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by pja 11y ago
(hits Wikipedia) ... “The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) are a set of free and open source graphics libraries that grew out of the development of the Enlightenment window manager” “...And did I mention EFL is the basis of all appl
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by pja 11y ago
Because it eliminates uncertainty? To sustain that 60% MoM growth rate, you’re going to have to recruit staff to match (this is a relatively high-touch company by the sounds of things - no scaling out your staff to millions of users each!)
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by pja 11y ago
In this case a bug that takes out a core company infrastructure component will get rapidly promoted from “nice to have improvement” to “oh shit, we need to fix this” in short order I suspect.
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by pja 12y ago
It wasn’t just the lawsuits - IIRC YouTube the business was also bleeding money at a terrifying rate thanks to infrastructure costs (servers, bandwidth) even without the legal problems. When Google took them on they were able to cut their c
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by pja 12y ago
I’m not surprised that a drug used to treat OCD helped her, because this really sounds like a variant form of OCD. The difference is that she was obsessing about the virtual world she had created inside her own head instead of something out
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by pja 12y ago
Matt's blog post on the topic: http://matt.west.co.tt/spectrum/the-mahler-project/ I think I'm visible at the back of the crowd in the video, but the compression & low light makes it a bit har
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by pja 12y ago
Unfortunately, I have to stop reading at this point. At the university department I worked at, the Templeton Foundation funded a pile of quantum computation research. They fund a lot of pure research projects by cutting edge researchers t
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by pja 12y ago
Yeah, lets compare a pair of tech companies which have been around for less than a decade with a car manufacturer and a bank, both of which have software in use today that was created decades ago and operate in heavily regulated environment
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by pja 12y ago
This, I think: http://www.goblinscomic.org/lowtide-update-for-goblins-alter... Short version: Creator partners with company to Kickstart a bunch of stuff. Company owner appears to have done a runner with the Kickstarter cas
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by pja 12y ago
Same way they do with anything else they care about: by controlling everything in the stack from the hardware up.
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by pja 12y ago
It ought to have been transparently obvious to Google execs from when Google became utterly dominant in the web search space that the risk of anti-trust violations was very high and if they wanted to avoid being censured they needed to cons
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by pja 12y ago
Red Plenty is fantastic. Well worth reading. There was a virtual seminar at the Crooked Timber group blog which is worth reading if you enjoyed the book: http://crookedtimber.org/category/red-plenty-seminar/
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by pja 12y ago
I think it’s fair to say that your use case lies outside the current performance envelope available in laptop form :)
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by pja 12y ago
I believe you can manipulate the colour bleed between pixels on the composite output from a high resolution mode to achieve high-colour output. (They actually have a 1024-colour mode in part of the demo.) There are probably a bunch of weird
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by pja 12y ago
A .deb package can do whatever it likes during installation, so not much difference in reality.
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by pja 12y ago
Anarcho-syndicalism was put into practice in the Spanish Civil War, when the workers simply stopped answering to their bosses and instead ran things for themselves. And it got crushed. If there was one thing the fascists and communists (bo
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by pja 12y ago
I think you misunderstood: the OP is saying that S3 was the only service that Amazon was actually using internally at the time out of the initial AWS service offering, even though AWS as a whole was sold as "the infrastructure that run
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by pja 12y ago
My librarian wife absolutely hates this trope.
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by pja 12y ago
Because Firefox used to crash in the WebWorker code that Google uses on Chromium. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1096492#c21 According to that bug report, it should be fixed in Firefox 38; there’s some con
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by pja 12y ago
gwern, Scott makes a specific point of not linking to his blog from his LJ in his penultimate LJ post - he might prefer that you didn’t make that link here?
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by pja 12y ago
You’re not really paying a premium for the Apple brand these days when it comes to laptops. If go out and look at laptops of similar quality you’ll see there’s not much in it. Sometimes Apple is even the cheaper option. Don’t think that by
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by pja 12y ago
It may or may not be obvious from this blog post that Matthew has a cooking hobby that would take over his life if he let it. (Hi Matthew!)
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by pja 12y ago
At least some of the people he interviews were involved in controversial events that were discussed on HN for days on end so it’s not surprising (to me at least) that these excerpts are also getting a lot of attention here.
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by pja 12y ago
You seem to be assuming that I’m trying to put you down instead of contributing (hopefuly) interesting things to a mutually beneficial discussion. Online discourse in a nutshell sadly.
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by pja 12y ago
"With malicious intent" in this case usually meant an explosive device designed to kill the driver of the vehicle for anyone reading who might not get the context.
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by pja 12y ago
Somewhere I have bookmarked a list of all the assumptions that go into the "classic" theorems of economics, written by a practising academic in the field. I’ll try and dig it out.
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by pja 12y ago
There were a lot of ALGOL variants around in the 1960s & 70s if you look at the Wikipedia page for ALGOL, including one called GOGOL for the PDP-1. My first guess would be that POGOL was an ALGOL-a-like for the IBM-360, perhaps develo
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by pja 12y ago
IIRC California[1] ruled that if you were an Amazon Affiliate living in California, then that constituted Amazon having a "Nexus" in the state which would make them liable for sales taxes on all their Californian sales. Rather tha
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by pja 12y ago
Don’t most of those theorems require rational agents ("homo economicus") with perfect knowledge?
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by pja 12y ago
The metadata logging on modern Linux filesystems is designed with the consistency guarantees offered by spinning magnetic storage in mind. SD cards (and SSDs for that matter) are completely different - pull the plug when the card is busy up

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