emjaygee

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by emjaygee 11y ago
Which regular Kindle? The built-in backlight was the selling feature to me. My old Kindle had the light built into the cover which worked OK but was too bright for my wife. The paperwhite is great for reading in bed.
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by emjaygee 12y ago
Yes, but Tolkien invented Second Breakfast. No comparison.
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by emjaygee 12y ago
Modern processors can generate different micro-ops depending on whether the flags are observed. In old non-pipelined/non-speculative/non-rewriting processors what you said is true but all bets are off in the world of massively fu
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by emjaygee 12y ago
It would be super difficult to represent value types, generics and the reflection metadata in the JVM without building some kind of giant abstraction layer. MSIL is rich, maybe overly rich. If you get rid of value types and generics from
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by emjaygee 12y ago
I find this disturbing. I realize that startups are usually associated with non-linear returns but assuming the burn rate in the OP is about gross expenses, not just net burndown of the funding, I think that there's a huge problem wit
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by emjaygee 12y ago
Revenue per employee is certainly interesting but isn't comparable to the topic of discussion. It would be very interesting to see what the run rates for each of these enterprises is. I suspect you could compute this from the annual
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by emjaygee 12y ago
Will you buy the newer products without the newer UIs? I didn't think so, so the manufacturers are motivated to keep changing.
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by emjaygee 12y ago
It's a trap! I want net neutrality as much as the next person but having the federal government oversee it like it oversees utilities is a cure far worse than the disease.
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by emjaygee 12y ago
Except for the phone observation, he matches what I saw in say '90 completely. And replies like yours were also common even back then. I'm inclined to agree that it's about the money. I'm not sure that it's a good
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by emjaygee 12y ago
Some people have built string processing libraries which operate on struct which have a string object reference and an index to the first character and a length. This lets you slice etc the strings without forcing any heap allocations.
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by emjaygee 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad Retina came in the 3rd generation.
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by emjaygee 12y ago
You have to type it three times.