mzarate06

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by mzarate06 6y ago
I've never used Intel ssds. Of the ones I've seen commented about in the hardware community, I seem to recall lower pricing tied to lower quality (less durable) memory used. But again, if you just need the drive for storage, any
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by mzarate06 6y ago
Since you're asking in regard to bulk storage for games, I assume you're on a desktop? There are primarily two form factors to consider ... The 2.5" sata ssds offer nice price per GB. SanDisk and Crucial are two brands I&#x2
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New Dell XPS 17 (and 15) preview(youtube.com)
6 points by mzarate06 6y ago|0 comments
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by mzarate06 6y ago
The markets are up much more than a mere few percent. Going off closing lows, the SPY is up ~25% from it's ~223 close on 23 March. The Nasdaq Composite is up ~19%. That puts them back at mid-late 2019 prices, not 2016-2017 levels. Th
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by mzarate06 7y ago
I take it "60 hours weeks" comprised of a 40 hour per week job + course work; was that on 2 courses per semester then? And did you maintain 2 courses per semester throughout the program? Are you willing to share a little about wh
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by mzarate06 7y ago
I follow a simple rule about this when I'm the interviewer - any time commitment asked of a job candidate to write code, must be matched by an equal time commitment on my part. For example, that permits collaborative code questions or
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by mzarate06 7y ago
> Problem is, after more than a decade I find myself constantly tired and unmotivated for anything. I fear that burnout is starting again... That statement relates to a feeling I have about burnout - I don't believe you fully reco
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by mzarate06 7y ago
> If you ask most people who have familiarity with x86_64, I'm certain they would use a different term than "genius." What term do you think they'd use, and why?
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by mzarate06 8y ago
Agree. And while IndexedDB deserves credit, I cringe a bit every time I see a SQL implementation in JS. There's clearly a SQL need for developers, so I still feel we missed an opportunity w/WebSQL. To supplement, see my 2015 com
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by mzarate06 9y ago
Phoronix included Linux compilation benchmarks when it reviewed the Ryzen 1800x: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-180...
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Rape Victim Files New Lawsuit Against Uber(cnbc.com)
3 points by mzarate06 9y ago|0 comments
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by mzarate06 9y ago
Previous discussion from Sept 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10197672 I'm sure there's been updates since then, just linking for reference.
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Uber clarifies their user tracking after app exit or deletion(techcrunch.com)
19 points by mzarate06 9y ago|9 comments
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by mzarate06 10y ago
That's not what he said, though. Here's what he did say (his full post is here [1], if anyone's curious), which I think indicate culture, area, and distance from where he considers home as the factors affecting his health: B
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by mzarate06 10y ago
All machines in my household get backed up to a home-built NAS. It runs low power inexpensive hardware that's plenty fast, along w/Linux Mint + Samba to manage the file shares. I preferred this since I've used Linux most of
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AMD GPUs to Be Available on Google Cloud Platform in 2017(ir.amd.com)
8 points by mzarate06 10y ago|0 comments
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Alibaba Cloud Service To Use AMD Graphics Chips(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mzarate06 10y ago|0 comments
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by mzarate06 10y ago
That's clever price manipulation. Detect when someone wants something ... triple the price. Some aspects are different, but reminds me of a similar tactic Network Solutions pulled back in 2008 wrt to listening to domain name searches
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AMD Acquires HiAlgo to Further Innovate Radeon Software and Gaming(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by mzarate06 10y ago|0 comments
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by mzarate06 10y ago
Great news of the gag order being lifted, and to hear from Levison himself. Although in regard to the post title (which has since been changed) indicating Snowden was the Lavabit investigation target, here's original discussion from Ma
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by mzarate06 10y ago
Understood on the difference between being personally unresponsive vs. an infrastructure disaster. I should've been more clear; I've edited my original reply. Code escrow is in fact what we're looking at. I guess part of my
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by mzarate06 10y ago
> They made me fill in a disaster recovery questionnaire ... They wanted the source code for this website in Escrow ... Can you elaborate on the details or circumstances these parts outlined? Particularly in regard to provisions or prot
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by mzarate06 11y ago
One question I'm not seeing often ... From here, what's stopping the FBI from claiming they found X, Y, and Z on the phone, and further claiming they were all important pieces of evidence, that could possibly have prevented the at
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by mzarate06 11y ago
> I think it is because people ... get bonuses and paychecks for creating stuff more than tearing down stuff. ... You'd produce a better perception by claiming you added / created / built, rather than deleted. It's
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by mzarate06 11y ago
> Laravel ... solved lots of existing annoyances regarding PHP coding for me. Can you name a few such annoyances and how Laravel addressed them? And do you mean to say that Laravel addresses them, while other frameworks don't?
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U.S. Marines Test Google's Latest Military Robot(pcworld.com)
2 points by mzarate06 11y ago|0 comments
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A Conversation with Edward Snowden (Part 1) [video](startalkradio.net)
30 points by mzarate06 11y ago|2 comments
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by mzarate06 11y ago
From the first 1 minute and 15 seconds of the video: > "With WebSQL being deprecated, and IndexedDB not providing structured queries, web developers need a tool to satisfy their structured query needs." > "Web app devel
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Why 80 PLUS Is Irrelevant When Buying a Power Supply (2011)(hardocp.com)
1 points by mzarate06 11y ago|0 comments
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Toshiba CEO Resigns Over Accounting Scandal(recode.net)
1 points by mzarate06 11y ago|0 comments

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