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   by samps 16y ago

   This doesn't seem to affect the (free) "My Library" station.
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   Controller or Bust(controllerorbust.com)

   1 points by samps 16y ago|0 comments
3. 123.▲
   by samps 16y ago

   One possible takeaway from these graphs is the urgent need for better JavaScript benchmarks. Both SunSpider and the V8 benchmarks are sets of microbenchmarks and the difference between them is enormous: JM+TM is significantly faster than pl
4. 124.▲
   by samps 16y ago

   This is a little pedantic, but "begs the question" doesn't really mean "raises the question" even literally. It sounds weird to say that someone "begs a rebuke" when they really deserve a rebuke. Even more literally, you don't say that some
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   by samps 16y ago

   I realize this might not be your goal, but any chance you would consider targeting some features toward academics? Academic conferences are horrible to keep track of, and this seems like it might almost be a great solution. The missing piec
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   by samps 16y ago

   Hefty! As an exercise, any sense in inlining the tracing into compiled code? That way you sacrifice the startup time benefits of the JIT (by AOT compiling at start) but still retain trace specialization.
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   by samps 16y ago

   Thanks for writing this -- it's awesome to see JIT principles boiled down to the point where you can easily understand the whole system. Please let us know if you publish the tutorial; I'd love to see more detail on the JIT. In particular,
8. 128.▲
   by samps 16y ago

   I couldn't agree more -- especially when the job is a more researchy role. Right now, I'm at my first "real job", a research internship during my PhD program, and the contrast between my productivity at school and here is shocking. The need
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   by samps 16y ago

   Sorry to barrage you with self-links, but I felt the same thing recently and I've started working on an (open-source) tool for addressing exactly that: organizing my music collection correctly and painlessly (i.e., as automatically as possi
10. 130.▲
    by samps 16y ago

    An (open source) music library manager and automatic tag corrector. http://beets.radbox.org/ It's Python and all command-line. I'm trying to make something that's both better than iTunes for managing music (not that hard) and smarter than
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    by samps 16y ago

    For more Adam Lisagor, try the video for the Birdhouse iPhone app, which is even more charming than the Square video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8yRaWY1xV8
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    by samps 16y ago

    Unrelatedly, PadMapper is excellent (better than other Craigslist mappers I could find): it has a great filtering system, seems to fetch fresh results more often, and can alert you about new places. I found my current place using it.
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    by samps 16y ago

    I have a favorite one of these: "You and me, we're really on the same pagelength ."
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    by samps 16y ago

    Unfortunately, a client/server model still does not solve all of our concurrency problems. The problem is that the algorithm we're running--contributing a handful to text responses to the same repository--is very simple. But more complicate
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    by samps 16y ago

    While you're right that the main problem has to do with sharing resources between different threads of execution, the difficult part is not actually doing that sharing. The simple act of sharing data is very simple, and can be accomplishe
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    by samps 16y ago

    This is awesome. Congratulations to the always-incredible developers of ffmpeg. One thing is worrisome about this: since H.264 (the current industry standard video codec) and VP8 are highly similar, we can share code (and more importantly:
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    Beets: a (command-line) music library manager/tagger for geeks(beets.radbox.org)

    2 points by samps 16y ago|0 comments
18. 138.▲
    by samps 16y ago

    Alternatively: detect when a URL is pasted and remove the placeholder http:// only then. I certainly type URLs sometimes and would find it disorienting if the http:// just disappeared when I started typing.
19. 139.▲
    by samps 16y ago

    At least here, there's the alternative of using existing ad-blockers for Safari, which are typically SIMBL plugins or otherwise sidestep the official plugin channels.
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    by samps 16y ago

    In this light, maybe people have started to be annoyed more by Gruber because, although his style and opinions haven't changed, he's suddenly for the Empire instead of the underdog. I have a feeling there would be much less anti-Gruber vitr
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    by samps 16y ago

    I love all these HTML presentation demos, but many of them (including this one) don't seem to work on an iPad due to their reliance on the keyboard. Perhaps the author should consider detecting a touch device and allow single taps or swipes
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    by samps 16y ago

    Agreed. In many ways, Python is the most "boring" of the modern dynamic languages, in the sense that it trades exciting features and hip syntax for predictability and elegance. So it gets a lot of the productivity, conciseness, and power of
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    by samps 16y ago

    Yes! In fact, if you view source, you can see that there's just a call "new Smokescreen(url, element, width, height, name, params)" which loads the SWF and renders it. (Much like Gordon, mentioned in another comment.)
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    by samps 16y ago

    It's a prototype; of course it crashed. But I don't understand why mobile Flash demos usually entail watching a YouTube movie... isn't that a solved problem? Doesn't seem like a good selling point for Flash.
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    by samps 16y ago

    I have experienced the same frustration on my iPhone 3G. I can vouch that the speed is greatly improved on the iPad. The PDF viewer is now actually pleasant. (It's amazing what a little clock speed will do.)
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    by samps 16y ago

    It's a good point that Apple's mobile devices are invested in H.264, but do you really think that -- were Theora successful and safe from litigation -- Apple wouldn't put a hypothetical Theora decoder in the iPhone? It doesn't seem rational
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    by samps 16y ago

    This game is actually fun! Great work and an interesting take of platforming.
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    by samps 16y ago

    > For what it's worth, there are hundreds of patents in the total MPEG-LA pool. Furthermore, it's not clear what Apple would stand to gain by enforcing its two patents that may or may not be relevant to Theora. Maybe I'm wrong, but medi
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    by samps 16y ago

    Thanks for the link. Glad to see someone moving it forward.
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    by samps 16y ago

    This is great -- I'm upgrading now for the Disks feature alone. It already works better than MacFusion (no longer maintained?) and ExpanDrive (which is actually $5 more expensive than Transmit!).