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by mustpax 16y ago
Well, that is not what I meant at all, I meant that I've seen BSD return in say 2 microseconds after calling usleep(1). But that's usleep not sleep, which is the inaccuracy I was admitting to in the first place.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Thanks for the correction. I was just talking about the de facto behavior I have seen on Linux and BSD for very short sleep intervals (way shorter than 1 second), not necessarily about the behavior as specified by the system call. I should
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by mustpax 16y ago
Noisy means there is a lot of variance in the actual time the process spends sleeping. When you say sleep(1) most OSes interpret that as saying, sleep as short as you can. Based on the scheduler internals, that can vary a lot.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Simplenote, http://simple-note.appspot.com might be what you're looking for. It has a pretty good API and a nice web interface. I really like the iPhone app but I don't think it has any other native apps.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Generally speaking, no. There are plenty of connections between ISPs outside the US that don't go through the US that you'd probably still end up with a connected network minus the machines in the US. I would guess there would be latency an
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by mustpax 16y ago
I would rephrase the argument as "Apple wants thousands of good or decent apps, but none so great so as to pull the platform into its own orbit." This rings true especially in light of Jobs' statements about being able to innovate without b
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by mustpax 16y ago
Not to defend Turkey here but other Western style democracies can be just as boneheaded when dealing with technology. For a long time France was notorious about restrictions on the use of cryptography. It is a natural tendency of government
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by mustpax 16y ago
The discussion about affirmative action and sexism on the HN front page ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1420553 ) reminded me of this amusing satire piece by Douglas Hofstadter (of Godel, Escher, Bach fame). Only tangentially related
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A Person Paper on Purity in Language - Douglas Hofstadter(cs.virginia.edu)
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by mustpax 16y ago
Maybe this is what you're thinking of, it's by Nietzsche. One must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.
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by mustpax 16y ago
If Tumblr had an attractive analytics suite that users loved, I doubt Posterous would attempt to forbid its users from using it. Apple placed a low-ball bid for for AdMob, when they got outbid, they figured they'd simply use their dominant
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by mustpax 16y ago
Maybe the causality works the other way around. The collective pie is so much smaller in the high-IP industries, people try to hold on to their share of it with much more ferocity (i.e. more lawyers).
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by mustpax 16y ago
Late last year, Browder’s attorney in Russia died after apparently being tortured while being held in jail by Russian authorities. For more on this story and on how doing business in Russia can be hazardous to your health: http://www.for
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by mustpax 16y ago
Canvas seems like a really cool way to interact with raster graphics. But more and more it is also being used for animating vector graphics, you know, collections of lines, curves and gradients. Isn't SVG better suited for this? Slides 33-3
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by mustpax 16y ago
The USA will do nothing to help them, and they face death. This sounds a bit exaggerated. The US Government will generally make a good effort to bring back even its own civilian citizens trapped in foreign lands (i.e. the reporters in Nor
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by mustpax 16y ago
Really cool. This reminds me of a different "2 algorithms enter 1 algorithm leaves" type game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War . Interestingly, Core Wars is from the age of multiple threads running on a single processor, sharing mem
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by mustpax 16y ago
Your analogy to native vs. byte code is apt, but the question is not whether we can JIT-compile byte code to run as fast as native code (we can). The question is, what instruction set allows us to write the best compilers. I would argue tha
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by mustpax 16y ago
I'm surprised nobody here is talking about the instruction set architecture aspect of this. CISC won the first round of RISC vs. CISC saga. X86 is bloated, legacy mess. It has been riding on the coattails of Intel's success in marketing ("I
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by mustpax 16y ago
This is the engine that powers this aircraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet Right now, it can only operate at high speeds, hence the bomber-based launch.
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by mustpax 16y ago
I know we all love to hate Comcast, but you can find similar short-term hacks in any code base. 3 lines of code doesn't necessarily make the rest of released source useless.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Twitter is clearly not going to ask for a cut of ads not displayed on Twitter proper. To claim otherwise is a disingenuous scare tactic. Fred Wilson's responds to the same effect in the comment thread as well: the whole "we reserve the rig
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by mustpax 16y ago
Web applications are not the same as web pages. A web page is a document, which ought to have simple clean markup. A web application on the other hand is a tool that can edit said documents. It's more "meta." To expect the tool to have the
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by mustpax 16y ago
"... it would be incredibly cool if they went out and bought some tiny startup or lab with a really revolutionary product and pimped it out as the successor to Flash for mobile devices." Instead, Adobe went and bought Omniture for $1.8B. Th
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by mustpax 16y ago
"19 out of the top 20 device manufacturers worldwide have committed to shipping Flash technology on their devices" It would be more wise to actually wait till you can deliver a decent Flash implementation on a mobile device before touting
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by mustpax 17y ago
I don't remember Gray Powell ever making a statement to that effect. That was Gizmodo side of the story.
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by mustpax 17y ago
Also check out Ack, a recursive grep-like tool that works like a charm when searching directory trees: http://betterthangrep.com/
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by mustpax 17y ago
Rachner was wearing a faded t-shirt, jeans and leather jacket, and didn't remotely resemble the guy who misfired the ball, who wore English golfing duds, a Tattersall's hat and fake orange sideburns. Doesn't sound like he had much to do w
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by mustpax 17y ago
Thanks for the heads up, I'm definitely opting out. From the blurb that was presented when I tried to opt out: "Please keep in mind that if you opt out, your friends may still share public Facebook information about you to personalize their
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by mustpax 17y ago
Please note, when I visited docs.com the app was automatically authorized to have access to my Facebook profile. I had to find the app under my Facebook App settings and remove it manually to deauthorize it. So, Facebook 3rd party partners
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by mustpax 17y ago
Docs.com got auto-authorized to use my Facebook account the moment I loaded the page. This is not acceptable, I should have been at least given an Ok, Cancel dialogue to confirm linking my personal Facebook account with some random document

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