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by vizard 18y ago
Non-native english speaker here .. care to explain what you mean?
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by vizard 18y ago
Weird .. people actually LIKE using iTunes? I mean its pretty decent .. but nothing special.
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by vizard 18y ago
Well ATI isnt doing all that bad right now. Its AMD's microprocessor business that isnt doing all that great right now.
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by vizard 18y ago
Umm .. why does this list only contain clones of commercial softwares? I would rather say that high priority projects are the linux kernel, git, myriad python and ruby interpreters etc which are widely used and do contain some design innov
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by vizard 18y ago
I found this interesting page from a reddit comment : http://www.esva.net/~thom/philkatz.html edit : Its about Phil Katz from the original author of ARC which was the software Katz allegedly modified to produce PKARC.
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by vizard 18y ago
Let me remind you that converse is not true. Being an atheist doesnt make you smart.
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by vizard 18y ago
What about performance related pay? For example, pay directly tied to profits?
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by vizard 18y ago
Man we need an "apple" filter. Most of the apple related news on HN is getting ridiculous while you can still get important apple news on any other news site.
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by vizard 18y ago
I was in the tenth grade and breaking all my personal weight records by gaining 5kg/month.
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Potato disease : When the chips are brown(economist.com)
3 points by vizard 18y ago|0 comments
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by vizard 18y ago
Dell XPS M1330 preloaded with Ubuntu. No hassles of installation at least. In any case whatever notebook you choose, do a bit of research to find out that the wireless card works properly under linux. I have had decent experience with Inte
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by vizard 18y ago
Thanks for infusing realism into the Erlang hype. As you point out "There is no free lunch". People also frequently tend to forget Amdahl's law when discussing Erlang and somehow assume that "Erlang = Linear Scaling" regardless of algorithm
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by vizard 18y ago
Isnt GP patented? That will probably kill off any commercial applications.
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Java 7 Prediction Update(tech.puredanger.com)
4 points by vizard 18y ago|0 comments
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by vizard 18y ago
Why are we seeing so many mac rumors including completely unsubstantiated and unfounded ones? Please dont convert this site to macrumor or appleinsider.
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by vizard 18y ago
Umm most of the slides appear empty to me with one or two lines written in each slide. Maybe somethings broken with my browser (ff3 on linux).
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by vizard 18y ago
hmm slightly weird. I searched for a term and didnt get any results. I searched for the same term 10 minutes later and i got results? Anyway, some stuff is not returning any results : "nvidia gtx 280" didnt return any result :(
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by vizard 18y ago
I feel IBM hasnt really taken Cell to its full potential and it will probably lose the performance crown to x86 in 2-3 years unless IBM gives the performance a badly needed performance boost. GPUs can also beat cell in some tasks.
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by vizard 18y ago
I wonder who will buy the handheld graphics divison. Any ideas? Current competitors in the handheld divison are imagination technologies and nvidia and neither will probably buy the Imageon divison. Perhaps qualcomm might buy them given tha
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AMD CEO Steps Down(dailytech.com)
1 points by vizard 18y ago|0 comments
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by vizard 18y ago
Sorry for replying a bit late. For FFTs, flops are measured in a standardized way. If you are doing an FFT of length N, the number of flops is counted as 5 N log N no matter how the actual FFT is computed. So, in the case of FFT, really you
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Ask HN : Robot kits other than Mindstorms?
2 points by vizard 18y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN : Workaround for HN RSS on Liferea?
1 points by vizard 18y ago|0 comments
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by vizard 18y ago
I wonder if a GPU might be more suitable for his task. Even the 8800GTX is known to do single precision FFTs at more than 55 Gflops which is an order of magnitude more than even contemporary CPUs let alone P4.
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by vizard 18y ago
Does anyone know if it will be restricted to US?
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by vizard 18y ago
Does anybody here have experience with both the iPhone SDK and Android SDK? If so, any thoughts?
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by vizard 18y ago
Well lets consider this for a moment. 1. Apple's main bread-earner right now is the Macbook, MBP and iMac. All of them are premium models and significantly, all of them use mobile processors. Only the Mac Pro uses desktop processors. AMD's
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by vizard 18y ago
I think ATI will be bought off by someone .. maybe even Intel given that Intel is now developing its own GPUs. On the x86 front, the only possible acquirer for AMD CPU divison seems to be IBM. Sun also bought a x86 startup a few months back
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by vizard 18y ago
My bad .. should have looked up wikipedia first.
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by vizard 18y ago
Aah thanks. The claims and graphs by various vendors can be very difficult to make sense of sometimes.

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