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by neilc 17y ago
Right -- but as far as I know, switching between the 9400 and 9600 requires logging out. Seems strange if you'd actually see worse H264 performance using the 9600 than the 9400.
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by neilc 17y ago
Apple’s own QuickTime on Snow Leopard only makes use of H.264 hardware acceleration with a single graphics card: the Nvidia 9400M. If you don’t have that graphics card in your Mac, you don’t get H.264 hardware acceleration, period. Seems
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by neilc 17y ago
von Neumann is indisputably a genius, but IMHO his contributions to CS aren't quite as fundamental as Turing's. von Neumann's impact is definitely broader though.
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by neilc 17y ago
In fairness, I think Turing is more accurately described as the "father of computer science." But I agree with the general point.
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Making Undergrad CS More Enticing at Stanford(bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com)
37 points by neilc 17y ago|19 comments
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by neilc 17y ago
That is apparently due to a HN bug which strips single quotes from links. The WP article has an apostrophe in the title; the HN-modified link loses the apostrophe, and is broken.
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by neilc 17y ago
the point of the title I took away was a reference to the Alice Cooper song lyric, which as spoken (sung) language, contains no apostrophe. The title of the Alice Cooper song absolutely contains an apostrophe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by neilc 17y ago
Google's search quality very likely doesn't have very much to do with the PageRank algorithm as such. Certainly PageRank isn't much of a qualitative improvement over prior work like HITS, and any reasonable web-scale search engine can easil
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by neilc 17y ago
Bentley didn't just publish pseudo-code; he also published C, and the published C contains the bug.
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by neilc 17y ago
PADS is a related (and more ambitious) line of work from some folks at AT&T: http://www.padsproj.org/index.html
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by neilc 17y ago
Compared to the GMail UI, SquirrelMail is pretty terrible.
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by neilc 17y ago
The mayor's age is relevant, because being a mayor at 88 is quite unusual. White mayors or female mayors are to be expected; an 88 year old mayor who has served for 31 years is simply a remarkable part of the story.
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by neilc 17y ago
You rarely need to use IMAP directly, though: most email apps are fine using a library that manages the details of the IMAP protocol under the covers, and presents a more sane interface.
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by neilc 17y ago
I'd personally recommend pgbouncer as a connection pooler rather than pgpool. https://developer.skype.com/SkypeGarage/DbProjects/PgBouncer
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Automatically predicting the usefulness of a product review(behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
4 points by neilc 17y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 17y ago
There are lots of people in research looking at incorporating SSDs into the storage hierarchy in various ways. Not sure how much of this is going to be productized in the short term, but I wouldn't be surprised to see, say, a new release of
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by neilc 17y ago
Well, one data point: "38% of homeless survey respondents reported that they first became homeless outside of San Francisco or were relative newcomers, having lived in the City for three months or less." And that's actually a significant de
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by neilc 17y ago
Since when has Apple "promised" anything about the iPad? Most/all of the hype around it was externally-generated.
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by neilc 17y ago
Personally I like one large monitor, because I find it fits my workflow better. If you're using two monitors and don't like needing to swivel your head back and forth, have you considering orienting them vertically? For writing code, the ex
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LaTeXSearch: 1M snippets in a searchable database(academicproductivity.com)
22 points by neilc 17y ago|3 comments
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by neilc 17y ago
Except that getting good grades often has other benefits -- e.g. making it easier to win scholarships, get into grad school, and impress employers for internships or immediately post-college jobs.
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by neilc 17y ago
Originally HT was supposed to be transparent. According to whom? I don't think anyone with a clue would have suggested that. If you care about writing high-performance code, you care about the behavior of your processor. Obviously, multip
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by neilc 17y ago
No extensive OS support is required to utilize basic SMT, true -- but the scheduler needs to be aware of SMT to do remotely-intelligent scheduling. As a trivial example, if you have 2 runnable processes, 4 logical cores, and 2 physical core
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by neilc 17y ago
A cursory examination of the patent would tell you that it says very little about map and reduce functions as such -- the emphasis is on the system for executing such functions in parallel for large-scale data transformation.
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by neilc 17y ago
The relevant prior art is not the idea of a "map" or "reduce" function as such (that isn't what is significant about MR, anyway). The patent is about parallelizing M and R operators for large-scale data analysis; I think that the relevant p
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by neilc 17y ago
If you want it not to block, you should set the O_NONBLOCK flag using fcntl(). Certainly, I had assumed that the OP was talking about poll over non-blocking pipes.
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by neilc 17y ago
The System R retrospective paper is a pretty masterful example of a CS systems paper: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/SystemR.pdf It helps that they are describing a pioneering software project and they had the benefit of hindsig
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by neilc 17y ago
I recall a case where a pipe will be write-ready, but if you try to write too much data at the same time the write will block anyway, instead of returning a short count of bytes written That just sounds like a bug.
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The Achilles' Heel of Performance Isolation in the Cloud(idleprocess.wordpress.com)
12 points by neilc 17y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 17y ago
What gave you the idea that they "need" to raise funds? The NYT article mentions they are "headed for a public offering someday", but that's about all I could see.

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