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by xtacy 16y ago
How big a file can you share over this USB?
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by xtacy 16y ago
The RAMCloud[1] project at Stanford tackles the problem of persistence. Each server has a RAM and a persistent store like a hard disk. The entire cluster's disks are used for persistence. [1]: http://fiz.stanford.edu:8081/display/ramclou
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by xtacy 16y ago
If you really want precision and you're dealing only with rational numbers, it's better to maintain a struct rational { u64 numerator, denominator; }; and do all calculations with it.
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by xtacy 16y ago
Maybe DCCP [1] would be better. Non-congestion controlled protocols are bad for the internet. [1]: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol: http://read.cs.ucla.edu/dccp/
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by xtacy 16y ago
Even for numerical processing, it depends on where/how you write your loops. numpy just offers bindings to optimised C libraries and loops using map(..,..) should be much faster than using for. As far as text processing is concerned, it se
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by xtacy 16y ago
Typo: when I searched for Walmart, the page said: "No business __mached__ walmart. Please try another search." No Walmart.. really? :)
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Spot the fake smile(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by xtacy 16y ago|9 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Multiple disks, across different physical servers (instead of RAID) would be good too. You could also try increasing the throughput by having an in memory cache. The index/hash table can also be in main memory. Depending on the keys, loca
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What algorithm does Google Maps use to compute directions?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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Blekko search engine to public launch on Nov 1(techcrunch.com)
2 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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Netfilter hooks that a packet traverses in the Linux Kernel(ebtables.sourceforge.net)
2 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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The story behind a formula for Pi(groups.google.com)
8 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
The other thing I like about OSX is the "instant on, no fancy flickering" way in which a Finder Window appears. On Windows (Vista, which I checked last), when you open "Computer", there's a green scrollbar on the top that races from left t
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Wooden contraptions(woodgears.ca)
1 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
These homes are just for staff/professors. It would be lovely if the student residencies have access to high speed broadband as well. :-)
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The Need For Speed series(youtube.com)
1 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Does it work? I tried calling my landline and my mobile and it says "Answered, Hangup", though I don't see anything on the landline/mobile.
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StartupSchool schedule(startupschool.org)
4 points by xtacy 16y ago|2 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
It looks like a nice interface to something like Web Archive: http://archive.org . It should be there for every website!
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by xtacy 16y ago
It removes the box, but its reflection is still present in the mirror, which is spooky.
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About Yogurts(bonkersworld.net)
16 points by xtacy 16y ago|2 comments
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Linsched: Linux Scheduler Simulator(lkml.org)
61 points by xtacy 16y ago|3 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Is there a Carbon/Cocoa based version available for OSX?
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by xtacy 16y ago
Another one: I like http://eventlet.net/ , which naturally blends into the way one writes python code.
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This is recursion(youtube.com)
3 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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A "NoHype" virtualisation architecture(palms.princeton.edu)
1 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
The author of the post also says that the EC2 network is "slow". Does anyone have numbers about the performance of EC2 network in general, and why this is so?
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Terrence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder(terrytao.files.wordpress.com)
62 points by xtacy 16y ago|6 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
I completely agree with you. But then, I have to trust only the bookmarklet provider not to do malicious stuff; here, even if I trust markup.io, I still have to trust others who are going to view my markup.
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by xtacy 16y ago
What about: find / -type f -perm +x | xargs chmod -x EDIT: chmod has to be the last program to be chmodded, in the above list.. :-)

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