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by nvoorhies 17y ago
This really is an amazing combination of repeating facts from people who know what they're talking about, and clueless extrapolation from a reporter that doesn't really understand all of what he just heard.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Does google think of their users as their customers, or just as products they sell to their advertisers?
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
It doesn't seem to me so much as a victim of Sapir-Whorf (i.e. in the strong form, the hypothesis that the set of concepts that can be conceptualized is constrained by the language used for conceptualization) as a victim of some presumption
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Likewise, the age distribution is going to be slanted towards youth in any nation that is a relative newcomer to the industry in question. It's quite likely that the reason there's few firmware engineers from Pakistan with more than 20 yea
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
A sample composed of volunteers from a particular usenet group doesn't seem like it would have people of equal skill in each of the languages in question, however. I'd expect that you'd get a different language winning in each newsgroup yo
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Palo Alto is much less than 50 miles from San Jose.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
He shows some ways to poke memory managed by the iphone driver and saturate the gpu using only ~20% of cpu instead of the 64% that you use with the conventional OpenGLES path. This necessarily introduces some fragility since you're essentia
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
One thing that didn't seem to be addressed in the slides themselves is the reason that GPUs have fixed function texturing operations, a fixed pipeline stage configuration, etc. It saves on memory bandwidth by making the memory accesses mor
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Wouldn't the delay between 2 sensors only give 1 delay, and thus one dimension? I don't follow how placing them on the corners makes this work.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Automotive applications are different in that they're inordinately concerned with the appearance of reflections, especially in areas such as the appearance of the headlights. This makes non-raytraced approaches substantially less valuable