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by thedance 7y ago
The API for BB app development allowed you to have UI elements like text labels or buttons, stacked vertically on the screen. That was the whole thing. If you wanted a table you were on your own. The web browser was very similar to MSIE 3,
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by thedance 7y ago
FWIW, Charles Schwab is also down, and is often down during heavy trading. There's a big reliability gap between straight consumer brokers, and the next tier up with interactive brokers et al.
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by thedance 7y ago
The pearl predates the bold by several years.
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by thedance 7y ago
I mean, no. BlackBerry was a victim of having a terrible product going head to head with the iPhone. As a development platform it was garbage. I vividly remember the inaugural BlackBerry developer conference where one of the sessions devolv
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by thedance 7y ago
That keyboard looks really hard to use compared to the ones people associate with classic models like the 850. Isn’t space between keys important for usability?
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by thedance 7y ago
Original BlackBerry os was just bare metal programming on an embedded x86. Before they went with Java there was not even the pretense of protection, you just read other apps’ data if you wanted to.
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by thedance 7y ago
The 9000 was a decent BlackBerry but my nostalgia kicks in for the scrollwheel devices, not the scrollball. I have no idea how people used them left-handed, is that was even possible.
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by thedance 7y ago
I'm being downvoted because people who live with cats are controlled by brain parasites communicated from the cats. That's why cat owners don't seem to realize that they are living with the most disagreeable domestic animal.
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by thedance 7y ago
Cats also kill billions of birds every year, way more than any number of windmills or skyscrapers ever did. And they don’t do it for food, either. It’s just because cats are jerks.
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by thedance 7y ago
Intel laptop parts had 128MB of eDRAM starting in 2013. Is that mainstream enough for you?
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by thedance 7y ago
High-performance tires also produce larger particles.
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by thedance 7y ago
I wasn't suggesting to have dull knives, only that it's economical and convenient to let a professional sharpen them for you.
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by thedance 7y ago
It’s in the cacheout paper, in the acknowledgements.
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by thedance 7y ago
The recent CacheOut attack was funded by a "generous gift" from AMD. :shrug:
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by thedance 7y ago
Learning how to sharpen knives, and having all the equipment to do it, will almost certainly never pay off, except in intangible enjoyment.
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by thedance 7y ago
I was never much of a believer in knives until I lost some dexterity in my right hand and to keep from sticking my fingers under my old chef's knife I went down to a japanese knife shop and bought a knife so tall that I couldn't p
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by thedance 7y ago
That's the beauty of a real crash. It doesn't matter much when you go short.
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by thedance 7y ago
Clovertown was basically two Core 2 Duos in a multi-chip module, and capable of multi-socket system configs. The AMD fans at the time snickered at the MCM, for being a hack and a workaround, not a "true" quad core part. AMD didn
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by thedance 7y ago
Even if the first gear's teeth were moving at supersonic speeds, there still would not be any perceptible motion of the last 90 gears or so. If the first gear's teeth were moving at relativistic speeds, there would still be no ap
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by thedance 7y ago
Your timeline is interesting to me because it suggests you think Intel started to pull ahead with in 2006 Clovertown (quad core MCM with northbridge memory controller) rather than with Nehalem or Westmere (integrated memory controllers) in
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by thedance 7y ago
There's nothing in "data" or "file" that stands for /Protocol/.
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by thedance 7y ago
The engine is on the same platform as the engine in the Honda NC700 motorcycle, and it shows.
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by thedance 7y ago
They don't make useful trucks any more, that's why a dilapidated toyota with a standard cab, long bed, and half a million miles still costs $10k. Like you I can put a quarter ton of gravel in a Honda Fit. 500 lbs of gravel only ta
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by thedance 7y ago
Don't forget coal-rolling.
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by thedance 7y ago
I would say that a distributed filesystem is a solution looking for a problem in most cases. Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage address some use cases, and Google Cloud BigTable is a direct drop-in replacement compatible with the HBase API b
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by thedance 7y ago
You could have viewed images on a 286 (or even an 8086/8088) using NCSA Telnet for DOS, just for the record.
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by thedance 7y ago
It's important to use the jargon precisely, as you did, otherwise you end up with gibberish that nobody understands, like Python's "get_selector" function in urllib. Nobody knows what the heck a selector is, and the wor
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by thedance 7y ago
Hrmm, you’re right. This seems to be among the gratuitous differences between internal and open source tcmalloc.
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by thedance 7y ago
Double-mapping memory is almost always the wrong choice, since TLB entries are a critical resource for software performance. The only time it makes sense to double-map is when your are trying to make the CPU blind to what you are sharing, a
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by thedance 7y ago
That's what tcmalloc does, at least if you set TCMALLOC_RELEASE_RATE.

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