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by ssp 17y ago
It's remarkably difficult to evaluate your own reasons for making decisions. Just consider advertising. It works very well, but nobody thinks it works on them.
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Keeping the Pirates at Bay(gamasutra.com)
44 points by ssp 17y ago|48 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
It also depends on what [Google's] target is: would try to push hardware support too? A while back there was an IamA on reddit from a video codec hardware engineer. I found this comment interesting: We've been asked to support ON2's VP6
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When Andy Grove Saw The Future Of Networked Computing(electronicsweekly.com)
1 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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The Americanisation of Kurt Lehovec(electronicsweekly.com)
2 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
Hush. Not in front of the VCs.
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by ssp 17y ago
The conceptual problem with patents is that they grant an artificial monopoly on something, just like copyright does. That's a distortion of the free market, so if you believe in free markets, a priori they shouldn't be allowed. To argue ot
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by ssp 17y ago
There is a joke about politicians that you can tell how bad the economy really is by the order of derivative they have to use to get positive numbers. Apparently order 2 is sufficient.
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by ssp 17y ago
The address bar in the browser is totally broken from a usability standpoint. If you change it, it doesn't reflect the page you are looking at. This means for example that you can get into a screwed up situation where: - you are looking
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by ssp 17y ago
Data structure and algorithm questions can be more or less like riddles though. For example, the question about finding a loop in a singly linked list is a bit like a riddle. There is also one about writing out a binary tree layer by layer,
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by ssp 17y ago
It's strange that people treat this as a moral question: "It's okay to expect them to learn how to use the internet". As if you have some sort of obligation to serve everyone. If you do "expect them to learn how to use the internet', then
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From lights to look at ... to lights to see with(electronicsweekly.com)
2 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
The problem is if B is random. The question is: If I were to ask you if A is random, would you say ja? And B (who is random) processes it like this: "If he were to ask me any question whatsoever, the answer would be randomly ja or d
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Intel, Nokia aim to unify mobile Linux ecosystem with MeeGo(arstechnica.com)
5 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
I ordered one of the netbooks from Always Innovating, but they never shipped it. They kept promising to ship their backlog, but never did. Then I mailed them and asked to cancel my order, but never heard back on that either.
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by ssp 17y ago
This is actually an example where valgrind doesn't catch the bug. All it sees is a write to the stack, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do as far as valgrind is concerned.
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by ssp 17y ago
This reminds of a "proof of God" that appeared (I think) in Seven Ages of Madness by Svend Aage Madsen: If God exists, then there must be some way to realize what the true religion is. Some hint or pointer that would make it clear, and th
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by ssp 17y ago
Very true. It doesn't prove anything that -O0 works while -O3 doesn't. It's still almost certainly a bug in your code. I don't think the percentage is 99.99999% though. Compiler bugs do exist. I have seen several more than four in 12 years
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by ssp 17y ago
It seemed to me that the regulation and patent parts could have been two separate posts. In any case, it was really interesting.
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ODF Plus Five Years(blogs.gnome.org)
25 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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Two billion-transistor beasts: POWER7 and Niagara 3(arstechnica.com)
30 points by ssp 17y ago|6 comments
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AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challenge Intel in laptops(arstechnica.com)
34 points by ssp 17y ago|11 comments
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Compression with the Burrows-Wheeler Transform(james.fabpedigree.com)
33 points by ssp 17y ago|6 comments
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Average faces are not more attractive. Their skin is just smoother(uni-regensburg.de)
51 points by ssp 17y ago|7 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
I suspect you are right. It totally makes sense: * Audience of non-nerds. * Potentially huge impact. That is precisely what Google needs for Chrome right now.
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by ssp 17y ago
Their flash specification is not complete. The blend modes are not specified there. Two of those are strange, flash specific ones that you have to reverse engineer, but the others are similar to PDF.
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by ssp 17y ago
Here is the complete scanner for a C-ish language I wrote a compiler for a while back: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/scanner.c It's 387 lines of C, and if you wanted to prove a point, you could get the line-count down by compacting the
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About the A4(codingrelic.geekhold.com)
1 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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Verizon and the Atomic Bomb(ries.typepad.com)
3 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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Every time I go to New York, I’m reminded how lucky I am to live in California(fakesteve.net)
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