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by pmjordan 15y ago
Opera Mini uses its own protocol to talk to the proxy. HTTP is quite chatty, so there's a lot of mileage in reducing the headers by simply omitting a lot of unneeded information and compressing the rest.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I'm not really familiar with the ruby development process and community and haven't used the language much, but I could imagine the MRI developers spend considerable time advancing the actual design of the language (syntax, standard APIs, e
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Virtualisation's rise in popularity has caused IOMMUs to start showing up even in some consumer chipsets. Do you think an IOMMU and a driver that supplies it appropriately restrictive page tables for the GPU will be enough or do we realisti
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Purely server-side tech is less sensitive to this kind of swing because you control the execution environment. Likewise for open-source software, and software based on open, widely used technologies, protocols and specifications - for examp
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I'm not convinced it's quite so straightforward. The problem isn't exactly that the kernel is sleeping when it shouldn't. After all, there's nothing to do, so sleeping is sensible. The issue, as I understand it, is that the C6 state in mode
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by pmjordan 15y ago
It's not stated specifically in the article, but from the large number of respondents who offer act as both designer and developer, I suspect this survey is focused on web freelancers, as opposed to developers in general. I would expect t
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by pmjordan 15y ago
From the article: There is still a limit to how much the GPU can do. A recent interesting example of this is tablets built with Tegra 2 -- that GPU can touch every pixel of a 1024x800 screen about 2.5 times at 60fps. Now consider the Andro
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Another reason is that the speaker is on the side with the home button. Having that edge face downwards when sitting down e.g. in bed muffles the sound. Not sure if this still applies to iPad 2, but it certainly does for the original.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
In fairness, if they add stuff to their basket, the affiliate tag sticks with the item for 90 days, if I remember correctly. I certainly often add stuff to my basket and wait with the purchase for a few days or weeks, so it works for that u
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by pmjordan 15y ago
You could easily do this on Linux, where the executable format allows you to override library-defined symbols, including malloc(). Implement the new malloc/calloc/realloc/free as a static library and link it to your dev builds. Don't link i
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by pmjordan 15y ago
You answered your own question. From your quote: "blending sounds from two or more distinct words" (note emphasis) The word "brunch" is widely regarded to be a portmanteau, and does not consist of whole words.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I'm sure that's no accident. I suspect they're at the empirically determined sweet spot between 'beautiful/sexy' and 'loose/easy' for the maximum number of people to feel they'd both stand a chance with the person and actually would want
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by pmjordan 15y ago
As others have said, unless you're only changing one element in the hardware/software stack, it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. However, A5 is reported to use out-of-order execution, whereas A4 and earlier iPhone CPUs are purely in-or
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by pmjordan 15y ago
That's a simile, not a metaphor!
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by pmjordan 15y ago
"Almost trivial"? You're vastly exaggerating. I'm pretty sure most physics graduates would get problems of special relativity as applied to rotating (i.e. accelerating) systems completely wrong, as it's usually just not taught. Yep, someone
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Gravity is not accounted for in special relativity, only general relativity, and this argument is purely based on special relativity. I can't speculate quantitatively on the magnitude of gen. rel. effects, but given the short times, high ne
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Disclaimer: It's been a few years since uni, and I haven't read the actual paper, just the linked article. From what I can tell, the quoted passage, "From the perspective of the clock, the detector is moving towards the source and consequen
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by pmjordan 15y ago
The $1M in the example is the pre-money valuation, $2M is the post-money valuation. If your company is worth $X and I inject $Y into it, it automatically is worth $(X+Y) - there's no question about how you value cash in the bank.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Have you looked into incorporating in the UK? It's probably quite a bit of hassle up-front but should solve this type of problem. Unlike in many (most?) European countries, incorporating a limited company in the UK is pretty cheap and strai
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Summer Roller Coaster: moving from NY-CA-NY(joshrweinstein.com)
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I don't think it's quite so clear-cut. If you're selling downloadable apps (like mobile or desktop apps) you're almost certainly liable. What about the JavaScript code you're "exporting" to your users? That runs in their jurisdiction.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
"I wonder what Carmack uses now? Whatever it is, he could probably have several of them hooked up to a machine each running at 1920 x 1080 and still come nowhere near close to drawing 180 watts." That's a little optimistic. The 27" and 30
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by pmjordan 15y ago
if an American is going to Austria, is it trivial to land in Slovakia and drive/take a train across the border? Yes, travel visas are Schengen-wide, only residency permits are handled on a per-country basis. There's also no border post to
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I don't think it helps to be located outside the problematic jurisdiction - as soon as you sell your products there, you are once again subject to the laws you're trying to avoid. Avoiding the United States as a market is probably more cost
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Another possible bug: when entering a location, I only seem to be shown nearby airports within the same country. For locations near borders (or in small countries) it's easy to forget the nearest airport might be in the next country. Specif
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Intel apparently is still an ARM licensee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale#Sale_of_PXA_processor_li... I'm guessing the licensing fees are peanuts to Intel and probably come with patent indemnification.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
This could just be the general slowness of bitwise operations kicking in. I remember reading in Intel's optimisation documents that shift instructions take around 3 times as long as an add , so for multiplying by 4 you're better off with 2
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Good to see someone taking on VP8 decoding in hardware in earnest. I started working on an OpenCL+OpenGL-based implementation back in April, but it ended up taking too much of my time. I got as far as doing the loop filter on the GPU, thoug
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I know it was made in 2008, but I'm really enjoying Far Cry 2 at the moment, which is about as far removed from an on-rails shooter as you can get.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
NULL is actually #defined to 0 in C++ as void* is not implicitly convertible to any pointer type as it is in C. So unlike in C there has been no safety in using NULL. Until now.

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