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by nikster 16y ago
Good to know, thanks. I'd only ever run it in manual mode anyway. How is the computer supposed to know whether power or speed is more important at any given time?
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by nikster 16y ago
In my own tests compiling and building code I found that the OS X disk cache is very efficient and so the SSD advantage disappears after the first run. Still the best bang for the buck upgrade by far but for the purpose of compiling much le
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by nikster 16y ago
I agree and yes I do sometimes bill my shower time. That's where the best work gets done after all But I think it's much deeper than that. It's the basic truth that creativity emerges from a still mind. First you spend hours obsessing in fr
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by nikster 16y ago
Doubtful. Wouldn't be much of an achievement to be able to say: "Look, we put a man on the Mars and left him to die there", now would it?
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by nikster 16y ago
I don't think it's less battery life - it's just measured more accurately. Love the quad core. Hate the CD drive - fill up that space with something useful, not a dead weight. I'd have to install an optibay adapter with SSD but I don't see
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by nikster 16y ago
I'd be interested in the actual application of that. Scheme and Lisp don't seem to lend themselves to a powerful object oriented design very much. Since that is IMO the highest order task in programming, I have never been that interested in
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by nikster 16y ago
Neat as this may be - optimizing a trivial algorithm is not something you'll encounter out of school. The lesson learned is a good one though: Good design always wins. In real life, that's obvious almost immediately, yet the concept seems t
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by nikster 16y ago
Very interesting point here. Maybe Adobe's next ad campaign will feature this idea: Flash is better because you can turn it off. In fact, if you turn it off, you remove 99% of all truly annoying ads on the web. Thinking ahead, maybe we need
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by nikster 16y ago
For the vast majority of things Flash is being used for, it's crap. Namely, video, and site navigation. For other things it could be used - but you could also use HTML5 like the site in the example to do anything you'd do in Flash, and not
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by nikster 16y ago
Pfft - I've seen way too many code bases with random threading code. Speaking of Java here - what's needed is that it's simply not possible to write new Thread(foo).start(); - the message passing model has to be enforced. I mean, read the J
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by nikster 16y ago
Dunno, made perfect sense to me. It's just that many (most?) programmers, in my own experience, don't fully appreciate the insanity that is traditional "shared data" concurrency. What I see is that they program something buggy, but where th
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by nikster 16y ago
Maybe they introduced this new price with a tagline - "A buck a month!". I am pretty sure it's because of that, very simple, people like simple. I like simple.
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by nikster 16y ago
Well, no. Imagine I am the Bing toolbar and I am spying on my users. The Google search result for fake word zxczxczxczxczx is then a web page with a single link, and the user I am observing is clicking that link. So I am Bing, and I make a
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by nikster 16y ago
I think there's a very clear ethical divide. Using any Google product, you implicitly agree to them, in exchange, using your data. That's how Google works, and has always worked. That's your payment for using the service. With Windows - the
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by nikster 16y ago
I just reported a problem last week and got a response inside 12 hours. I was amazed. Certainly faster than I've ever gotten a response from Sun. Average over the last 3 issues is about 48 hours - if accepted as a bug. But if you provide so
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by nikster 16y ago
"ISPs have to pay data by volume to upstream providers" Yes, they do. The question is how much. Chances are it's nowhere near $2.... charging whatever you want is fair game in a free market, but not when you're a monopolist.
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by nikster 16y ago
I think this hits on the real, underlying issue: There is no free market competition in internet access. In the case of Canada it appears one state-owned company owns all the physical lines, and that company is starting to meter access. So,
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by nikster 16y ago
I want to know about this insurance - that's exactly what I need. I am not one to needlessly run to the hospital - in fact I avoid it as much as I can - but I would like insurance in case I have a bad accident and need surgery etc. The only
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by nikster 16y ago
Agree. I know Google is the new evil but all they've done is turned off autocomplete. If I type "[film name] torrent" in Google, I still get an instant, direct link to the piretebay download of said movie. I think it actually makes sense to
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by nikster 16y ago
>When did they back peddle? All the cases I heard of where >someone decided not to settle and went to court, the RIAA >went along and crushed them.' proof? >Most cases settled because most people the RIAA went after >wer
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by nikster 16y ago
+1 from me. That's it for Obama. Great, inspiring speeches, but too many poor decisions, and quite the hand for choosing the wrong people for important positions. Maybe he wants to appease everyone? Either way this is not what I expect from
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by nikster 16y ago
By the way I don't think people who read HN are in the top 5% - think of Facebook's 500 MILLION (!) users. Saying that the people who read HN are in the 0.1% group of computer users would still be optimistic, IMO. The time when geeks were 5
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by nikster 16y ago
Time to post the classification of Mac lovers/haters again: - Geeks: Love Apple. Appreciate the superior technology that goes into iOS/Mac OS. bash! - Wannabe geeks: Hate Apple. Their tinkering skills are neither required nor wanted on Mac
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by nikster 16y ago
Everyone is debating here as if Google's decision to promote WebM was static. That's not the case. This is step 1 in a process that could rid the world of Flash. We need: 1 - Google to publicly put out a strong message (has already happened
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by nikster 16y ago
I don't buy the argument that it strengthens Flash. Flash and H.264 are both 90% YouTube, e.g. Google. Google can, therefore, flip a switch and turn everything to WebM. They just need broad support in place first. If Google says they will s
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by nikster 16y ago
Great post. I've been wanting to say something like that, but got distracted. There is a truth, and two fallacies in the article. The truth is that the hot girl effect exists. Fallacies: #1 - It is automatically desirable to talk to the ho
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by nikster 16y ago
[From my single days] I'd generally want to get laid. So women that show absolutely no interest are great - no time wasted. Women that want to f... you right there in the bathroom are also great, but rare. Women that are nice and hot are
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by nikster 16y ago
Absolutely true. Wait until you get married - suddenly chicks hit on you all the time. It's like... WTF? Just two days ago, I sit in an outdoors bar, all alone, and order a beer. Now the other rule is that if you're all by yourself, nobody
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by nikster 16y ago
We all make choices - maybe I wouldn't want to invest much of my precious time in having Coffee with the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Let's say I don't work in finance and have no interest in it. As for hot women, it depends on what you want. For
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by nikster 16y ago
We have two sides of this story - Dylan Winter's words, and Google's cold, hard data. Google dumped him because there were lots of clicks and they didn't generate revenue, which indicates either click fraud or violation of the rules. Dylan

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