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by sparky 17y ago
Should that be synchronous instead of asynchronous, and vice-versa? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
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by sparky 17y ago
"C++ is more appropriate for JITing than C" Agreed. "However, these days new C/C++ apps seem restricted to domains like embedded systems, real-time, and game development, where memory usage (no virtual memory) and performance consistency is
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by sparky 17y ago
clang and llvm-gcc are two front-ends which translate C code into LLVM intermediate representation. LLVM itself optimizes that IR and emits (statically or at runtime) object code, C code, etc. An example of using LLVM to JIT C code can be
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by sparky 17y ago
They manufactured a whole wafer of the the things at once, rather than one researcher hovering over a microscope to painstakingly construct one or a handful of transistors. It speaks to the manufacturing-readiness of the process they use.
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by sparky 17y ago
Haha sorry about that. The short version is: 1) These graphene transistors are faster than CMOS transistors of the same size, but CMOS transistors of the same size haven't been used for most purposes in about a decade. Modern CMOS transis
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by sparky 17y ago
It should be pointed out, for the edification of those who are not VLSI people, that transistors with an f_t of 100GHz are not the same thing as transistors from which one can build a credible 100GHz processor. f_t is the input frequency a
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by sparky 17y ago
Am I the only one who read that as "ancient language of Bodies?"
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by sparky 17y ago
Touche, sir :)
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by sparky 17y ago
More discussion on this topic here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1094091 The previous submission was for a different site which also links to the original source here: http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/form-fac..
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by sparky 17y ago
Yes, it is a rather strange bastardization of the word, but it has been used for e.g. fabrics for expensive ski jackets for a while now. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/breathable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterproof_fabric
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by sparky 17y ago
Inaccurate pedantry: Imprecise title: Thin Bendable transparent film allows input over any surface. </tongue in cheek>
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by sparky 17y ago
"This means that Apple’s A4 chip is the first silicon to run ARM’s Cortex-A9 processor excluding Nvidia’s Tegra 2 unveiled last month." We already have a word for "first, excluding this other thing." Second. :P
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by sparky 17y ago
An honest question: can you point to some hard data suggesting that modern (i.e., post-JMicron) SSDs fail faster than HDDs? I've seen a lot of fear-mongering based on NAND spec sheet parameters for write-erase cycles, but haven't come acro
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by sparky 17y ago
Not much content here, it's a press release mostly stating that Allion is the first official independent SSD test house for the SSD Association. Certainly no additional evidence for the hypothesis put forth in the title, other than stating
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by sparky 17y ago
This is potentially true, but it's not a slam dunk because CPUs may be much more powerful than whatever you can build into a disk controller cost-effectively. This may not be true (a high-performance ASIC implementation may be tiny; this i
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by sparky 17y ago
I don't have any inside scoop here, but a huge partnership between Apple and Intel and an ARM-based iPad are not mutually exclusive. Most people acknowledge that, to get the kind of energy efficiency and battery life that people are startin
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by sparky 17y ago
Arena football ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_football#Rules_of_the_gam... )fits that bill, though it would be nice if we could also have NFL-caliber players, full-size field, etc. Sadly, the long and frequent delays allow for the
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by sparky 17y ago
You can italicize with stars. Don't think you can bold.
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by sparky 17y ago
The results from PlanetLab et al. may not be deterministic, but you should be able to reach the same conclusions based on repeated experiments. Otherwise, your results may be a little too fragile to form the basis of sweeping conclusions.
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by sparky 17y ago
Links, for the curious: http://www.planet-lab.org http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/cloud_collaboration/cl... http://cloud.cs.illinois.edu/ http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/spring08/cps214/project.html (Testbeds and Emulation sect
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by sparky 17y ago
To echo the meme around here, there appears to be an opportunity here for a startup :) If you can get buy-in from the research community, even in one niche field, I could see great utility in a central escrow house of sorts, where people ca
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by sparky 17y ago
That's a much less long-winded version of Greenspun's Tenth Rule. Brevity is the soul of wit :)
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by sparky 17y ago
Apparently true: http://www.usconstitution.net/china.html#Article35 Also, Article 41: Citizens of the People's Republic of China have the right to criticize and make suggestions regarding any state organ or functionary. Citizens have the
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by sparky 17y ago
Agreed; other than visual voicemail and perhaps indirectly forcing AT&T to upgrade their 3G network by making data plans attractive to the masses, how has Apple swayed AT&T? They don't allow tethering, and Apple is not really putti
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by sparky 17y ago
What? Maybe this comment was intended for a different story; the title seems fairly explanatory to me.
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by sparky 17y ago
Is there any way to de-chunkify sequences in an exponential way ("uncover" twice as many elements each time instead of a constant number)? Would this be useful?
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by sparky 17y ago
I agree that short-haul and long-term public transportation systems are very complementary, and as you allude to, there may be a chicken-and-egg problem with building one over the other. However, I think of long-haul rail networks as an al
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by sparky 17y ago
I think that the fact that Natal is coming out several years after the 360's introduction will help. The Wiimote/accelerometer-based-control has been marketed as an integral part (probably the most recognizable part) of the Wii experience.
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by sparky 17y ago
For most of the land area of the US, indeed population density is probably too low to support any meaningful public transit, at least for commuters. I tend to think that public transit in the city with spokes leading out to major suburbs (
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by sparky 17y ago
I don't follow your first point, would you mind breaking it down? Governments are scared of a lot of things, but swelling their own ranks by creating more civil service jobs usually isn't one of them, is it? There is definitely some seriou

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