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by whakojacko 15y ago
But it's usually not the case for domestic US flights, which is what the article is about.
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by whakojacko 15y ago
...And I have an SSD that came installed with my Macbook Pro almost a year and is still working without any hickups. Single data points aren't all that valuable.
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by whakojacko 15y ago
...And they just found the memory unit (which is designed to detach from the recorder in the event of a collision) today. A picture of the actual memory unit in question: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/05/01/world/europe/01...
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by whakojacko 15y ago
Having watched the NOVA episode, it'll be very interesting to see if this data can confirm their suspicions.
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by whakojacko 15y ago
Latency between different availability zones in the same region is generally pretty good. "Over the last month, the median is 2.09 ms, 90th percentile is 20ms, 99.th percentile is 47ms. This is based on over 250,000 pings -- one every 10 s
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by whakojacko 15y ago
I have also had good experience with linode performance (just a small instance I use for a few personal projects). However, AFAIK linode is just using local on-box disk, which is a whole different animal from EBS.
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by whakojacko 15y ago
Yea, the first angle in the video doesn't do it justice. On his blog, he states the entire thing is around 12 feet long. Incredibly impressive stuff, especially the programming needed to get the arm pickup to be so accurate. If you want to
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Open Compute Server Design(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
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by whakojacko 16y ago
small counterpoint to your counterpoint: I had him for 15-381 (Intro AI for non-CMU people), it was his first time teaching the class, and his lectures were substantially better than those of the other professor he co-taught with and had be
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by whakojacko 16y ago
"Nor will we; a formal shirt looks and feels better than a t-shirt, regardless of the quality of the t-shirt." Looks? Probably. Feels? That's absolutely subjective. I much prefer short sleeved shirts, and having lived most of my life with a
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Not specifically related to this article but Id like to give Ars major props for following all of the recent Anonymous actions so throughly. Their articles on HBGary were fantastic and they seem to be keeping up well.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Link to an article in James Hamilton's blog with actual pdfs of various designs: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2011/04/07/OpenComputeProje...
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by whakojacko 16y ago
According to Werner Vogels' (Amazon's CTO) Quora answer, the excess capacity story is a myth. http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-clo...
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Not really surprising, since CUDA isn't a major selling point for most potential customers. The Anandtech review goes into a little more detail: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4239/nvidias-geforce-gtx-590-d...
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Really? I love raw carrots and I know I'm not alone.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Sprint plans with unlimited texting are still much more expensive than similar in Europe. Their 450 Minute "Everything" plan is $50/mo with a 2 year contract. That might be good for the US, but its not good relavitely speaking. Just as an e
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Honest question-is there really any decent uses for 3rd-party cookies that I, a fairly technically savvy internet user, might benefit from? (and I don't consider "more targeted ads" to be a benefit) Ive had 3rd party cookies disabled in my
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Hell, I'm American and its still mind-blowing to me that a politician actually took the time to read a TC article and modify a bill accordingly.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
probably because It was a dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314791
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Personally, it seems a step too far. I can understand why they felt the need to create official clients for each platform, but this seems like it kills long-term innovation. Now don't get me wrong, I think the official Twitter client on the
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by whakojacko 16y ago
...and if you read /r/fitness with any remote regularity then most of this article isn't very surprising at all.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
A decent semi-open setup has you not seeing much other than your monitor, and not hearing anything because you have good (company paid for) headphones on. And like others have said, If I can always WFH when I feel it is necessary.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Not sure why, but from what I hear from friends at MSFT, an approximately equal number of devs, qas, and pms is very standard.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Yes.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
"It is possible to reduce this time down to 4 or 5 seconds using fsc (the Scala daemon compiler), but getting fsc to work reliably with Maven is a problem I haven't solved yet" Have you looked into sbt? It has nice iterative complication su
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by whakojacko 16y ago
I think basically everyone agrees that XML literals are a bad idea. There is a little more background described here: http://www.quora.com/Will-Scala-ever-remove-XML-literals
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Sure, but basically every mobile processor "is just a customized version" of some ARM design. My point is that Apple goes out of their way to control the design/performance instead of taking an off the shelf TI/Qualcomm/NVIDIA etc chip
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by whakojacko 16y ago
point taken, edit added
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Samsung manufactures their processor. But the design of the A4 was done in-house by Apple. Edit: It does appear that Samsung helped design it, thanks for the correction HN :) I think my overall point still stands though
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by whakojacko 16y ago
"Really the issue is that hardware is hard to get right and requires a lot of resources, resources that Apple has and many other companies do not." More than just that, Apple also has the considerable advantage of owning almost all of their

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