xal

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1. 151.▲
   by xal 13y ago

   He wrote the book On Intelligence. Probably one of the most illuminating books that exists.
2. 152.▲
   by xal 13y ago

   10. He gave me adjusted for inflation ( and converted from DM to EUR to USD ) it would be 200. Essentially age * 20.
3. 153.▲
   by xal 13y ago

   Guess we are next ;-)
4. 154.▲
   by xal 13y ago

   The money part is brave and will likely work out. However, its also a great opportunity to teach cash flow rather then balance sheet. My dad did something really great when I was young: He paid me my entire allowance in bulk once a year. Of
5. 155.▲
   Cloudera Impala 1.0: SQL on Hadoop(blog.cloudera.com)

   1 points by xal 13y ago|0 comments
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   Cause of LED efficiency droop finally revealed(eurekalert.org)

   5 points by xal 14y ago|0 comments
7. 157.▲
   by xal 14y ago

   I wish I could upvote this twice. Easily one of the most insightful comments I've seen on HN recently.
8. 158.▲
   by xal 14y ago

   Here is an actual Hacker tool that allows all sorts of insane CPU close performance work. No comments all day. This is heartbreaking.
9. 159.▲
   by xal 14y ago

   facepalm
10. 160.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    Any experience with Clustrix?
11. 161.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    Real time, it's a 4kb executable. The demo scene has been around for decades
12. 162.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    Sadly, I don't have any of my own work anymore, although I'm sure I could write out a few procedural texture generators from top of my head. Luckily, the demo scene has collectively decided to go back and open source much of it's best work
13. 163.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    Heh, kids these days. We needed to do that to even have a chance at competing in 4k intro competitions.
14. 164.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    Watch the video. He endorses many different plans which tackle the same issue. This is not a new idea - he is just ratcheting up the urgency and quite successfully so: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is stri
15. 165.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    It's also not a very good idea for performance. V8 optimizer will bail as soon as you do anything to arguments other then using an indexed access.
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    What's new in Mysql 5.6(dev.mysql.com)

    1 points by xal 14y ago|0 comments
17. 167.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    Living mostly on a Chromebook and programming through action.io, I'm probably closer to where Joe wants to be then he thinks is possible.
18. 168.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    You may want to consider directly going to Unity
19. 169.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    What kind of server did you guys use for your rails test? Thin, Puma, Unicorn? Are you sure you ran it in production environment? Update: Looks like passenger in development mode. Good job you benchmarked a web server that no one uses wile
20. 170.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    One thing that batman.js has that none of the other systems have is that it's origin is an extraction from a huge production system. Batman was extracted from Shopify's admin interface that is one of the largest single page JS apps. It's pr
21. 171.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    I think he is being genuine but a bit brash. The advice is sound and I second it.
22. 172.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    ASM.js is easily the hack of the year. Every hacker should walk around with a smile on their face today.
23. 173.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    I'm the OP. I meant that the experience that you have matters, the degree doesn't. Pursuing a degree gives you valuable experience - it would be a disaster if it didn't. There are other ways to get experience as well and some of those are b
24. 174.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    we are actively pursuing this idea at Shopify.
25. 175.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    I find that Github pull request style discussions are a good approximation of this ideal which strikes a great balance between effort required and social acceptability.
26. 176.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    Obviously - the system clearly doesn't just produce huge successes. I simply wanted to tell my story because it's sufficiently different from most people's background to be interesting, or so I was told.
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    What it’s like to work with Mark Pincus(sashmackinnon.com)

    1 points by xal 14y ago|0 comments
28. 178.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    Shopify runs TCMalloc for mysql as well.
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    Pick your compass metric(tobi.lutke.com)

    1 points by xal 14y ago|0 comments
30. 180.▲
    by xal 14y ago

    This looks wonderful, but there needs to be a downloadable binary that can just be double clicked. Otherwise you have a huge chicken & egg problem here.