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by veyron 14y ago
Site's down, so I can't pull up the exact link, but the java code basically did get time do it get time again print timing info The C++ code had a line of the form cout << .... << some_method_whic
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by veyron 14y ago
There are two things about the C++: 1) why use a class for the timer? 2) It's not clear if the order of operations ensures that the timer is stopped before the first print operation happens. Thus your C++ may be including some part of the
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by veyron 14y ago
What exactly are the economics of sub-dollar charges? I'd imagine the CC charges exceed donation amount
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by veyron 14y ago
I was almost mugged once. A tactile phone saved me. My dad and I were a bit cavalier when working an ATM outside a bank of america (it was outside, not within a security door). Normally we would count money at the ATM itself but this part
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by veyron 14y ago
That rocker pisses the hell out of me. In order to do even a mundane task like entering an address, you have to sit there and fiddle until you select the right letters. Even though it has GPS features built-in, I still use a separate unit
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by veyron 14y ago
Instagram, if it was allowed to expand and develop more social features, could have actually left Facebook in the dust. Seeing as how Facebook is perceived to be worth far more than a billion dollars, 1B is relatively cheap.
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by veyron 14y ago
The easiest way is to work on a side project (of your choice) and explore what technologies would be best. For example, why not try to write a HTML5 game? Even if its something relatively simple like a platformer, you will have opportunity
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by veyron 14y ago
RHEL sales are a profit center for RH, especially given that its targeted for enterprise deployments. The cost of the OS isn't the most significant factor in deploying.
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by veyron 14y ago
git is closer to rsync than to ftp. scp and ftp are file transfer protocols, while git and rsync are higher-level systems that can use other underlying file transfer protocols
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by veyron 14y ago
As used, I think the more appropriate comparison is GIT is the new RSYNC
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by veyron 14y ago
I'm glad at least we've progressed far enough that we aren't surprised that a tech CEO can be female ...
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by veyron 14y ago
Though it should be said that a social CAM application is a funny idea.
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by veyron 14y ago
Legos. It occupies my hands, my eyes, and my imagination. I keep a bunch of police and robber sets on my desk so I can simulate the bankers stealing from people's deposits in the bank and the regulators (in my fantasy) hauling them to jail
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by veyron 14y ago
There are a multitude of cases involving technology companies and shenanigans with Goldman Sachs, including Marvell Technologies: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/marvell-co-founders-s...
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by veyron 14y ago
endianness only matters when you bother interpreting the data. The storage concept shouldn't care -- after all, 8 bytes is 8 bytes is 8 bytes. Struct needs it because it is interpreting data. unpack needs to know the endianness to correct
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by veyron 14y ago
Isn't this essentially cannibalizing ScreenLeap (YC W12)?
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by veyron 14y ago
This product should have been funded, clearly. You are saying it shouldn't have been because the execution didn't match the (perfectly reasonable) hype. One problem highlighted by this situation is the lack of an advisor. There should be
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by veyron 14y ago
How does this compare (overhead, usefulness) to profile, cProfile, or hotshot?
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by veyron 14y ago
You get back to some very deep concepts in economics and finance. Value is defined based on trust and faith. I accept dollars for goods I produce because I believe that I can then turn around and give the dollars to get other goods. It's a
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by veyron 14y ago
Steam would need to ensure each game is completed. It would tarnish the brand if some games were not finished. Kickstarter does not suffer from this problem because everyone goes into it expecting that the game may not get off the ground.
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by veyron 14y ago
There's a free 200MB download of the command line build utilities. Xcode proper (4+ GB) is also free ...
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by veyron 14y ago
He would make more money charging for support or for the tail end (e.g. codesigning).
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by veyron 14y ago
even in performance critical code, unless you are doing some very aggressive bit twiddling or assembly-level optimizations, python can hold its own. Although at that point, C is easier to work with ...
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by veyron 14y ago
At this stage there are alternatives like PhoneGap or RubyMotion, allowing you to bypass objc entirely
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by veyron 14y ago
Not really surprising: Except for some very limited cases, I found that python performance is comparable to C++ performance for solving problems (obviously using python/C++ idioms where relevant). I rarely use C++, opting for C for perform
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by veyron 14y ago
Beat you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4190965
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Microsoft fully writes down aQuantive ad agency acquisition (reuters.com)
3 points by veyron 14y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 14y ago
For example, search for "facebook earning estimates before ipo" http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/us-facebook-foreca... > In the run-up to Facebook's $16 billion IPO, Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter on the deal, unexpecte
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by veyron 14y ago
If you are arguing that you were damaged specifically because of technical glitches associated with the IPO, you are expected to sell the shares. Any price action after that is due to factors outside of NASDAQ's direct control, and there's
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by veyron 14y ago
They are forced to take some of the economic costs of being public, but the managers have much more flexibility when the company is private. For example, Facebook's acquisition of Instagram would not fly if FB were public when that happene

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