotlib just sort of feels like a better gnuplot.
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by minimax 15y ago
Best of all, lookups in hashes are still O(1), making them very quick. Based on the zipmap code (linked below), a zipmap is implemented as an array of adjacent (key, value) pairs. Lookup in a zipmap is actually linear search. There is n
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by minimax 15y ago
No question about it. Repetitive long hours are deleterious to critical and creative thinking abilities. It always makes me think twice when I see stories about game dev / wall st / startup developers working insane hours. I think the st
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by minimax 15y ago
> When you work crazy hours you yo-yo between 20 hour days and 8 hour days that really only have a few hours of productivity (or none at all!) This would not have made any sense to me until I had actually spent three months working 12-1
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by minimax 15y ago
It sounds like he's trying to turn a fun Austin startup into Dell. For those who aren't from Austin, Dell is basically the worst place you can end up as an Austin tech person. It's the bottom of the barrel -- the employer of last resort.
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by minimax 15y ago
An arbitrage trade is a risk free transaction that involves buying something at one price and then immediately selling it at a higher price. How does creating a Groupon clone fit into that model? How do you get from imitation to arbitrage
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by minimax 15y ago
Are you saying "arbitrage" when you actually mean "incremental improvement"?
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by minimax 15y ago
I have a digital subscription to WSJ as well. It's worth every penny. NYT and WSJ probably complement each other more than they compete. I don't have an iPad so I can't really comment on the differences there.
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by minimax 15y ago
The commenter I was originally responding to said that he switched to incognito mode or halted the page load to break through the paywall. If the NY Times had the same value as any other non-paywall site, why would he go to the trouble? Th
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by minimax 15y ago
For example, we could transfer 900 Mbit for a half of a second and another 100 Mbit for the other half of that second. How much data was transferred during that second? The answer is 1 Gbit per second. The dimensional analysis doesn't wor
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by minimax 15y ago
At $3.75/week it was less hassle for me just to pay up. Strangely I also noticed that I actually read a few more articles per week now that I'm paying for it. It's a great paper. I don't understand the aversion to spending a little bit o
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by minimax 15y ago
The key binding configuration makes it pretty straightforward to use command as meta for things like bash readline without changing it system wide or a using separate key remapping program (a la keyremap4macbook). I also find the ability t
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by minimax 15y ago
This post basically shreds the original paper. The classiness is the icing on the cake. If his version is 15x faster than the original Go version, that would make it about twice as fast as the super-optimized C++ version from the paper --
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by minimax 15y ago
I'm not sure you looked at what I posted. __builtin_ia32_psadbw is right there on the list of builtins. I've used __builtin_ia32_psadbw128 in GCC myself. It compiles directly to PSADW instructions. Perhaps you confused what I was talkin
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by minimax 15y ago
You can get to most of the special purpose x86 vector instructions in GCC without dropping down to assembly. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.0/gcc/Vector-Extension... http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.0/gcc/X86-Built_002din...
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Tracking Talent Flows in Silicon Valley(bloomberg.com)
3 points by minimax 15y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 15y ago
The index is basically defined as Google for "<language> programming" then massage the numbers via hand waving and "false positive detection." It's a silly way to measure programming language popularity given all the possible alter
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by minimax 15y ago
There is no requirement for UNIX to "load the entire file before executing," nor does the deletion of files on disk have anything to do with whether or not a file is executable. Under UNIX, any file which has been opened will be accessible
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by minimax 15y ago
With that decay rate, the difference between exponential and linear decay is going to be tough to pick out just by looking at the graph. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+e^%28x*ln%28.75%29... edit: fixed decay constant
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by minimax 15y ago
LinkedIn should let me tick a box that says I'm not interested in talking to any company that refuses to interview the unemployed. EDIT: I'm employed and get pinged on LinkedIn on a pretty regular basis.
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by minimax 15y ago
Here is a link to the commenter's full comment: http://lwn.net/Articles/441867/ He's precisely considering your 16-core case. Now think about what happens when your dataset grows and you need more cores than you can reasonably fit in a
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Fervor Roils Markets as Companies Beat a Path to Go Public(dealbook.nytimes.com)
2 points by minimax 16y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 16y ago
There are tons of banned sites. I assume the list has grown in the past two years. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498910
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by minimax 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181821 The subject of TC posts on HN has been a contentious issue for as long as HN has existed. I think there is still a pretty large contingent that thinks TechCrunch should have been banned just the
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by minimax 16y ago
How many goofy stories have you seen today that affect publicly traded companies? I don't think I have seen any yet.
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by minimax 16y ago
http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/ http://highfrequencytradingreview.com/
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by minimax 16y ago
What language could you possibly be using here? The first line looks like C, but then in C on most systems, open returns an int (a file descriptor). Maybe you wrote open() but you meant fopen()? An easy mistake, but then how are we to in

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