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by azim 11y ago
One of the major fears every company faces today is patent trolls. Regardless of whether you are in the right or not, a patent infringement lawsuit will be an immense cost to fight. Opening up internal source code or having public record of
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by azim 13y ago
I don't know anything about AOL specifically, but I've worked for a handful of BigCo's. All have required signing some sort of agreement at the start of employment which explicitly forbids leaking confidential information. So
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by azim 14y ago
Windows internals are very different than Linux and 32bit DLL files are not SO files. 32bit DLLs are typically relocatable (as opposed to .so files being position independent), which means they are compiled with a with a preferred load addr
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by azim 14y ago
Before we get out the pitchforks, Google is still supporting the current Microsoft formats (.docx, .xlxs, .pptx). If you're still running Office 2003 or older, you can install a compatibility pack from Microsoft to support the current file
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by azim 14y ago
I read the article. Out of 4 images shown, one was of the live demo and 3 were suspected doctored photos from Nokia's promotional materials. The article doesn't clarify whether the live image taken with the Nokia phone was taken in front of
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by azim 14y ago
The acquisition was made 5 years ago. It's an old article.
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by azim 14y ago
I like the way you've phrased this, so let me give a contrived but quasi-realistic example: I have a network of nodes which calculates and returns some floating point value. I then accumulate those in the arbitrary order in which they come
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by azim 15y ago
Good question. I just googled this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#RAID_10_versus_RAID_5_in_R... Summary: Slight benefit to read performance and greater resiliency in the case of drive failure with Raid 10.
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by azim 15y ago
What's likely going on is fairly complicated to delve in to in a comment thread like this. However one possibility is that Linux just has a terribly hard time scheduling with that many cores. Processes attempt to maintain locality up to a p
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by azim 15y ago
FTA: "It's actually a hybrid that is largely built on Harmattan, the legacy Maemo 6 code base that Nokia shuttered when it committed to MeeGo. It seems sort of dubious on the surface to call the software MeeGo when it's really still Maemo,
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by azim 15y ago
What's interesting is that in theory, assuming an appropriate scaling factor to divide the input by, the time and space complexity for Sleep sort are O(1). This is basically like hashing numbers, then iterating the buckets -- except that th
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by azim 15y ago
In some cases, yes depending on the state. If you buy an item in state Y and pay y% sales tax on it, then when you return to state X, sometimes you are required to pay the difference x%-y% in tax. I am not a tax expert, but here are some ex
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by azim 15y ago
Part of the issue, a bit tangent to your point, is that when dealing with thick client software, once a version is released you can typically expect it to be in the field for quite some time. Many customers are upgrade-averse and simply won
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by azim 16y ago
Discontinuing a support for a product developers don't use isn't really telling at all. Most Itanium development is done using compilers from the operating system vendor, not with ICC. Intel still provides the code generators for those comp
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by azim 16y ago
I did software development for NonStop Kernel on Itanium for a few years. 5 years ago, Itanium was FAST. Our software was twice as fast as competitors who used twice as many processing cores. Problem was that, unlike x86, Intel's Itanium ro
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by azim 16y ago
My Fall 2009 model overheats and locks up and crashes when playing games like Starcraft 2 or Left 4 Dead 2. That's not to say every notebook from 2009 had cooling problems, but some certainly do.
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by azim 16y ago
Senderbase has some interesting spam statistics which are reported from Cisco/IronPort security appliances around the world. After today is over and the stats are calculated, there might be some interesting data. http://www.senderbase.org/
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by azim 16y ago
It's unlikely AT&T is doing anything fancy at this point, but there's potentially much more to detection than TTL. NAT devices make an attempt to be transparent at layer 4 and try not to interfere with it. Host OS fingerprinting can rel
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by azim 16y ago
NASA has flown a few prototype solar powered UAVs. See wikipedia for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Pathfinder
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by azim 16y ago
Installing Linux in favor of Windows won't make computers cheaper. Microsoft sells OEM distributors their Windows 7 Home license for around $50. Then, the reason off the shelf computers come bundled with so much bloatware from the likes of
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by azim 16y ago
I was curious too, so I looked it up. Wikipedia also quotes the 78% number, citing Coca-Cola Co's 2005 SEC filing [1]. However, a cursory read of their SEC filing reveals this: "In 2005, concentrates and syrups for beverages bearing the tra
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by azim 16y ago
(Disclaimer: my assertions apply only to Linux, I'm not familiar with the vmm in other systems). I think you may be misunderstanding how the vmm works. When you allocate memory by calling mmap(), sbrk() etc., that amount of memory is commi
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by azim 16y ago
One constraint I believe you may have missed is that an idle thread does actually consume a significant amount of memory. While most resources a thread consumes are fairly small, the stack is actually quite large and is allocated up front.
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by azim 16y ago
In short, copyright infringement. Wikipedia has more information on specific laws: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement_of_softw... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement
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by azim 16y ago
Try Eclim for your java work. It's a set of vim plugins which run and communicate with a headless Eclipse instance in the background. This allows you use Vim as your editor and pull many of Eclipse's fancy features forward.
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by azim 16y ago
Out of curiosity, What types of applications are you running where HT hurts performance?
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by azim 16y ago
In reality the model is a bit more complicated than that. The "market price" authored by an exchange is actually more of a mark-to-model calculation as a function of recent trades. Remember that a market exchange doesn't function like a sto
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by azim 16y ago
Silverlight 2 is supported on Linux by Moonlight as of late 2009. However, the implementation is lacking support for Microsoft's PlayReady DRM.
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by azim 16y ago
I tried breaking this captcha. Here are some experimental results and mathematics: By applying the mathematics from the Birthday Attack ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack ), If an attacker is able to solve 15.8 million of the 18
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by azim 16y ago
It seems to me like the problems you're having, like intellisense not working correctly and the debugger being broken, are problems with the SDK tools and not with Eclipse itself. Writing your own tools I fear you will run in to many of the

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