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by ssp 15y ago
Clojure[0] - there's too much complexity in programming that isn't inherent to the problems being solved That is more or less what every language is trying to achieve. It would be more accurate to say "Clojure: All other Lisp implementati
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by ssp 15y ago
The best case for Apple is indeed great: The old phones will be clearly marked as less desirable, which allows Apple to sell to more price-sensitive customers, while also communicating to the faithful that they really need to ditch the old
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by ssp 15y ago
No-one who has a 4 or a 4S is going to be annoyed that they guy with the cheap iPhone looks like he's got the same thing as they have. Maybe, but it's a gamble. It's not enough that the 4/4S guy himself knows that he has the good stuff. E
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by ssp 15y ago
For germany I feel confident to claim that any projections you could make about ROI should more than warrant it. I have a suspicion that Americans tend to underestimate Germany, thinking of Europe as something that might be comparable to
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by ssp 15y ago
Is this dividend scheme materially different from a VC simply paying 20 million directly to the founders in return for a lower valuation?
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Beyond words: the Kindle Fire and the book's future(roughtype.com)
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by ssp 15y ago
This is spot on. All-in-one devices inevitably have to make compromises on features, price, quality, or battery life, which make them less good at any particular thing. This is also why I think Paul Graham is overestimating how much special
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by ssp 15y ago
And their mastery of PR is a big part of why the transition from Jobs to Cook has gone so smoothly ...
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by ssp 15y ago
I wonder whether they split test these types of things? They probably do, but Google is unlikely to be immune to corporate pathologies, where for example it is politically impossible for some team to leave well enough alone. I suspect that
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Over is not Translucency(ssp.impulsetrain.com)
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by ssp 15y ago
Except Apple is designing CPUs, I don't really doubt that the lawsuit makes sense. Even if they didn't design them, just reselling patented devices is illegal.
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by ssp 15y ago
No, there is more to it than that. It has to perform an aliasing analysis to prove that nothing that s points to changes. Consider this code: unsigned sum(const unsigned char *s, char *t) { unsigned result = 0; for (
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by ssp 15y ago
I'm not sure the interesting split is ARM vs x86. There is clearly a lot of interest in putting ARM chips in laptops and desktops, so why shouldn't the desktop version of Windows 8 support ARM? At the same time Intel is trying to make mobil
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by ssp 15y ago
This way of thinking also makes it easy to derive the max-sum algorithm from Programming Pearls: We have to compute max-sum for (x:xs), so first solve it for xs. If the max-sum is within xs, we are done; if not, it somehow involves x. To fi
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by ssp 15y ago
The problem for Intel is not so much that they can't make a competitive chip, but that they can't make one at margins that will sustain their fabs.
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The problem with p-values(mailund.dk)
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SIMD DCT/IDCT in libjpeg-turbo and bit-exactness(ssvb.github.com)
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by ssp 15y ago
- The bulk of them you'll process are <= 4 letters (CMCSA/CMCSK be damned). With 5 bits per letter, this means the bulk of stock tickers could be stored in 20 bits, so the data structure could just be one big 128 MB array, if the size
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by ssp 15y ago
In consulting projects I often have call to create little one-off internal tools in Rails, either as a prototype for a tool the client will create or to support their marketing team. These generally have development budgets measured in day
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by ssp 15y ago
I would be tempted to base the subdivisions on a Fibonacci series: 3, 7, 10, 17, 27, 44, 71, 115. Note that 4 x 115 = 460.
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by ssp 15y ago
I switched to http://fastladder.com/ after bloglines became unusable.
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by ssp 15y ago
Simply downscaling the image will also turn Einstein into Monroe, which demonstrates that it's non-trivial to even define what correct downscaling means.
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by ssp 15y ago
In that case, it couldn't find the element to delete in constant time.
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by ssp 15y ago
Doesn't that run in quadratic time - or can delete_at() somehow avoid copying all the tail elements in the array?
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The story of FCopy for the C-64(pagetable.com)
78 points by ssp 15y ago|29 comments
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Warping Text To Bezier Curves(planetclegg.com)
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Bradley Kuhn: Project Harmony Considered Harmful(ebb.org)
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by ssp 15y ago
I always wondered about those IDC and Gartner predictions ... Here is an entertaining flame about the analysts: http://crankypm.com/2006/08/streetwalkers-in-disguise/
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by ssp 15y ago
It's amusing to see a die-hard libertarian like ESR describe a dystopia where online services are being developed by private entrepreneurs rather than the US Government.
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by ssp 15y ago
Honestly, what could possibly go wrong? The biggest issue is that GPUs can do DMA to read and write directly in main RAM. This can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary kernel data structures, for example.

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