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How many Commodore 64 computers were really sold?(pagetable.com)
6 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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Debugging display problems(virtuousgeek.org)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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Tom Forsyth's OffendOMatic(home.comcast.net)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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Paul Krugman: Can Europe Be Saved?(nytimes.com)
18 points by ssp 16y ago|14 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
Granted, the Big Gorilla is faster to shrink the processes, because they have no problem dropping a few billions on a brand-new fab, but what good did that do? Their best-in-industry process is actually sort of a problem for them, because
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The tablet bubble - a billion dollar lemmings race(jonpeddie.com)
2 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
"TSA releases all 24 hostages after Kim Jong Il introduced son as House member"
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UTF-8 History(cl.cam.ac.uk)
42 points by ssp 16y ago|2 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
I don't know what an LOB app is. EDIT: The flamewar detector is preventing me from replying, but I don't think anybody is really disagreeing all that much. I agree with Ken, most of the business applications in big corporations are based o
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by ssp 16y ago
It isn't clear to me how portable .NET is in practice, but then I don't think it's a problem either way. Enterprises would not want to run some old .NET binary on a new system with a new operating system unless there was vendor support for
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by ssp 16y ago
There is the idea that Windows is such a terrible system that the only reason people are staying with it is that they need their legacy applications. It's not entirely without merit, but for a lot of people and businesses, Windows actuall
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by ssp 16y ago
It's still as exponential as ever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore... It will come to an end at some point of course.
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by ssp 16y ago
One thing both Google and Apple might be getting wrong is if they won't let developers make serious money. They are both encouraging very low prices like $.99 for "apps", which might mean that a lot of interesting software will never be wri
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by ssp 16y ago
I think part of having the academic background is that it gives you the confidence to be casual about certain problems. When Google first demonstrated search suggestions, someone I know who is definitely a good programmer was very amazed th
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What Money Can't Fix(erica.biz)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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Top algorithms preprints of 2010(11011110.livejournal.com)
44 points by ssp 16y ago|2 comments
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Tom Forsyth: Moore's Law vs Duck Typing(home.comcast.net)
3 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
It's potentially dangerous for Amazon to do this. They are essentially squeezing their suppliers in the same way Walmart does, which could potentially make room for a competitor to target the higher price-points. The more Amazon squeezes, t
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by ssp 16y ago
As he says in the article, there is no theoretical reason you can't keep adding cores if they will fit. So given that a 486 was about a million transistors, and a modern Nehalem has about a billion, you could probably make a chip with a tho
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by ssp 16y ago
(To be fair, the 1000-core prediction is considerably less dumb than the 10GHz one, and the article here is a good one).
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by ssp 16y ago
Also, by 2011, microprocessors will be clocked at more than 10 GHz. http://web.archive.org/web/20000819011344/http://www5.zdnet....
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by ssp 16y ago
Nevertheless, you are arguing that because people sometimes program to benchmarks, you are apparently better off without the benchmarks. No, I am not.
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by ssp 16y ago
If ssp is hacking the test suite to bypass a failing test I'm talking about hacking the application to pass the test suite, not hacking the test suite. You can often "fix" a failing test by doing if (condition that failed)
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by ssp 16y ago
Test suites can make you less careful because you start relying on the tests flagging any bugs. And then when the test suite does find a bug, you just hack the code until the test suite passes instead of fixing the underlying problem. This
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by ssp 16y ago
You can shave a byte off the unsigned addition by using the sbb instruction 00000000 <original>: 0: 8b 44 24 04 mov 0x4(%esp),%eax 4: 31 d2 xor %edx,%edx 6: f7 d2 not
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by ssp 16y ago
How about a social network for very rich people? Charge something like $1,000,000 to keep the riff-raff out.
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Introduction to OpenCL(realworldtech.com)
20 points by ssp 16y ago|10 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
For the even lazier: main(void) Though I vaguely recall something about this being deprecated in C99.
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by ssp 16y ago
I learn more about you by seeing your relationship with your text editor Are you sure you are not just learning whether the candidate is superficially similar to you?
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Fab-lite - the no-cash strategy.(electronicsweekly.com)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments

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