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by nimrody 16y ago
Depending on the application. The ipad is much more dependent on webapps so performance is important. Here on a Macbook Pro (Chrome latest version), Google docs is not always a pleasant experience -- especially when opening nontrivial sprea
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by nimrody 17y ago
What about printing? Does canvas maintain resolution independence like SVG? ... I.e., can you print your beautifully drawn graphs and expect to get quality output?
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by nimrody 17y ago
Even if they do want to get into chip design (low power chips -- the area where PA semi excelled) they may expose themselves to patent suits if they directly compete with Apple in the handheld market. Not saying they cannot avoid it, but in
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by nimrody 17y ago
At first I was very skeptical. Who needs another blogging platform (tumblr works fine, thank you). But now that I'm on the road, Posterous does have one big advantage: It works offline too. I use Mail.app to write and when I finally get a
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by nimrody 17y ago
Someone once gave an example of a 'preview' feature on the client side (like preview the formatting of blog comments) -- then the same code is used on the server to generate the actual view. I think this was briancarper.net where - since he
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by nimrody 17y ago
Well written. Includes a section on "deployment" at the end that summarizes various options -- including patches needed to get FastCGI working. Specific instructions on how to deploy on dreamhost shared accounts (Passanger / fastcgi).
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by nimrody 17y ago
Maintaining stuff most people don't use is an unnecessary headache. Yes it works today but what if some future gmail feature breaks it? I'm pretty sure even Labs go through some sort of QA process.
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by nimrody 17y ago
Most of these are SMP machines (and probably multicore chips) so you probably have >1 core per employee... Most of these are probably running engineering tools: simulations, verification, silicon back-end tools. Current chips require to
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by nimrody 17y ago
The author claims he prefer having the application/OS hide the classic filesystem hierarchy from users (he presents the iPhone OS as an example). While the idea works for a small number of 'files' (or documents), it does not scale well. Whe
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by nimrody 17y ago
HLVM is targeted at high performance scientific applications. The current implementation already outperforms OCaml in several benchmarks (OCaml is more optimized for symbolic computations and sometimes 'boxes' floating point values).
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by nimrody 17y ago
I use google reader and I have noticed only new shared items on Buzz posts. I.e., it did not automatically 'publish' old stuff I have shared. Seems OK with me. In fact, I kind of like it. Only complaints I have are: 1. Missing tagging fun
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by nimrody 17y ago
The iPad/iPhone helps with one aspect of the problem: There is only one platform to handle. No need to support broken old browsers. [by the way - I haven't seen any statistics but it seems Apple users are more likely to update their OS/Apps
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by nimrody 17y ago
If I may ask, what shoe were you using before that and what sort of problems made you switch? How long did it take to get used to the Vibrams? I have a flat foot (over-pronator) and am using stability shoes along with specially made orthoti
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by nimrody 17y ago
This is a short review of the concept of channel coding with some perspective on the history of this field. No real technical information there... The title is a bit misleading. If you want to understand Gallager codes (LDPC codes) better l
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by nimrody 17y ago
Are there any HN-like sites (news aggregators?) for science news? Tried Reddit/r/science but there isn't much traffic there. [I know finance is more sexy these days. Call me old-fashioned but I still believe in basic science ]
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by nimrody 17y ago
What is usually missing from these articles is even a simplified error analysis. We can all count the floating-point operations, and today caches sometimes influence matrix algorithms more than raw flop counts. The problem gets more intere
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by nimrody 17y ago
One more problem: Patents. GSM implementations require licensing IP from several major manufacturers (Nokia, Ericsson and others). As long as the project is small they probably won't bother. But just try basing a femtocell product on OpenBT
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by nimrody 17y ago
Note that Dreamhost recently moved from using mod_php to running PHP as a FastCGI server (per website/account). So I assume PHP no longer has the performance advantage of integrating closely with Apache. In fact, since Dreamhost now offers
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by nimrody 17y ago
Potential benefit of hash tables: cache locality. Assuming you already have the key in the CPU cache, computing the hash is relatively cheap and gets you directly to the desired value. A binary tree structure always makes you traverse sever
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by nimrody 17y ago
If you liked "The Selfish Gene" you might also consider reading Kevin Davies' Cracking the Genome . The book describes the race to sequencing the full human genome and the implications of that research. Fascinating. Made me wish I had take
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by nimrody 17y ago
Sometimes you really understand something only in retrospective -- and after you learn a lot more. Your understanding of basic science improves significantly when you see 'how things fit' in a much larger framework. Moreover, as your studie
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by nimrody 17y ago
Very true. You don't really understand something until you can explain it in clear terms to someone without any knowledge of the subject.
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by nimrody 17y ago
Others already mentioned the camera, GPS, multiband radio (RF). There are also much more difficult issues of heat dissipation and power consumption. Finally, you have to pay for tons of patents used in every phone. I guess Google does not h
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by nimrody 17y ago
I don't think Walter suggested having the array size part of the type (static array types). He suggested using "fat pointers" -- pointers along with their extent. This is similar to how many Pascal compilers treat the type "String". Kernigh
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by nimrody 17y ago
Might be easier to use Javascript for this purpose since it is available practically everywhere. And HTML Canvas support makes writing graphics/games very easy. See http://billmill.org/static/canvastutorial/index.html for example.
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by nimrody 17y ago
For a decent phone you need to add: radio subsystem, bluetooth, camera. Along with these you get problems of heat dissipation, short battery life, long certification process with carriers around the world and god knows what.
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by nimrody 17y ago
Depends on the expressiveness of the language type system. Duck-typing may save quite a bit of code when dealing with generic functions without the complexity of a sophisticated type system (See "Scrap your boilerplate" for the Haskell appr
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by nimrody 17y ago
There used to be an initiative called ANDF ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distributi... ) which was designed to distribute software in some form of intermediate level code. They got compiled to native code on the user's
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by nimrody 17y ago
I agree with the "start your own company" suggestion but strongly disagree with the "get in earlier" advice. Joining a company as one of the first employees means taking almost all the risk as the founders, but almost none of the benefits
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by nimrody 17y ago
Not only running. Maximizing one's endurance takes years. Of course there are other factors that affect performance and deteriorate over the years (Force for example) -- which is why endurance athletes peak at their 30ths.

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