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by slededit 8y ago
Given the ultimate success of the site can you argue with the CEO? It never had a reputation for unreliability the way Twitter had in its early days.
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by slededit 8y ago
I just had to delete "Candy Crush Soda Saga". Was it there before I did that ridiculous registry hack to prevent it? Or did they add a new one at some point... Who knows. Its clear they don't actually want people disabling
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by slededit 8y ago
Speculate and you get the backup account for free.
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by slededit 8y ago
I'm just providing a counterweight to the "horrific" description. It was and still is pretty bad if you can't use the modern wrappers. But it served an important purpose and wasn't really possible any other way.
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by slededit 8y ago
That's 760,000 people. I think BTC already has higher market penetration.
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by slededit 8y ago
Then they wouldn't be any cheaper than a car owned by me. The whole premise is they'd be cheaper from high utilization. And if not cost what benefit does it have to take a taxi than my own self driving car? I can't leave my
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by slededit 8y ago
I would definitely own my own personal autonomous vehicle. And I think the rest of America would as well. It's this vision of replacing ownership with autonomous taxi fleets that is not going to happen. They are limited by roads and ph
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by slededit 8y ago
I get all those from the bus but people still don't take public transit. The wait is truly the killer - not cost.
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by slededit 8y ago
Yes and making the iPhone a hit is a lot harder when your customers don't have any money to spend. Nobody is saying Apple couldn't afford the R&D to build the physical phones.
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by slededit 8y ago
People don't own cars because they are cheaper. They own them for flexibility - which is why SUVs outsell compacts 10:1 despite worse gas mileage and higher prices. Competing solely on cost is a losing battle and has been since GM ov
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by slededit 8y ago
You did say it was ridiculous, but never proved it. Apple may have had money in the bank but selling a luxury product in the middle of a financial crisis was an up hill battle. Consumer confidence was at all time lows and disposable income
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by slededit 8y ago
The less you twist the cable the less wire you use - but at the cost of noise. Manufacturers have no problems making the cheapest cable that just barely negotiates at the lowest speed level. Like with SD card speeds its a hard sell on the
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by slededit 8y ago
The original designers thought people would just make uber cables with full support. Manufacturers noticed they could shave off a few cents removing support for features "nobody uses".
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by slededit 8y ago
Glyphs aren't copyrightable. Only the programs that draw them - but MSFT can write their own fonts.
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by slededit 8y ago
Most crimes have a statute of limitations. If someone spends their whole life believing they are a US citizen it makes no sense to throw them out at the age of 40. Or even weirder - keep them inside but deny a passport. They aren't mor
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by slededit 8y ago
Stakeholders will use your work product as part of some larger process. They need estimates so they can plan. They can't just turn on a dime when you say your finished.
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by slededit 8y ago
Is really amazing to see the efforts we will go to in order save someone. Millions of dollars and massive volunteer effort is spent every year on SAR. Historically it wasn't unusual for people to just never return. You'd never kno
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by slededit 8y ago
FUD goes both ways and the OpenDocument battle was particularly vicious on both sides. However the code is literally a memcpy of a struct that is used internally. Not being designed for others to easily read isn't obfuscation. FWIW th
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by slededit 8y ago
In the early days Excel focused heavily on compatibility with Lotus 1-2-3 which was dominant. Excel never obfuscated their save code. I've seen it in person. They did just memcpy their data structures, which was the most efficient way
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by slededit 8y ago
.NET integrates well with COM. You are using it all the time under the hood. COM was difficult because it was an OO framework that had to deal with: - C++ ABIs that changed on every compiler update but still had to work. -Support for C and
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by slededit 8y ago
That is maybe doable if you don't care about importing existing files. You'll spend years just getting that right. A grid of cells is the easy part. Compatibility is hard.
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by slededit 8y ago
Lithography is a printing process. Machines that make single copies without plates or masks is a newer use of the word.
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by slededit 8y ago
The purpose is to deal with the fact individual features are smaller than the wavelength of light used for the photo resist process. I'm not up to speed on the details of why we can't just use X-Rays but apparently its a difficult
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by slededit 8y ago
Yes but the massive losses at GloFlo validate their sale of it. They don't have the volume alone to support an advanced node, and apparently GloFlo doesn't even with additional customers. Intel itself is also having huge issues h
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by slededit 8y ago
California's problems in the early 2000s were caused by exactly that. Here's one tape where a trader asks an operator to "get a little creative and find a reason to go down". https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by slededit 8y ago
There are a lot of "mixes" on youtube for electronic music that have great track selection but do simple fades because they don't have the technical skills. If this technology helps them solve that then it would improve my l
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by slededit 8y ago
The peak performance was predicated on having all four hyper threads issuing multiply accumulate on every open slot. A single thread was incapable of saturating the vector the unit. If your threads were tied down executing excruciating slo
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by slededit 8y ago
There was the spec and what was achievable in the real world. Having programmed both the Phi and GPUs - the GPU was the clear winner. The bottleneck of the Phi was those non-vector instructions you inevitably needed.
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by slededit 8y ago
How long would you estimate it takes to search your question, find the result and read the answer? I think it's optimistic to think it can be done in a minute if you actually time it. 100*1 minute is an hour and 40 minutes. That is no
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by slededit 8y ago
Xeon Phi was basically that. It wasn't that fast.

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