nvoorhies

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by nvoorhies 5y ago
E
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by nvoorhies 9y ago
It's actually circa 1914 British usage rather than an error.
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by nvoorhies 14y ago
Or based on an assumption that YC gets more than just equity out of the people that get into it.
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by nvoorhies 14y ago
Moleskine notebooks are mediocre in paper quality, though, and not very consistent. You'll see variations based on which of their Chinese suppliers manufactured a particular notebook, but bleed through and feathering are generally sub par
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by nvoorhies 14y ago
You'll still have the driver doing the mapping from id to handle under the hood. It can get to be north of 25% of cpu cycles spent looking this up in some cases.
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by nvoorhies 14y ago
Exactly. Forcing every embedded device that wants to do portable 3D to include megabytes of wrappers for over a decade of cruft wasn't worth it, when the alternative is people having to spend a few days' time if they can't find a suitable
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by nvoorhies 14y ago
C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software is the best thing I've seen on the topic, personally. http://www.amazon.com/Interfaces-Implementations-Techniques-...
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by nvoorhies 14y ago
I think it really speaks to the impoverished startup environment in Chicago that this ends up as an un-monetized throwaway product. In Silicon Valley an idea like this could lead to a helluva exit with backing from incubators like YC.
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by nvoorhies 14y ago
Avoiding dark alleys is certainly normal advice in Japan as well. http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/201112/13/73/b0015373_19495370.jp...
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by nvoorhies 15y ago
He's probably precisely the type of guy you should listen to when it comes to how things don't work as they should.
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
It's amazingly impressive that they took on ASL as a first target and didn't give up before completing that beast of a rule set.
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
Wait until you see the google site!
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
Most sane programming language syntaxes are confined to a subset of CFGs, usually LALR, which is nice and easy to generate fast parsers for. To parse any CFG you have to fall back to strategies like CKY that have worst case behaviors that
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
The GPU capabilities are gated by Apple's software, it seems. The windows drivers for the same card are quite happy with OpenGL 3.2 or thereabouts. I'd bet that the lack of internal use of fancier GPU features and a push towards using Open
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
Dali makes a big production out of the way he did it and describes it extensively in his book "50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship". It was a key rather than a spoon in that case, though no doubt the details changed in every telling.
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
It mentions however that the system was used after the campaign has switched to night bombing, which was months after the evacuation from France. The error was at least as large as the channel.
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
There's also the aspect of plain talk about concrete lessons learned being valuable to competitors in a way that feel-good self promotion isn't. While it'd be nice to be able to learn from peoples' mistakes the first time those mistakes ar
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
I must be parsing this incorrectly because it looks like you're arguing that C was obscure before Linus used it.
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
Forgive me if I take a debunking of GPU performance advantages written up by Intel with a fist sized grain of salt.
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
The "our" translation is just convention, not actually there in the latin.
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
It's 3 standard deviations above the mean, so it'd definitely be an eye-opener compared to the composition of pretty much any high school class.
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
It's not dimensionless, so mc^2 = mc is a type mismatch
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
If it's using the majority of the CPU and memory, then the answer apparently is "compared to everything else".
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
He believed that he had been reincarnated and died in battle a number of times and what have you. Not necessarily as a general, though.
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
In a lot of cases old hammers are better, especially when working metal. Most are cast now, rather than forged. The situation with anvils is even worse, with only one company that I'm aware of still making forged anvils. I suppose that th
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
It's a maintenance issue for the driver folks though. 2 OpenGL drivers with subtly different behavior and sets of bugs means at least twice as many headaches if you want to keep things looking the same.
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
If his leadership is not admirable and he's a case of the problem in question, who better to say "Don't hire someone like me!"?
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
There's quite a bit of difference between representatives of your government doing something for the ostensible intention of making areas safer, and a corporation doing something similar with the intention of making a profit.
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by nvoorhies 16y ago
If they have solved the problem of scaling a "Search algorithm like Google" to infinitely large data sets, why are they using it to draw 1999-looking graphics with lots of geometry instead of eating Google's lunch?
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
It's akin to "here's where the computer lab is" rather than in the "this is what a stack is"

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