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by soamv 15y ago
Compile time asserts by expanding a macro to a switch-case statement.
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by soamv 15y ago
Actually, amazon hasn't been very clear about whether or not physically lending a kindle is within their terms of service. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6649814.html?rssid=1...
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by soamv 15y ago
Can you actually tell us a bit about the new DB you're building? (What is it designed to run on, what kind of failures are you aiming to tolerate, and so on.)
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by soamv 15y ago
Check out ruboto-core at http://ruboto.org/
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by soamv 15y ago
I see that lispy is using instance_exec -- which means that the scope of code inside that code is the lispy instance, which might not be what the programmer expects. For example if he does this inside a method he'd find his instance variab
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by soamv 16y ago
Knuth's Mathematical Typography is interesting too: http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&#3...
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Typeface As Programme(typotheque.com)
2 points by soamv 16y ago|2 comments
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by soamv 16y ago
Is the average number of comment upvotes per day the same? Would that prove that people don't care about how many upvotes a comment has when they vote? Or how about the distribution of upvotes over comments under one post -- are upvotes mo
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by soamv 16y ago
I have also not yet read the paper, but to your point about SSDs -- SSDs are definitely good for random reads, but for random writes, it seems like having an append-only structure would help avoid write amplification. If you do a lot of sm
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by soamv 16y ago
Hmm, that looks like a different paper. Try this: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1103/1103.4282v2.pdf
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A retrospective on Transactional Memory(bluebytesoftware.com)
3 points by soamv 16y ago|1 comments
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by soamv 16y ago
It seems that both reddit and metafilter seem have stronger meta discussions than HN. Reddit seems to have meta posts on the frontpage every once in a while, while metafilter has a fulltime forum (metatalk) dedicated to meta discussions. T
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by soamv 16y ago
Original source seems to be http://www.calormen.com/logo/
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by soamv 16y ago
Q: "And are you saying that networked soceity people and democracy are incompatible?" A: "Uh, yeah, I don't think they're inherently incompatible but certainly republican democracy with its set of geographical settings, and you know... the
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by soamv 16y ago
A reporter for the NYT in Japan says the workers aren't leaving -- http://twitter.com/#!/HirokoTabuchi/status/47882019102928896
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Rescue robots deployed in Japan earthquake ops(news.cnet.com)
4 points by soamv 16y ago|0 comments
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by soamv 16y ago
Haha :) It would still be finitely hot, though.
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by soamv 16y ago
one atom would be sufficient to encode all possible states http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
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by soamv 16y ago
(insert-image (create-image "/path/to/image/file")) inserts an image into a buffer. But I'm not sure one would want to actually use that while editing; emacs is not very good about flowing text around the displayed image.
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by soamv 16y ago
Some client A might write to the master, another client B might write to the slave, and other clients will see these updates in a different order depending on which instance they are connected to. Can that happen?
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Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3(aws.typepad.com)
315 points by soamv 16y ago|92 comments
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by soamv 16y ago
These costs are already factored into the price of the shirts, so you don't have to pay any additional costs for shipping Nice touch -- both for including the shipping price in the advertised price and for not calling it "free". I also th
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by soamv 16y ago
Some excellent technical info lower down in the thread: http://greeksky.gr/GreekSkyForum/index.php?topic=2.msg9#msg9
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by soamv 16y ago
A quick google image search for Arabic versions of windows shows that they have the close button on the left and the window title on the right. So it is possible that chrome is simply mimicking windows behaviour.
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Anniversaries & Ideologies(tbray.org)
3 points by soamv 16y ago|0 comments
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by soamv 16y ago
The power limitation doesn't seem very difficult to surmount, a drone could just go swap its dead battery with one from a pool of batteries on chargers, and keep working. They'd need two batteries in a drone to do that of course, or perhaps
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by soamv 16y ago
So get them to solve something more difficult than reversing a linked list. A good programmer will enjoy a good puzzle, especially if it is new to them.
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Your Smartphone’s Battery Gauge is Lying to You (and it’s not such a bad thing)(phandroid.com)
36 points by soamv 16y ago|10 comments
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by soamv 16y ago
I usually look up immigration questions at http://www.murthy.com , in particular the H1B FAQ: http://www.murthy.com/h1bfaqs.html
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by soamv 16y ago
The feedback feature of conspicuously showing who's seen a photo is interesting. It prevents people from lurking -- you're always visible to the people who's content you're seeing. This seems, IMO, more interesting than the 50 friends lim

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