ivany

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by ivany 14y ago
How would one measure the destruction Microsoft caused? The wasted time? The wasted money, the wasted lifes? Wat. I'm sure lots of work that gets done at Microsoft is misguided or redundant. Welcome to working at a big company. The pay
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by ivany 14y ago
that property is unprotected or poorly protected makes it less "trespassing." You know that booking someone for trespassing is pretty difficult, right? They have to be depriving you of the use of your property AND refuse to leave. So if I
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by ivany 14y ago
One way to look at it: years ago, we dreamed that all of the menial tasks that we do would be done by robots, and that we could enjoy endless leisure while our robot servants labored under us. The first half of this dream is coming true. Un
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by ivany 14y ago
Zynga has nothing special, no competitive advantage, no intellectual capital, no special sauce to maintain their market share You're absolutely right. Sadly their valuation, barely higher than the value of their real estate and cash pile,
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by ivany 14y ago
Spot-on. I came to post this. A CPU core != a Xeon Phi core != a GPU "core". Memory architecture matters a LOT, and much of CPU area is devoted to cache and memory infrastructure. In a GPU, my understanding is every ~32 cores share a small
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by ivany 14y ago
A bit off-topic but per the NYU/Stanford "Living Under Drones" report[1], the use of military drones for "fighting terrorism" has been frightening, to say the least. It turns out that only about 2% of the people killed in Pakistan by drones
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by ivany 14y ago
:( But true. Good news is that more and more vendors get this.
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by ivany 14y ago
A similar problem is HR departments abusing the "knobs" on the position's requirements. For a software-based CRM company, they required something like 7 years of Java EE development experience for the lower level development positions, and
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by ivany 14y ago
Intel chipsets and processors have gotten very, very good with power management. With reasonable screen brightness and Wifi enabled, my X220 idles at ~8.5W. With a 90Wh battery this gives me ~10 hours on a plane, which is more than I can ha
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by ivany 14y ago
After running debian on an ARM box for the past ~5 years, my experience has been pretty favorable. If there's a solid community following (which is a good bet with this product given the hype around it) the drivers should be a non-issue. In
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by ivany 14y ago
$250 is not exceptionally low cost for a netbook. Furthermore the power dissipation of the chromebook under load is only slightly better than a comparable atom system [1]. The idle performance is better, I will give them that. Still, the de
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by ivany 14y ago
Coming in even or slightly faster (in most benchmarks) than an Intel Atom D525 from over two years ago is "crazy fast"? I'm impressed with the Chromebook overall and I think it's a cool product but talk about a bait-and-switch title.
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Squeezegene: Order-insesitive delta diff compression for gene sequence datasets(iyulaev.github.com)
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by ivany 14y ago
I'll check it out! Thanks.
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by ivany 14y ago
Are there any safety issues associated with hauling a bucket of diesel up a staircase? I know it's not as volatile as gasoline but it's still not exactly the most fire-safe substance. Are they literally 5-gallon pails, or are they sealed co
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by ivany 14y ago
One reason I'm not confident that the supply problem will be solved anytime soon: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/11/col... Given that college has been incredibly (over)promoted over the past 20 years and that CS job
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by ivany 14y ago
Every time fb does something scummy, and people act surprised, I am surprised. They've proven themselves to have the morals of a used car dealer. Why would you trust them, or be surprised when they act untrustworthy? "Fool me once, shame
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by ivany 14y ago
I used matplotlib extensively when I was doing research back in school. It even made it into the work I published (after I got ridiculed for using excel to make plots). Being able to pre-process my data with numpy and generate all of my plo
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by ivany 15y ago
Very interesting article, for a number of reasons. Back in the 90s I was just a kid, but I distinctly recall the major changes in the telecom landscape happening then: DSL/Cable internet access becoming "a thing" as well as huge changes in