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by pmjordan 16y ago
When you do figure it out, it would be great to have this kind of info collected online somewhere. From what I've read so far though, the usual way is to get an immigration lawyer in the US, not in your home country, as you seem to be doing
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by pmjordan 16y ago
How about you make #3 an in-app purchase for #2? Not sure what the best way to do this is, but you could also drop the price of the app to zero and make game #2 an in-app purchase as well, but give it to all the people who already paid for
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Java has generics too. Yeah, unfortunately they're implemented via type erasure, unlike in C#, where they're actually part of the type system (for example, since C# 4.0 generics can be covariant and/or contravariant on the type parameters
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by pmjordan 16y ago
There are few differences between Java and C#. I'd say that was true in the .NET 1.1 days, but really doesn't apply anymore nowadays. The C# language's feature set has expanded much faster than Java's, which alone drives up the number of
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Do you use MonoMac? If so: I'm currently looking into that, but the mailing list (mono-osx) seems pretty dead, with lots of unanswered questions (including mine). Is there a better place to ask questions? I'm a little concerned about buildi
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by pmjordan 16y ago
At Google's scale? Successfully? I find that rather unlikely. If you have any examples of this, please do share. Otherwise, all I can imagine is reducing the depth of the tree, and in some cases not to make it a strict tree, but a somewhat
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I don't think the algorithm currently gives extra weight to high-karma users (there are however penalties for voting rings, flags, etc.). To hit the frontpage, you just need a certain number of votes in a short time. I also wouldn't count o
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Intel actually got out of the ARM business in 2006, pretty much exactly 1 year before release of the first iPhone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale#Sale_of_PXA_processor_li... They apparently still hold an ARM license, but that may w
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by pmjordan 16y ago
The SSH connection is inherently a reliable stream, so you need to be careful - it should work if you drop UDP packets if the ssh stream's send buffer is full, but there might be severe performance traps down that route. Maybe an expert can
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by pmjordan 16y ago
As far as I know it sets up firewall rules (ipfw/iptables) to redirect certain outgoing TCP connections to a local socket, where they are picked up by the sshuttle service and multiplexed over the ssh connection. at the other end, the strea
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I can't help myself, I'm always extremely skeptical when incubators and YC-like startup programmes have long lists of mentors and/or when the mentors have no actual skin in the game. What are their motivations for mentoring, exactly, if the
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by pmjordan 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprime
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Curious. I didn't realise the stream itself wasn't IP-restricted. This could solve issues with flaky VPS bandwidth.
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The Möbius Gear(robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu)
164 points by pmjordan 16y ago|21 comments
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by pmjordan 16y ago
On OSX this will work for some Flash video implementations, but not others. (BBC iPlayer website: yes, Desktop: no; other UK TV channels: no) You can use https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle to transparently proxy all TCP connections (t
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I wonder how they handle the flash video streaming, and stuff secured via HTTPS (e.g. BBC iPlayer for iPad/iPhone). HTTP is easy to transparently proxy due to the "Host:" header, but HTTPS and many other protocols don't have anything equiva
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Rather than downvoting you to oblivion, I'll point out that " Restricting the problem to a fixed size input makes factoring an O(1) operation " makes no sense. Sorting an array of N items using a comparison sort has a lower complexity bound
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by pmjordan 16y ago
If it's a waste, than banks computer farms is a waste too. Sorry, I don't understand this part. I'm pretty sure real currency isn't backed by hash function brute forcing. (I assume they use contracts along with some form of public key cry
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by pmjordan 16y ago
How do bitcoins compare to the cost of electricity? I've got a (fairly modest) Radeon HD 5770, which consumes around 100W under load. At €0.20/kWh, that's €0.48/day (leaving aside the power needed for running the rest of the system). For sa
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by pmjordan 16y ago
There's a review of both cards in the latest c't Magazine [1] (German) - the benchmarks suggest that the AMD card wins in most disciplines, except for tesselation benchmarks and a couple of games at lower resolutions. AMD's OpenGL drivers a
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Yep, except it still needs to check the alignment of the pointers passed into the function to see if it can use the aligned mov instructions. If you're that stuck for speed, you'll want to make sure all your buffers are already aligned, and
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by pmjordan 16y ago
It's always a trade-off, but in this case the cost is minimal. If your program is limited by the speed of memmove/memcpy(), and you absolutely must copy (rather than alias, or whatever), you probably want to use a 128-bit aligned, widely un
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Interesting. Pre-release screener copies, which you're presumably not even allowed to show friends, would seem like a different kettle of fish than files which are publicly available for purchase.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I wonder if there's any legal precedent for a friend being the jerk in a scenario like this. "Friend" uploads ebook/music track/magazine I bought and "lent" him/her to file sharing site or whatever. It's my name in there, so I'm going to
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I know, I guess I was just pointing out that this was hardly news for hackers , and potentially saving others the time of reading all of it, looking for the newsworthy bits.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
The digital versions of the German c't magazine (archives and iPad version) have similar visible and possibly some invisible watermarking features. Music downloaded from iTunes has your name in the Metadata. Personally, I'm fine with this,
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by pmjordan 16y ago
None of the DRM-related revelations in the article should be overly shocking to the HN crowd. For me, the most interesting nugget of info was that e-books now account for a quarter of O'Reilly's revenue. (top of the second page)
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Proxies usually have connection limits. FTP might work.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Maybe, if you could trick the server (64-bit FreeBSD) into connecting to sockets open on 32-bit FreeBSD machines. I can't think of any common services that would be susceptible to this (they would normally be susceptible to being tricked in
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Modern preemptive multitasking operating systems send the CPU to sleep when there's no work to be done. In DOS, the currently running app or game usually just used every available cycle (aside from interrupts handled by the BIOS or DOS) for

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