zackangelo

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   Slack raises $120M on $1.12B valuation(m.wsj.com)

   14 points by zackangelo 12y ago|1 comments
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   by zackangelo 12y ago

   Am I missing something or is this benchmark indicating that VB.NET has superior floating point performance to C?
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   by zackangelo 12y ago

   I didn't see any reference to it in the documentation, but I wonder if they'll provide an HTTP API for authenticating against these directories (or providing delegated auth services when connected to an on-premise AD instance).
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   by zackangelo 12y ago

   For the record, Siri also does location-based reminders and they sync across all of your devices (e.g. "When I get home, remind me to take fish oil").
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   by zackangelo 12y ago

   They're using it on the watch. >On most Apple Watch models, the display is laminated to a machined and polished single crystal of sapphire. http://www.apple.com/watch/technology/
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   Is CrossFit Dangerous?(mobile.businessweek.com)

   3 points by zackangelo 12y ago|2 comments
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   by zackangelo 12y ago

   Not according to the article: > In fact the String Deduplication is almost like interning with the exception that interning reuses the whole String instance, not just the char array.
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   by zackangelo 12y ago

   Read down a little further: > But, as with anything, the specifics are somewhat irrelevant—consistency is key.
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   Show HN: iPad point of sale built in Ember.js(itunes.apple.com)

   11 points by zackangelo 12y ago|0 comments
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    by zackangelo 12y ago

    I had the expired certificate. I've never installed Steam, but I have installed VMWare Fusion.
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    by zackangelo 12y ago

    Were you using Chef inside of OpsWorks? I'm curious about what problems you're having. I'd think that hooking the configure lifecycle event on your cluster layer in OpsWorks would work just fine.
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    by zackangelo 13y ago

    http://aws.amazon.com/datasets
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    by zackangelo 13y ago

    > Is the goal solely to avoid having to explicitly state the type of the target collection? Pretty much. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722726/is-the-scala-2-8-...
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    Demon core(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by zackangelo 13y ago|0 comments
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    by zackangelo 13y ago

    Spray
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    by zackangelo 13y ago

    Also, this random behavior will be significantly amplified if the host is running inside of a VM.
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    by zackangelo 13y ago

    See: Liar's Poker [1] [1] http://www.amazon.com/Liars-Poker-Michael-Lewis/dp/039333869...
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    by zackangelo 13y ago

    They do.
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    by zackangelo 14y ago

    We had a flooded rack in New Orleans after Katrina. We had tape backups, but during the evacuation frenzy the wrong tape was pulled from the library (we should've just yanked the entire magazine). Not recovering the data would result in tho
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    by zackangelo 14y ago

    I first learned of Brensenham's line drawing algorithm from Michael Abrash in his Graphics Programming Black Book. I've yet to come across a more thorough and easy to understand discussion: http://downloads.gamedev.net/pdf/gpbb/gpbb35.pdf