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by tkinom 11y ago
Did similar profiling with Borland/Turbo C++ a while back. (yes, I am that young. ) When I needed to alloc() 1-100 millions objects, the alloc, delete() api times did increase exponentially. BC++ profiler tracked that down to free l
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by tkinom 11y ago
I implemented a distributed messages System/API a long time (10+ years) ago on SMP, AMP, x86 CPU that were completely no-lock, none-blocking. The APIs/system on both userspace and Linux kernel space. One thing the APIs depended
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by tkinom 11y ago
This kind of remind me of Israel. I traveled and worked with folks there a few times. When go to/from/thru the airport, if I was with Hebrew speaking Jewish co-workers, everything would get thru in a few seconds. There was one ti
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by tkinom 11y ago
How is this compare to no-script? My ff with no-script is 10-50 times faster than chrome on most of the websites. Should be safer too. Is there any no-script options for iOS? (default with JS off but selectively turn on for just a few t
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by tkinom 11y ago
"4.5W ultra-mobile Core M" - does it means if someone uses it with a typical 2250 mAh cell phone battery, it only last half hour? That's a long way to catch up with ARM SOC, right?
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by tkinom 11y ago
I have trouble with Selenium's failure rate too. End up writing a test engine in Javascript. It handles async js func call with js function callback when finished to get rid of all the sleep-wait-retry type logic in Selenium. Works
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by tkinom 12y ago
Just add "127.0.0.1 ask.com" to /etc/hosts? While you're in it, add 127.0.0.1 doubleclick.com 127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net also.
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by tkinom 12y ago
If they allow this in US, Yelp will be out of business in no time.
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by tkinom 12y ago
Radiation level per cube feet of water is low. Is there any study on the Radiation level in fishes and if there are any significant concentration of radioactive materials in fish/crab that lives in the bottom of ocean like Alaska King
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by tkinom 12y ago
sqlite 3.0 later seems to be thread-safe. BTW, how's datadraw compare to sqlite?
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by tkinom 12y ago
Cool App, How much will you app? Is it iphone only?
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by tkinom 12y ago
I wonder if Ali found a next Twitter from the YC batch, does he allow to jump into that opportunity?
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by tkinom 12y ago
Are the TAO APIs asynchronous? Are there any document on the parameters of those APIs? :-)
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by tkinom 12y ago
Nice, BTW, TAO itself is not opensource? right. :-) I love to try build a golang version of TAO as good mental exercise. Anyone if something similar in golang or any other open source packages exist already? Anyone else interested in suc
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by tkinom 12y ago
Not sure how is this good news for Dropbox? MS is giving office 365 customer free unlimited cloud storage. Now M$ can tell their office (probably soon to be office 365 ) customers: "Good News, we have dropbox support for you, but BTW
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by tkinom 12y ago
Wouldn't even just supporting samba, nfs alone without kernel module will make the kernel bigger than needed? Or does OpenBSD doesn't support those network fs neither? If smbd/nfsd build in by default, wouldn't a single
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by tkinom 12y ago
Are they going to build all the supported HW device drivers all into the kernel image? Serial Drivers, all the USB related drivers, all the printers, networks card, graphics card driver? How big will the new kernel image be? It also make d
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by tkinom 12y ago
BTW, other countries can and do start to apply the same rules against US companies. China started to have a lot more rules and regulations regarding to the importation of products with any kind of crypto. They are becoming bigger IT/Mo
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by tkinom 12y ago
Didn't know that at all. So sad.
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by tkinom 12y ago
RIP, love the show. I have my popcast download their shows everyweek. How can it be Alzheimer ?!?!? The latest show #1444 on my cellphone's popcast app is Nov 1 - just two days ago.
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by tkinom 12y ago
The way golang works seems to be follow the model of Unix pipe (stdio pipe) between process. They are simple channel between go-routines (kind of) light weight threads. The concept is built into the language itself. Anything wrong with th
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by tkinom 12y ago
I had use VC and VB a long time (15+ years) ago and have since moved to Linux + gcc, python, golang, mobile etc. After watching this video for 20 minutes of all the fancy GUI details, I have couple of higher level questions: 1) Do C#&#
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by tkinom 12y ago
Looks like something from The Restrictive Sections of Hogwarts School Library. I hope it doesn't scream when I open it? :-)
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by tkinom 12y ago
Writer friendly comments/documents.... I am guilty of them also. A lot of time after 6 months, 1 year and I go back to the source/document I wrote, I have hard time out my writings. I think the reasons are a lot of sentences&#x
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by tkinom 12y ago
Great article! Love to see more write up on software selection process, tradeoff, failure recovery process/methods and benchmark data.
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by tkinom 12y ago
Are you going to Microwave the bird with that?
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by tkinom 12y ago
Evolution? One might be able to recover some old species' DNA - it is not enough to clone it back to life.
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by tkinom 12y ago
Love to see a simple Linux dist that is base on xfce or some supper lightweight GUI as default but base on debian also. Any good suggestion?
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by tkinom 12y ago
Follow on the "build product" point, I love to see the list of actual product demo video from YC company.
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by tkinom 12y ago
A lot of work for just half of HTTP.

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