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Did Steve Jobs ever mention his thoughts on free software?
1 points by vilda 15y ago|1 comments
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Concerned about privacy? You are a suspect...(docs.google.com)
2 points by vilda 15y ago|0 comments
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by vilda 15y ago
Looking at the code it looks like it's heavily optimized for x86 family of processors. What is suitable option for ARM processors? Similar Murmur hash depends on ultra-fast multiplication unit (which consumes a lot of energy).
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by vilda 15y ago
Timestamp counter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Stamp_Counter The question is how representative this measurement really is. Performance of a hash function depends heavily on memory caches. This looks like a test with many iteration
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by vilda 15y ago
Very common problem with similar optimistic analysis is that they compare end-user price (includes taxes and distribution costs) with the price of solar panels (no installation and maintenance costs). In reality, you have to calculate addit
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by vilda 15y ago
Moore's law is one of the most misinterpreted laws :) It states that the number of transistors per INGOT SLICE will double each 18 months. Ingot (in semiconductor manufacturing) is a slice of silicon monocrystalline suitable for photolithog
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by vilda 15y ago
When you activate two-factor authorization, the system can give you URL you have to visit on your phone. You then get your UID as a cookie that will serve as UDID. Push notification would work as well as SMS, but you have to install app for
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by vilda 15y ago
Actually it's even more interesting for two-factor authorization.
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by vilda 15y ago
This sounds like you had a really bad implementation. Proper file server of this small size would not fail for several hours per month.
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by vilda 15y ago
“Bicycle for the mind” analogy is actually quite old. Steve mentioned it circa 1980 after he acquired the development of the first Macintosh. He also mentioned it again in an interview for Entrepreneurs while starting NeXT and later in the
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by vilda 15y ago
I'm quite surprised that they ignored her past - she was married to Friedrich Mandl, an arms manufacturer. She learned about military technology from his friends. So obvious option - that historians considers - is that she basically patente
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by vilda 15y ago
I heard many times women making jokes about men and especially their common incompetence in fashion. Interestingly, I never thought about that as sexism, although I should.
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Steve Jobs' advice for entrepreneurs(computerworld.com)
3 points by vilda 15y ago|0 comments
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GoodData threatens our student startup with lawsuit(start2cloud.com)
152 points by vilda 15y ago|38 comments
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by vilda 15y ago
It's stopped with a finger. Watch carefully on the left side, frame by frame.
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by vilda 15y ago
Note that geothermal energy is not - in general - considered a renewable energy. The source will loose energy over time. That is not a problem for Iceland of course, since strong volcanic activity makes sources very reliable. If it's not ca
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by vilda 15y ago
"Which would you rather be: Apple or Xerox PARC?" Am I the only one who would rather be in Xerox PARC than Apple? :)
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Why Is It So Hard to Find a Suicide Bomber These Days?(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by vilda 15y ago|0 comments
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by vilda 15y ago
The article is badly one-sided. Some misconceptions were already mentioned, here are more which comes to my mind: "Of course, this assumes the concurrent deployment of a nationwide Smart Grid that could store and disburse the variable sourc
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by vilda 15y ago
Note that Pixar was Steve's investment - it was not related to Apple. Also note that the investment was in Pixar's graphics computers(!) not animation art. In reality, Steve was fighting with Pixar to stop animations and sell their hi-tech
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by vilda 15y ago
This is abandon-ware. I saw a lot of similar projects leaved open sourced which died quickly in no-relevance. What a difference between healthy open source project where you get support and bugs fixed...
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by vilda 15y ago
Please refrain from judging reliability of cloud providers unless you have a representative sample. By representative sample I mean several hundreds of instances. That your instance runs 99.9% does not say anything, you are lucky. That your
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by vilda 15y ago
It depends on what you mean by outage. Instances with EBS volumes attached have problems even 24 hours later.
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Amazon deletes EBS snapshot blocks by mistake
6 points by vilda 15y ago|0 comments
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Nissan Installs A Public Plug In Lincoln, For Top Gear(motorward.com)
4 points by vilda 15y ago|0 comments
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by vilda 15y ago
"Nissan VP Andy Palmer accused Top Gear of deceiving its viewers, pointing out that the telemetrics in the Leaf had wirelessly updated the car company on the production crew’s actions." http://www.slashgear.com/nissan-blasts-top-gear-for-m
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by vilda 15y ago
Is there any credibility in credit rating? Those poisonous mortgage bonds have AAA as well... US having AAA rate is more about patriotism than anything else.
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by vilda 15y ago
There are some inaccuracies in the text. The truth is, AMD could not copy Intel's 64 bit architecture. Intel created a separate company to circumvent licensing agreement which grants AMD access to 86 instruction set. Next, amd64 is not comp
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by vilda 15y ago
I'm afraid the methodology described has little to do with Steve Jobs.
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by vilda 15y ago
"That is, inflation encourages productivity." Wrong. Inflation encourages to invest in commodities or real estates. Watch for increasing price of metals, agriculture products. The primary cause of real estate bubble in US was cheap money.

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