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by ssp 16y ago
I wonder where they got the within the requirements of the open source community . It doesn't sound like something they would just make up.
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Magic and Software Design (Bruce Tognazzini, 1993)(asktog.com)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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Intel Shows Ray Traced Wolfenstein on a Laptop(tomshardware.com)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|1 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
The break-down is certainly important. They could choose to lump all military expenses together, or to break down social security into tiny bits. The results would look very different.
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by ssp 16y ago
ARM is not a chip manufacturer, it is a CPU architecture design house. So is AMD after they spun off Global Foundries.
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by ssp 16y ago
You call him a genius, yet he spent 6 years promoting a product (which I might add only took him a few days to create) that is only now just breaking the $1000 or $2000/month mark. He did that while working a substantially-more-than-full-
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Courtney Love does the math (2000)(salon.com)
148 points by ssp 16y ago|56 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
4. In addition to wanting to shame FG, Mr. Arrington wants to send the world a message saying, in effect, that anyone who tries to pull this sort of stunt on him will pay the due penalty for what he does, even if it costs him a large sum t
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by ssp 16y ago
The real customer, however, is only dealing with the carriers, and Google hasn't commoditise these. If anything we are getting even more market concentration. Not yet, anyway. But the carriers have to be the next target. The huge capital
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by ssp 16y ago
But then, how on earth did they manage to get this software certified if it did something as DailyWTF-worthy as using floating point for a clock?
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by ssp 16y ago
I'm curious what people would think of this scenario: You have made a niche software product that targets a very specific kind of small business (hair dressers, say). The product is genuinely interesting to many of them; it will save them t
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by ssp 16y ago
No, you are right. The copying is a bad bug. Using sizeof(char) is mostly a coding style question. The casting of the malloc() return value is something reasonable people can disagree about (by which I mean nerds can endlessly flame each ot
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by ssp 16y ago
Microsoft has made a bunch of very good products: - Windows 3.0 and 3.1 clearly hit exactly the sweet spot between DOS and OS/2 - Word and Excel were legitimately better than the competition (and still are, although there is not much compet
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by ssp 16y ago
Maybe he is trying to destroy the patent system. If you have valid patents that read on various valuable products, and you can bank roll a credible law suit asking for injunctions and not accepting any other kind of relief , that might cre
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by ssp 16y ago
The complaint as a PDF: http://stadium.weblogsinc.com/engadget/files/oracle-google.p...
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by ssp 16y ago
Fake Steve on mainframes: http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/10/why-ibm-is-in-trouble-with-... http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/10/case-against-ibm-continued....
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Typecasting: The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typography in Movies(ms-studio.com)
89 points by ssp 16y ago|30 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
It is sort of crazy. Consider two products A and B. They are identical, except that A is more expensive and has advertising. B is cheaper, but has no advertising. Which one wins? A because nobody knows that B even exists. However, everybo
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by ssp 16y ago
Can someone explain in simple terms why high-frequency trading actually works? I can't understand how trading at a high frequency provides any advantage at all, except in a Martingale-fallacy way.
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by ssp 16y ago
Solve the problem before you code the solution. That may be obvious to this crowd, but I learned it the hard way! That's likely far from obvious to this crowd (if it has been paying attention). Paul Graham advocates the exact opposite: "e
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by ssp 16y ago
The suffix array: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_array
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What will Microsoft do with their ARM license?(codingrelic.geekhold.com)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft in Data Center ARM Race?(dcsblog.burtongroup.com)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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When Apple Controlled ARM(electronicsweekly.com)
2 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
An interesting prospect is that random startups could become cell carriers by buying bandwidth from this company. See also this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1233712
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by ssp 16y ago
Doesn't this mean a defense attorney could get publicly recorded video or audio evidence thrown out on the grounds that it was illegal wiretapping?
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by ssp 16y ago
However only small part of heap is directly referenced by stack/registers But those few objects referenced directly may keep a lot of other stuff alive. It's not that uncommon to have left-over pointers on the stack that are no longer liv
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by ssp 16y ago
You can just consider native code a GC point. When executing native code, the registers don't need to be scanned, and you can keep track of what parts of the stack are native by noting the state of the stack before entering the native code.
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by ssp 16y ago
I would be very surprised. I do know that both Intel and ATI chips support it in texture hardware. See this, for example: http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/R5xx_Acceleration_v1.5.pdf Bit 21 of TXFORMAT0: GAMMA 21 none Optionally remove gamm
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by ssp 16y ago
The conversion should take place before filtering, so it has to be in the texturing hardware. There is no need for sRGB specific sampling opcodes because sRGB is considered a property of the texture, not of the way you sample it.

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