ntoshev

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by ntoshev 17y ago
No you don't: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Right now all netbooks sold out there have a camera and it is mostly used for video calls with Skype. I don't think netbook manufacturers would give such a major feature up. I see Google has videochat in GMail with a browser add-on, perhaps
543.
by ntoshev 17y ago
If you can't run Skype and other instant messangers, interenet experience is going to be incomplete. I wonder of they are going to do something about it.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
This sounds like the same approach Microsoft ASP.NET has: try to fit web apps in the desktop GUI event paradigm. Is this correct?
545.
by ntoshev 17y ago
The web market works, of course; the app store is just a specific distribution channel that has its advantages over the web: * everyone who needs to do something on their iPhone goes to search the app store even though a web app could serve
546.
by ntoshev 17y ago
What about http://www.archive.org doesn't work for you about #1? It's centralized but this is hardly a practical problem; search is also centralized and much more important.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Understanding written text is a universal problem and even minor improvements would matter. Syntax highlighting for natural language is a possible improvement. I have tried variations of this with no success so far: parts-of-speech tagging
548.
by ntoshev 17y ago
I have thought about it as well. The signals that could determine relevancy in your browser history are likely different form the ones that determine it for web search, and measuring engagement with a page is a good example (it would help
549.
by ntoshev 17y ago
A quick Google search says TV ads in prime time is $25 CPM... How is online targeting better? The site might have a demographic profile, it can avoid showing an ad more than once per user, but it's nothing like search targeting...
550.
by ntoshev 17y ago
Previous submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=905547
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by ntoshev 17y ago
What is the SQLite testing strategy?
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Highlights From NVDA's Q3 Conference Call: Steady Increase in Demand(streetinsider.com)
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OLTP through the looking glass, and what we found there [pdf](www-test.it.usyd.edu.au)
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554.
by ntoshev 17y ago
Could you give more detail about what are you doing?
555.
by ntoshev 17y ago
The latest Linux I use (Ubuntu 9.04) uses M and G prefixes. My point is it's a mess and it's unreasonable to claim proper rules are followed. E.g. how do you measure hosting bandwidth? A random calculator ( http://www.ibdhost.com/help/bandw
556.
by ntoshev 17y ago
Then, OSes get this wrong and calculate storage in GiB. Also when I see a 128 GB SSD I somehow expect this to mean a proper power of 2, not to mention it should be addressed similarly to RAM.
557.
by ntoshev 17y ago
I agree with your arguments, but they apply to non-vector code as well. Perhaps higher level programming using the right primitives is good enough in most cases.
558.
by ntoshev 17y ago
You can - I use the WiFi Discover app for this. But the iPhone is not suitable for long reading - small screen, battery - get a dedicated ebook reader instead.
559.
by ntoshev 17y ago
Well, you can still use C with GCC and Intel intrinsics I guess.
560.
by ntoshev 17y ago
I would expect the hyperthreaded cores share their cache between both threads though.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
This is the point of all the status updates, link sharing etc - it's stuff to talk about. You wouldn't send a link to something you thought is cool to all your friends, but posting it on your wall is Ok because you are not interrupting them
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Yes, anytime they ask you to list your favorite movies/books/music in your profile. Of course the matching algorithms are only in the heads of your prospective dates.
563.
by ntoshev 17y ago
Their $450/mo offering seems to have only 8GB RAM.
564.
by ntoshev 17y ago
Is there a public dataset of tweets? There was one available for download, but it seems Twitter pulled it: http://blog.infochimps.org/2008/12/29/massive-scrape-of-twit...
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Lock-free algorithms can be very fast, but they are also hard to implement. It seems Redis is going to get some lock-based pessimistic concurrency control eventually: http://groups.google.com/group/redis-db/browse_thread/thread...
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Does anyone know what is the concurrency control used by Redis? I couldn't find anything related to transaction isolation in the docs.
567.
by ntoshev 17y ago
Java and all the JVM languages. Is it really a language feature?
568.
by ntoshev 17y ago
You could keep data in ram and dump it occasionally to disk (which is way faster than committing every transaction for itself). Replicate among few machines to deal with failure scenarios. But RAM is still more expensive than Flash.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Flash based storage is better than disk because there is no seek latency (the time for the head to find the location on the rotating platter where the data in interest are stored), which currently is the major bottleneck of databases. Also
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by ntoshev 17y ago
RethinkDB seems to implement a functional btree on a log-structured storage. This would involve lots of copying, I wonder what is the performance impact of this (compared to a less pure implementation that copies the modified nodes every th

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