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by spitfire 14y ago
Oh god how I love the float planes. As a pilot I love watching them (and the smell of Jet-A at mocha house). As a passenger I love the relaxed experience. It is honestly, Victoria t at its best. You've hit the crux of it - sophistication. O
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by spitfire 14y ago
No, the problem is that people think a kid fresh out of uvic and someone 15 years in are interchangeable. That inability to differentiate is endemic to the area. Dunning-Kruger effect in the large. (There are always, of course, exceptions)
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by spitfire 14y ago
Victoria is absolutely beautiful. Bar none. But it's unofficial slogan is "Welcome to Victoria. For the newly wed and nearly dead!". Unfortunately, the newly wed can no longer afford 9x the average income to buy an average house. It is a ve
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by spitfire 14y ago
I might have been, I'm not sure. But I do know several people who have moved up island citing low salary, cost of living and family lifestyle for the move. HN ate one of my earlier comments. So I'll try and rewrite it here from memory. Deve
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by spitfire 14y ago
Cost of living is extremely high(some of the highest in Canada), while salaries are unreasonably depressed. If you're a skilled developer/bizdev/etc you'll be offered between 1/3rd and 1/2 of what you could earn in Vancouver. Victoria is a
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by spitfire 14y ago
Don't come to Victoria. Go to Vancouver instead.
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by spitfire 14y ago
I remember implementing this in ask! Fun times. it's very funny how this sort of stuff comes back at opportune times to magically solve really hard problems for you with a single pass. Sort of like having Knuth on your bookshelf.
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by spitfire 14y ago
What type of accidents though? Do people get in a number of fender benders over their lives? or head on at 65mph? What sort of accidents will GoogleCar be prone to? Fender benders, or a head on at 65mph every 500K? I'm very hopeful about th
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by spitfire 14y ago
There is a good argument to be made on his side. But it's a business decision on what adds the most value for people. For most people, they aren't (and don't want to be) experts in payment processing. Improving their product moves the needl
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by spitfire 14y ago
Was that demo lasse reining or toasted by cubic team and $een perhaps? iirc, Pascal wrote an article about optimizing that code for the 486's cache.
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by spitfire 14y ago
That's what I was thinking about. You've got to start somewhere, and this will be accepted by aunt Tilly.
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by spitfire 14y ago
So what's the company?
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by spitfire 14y ago
What Apple has done is changed "save as", into "fork a branch". This is progress, mostly. The real end goal here is for Apple to somehow figure out a way for the average person to have the power of modern version control while still underst
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by spitfire 14y ago
SGI still exists? What are you talking about?
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by spitfire 14y ago
You can ask this question for most of unix. Why /etc? Why /bin and /usr/bin? (Answer: At one time hard disks were very small and crashed a lot), why do we presume screens are black and white, etc, etc. Try to change any of it though, and a
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by spitfire 14y ago
It's a /really/ good one too. Even I like it.
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by spitfire 14y ago
They don't have to be skeezy. Even Apple has a sales letter: http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/features/
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by spitfire 14y ago
Well, you could also put them on slot-1 cards and solder them up to do dual processor. Saving yourself a few hundred bucks in the processes. For the money they weren't that bad a deal.
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by spitfire 14y ago
I do remember at one point the celeron had a very locked (like 66mhz while the good stuff was 133mhz) front side bus. But again, if you don't need FSB performance, it's not actually a loss but a net gain - same calculations for less money.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Yup. Back then it was "guru", "evangelist", and "ninja" (perl ninja, etc).
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by spitfire 14y ago
I'm not sure about now, but back in the day a Celeron was just a Pentium with 2nd level cache disabled. So if your algorithm wasn't memory access intensive (like, say password cracking) it was just as fast as a Pentium at a fraction of the
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by spitfire 14y ago
So what are these trackers? What material should you look for? It's no good saying "There's this cool little news site all the smart people hang out on (HN)" without telling us how to find it.
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Ask HN: What do I need to know to move to Berlin?
9 points by spitfire 14y ago|5 comments
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by spitfire 14y ago
So if someone wanted to relocate to Berlin to start a company, or to expand a team into europe, how would they go about that? Where do people want to live? Where to locate offices? Where do you find good talent? What are the legal steps to
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by spitfire 14y ago
What tool is he using to do the postgres part of that video? I've been looking for a decent postgres gui and can't find one. EDIT: Navicat it looks like. One comment, way back int he mists of times (the 90's) MySQL was known as the databas
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by spitfire 14y ago
I've seen a UFO once, it was probably either a Beechcraft or a Cessna. It was unidentified, flying an most definitely and object.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Well, my experience is in mathematica. Which has operations research functions built right in. Point being, there are systems where this is already a solve problem, where you can get your answer in a minute or two. So you'd simply do Minimi
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by spitfire 14y ago
Cool that they're using Haskell for something. But this would be much better done in Mathematica, Octave, R or Macsyma. It's an operations research optimization problem and all of those environments have packages for OR.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Yes you're correct about purpose, but many of the runtime functions would then be limited to the old 64K limit. I rewrote all the string handling, memory management, etc functions in the Borland pascal and c++ runtimes to let me use all the
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by spitfire 14y ago
Like the exact opposite of flat-real mode. Flat real mode was a hack mode on old 32bit intel systems to enable flat memory mapping with 16bit code. You'd jump into protected mode, map the full 4gig address space flat, then jump back into 16

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