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State of the X window system(youtube.com)
2 points by randomhack 19y ago|0 comments
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by randomhack 19y ago
Well in some sense perhaps .. you can also say working your ass off is like becoming "caged in work". The question really is what is more important to YOU. If doing excellent technical work or making money is your first priority, then if yo
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by randomhack 19y ago
Hmm there is a Sony camcorder called Network Sharing Cam which is also a basic, really lightweight and cheap camcorder. Pretty similar to the Flip and priced at around $200. Video is at 640x480. I have one of these Sony cams. The Sony model
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by randomhack 19y ago
Vim : a blank screen or maybe just lines of "~"
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by randomhack 19y ago
Frequently switching b/w views or files is a real pain point for me. I prefer to be able to see as much code as possible at a glance. One reason why I hate 50 classes in 50 files of 5 lines each when working with Java.
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by randomhack 19y ago
webfaction has served some of my friends well.
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by randomhack 19y ago
Thats from a paper called "Potential of Cell processor for scientific computing" .. they quote a figure of 200 gigaflops for single precision GEMM (generalized matrix multiply) for large square matrices (using a simulator?). Assuming their
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by randomhack 19y ago
The brain drain does seem to be slowing down considerably. Many of my friends from India, who did their grad studies in the US, are now returning to India to start their own companies. Or at least to join the R&D groups of MS or Intel e
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by randomhack 19y ago
I am not so sure. Maybe the wages will stop rising? Once companies start to lose business, they will fire employees, creating an oversupply of workers and thus driving wages down?
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by randomhack 19y ago
Calling 16 PS3s a supercomputer is a bit of a stretch. The article doesnt quote any numbers either. Cell with 8 SPEs can do about 200 Gflops SP matrix multiply. So I assume PS3 can do about 150 Gflops. 16*150=2400 gflops single precision ..
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by randomhack 19y ago
well .. actually the opposite. google didnt start with the concept of ads at all. they started out by offering free search. ads were nowhere in their initial plans. it was later they discovered that ads actually helped them make money.
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by randomhack 19y ago
Yes i picked up Hodges' book later and I also recommend it.
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by randomhack 19y ago
I read a book on Turing by the author .. and well .. I dont recommend it at all. He seems overly obsessed with sexual themes has no understanding of the hacker and scientist mindsets and no understanding of the maths whatsoever. After readi
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by randomhack 19y ago
well I have never understood the "use erlang because CPUs are going multicore" argument. See if I write a program in C (which for some mysterious reason doesnt use threads) and run it on a single core and it runs in 1 sec. If an equivalent
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by randomhack 19y ago
i used ocaml very briefly so my opinion should be taken with a huge grain of salt. The language is nice. The type system is mostly pretty cool .. there were some programs that were "correct if it compiled". But sometimes the type system so
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by randomhack 19y ago
uhh .. what is I/O psychology? maybe there is some obvious abbreviation that I am missing. but I/O .. well to a programmer that is always input-output and I am having a hard time thinking about what psychology might be involved in reading/w
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by randomhack 19y ago
thanks.
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Ask YC : x86 books?
2 points by randomhack 19y ago|2 comments
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by randomhack 19y ago
well .. some pieces of the article are not even wrong
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by randomhack 19y ago
looks interesting.
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by randomhack 19y ago
uhmm .. didnt know that ! thannks !
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by randomhack 19y ago
Primarily because I am used to subversion (the repo is already in subversion on my home machine). Secondly I am not sure whether I will find hosts for mercurial or git?
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by randomhack 19y ago
Thanks for the info. One note of concern : I dont see their terms of service etc ?
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by randomhack 19y ago
looks like an excellent plan. any experience in terms of reliability?
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Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects?
12 points by randomhack 19y ago|21 comments
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by randomhack 19y ago
Sorry .. that was just a random thought in my brain .. heres the reasoning in reverse .. assuming the company is worth $50m after an year with a probability of 33% and worth zilch with probability of 67%, and assuming that u have a 2% stake
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by randomhack 19y ago
Lets calculate. Assuming u work for $70k/year usually .. the expected payout shud be $3.5m after 1 year for the offer to be reasonable. This is an expected payout .. assuming a 33% chances of success given that its a "good" idea .. the comp