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by sparky 16y ago
It's much cooler now, but access is more restricted. I think you can still get tours if you arrange ahead of time http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/AboutUs/tour.html . If you do, if you look really hard in the far corner of the room you migh
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by sparky 16y ago
Indeed. Those I figured were from a tool, but the ones with confused-sounding prose were dead giveaways.
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by sparky 16y ago
The comments, mostly. For example: object objects[69]; /* Don't know how many... */ /* This report a sucessful breakin by sending a single byte to "128.32.137.13" * (whoever that is). */ /* This appears to be a
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by sparky 16y ago
Certainly there's some post-processing going on on the Kinect; whether it's via CPU, ASIC, DSP, or FPGA I have no idea. I'd imagine there's some signed code image that is factory-installed to some Flash or EEPROM on the Kinect; it's probab
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by sparky 16y ago
If that's their company name ( http://www.diapers.com/aboutus/aboutus.aspx ), that's their company name. Take it up with diapers.com (the company, not the domain name) if it's confusing. For the record, I agree with you, but a bunch of
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by sparky 16y ago
Am I misunderstanding or does his "tracing" stop at the basic block level? While basic blocks are completely predictable traces through the program, they are usually very short. You can get much more benefit by finding long common traces
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by sparky 16y ago
Surely they have numbers to back them up on that.
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by sparky 16y ago
Can you just have multiple lines for Nth percentile and/or min and max, rather than candlesticks? You'd want to bold or otherwise emphasize the mean or median line, I think, but it shouldn't be too hard to read, since the lines shouldn't c
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by sparky 16y ago
This is addressed at the bottom of the linked page: What does it cost? Groupon Store: There's no upfront cost. For promoted deals you get 70% of each Groupon sold. For non-promoted deals you get 90% of each Groupon. Deal of the Day
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by sparky 16y ago
Do you suspect the bug to be in clang (the front-end) itself, or in LLVM's optimizer or back-end? For the latter cases, bugpoint is included in the LLVM source tree and does a good job of narrowing things down, so long as you provide a pro
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by sparky 16y ago
Granted. This is a much more reasonable response to the top of this thread than sanctimonious quoting. See also scottyallen's comment here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1817378 ). If Google web search has (or recently had) such a
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by sparky 16y ago
FWIW, many 10k+ user organizations are "around the world" as well. Web apps for server cluster admins have customer bases evenly distributed across every time zone on the planet? Really? There may not be a perfect time, but there are almos
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by sparky 16y ago
* They're going to use the same marketing tricks as everyone else.* Exactly. We are bombarded by claims of "give us money and good things will happen to you" every single day. The message from "society" (and colleges themselves) about the
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by sparky 16y ago
Jacques, thanks so much for your generosity. Would it be possible to have matt.ww.com -> http://users.crhc.illinois.edu/johnso87/ ? Similar circumstances to BoppreH, if I'm reading correctly. matt.ww.com exists, but doesn't look pa
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by sparky 16y ago
Obviously this doesn't even begin to explain it, but the realtime/quality-of-service requirements of voice are much more rigid, so it makes sense that voice would cost the carrier more per-bit than data. But still...
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by sparky 16y ago
In the video, is the guy saying "brilliant!" a sample from a Guinness commercial? Well played.
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by sparky 16y ago
The parent meant that he is glad Ron Conway called out Dave McClure's response to the original TechCrunch piece ( http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2010/09/fire-in-the-vall... ). Took me a couple times to parse too :P
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by sparky 16y ago
I use KDirStat http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
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by sparky 16y ago
I agree with you, but if I had to choose between a functional Linux driver and documentation, even as someone running BSD, I would take the Linux driver every time. A functional driver with source lends some confidence that nothing is miss
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by sparky 16y ago
"Massively robust" == "very robust"
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by sparky 16y ago
From the experiences of people I know, it helps if your startup is either capital-intensive (think building a chip) or is solving a really hard technical problem (think Google, DNA sequencing, or auto-parallelizing compilers). In those cas
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by sparky 16y ago
Doubtful; more likely analog circuits, in my opinion. Memristors just haven't been used to build anything substantial in reality yet, and I'd imagine the first people to do so will be at HP or similar rather than a startup.
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by sparky 16y ago
Same in Spanish ('usted' and 'tu', respectively).
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by sparky 16y ago
I think GP was being facetious. There was a story recently about how hardly anybody makes any money off Android apps, and OVI hasn't even been part of the conversation as long as I've been following it.
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by sparky 16y ago
(2001) Still interesting, but it would be good to put in the title.
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by sparky 16y ago
I'm guessing "describing the material and construction properties of every object such that it can be moved, collided, broken, and deformed convincingly." "Convincingly" typically isn't quite what you want either, you usually want "spectac
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by sparky 16y ago
Were? SIGGRAPH hasn't even happened yet! :P
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by sparky 16y ago
If he's talking about someone in particular, he should just name them. Otherwise, I reject the premise that being a great programmer implies arrogance, social ineptitude, and a narrow skill set.
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by sparky 16y ago
Seems like unless your power is hydroelectric, wind, or solar, generating the electricity to make and blast 30 seconds of steam for a cup of coffee may produce more undesirable byproducts than a paper cup.
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by sparky 16y ago
Google Code Search, not Google Code. Nulledge: http://nullege.com/codes/search/file.close Google Code Search http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=lang%3Apython+file.close&... Nulledge may well be better for Python, but Google Code Search

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