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by ssp 14y ago
The principle is "compiler optimizations should pay for themselves." This principle may seem deep because there is an element of self-reference in it, but it is really totally stupid. It's nothing but an arbitrary benchmark that will reje
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by ssp 14y ago
Is there an identifiable set of users who use only a subset of what Creative Suite provides? If so, supporting that subset better than CS could be a possibility.
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Fabbing FPGAs At Intel(electronicsweekly.com)
1 points by ssp 14y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 14y ago
It was also called "web browser" one of the last times it was tried. Those became quite popular I believe. Flash has done quite well actually, but one flaw is that it is completely tied to the web browser, so it doesn't provide a really nat
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by ssp 14y ago
I've sometimes wondered whether you could solve those problems within a system that provided a more native experience. For example, consider a new kind of client that would download and run bytecode instead of HTML/CSS/JavaScript. The bytec
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by ssp 14y ago
Why not?
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The web expands to fill all boredom(roughtype.com)
1 points by ssp 15y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 15y ago
Pierce branded a potential employer "evil" because of a minor detail in his contract That's not true. This is the reason he gave: An evil company is trying to get rich quick, and has no regard for the harm they're doing along the way. It
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Ask Tog: Browse vs. Search - Which Deserves to Go?(asktog.com)
1 points by ssp 15y ago|0 comments
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Fast Go game recognition (11011110.livejournal.com)
2 points by ssp 15y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 15y ago
It was an epic screw-up to position it as a head-to-head competitor with NVIDIA and ATI for Direct3d. They should have positioned it as an HPC chip from the beginning and then perhaps later said: "Oh, btw, it has these texture samplers, so
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H.264 and patents(lwn.net)
2 points by ssp 15y ago|1 comments
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by ssp 15y ago
The Soviet Union had a population of 189 million people in 1953 according to Wolfram Alpha.
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by ssp 15y ago
What are the problems with Liang's algorithm? On a modern computer you could easily store the entire dictionary, but it's not clear that that's actually an improvement since it wouldn't be as good at dealing with unknown words.
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by ssp 15y ago
There are some simple things that could be done to protect against this kind of abuse: - Loser pays the winner's costs, but capped such that the loser won't be bankrupted. This effectively means that when a big company loses, they get to pa
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by ssp 15y ago
Distinguishing between risk-averse/neutral/preferring seems like begging the question to me. Couldn't there be an objective answer to which of three behaviors is the most rational in some situation?
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by ssp 15y ago
It's different in that expression1 is always evaluated whenever control enters the twixt and expression2 is always evaluated whenever it leaves. A simple example is that if statement1 throws an exception, then expression2 is evaluated befor
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by ssp 15y ago
The language Nickle ( http://nickle.org ) has a "twixt" control structure: twixt (expression1, expression2) statement1 If expression1 is true, then statement1 will be executed followed by expression2 in that order. The t
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Analysis of Boolean Functions(contrib.andrew.cmu.edu)
3 points by ssp 15y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 15y ago
For images, one of the main reasons to have separate bytes-per-row (usually called stride or pitch) is that it allows you to have sub-images that use the same data and stride as the parent image, but a different width and height.
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The Parallel Power Law(perilsofparallel.blogspot.com)
1 points by ssp 15y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 15y ago
The hashes would be easier to remember if they were sentences saying something funny. For example "Green elephant riding a bicycle" or "Golden ostrich selling a train" etc.
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A Case for Open-Source GPU Drivers(linaro.org)
82 points by ssp 15y ago|46 comments
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by ssp 15y ago
One thing that could work against them is their cost structure. Intel is used to throwing a thousand or so engineers on each design. Exactly. It's also not obvious that the mobile chip market will pay a premium for Intel-calibre fabs. If
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by ssp 15y ago
So I think one need to avoid clichés and presuppositions about "non geeks". Indeed. And the concept of dividing the world into geeks and non-geeks is flawed to begin with, because non-geek covers so many different kinds of people, like ki
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by ssp 15y ago
There is a bug in the memmove() function from ulib.c: void* memmove(void *vdst, void *vsrc, int n) { char *dst, *src; dst = vdst; src = vsrc; while(n-- > 0) *dst++ = *src++; return
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by ssp 15y ago
Without the commentary: http://fpaste.org/GJCi/
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by ssp 15y ago
As usual, there is merit to the opposite side too. Don't create some huge abstraction with class hierarchies and virtual methods and stuff, just to avoid cutting and pasting a ten-line function somewhere. Often it's a good idea to start by
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History of Red Hat Linux(fedoraproject.org)
2 points by ssp 15y ago|0 comments
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ARM reveals little dog A7 processor(eetimes.com)
63 points by ssp 15y ago|25 comments

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