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by riobard 15y ago
It's how it should be done and is very under appreciated by the tech community. Because the tech community no longer use Microsoft products?
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by riobard 15y ago
The double referral bonuses have been available for college students (anyone with a @ .edu or equivalent email address) for quite a while. Glad to see it's available for everyone now!
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by riobard 15y ago
This is what I thought. Go is primarily targeted at server-side applications, which are almost exclusively running on 64bit hardware/OS. Memory is so cheap now that it's silly not to have more than 16GB plugged in the chasis. Then I realize
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by riobard 15y ago
Now we have /delta to get proper diffs, we only need the Events API to make awesome Dropbox-based apps. Currently there is no way for Dropbox to notify your app on a remote server about updates in a user's Dropbox folder. You have to poll.
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by riobard 15y ago
or just enable drag with three fingers in the trackpad preference panel.
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by riobard 15y ago
Where multiple servers or threads will have to send nearby notifications back to a single process to have that information sent down a specific connection. Why do you have to keep all clients connected to a single process? We've solved th
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by riobard 15y ago
Google also offered Oracle a 0.5 percent of Android revenue through the end of this year Anybody knows how much actual revenue Google generates directly from Android?
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by riobard 15y ago
Can't we just get rid of physical SIM cards all together and just make the auth data easily loadable into mobile phones like SSL certificate or SSH private keys? Making them smaller seems heading the wrong way. Remind me of http://news.yco
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by riobard 15y ago
I think you are confusing the “meta-programming” and “run-time optimization” as described by the original article. The JIT optimization you mentioned is actually his point 3, while I was addressing his point 2, “meta-programing” during comp
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by riobard 15y ago
Applying meta-programming techniques to address those issues is just way too overkill. Pre-computing difficult-to-compute constants should happen during coding time, not compile time, unless you are writing an academic paper about meta-prog
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by riobard 15y ago
Don't get me started on that one. That rumor is quoted from The Epoch Times, a U.S.-based “newspaper” with a very clear political agenda. This isn't a trustworthy source to quote from if you know even a tiny bit about this agency's motivati
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by riobard 15y ago
TL;DR: 1. Better memory aliasing to use SIMD instructions. But you have to trade in pointer arithmetic for those cases. Only useful for number-crunching and GPU-like workload AFAIK. 2. Pre-compute time-consuming constants during compile tim
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by riobard 15y ago
Really bad journalism and reporting. No fact-checking, no reliable sources, just pure speculations based on random “tweets” (from the Chinese clone of Twitter named Sina Weibo). TL;DR: 1. A high-profile politician was relieved of duty. 2. A
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by riobard 15y ago
For those who don't know, agentzh and chaoslawful made these super-awesome tools around nginx to power Taobao, the largest e-commerce site in China. agentzh left Taobao to work fulltime on OpenResty now. Stay tuned for what's to come from t
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by riobard 15y ago
the network is often faster than my local disk I'm wondering what kind of network you have...
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by riobard 15y ago
Open != free. H.264 is an open standard, in that the specification is open, and you can implement your own encoder/decoder as you wish. H.264 is not a free standard is due to the fact that you cannot implement anything useful without using
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by riobard 15y ago
I still like this one instead: http://everytimezone.com/
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by riobard 15y ago
The 4th paragraph explained why they didn't go this way: > We were reluctant to use a NoSQL solution as this would require retrieving the pixels through a socket, storing it in memory and then processing them. It makes more sense to pro
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by riobard 15y ago
To get more people running heavy number-crunching algorithms on their monster graphic cards? Like CUDA stuff. AFAIK most these applications are on Linux platforms.
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by riobard 15y ago
I wish they could add os.splice() and os.tee() on Linux, too.
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by riobard 15y ago
Mailgun is a really great service for us at Zhihu.com. We switched away from Amazon SES to Mailgun for sending weekly newsletters three months ago and got amazing improvement in deliverability. The API is much simpler and well designed. No
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by riobard 15y ago
Does Dropbox on Android sync on per-file granularity? If so, how does this combo support things like calendar and contacts entries? Sure you can put each piece of data in its own file and watch the directory with inotify, but that seems to
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by riobard 15y ago
No, WebSockets doesn't complete with HTTP. It complements HTTP. SPDY competes with HTTP.
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by riobard 15y ago
Google won't let me (my IP being from Iran) to access that repository May I ask why?
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by riobard 15y ago
Easy. iCloud syncing and storage costs money. Notifications go through Apple's servers, which also costs money to run. Apple wants its 30% share of the price to cover these costs. Make sense?
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by riobard 15y ago
1. iCloud. Have Windows Live ID and Live Mesh integration in windows for nearly 3 years now. Works across mobile devices already. So you have a Windows Phone for 3 years? Impressed. Must be a hard time. 2. Messages. Windows Live Messenge
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by riobard 15y ago
License fee and dependence on Apple? See this http://www.quora.com/Apple-Inc-2/What-is-the-royalty-Apple-c...
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by riobard 15y ago
Probably my favorite feature is that it will autocomplete paths/filenames in an scp command on the remote end if authentication is done with keys. This is possible in Bash too with bash-completion.
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by riobard 15y ago
My point is that with this and iSSH, iPad + a keyboard could be a serious alternative to a traditional laptop for many types of programming tasks.
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by riobard 15y ago
Vim is for coding. How does this work out on the iPad? With a bluetooth keyboard and a charging dock or a stand, iPad is a great platform for Vim coding. Does one edit remote files locally, and compile/run remotely? (the benefit is the e

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