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by psranga 17y ago
Didn't read the full paper (might do it later in the day). But it seems like they would need per-task instruction counters in each core. Or maybe even some sort of call-graph monitoring on chip. Otherwise, it'll be interesting to see how th
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by psranga 17y ago
There are parts of all languages that I find confusing, but I'm a little puzzled by the general criticism of C++ (e.g., the __getitem__ feature of Python seems to be similar in spirit to operator overloading. Do people criticize Python too?
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by psranga 17y ago
The comment was probably referring to things like "copying stuff is expensive" or "function calls are expensive", not more specific details of the machine you run on. In C++ you use pointers/references to solve the first problem, and define
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by psranga 17y ago
Keep the name. I wasn't confused. Looks sweet.
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by psranga 17y ago
Hosted source control for closed-source projects? I am intrigued by this idea. I would have thought this would be a small market.
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by psranga 17y ago
Was skeptical of OpenID. Tried it for the first time yesterday to log into to answers.onstartups.com. I'm a believer. I used MyOpenID instead of google/yahoo etc since after reading the article about the power of google passwd that was post
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by psranga 17y ago
Credit card companies charge 1-2% of revenues. VC and hedge funds also charge management fees in that ballpark. I would say 1-2% of profits after deducting all operating and capital expenses is a good royalty figure. In most countries, all
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by psranga 17y ago
About 10 years ago, I would given some credence to such articles with simplistic solutions (privatize and fire workers) to complex problems. Now I recognize it as a potentially slanted article. In particular foreign private oil companies ha
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by psranga 17y ago
I'm curious how they managed to dilute only the employees that left without harming everybody else. Can you please elaborate?
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by psranga 17y ago
Good point. In case it wasn't clear, my premium-ish parts (e.g., 80plus power supply) were cheaper than Dell's low-end-ish parts.
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by psranga 17y ago
I was visiting folks in Washington by car for a holiday and I happened to be thinking about buying a comp at the same time. As a micro-optimization, I had Newegg ship the parts to WA and transported them back myself to CA. :) Btw, I was sur
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by psranga 17y ago
No, he didn't. "Brandon Frazier, 32, a public relations consultant, was aware of that when he borrowed $18,000 to cover expenses from buying a house in Southeast near RFK Stadium last year." The photo caption is misleading.
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by psranga 17y ago
Many sites already provide (1) a HUGE number of "share" buttons to post to facebook, reddit etc, and (2) the ability to comment and have it appear below the article. If you want to comment to your immediate circle use option (1). To comme
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by psranga 17y ago
I replied elsewhere also: the list of industries surveyed (page 10) all seem to be high-tech.
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by psranga 17y ago
Paul, the article has a list of industries they surveyed (page 10). Plumbing and gas stations don't figure. They all seem to be high tech.
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by psranga 17y ago
To the Andrew: I didn't know at first I could click on the img and see a full-size page. I was wondering what I was supposed to infer from looking at a "head shot". I like the original. He removed the shortcuts to "what's new", top sellers
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by psranga 17y ago
Where was this guy when Apple used Gandhi, MLK etc? And he uses the most tired argument of all: "think of the children!". Sorry, I am not persuaded.
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by psranga 17y ago
I know this doesn't directly address your question. But large liquid ethane pools have been discovered on Titan. Dinosaurs certainly didn't live there; where do you suppose the carbon came from (it comes from the fusion of dying stars).
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by psranga 17y ago
The most informative series I have read on the abiotic origins of oil and gas: http://www.google.com/search?q=abiotic+oil+site%3Adavesweb.c...
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by psranga 17y ago
I would LOVE to use a scheduler tuned for my hardware if outperformed the generic scheduler. I'm not a kernel developer, but I can imagine how the mainstream single-socket multicore case may be quite different from the multi-socket multic
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by psranga 17y ago
Hmm, one is an equal partnership, the other isn't. The unpaid internship law serves to give some protections to the little guy. Btw, I really don't understand why a billionaire (?) can't afford to pay hourly minimum wages to a bunch of kids
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by psranga 17y ago
Great stuff. Would anybody care to clarify why access is through HTTPS and not HTTP? I presume all accesses to these pods are from within their data center? Or do they directly expose these boxes to clients (whoa!)?
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by psranga 17y ago
Hmm, why do you this is showing off? Maybe her friends are interested in casually following her along on her travels?
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by psranga 17y ago
The important point that Wikileaks is making is that Google has created infrastructure to keep detailed and long-lasting records of their users, but are severely constrained by California laws. Something worth considering by all of us who u
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by psranga 17y ago
Note the comparison is to C, not C++. The runtime improvement came from aggressive inlining. I'm pretty sure that C++ code (which allows templates, function objects etc) can be written to do the same. Of course, then we'll get into discussi
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by psranga 17y ago
From my perspective, most of the stuff about C++ complexity rings untrue. Most people I know seem to know enough about C++ that they can produce pretty good code. Yes, there's a lot of depth to C++ but you derive a lot of benefit from other
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by psranga 17y ago
Ousterhout of Tcl fame has a very nice (and surprisingly old) paper about this. http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html
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by psranga 17y ago
These keyfobs number generators are actually pretty interesting devices. The basic principle is that they generate a pseudorandom sequence of numbers. The starting seed of each device is different, and each device's seed is known to the aut
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by psranga 17y ago
I don't know about you. But I'm 100% satisfied with the US/State govt services I've interacted with (IRS, USCIS, DMV, Social Security, USPS, BART). My most horrifying experiences were with the private sector (1) to clear up identity theft t
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by psranga 17y ago
Almost everything I read about NYC seems to reinforce my prejudices against it. :)

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