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by timtadh 16y ago
man stargate universe is terrible, I watched the first half of the season and haven't been tempted to turn it on since. It isn't sci-fi it is a soap opera. However, Warehouse 13 and Eureka are both good.
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by timtadh 17y ago
The most important line in the paper: "As a rough rule of thumb, the average GPA of a school today can be estimated by the rejection percentage of its applicant pool: GPA = 2.8 + Rejection Percentage /200 + (if the school is private add 0.2
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by timtadh 17y ago
From my perspective, if you are a developer for Apple's iPhone/iPad platform and are disturbed by this new clause in the contract, let Apple know. Let them know by voting with you feet, and moving to a different platform. There are other to
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by timtadh 17y ago
I think songbird is pretty out competed on the linux platform. There are a bunch of really great media players on linux, and songbird (the last time I looked at it) could not match them.
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by timtadh 17y ago
I have also been getting into tries recently (last 6 months) and if you are interested in learning about them I recommend Sedgewick's Algorithms in C (parts 1-4) for a good introduction to the subject. Available on Safari if you have access
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by timtadh 17y ago
Why is catching all the SEGV's more dangerous? What specifically can happen?
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Google China Uncensors Tiananmen Square Info(tomshardware.com)
19 points by timtadh 17y ago|13 comments
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by timtadh 17y ago
I have to completely disagree with rebasing the feature branch onto the mainline branch. That is bad idea. Here is what they are doing: 1. Branch off of master to work on the feature 2. Work, work, work, commit, commit, commit 3
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by timtadh 17y ago
This is definitely a witch hunt. The same thing happened in my ford truck when I misplaced the mat after cleaning it. I simply turned the car off put the clutch in and coasted to a stop at the edge of the highway and fixed the mat. From the
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by timtadh 17y ago
patents apply only to things that are: anything made by man new non-obvious commercially useful i think a sentence, even Shakespeare, fail one or more of those qualifications. which is why we have copyright for sentences.
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by timtadh 17y ago
The issue is no matter if you are using a column store or simulating a column store in a row store you will have to do tuple reconstruction. Unless all of you queries really only need one attribute this will require at least one join. Some
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by timtadh 17y ago
If you want to look at a paper on performance of such a system check out http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/papers/abadi-sigmod08.pd...
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by timtadh 17y ago
The author Nginx, Igor Sysoev, mentioned lighttpd as the nearest competitor to Nginx. I don't really keep up with webservers, what is the story behind lighttpd stagnating vs Nginx growing in usage?
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by timtadh 17y ago
My issue is the iPad* is very close to being a good general purpose computer. For a certain class of consumer, it could be there only computer. However, it is crippled by the lack of ports. How are they going to hook up their printer or web
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by timtadh 17y ago
it is a good point that classical dbms's aren't always good, however the method that a dbms uses to perform queries are always good to know. the author here implemented a sort-merge-join which is one of the classic implementations of join a
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by timtadh 17y ago
Well machine language is pretty simple especially when you use something like MIPS. It can even be pretty fun to code in if you assembler has good macro support. However there is value is adding an abstraction layer on top of machine code.
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by timtadh 17y ago
Maybe not complete bullshit but an exaggeration in my opinion. Just because a student comes from China or another India or wherever does not necessarily mean they are amazing workers. For instance one semester I was lab partners in an elect
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by timtadh 17y ago
Really why by a book when you can just grab a PDF. I used Linear Algebra Done Wrong for my class this semester, and found it a pretty good book for being free. check it out: www.math.brown.edu/~treil/papers/LADW/LADW.pdf
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by timtadh 17y ago
Steve ::shakes head:: it disturbs me that you just know this. I mean did you really search youtube for RMS eating toe cheese. Gross. (alternatively i suppose it could have just popped up on google, but that makes this fact more disturbing f
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Repositioning the KDE Brand(dot.kde.org)
3 points by timtadh 17y ago|1 comments
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by timtadh 17y ago
I definitely mean S3 when I say S3, take a look at the paper that I link to.
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by timtadh 17y ago
You are probably right. We reviewed this paper about a month ago so i probably mixed up the names.
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by timtadh 17y ago
So my graduate databases class recently took a look at several of these cloud computing environments, and Microsoft offering is clearly compelling both from an tool integration stand point and from the technical side. For instance Microsoft
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Android Succumbing to the Problem with Linux?(wired.com)
3 points by timtadh 17y ago|0 comments