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by xtacy 15y ago
While I agree with the comparison, it would be unfair to not point out the wealth of functions that Mathematica exposes: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.h...
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by xtacy 15y ago
Interesting points. Another way to convince oneself, is that even experienced professionals are prone to make mistakes. This is an interesting set of slides that captures the same thoughts: http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/attachm
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by xtacy 15y ago
antirez, while I really appreciate the sentiment that one should not simply follow dogmas but be curious/question/understand them, there is a fine balance. In your case, if it were a learning exercise, it's perfectly fine to invest time a
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Exciting projects in Network Virtualization(openflow.org)
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SDN as the future of Networking(networkworld.com)
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The Google Galaxy Nexus(google.com)
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Siri authentication bypass(triskt.com)
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by xtacy 15y ago
http://hn.gethifi.com/ This website is really snappy and FAST on iPad. Plus, favicons on URL submissions is a nice touch!
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OpaLang: Concise language for writing distributed webapps(opalang.org)
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by xtacy 15y ago
Are there such equivalents for emacs? What's the best one out there?
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I, Pencil(econlib.org)
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MUSE: Sift through emails of yesteryear(newscientist.com)
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by xtacy 15y ago
I think you meant: int value = c - '0'; Otherwise, value will be negative.
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by xtacy 15y ago
Very impressive, but I am not sure his comment about Mathematica is right. The Wolfram Demonstrations project is about aiding such explorations in Mathematica. It may not look as pretty, but it's definitely capable of enabling exploration
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Operating Systems in 4 easy pieces(pages.cs.wisc.edu)
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by xtacy 15y ago
Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3022093
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by xtacy 15y ago
One of the driving goals of putting everything in DRAM was "low latency." They want latency of retrieving a small sized (100 byte) object to be as low as a few microseconds, even across a network .
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by xtacy 15y ago
The post mentions that heartbeats timeout when the load spikes momentarily. I have a few questions, would love to hear answers if it's okay to share :-) 1. What load spiked? Is it the network/CPU load? 2. By spiked (be it netwo
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by xtacy 15y ago
The website doesn't work on Firefox 9.0a1 (2011-09-24). Is it something wrong with my setup? (I use AdBlockPlus + Ghostery) EDIT: The website looks beautiful on Chrome! What tools did you use?
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by xtacy 15y ago
It's just a canonical form; it's far easier (IMHO) for a beginner to understand a recursively written Fibonacci number computer than your function.
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by xtacy 15y ago
Could someone clarify this: the post says that the servers are in _our_ Data Center in NY and OR. I have always thought that DCs host 100s to 100,000 machines! Is this a colo? EDIT: What is the typical network utilization for such web-ser
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RouteFlow: Virtualized IP routing over commodity hardware(sites.google.com)
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MUSE: Retrieving precious using email(mobisocial.stanford.edu)
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by xtacy 15y ago
And Amazon could also do filter out any malware distributing websites. Would it be wrong to call the Fire some sort of thin client? (just for the browser)
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by xtacy 15y ago
Seems like a link-bait title. How is this Microsoft's website? (Please correct me if I am wrong.)
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Princeton's publications now openly accessible(freedom-to-tinker.com)
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Tor and the BEAST SSL attack(blog.torproject.org)
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by xtacy 15y ago
I think it means, it's faster than managing your own TCP connections for cluster applications. ZeroMQ's website itself makes no claim that they're faster than TCP: http://www.zeromq.org/area:faq , under: The graph in the test results
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by xtacy 15y ago
I am curious, how would you compute market share of Bing when Yahoo! uses Bing as its backend? Combined with Yahoo, Bing _powers_ 35% of the searches.
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by xtacy 15y ago
Is this similar to http://path.com ?

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