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by wtracy 13y ago
ARM stands for "Advanced RISC Machine". I believe the copy is correct, although I would have expected "advanced RISC machine" to be capitalized as "Advanced RISC Machine" as it refers to a proper name.
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by wtracy 13y ago
> Quad socket x86 is still prohibitively expensive Is there an engineering reason for this, or is there just not enough volume for those boards to be economical?
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by wtracy 13y ago
Are there any ARM servers currently available to Normal People? I got excited when I first saw the headline because the last time I looked I didn't see anything available in the hobbyist/small business price range.
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by wtracy 13y ago
"The Silk Road shutdown resulted in brief, but shallow sell off and subsequent rebounded within a few days. This event showed the world and governments that illegal activities were a very small fraction of the transactions taking plac
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by wtracy 13y ago
I know MVP is all the rage (and for good reason) but what about developing a product in complete stealth mode until you are legally able to launch it and make it publicly known then? Keep your codebase clean (and ideally covered with automa
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by wtracy 13y ago
Because you will end up investing a lot of time learning skills that don't transfer anywhere else. Two of the last three companies I've worked at had their own internal version control systems. I'm sick of having to learn how
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by wtracy 13y ago
Entrepreneurs are no more virtuous than anyone else who works. Of course not. They're not driven to selflessly improve the world, they're driven to make a change in the world that has their name on it . In fact, that change o
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by wtracy 13y ago
Investors give money to organizations that either they perceive as having a significantly above-average chance of "winning the lottery", or that have basically already "won". I wouldn't be at all surprised if there&
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by wtracy 13y ago
This site was probably targeted at IE first, and IE never supported the blink tag.
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by wtracy 13y ago
Fascinating. Next question: Would it improve your success rate to have multiple versions of your site that echo the designs of the sites that drive most of your traffic, and automatically direct users to the version that matches their refer
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by wtracy 13y ago
It's a little obscure, but look at Embryo: http://docs.enlightenment.org/auto/embryo/ The interpreter was specifically designed with the assumption that Embryo scripts would come from untrusted sources. I bel
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by wtracy 13y ago
Oddly enough, a lot of that applies to programming as well, though to a lesser degree.
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by wtracy 13y ago
The line that caught my eye was not even about the Surface: "Honestly though if I want to play games I’m going to Steam not the MS app store." Maybe Valve has less to worry about than it thinks?
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Why the Tech Industry's Sexism Problem Isn't Going Away(medium.com)
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by wtracy 13y ago
You're going to need a massive amount of traffic to get statistically significant results from 50 different choices. I do like the idea of using A/B testing to double-check your designer's decisions, though.
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by wtracy 13y ago
At least two out of the three enterprise(ish) software companies I've worked at had their own in-house bug trackers, their own in-house build systems, and their own in-house version control systems. (To be fair, the versioning systems
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by wtracy 13y ago
There's some complete 'mini' systems that achieve this, presumably by pushing the the transformer out of the computer and into a wall-wart or similar: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/store/Mini_ITX_Systems&
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by wtracy 13y ago
Obamacare hasn't kicked in yet. The Republican party is already fighting to repeal it with everything they've got. So, yeah, this could cause real problems for some people.
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by wtracy 13y ago
The article mentions doing multiple passes with a box blur of different sizes. The author didn't see any performance improvement, though.
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by wtracy 13y ago
1. Normal people don't have access to HFT equipment, giving a handful of corporations an edge over the rest of us. 2. Most people really don't understand HFT. I think #2 is actually the real reason people are up in arms about HFT,
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by wtracy 13y ago
There is a gulag archipelago, Guantanamo, but it contains only 46 prisoners now. As an added bonus, most (all?) of those inmates are foreign nationals, who apparently don't count as people anymore in American politics.
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by wtracy 13y ago
The syntax has more in common with Python than anything else I know of--it seems pretty readable to me. Now the structure of Haskell is going to be very alien if you're used to imperative languages (C, Python, what have you). You men
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by wtracy 13y ago
IndieGoGo doesn't seem to have such a limitation. You can double-check me: http://www.indiegogo.com/about/terms
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by wtracy 13y ago
I'd give a science fiction show about a generational ship a chance no matter how cheaply it was produced, for example Something like The Starlost ?
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by wtracy 13y ago
Where's "here"? I constantly get emails from recruiters looking for Python devs. (I'm in the SF area, but a lot of the ads I see are for New York and parts of the Midwest.)
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by wtracy 13y ago
I'd rather not drive a mile and a half away and then find out I missed something on the checklist and have to go back.
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by wtracy 13y ago
Could you tell us about what field this was? :-)
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by wtracy 13y ago
The money quote: "The glass ceiling exists; it’s just higher than I’d realized."
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by wtracy 13y ago
In this case, it sounds like the product may have been circling the drain anyway. If so, the founder just saved everyone from unemployment and got them a fat hiring bonus to boot.
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by wtracy 13y ago
Quote from the article: "Asterank is almost entirely open source." That "almost" might be important.

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