rortian

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by rortian 17y ago
I don't think you read the article. The conclusion is that ideas are cheap. The dude was the ideas man. When a company is seen as a bullshitting enterprise how is it sycophantic?
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by rortian 17y ago
I think it's more they see that they'll have too. The current FTC/FCC has been sending signals that companies with high market share cannot block whatever they feel like without consequences. Attempting to do this on their own terms preemp
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by rortian 17y ago
> The 7xx family had its shortcomings, namely lack of SMP support and SIMD capabilities and a relatively weak FPU. G3->G4 is apples to oranges. Video can run much better on SIMD. A feature of parallels: >Windows Aero is now avai
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by rortian 17y ago
It seems to be the users of OSX problem. Window's is much more flexible about allow the access to hardware. I wasn't parroting talking points...I just have experience with video on linux unaccelerated and it is not fun at all. The direct ac
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by rortian 17y ago
It's hard not to be condescending about this but this is super basic: Video is hard if it is not hardware accelerated. Apple refuses to provide a public api for this, so flash video needs a lot of CPU time on OSX. All cell phones that allow
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by rortian 17y ago
You wrote a good post. It reminded me of 'The Origins of Wealth' by Beinhocker. He spends a lot of time exploring why most companies spend most of their time playing it safe and why so little is spent on exploring new markets/business mode
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by rortian 17y ago
http://www.facebook.com/joanne.mcneil He?
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by rortian 17y ago
Eric Schmidt has addressed this multiple times. He just sees it as a conversation starter. Someone at the meeting can always suggest 'Is this evil?' and people can ponder if it's the best course of action. I think it is refreshing that th
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by rortian 17y ago
That mostly varies by area. Humanities are super tough to get. Most sciences, especially physics, will have a pdf that scholar will point you to. Of course, if you are at a university you can basically get anything.
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by rortian 17y ago
The other day I found out that MSN games don't support IE6. Google and Microsoft are allies on this one.
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by rortian 17y ago
I don't think I do. There is a certain irony in you saying everything just works, when the blog post explicitly says that hardware acceleration doesn't work for flash, and seemingly by Apple's design. You hate there being a whole separate
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by rortian 17y ago
>64-bit Intel means more performance as the cpu has more registers Sometimes. First of all its a bummer Apple only sells Intel. AMD makes quality chips. 64-bit means better performance sometimes. Usually you take a hit because of large
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by rortian 17y ago
Unfortunately, youtube is a big reason for needing flash but not the only one. If a company wanted to build a website in the past and probably even now, they could easily be convinced to spend a lot of money building a flash based site. T
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by rortian 17y ago
I think this article highlights how backwards Apple can be on things. There are really no advantages to having your browser be 64-bit (I could imagine how you could have a 4GB+ browser process but its really not the most common use case).
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by rortian 17y ago
Whoa, this really touched a nerve. I think everyone should step back and see that this is an excerpt from a book. I thought it was an interesting snippet but I would have like to see more.
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by rortian 17y ago
I don't think you could ever mine a chief council's interview for much information. However, human rights activists are certainly targeted but you are way off base to suggest companys are not. I am in a rush so I can't pull up a story I rec
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by rortian 17y ago
An op-ed should really never be on HN. It really sucks that this site has turned into this.
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by rortian 17y ago
Not an alchemist? Did you forget about the Socerer's Stone? How could a non-alchemist discover that many uses for dragon's blood? Harry's parents are mysterious figures and I would guess that their wealth (or his rather) was more inherited
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by rortian 17y ago
So Google has a monopoly in cash? As I said this is an area to study, not to find 'analogous' situations. The first thing to define in a case is what is the relevant market. You could make the case, and its probably true, that Google has a
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by rortian 17y ago
I am definitely sick of the word 'meme'.
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by rortian 17y ago
Anti-trust is an interesting area of law and I recommend studying it if given the opportunity. In the 90s Microsoft abused its desktop OS monopoly to destroy another companies product. Right now, Google is leveraging its map data to help it
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by rortian 17y ago
It's a far point. I was referring to youth in the twenties sense. Of course younger than that you are quite right. Immaturity is a bitch. Unfortunately, certitude can also lead people to be fierce advocates of the status quo.
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by rortian 17y ago
I agree, but aaronsw must come at an issue as a raging partisan. I know that in economics, philosophy, politics, and apparently best programmer ever!!!, he always comes at the issue with a deeply contentious point of view from an entrenched
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by rortian 17y ago
Umm, I think you mean CDOs. CDS are credit default swaps. These are what brought AIG down. Frankly I think you are the one being glib. A huge problem with CDOs was that many carried AAA ratings. In this past, buying a security with this
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by rortian 17y ago
Unemployment benefits 'pay' you to look for work. That is all. Also, they are payed by the state you worked in, not the city.
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by rortian 17y ago
I hope you are not serious. People are not only in touch with each other through the internet. There are lots of different ways for people to hear about a game (friends, school, work, etc.)
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by rortian 17y ago
It would be funnier if it were true. Instead this would run in the command line.
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by rortian 17y ago
You are displaying very misplaced arrogance. Simulation of all sorts of physical phenomena are intractable. An example I am familiar with is attempting to simulate a large number of sand particles being vibrated. If you think this is tri
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by rortian 17y ago
I'm suprised that no one has mentioned JRuby in this context put here is a great post related to your question: http://blog.headius.com/2009/04/how-jruby-makes-ruby-fast.ht... This post shows how if you turn off certain Ruby language feat
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by rortian 17y ago
This is a not a very solid claim. The difference in calculations using a distribution with a finite variance versus one with an infinite variance could not be more different. The approximation is not done for closeness, because they are no

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