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by skimbrel 15y ago
Interesting read. When it comes down to it the answer seems to be that JavaScript needs to have support added for explicit parallelism. But isn't this what we're supposed to get with HTML5 web workers? It shouldn't be hard to write a utilit
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by skimbrel 15y ago
There are definitely some exceptions -- it's what I do for a living. And yeah, this is big news in the space. Google is clearly making a move into online display advertising, having all but conquered direct-response. It'll be interesting to
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by skimbrel 15y ago
The app and this writeup of it are both awesome. A friend pointed me at Turntable today and I hung out there all afternoon at work -- it's a great replacement for Pandora for coding music. The human factor keeps it unpredictable and you can
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by skimbrel 15y ago
To find the one that helps them the most? Not everyone learns in the same way, and not everyone teaches in the same way. The more choices you have, the more likely you are to hit on the one that lets you really grok something.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Yeah, it took me two minutes to figure that out. And then it really sank in.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
My HE tunnel is working great! Looks like my latency to Google is the same as it is on IPv4.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
This is nitpicky, but shouldn't the title (on Ars I guess, since it was used verbatim) be "was compromised" since this was a one-time data theft that rendered all currently-live SecurID tokens useless?
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Care to explain that a bit? I fail to see a direct parallel between farmland tenancy arrangements and Apple's relationship to iOS developers. Also, that's a mighty powerful rhetorical weapon (going all the way back to African-American slave
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by skimbrel 15y ago
It's been pointed out on the other thread, but this tends to happen when iOS had the functionality first, not the other way round. Apple allows plenty of camera apps and other such "duplicated functionality" to remain in the app store.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Wow. Looks like C++ is still one of the performance kings among current programming languages. Can't say I enjoy using it though. It also looks like Go and Scala have a long way to go on compiler optimization. Not surprising, since they're
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by skimbrel 15y ago
As much as Apple is prone to doing silly legal maneuvers, I really can't see this as anything other than massively out of context. I can't find the original document that Techdirt is claiming to quote. I would not be surprised if this is fr
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by skimbrel 15y ago
The University of California and California State University are facing a one billion (yes, that's billion with a b) dollar cut from their EXISTING level of state funding. That is not a lie. That is education funding being slashed. http://
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by skimbrel 15y ago
> Oh really? Public employees are far more likely to have pensions than the rest of us. Public employees earn significantly more too and have greater job security. We blame them because they have a huge effect on who gets elected, which
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Really? Please don't blame the teachers for this. This line of reasoning has never made any sense to me -- why does everyone blame the public employees and want to take away their (hardly that great when compared to the rest of the country)
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by skimbrel 15y ago
A few years ago the Xen developers sent a massive patch to the Linux kernel developers and it got rejected outright because it got far too intimate with way more of the kernel internals than it should have. The other blog post linked from t
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Okay, here it is in Perl, the granddaddy of them all when it comes to implicit variables: 1. map { $_ * 2 } (1..10) 2. reduce { $a + $b } (1..1000) 3. scalar grep { /(scala)|(akka)|(play framework)|(sbt)|(typesafe)/ } "This is an example tw
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by skimbrel 15y ago
There are a lot of bold claims here, but "automated XSS protection" smells the fishiest to me. And since when did ostensibly open-source projects have closed betas? Release it now and get more eyes on your code.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Is there any reason this shouldn't work on an iOS device? It's all Javascript. I just can't get my iPad to pop up a keyboard to start triggering keypress events.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Okay, rms is officially being an ass here. That response is the grown-up equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going "Nyah nyah I can't hear you!". He is, at this point, no better than fundamentalist Christians who refuse to
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by skimbrel 16y ago
Is there a way around the WSJ's paywall? Seems to be not quite as easy to defeat as the NYT's.
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by skimbrel 16y ago
"doesn't involving". That'll teach me to comment on HN at 8 AM.
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by skimbrel 16y ago
The right way doesn't involving asking this question because you shouldn't be putting anything in memcached that you can't reconstruct from a canonical source. Here's what you do with memcached: Find places where a result set or computed va
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by skimbrel 16y ago
Another great suggestion! I've added all of these as issues in github, so as I have free time I'll start building out more features.
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by skimbrel 16y ago
Oops, this was not the comment I meant to reply to.
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by skimbrel 16y ago
It isn't the SFMTA themselves -- they contract with an operation called NextBus. NextBus installs GPS tracking devices on the transit vehicles, which radio their route, direction, and position back to a central system that then computes ETA
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by skimbrel 16y ago
Awesome. Your site was my inspiration!
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by skimbrel 16y ago
Heh. Yeah, that's because a good portion of all the lines listed are rush-hour-only express variants of the main lines, or late-hours skeleton service (for the lettered LRV routes). I'm working on adding information on when each line is sch
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by skimbrel 16y ago
Hmm, that's not a bad metric. Maybe I can write up a special function for the metro lines that computes headways in the Market Street Subway and incorporates those into the status calculations. The main issue is that until I go through and
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by skimbrel 16y ago
Nice to see something of my own show up on HN. For the curious: The site is a very simple Dancer app running in Starman on an EC2 instance. The data comes from ProximoBus ( http://proximobus.appspot.com/ ), a lightweight JSON-format wrapper
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by skimbrel 16y ago
Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, and Mogile as primary data stores? Good lord. And I thought my company had a complicated architecture.

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