meastham

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by meastham 14y ago
It always baffled me that this feature didn't exist before. I'm glad they implemented it.
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by meastham 14y ago
The jump to 3.x was a more or less arbitrary decision made by Linus because the 2.6 version numbers were getting very large. Switching to 3.x should basically be the same as any other kernel upgrade, possibly with some additional issues wit
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by meastham 14y ago
Many results pages contain no ads. For instance, I just searched for both "Taj Mahal" and "Matt Groening" and received ads for neither query.
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by meastham 15y ago
Less than twice, but still substantially more. Apple has $98bn [1] on hand and Intel's market cap is 138.54bn [2] [1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-applebre82f... [2] http://www.google.com/finance?q=intel
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by meastham 15y ago
That's quite a lot to read into a tiny example like this.
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by meastham 15y ago
For anybody that is wondering, apparently you need 250 karma to change your topcolor: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438957
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by meastham 15y ago
Ctrl-alt-t
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by meastham 15y ago
http://qubes-os.org/Home.html might be interesting
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by meastham 15y ago
I don't think that he is arguing the the GIL isn't a limitation, just that the fundamental limitation it imposes can't be removed without also changing the threading model or the garbage collector. It's really impossible run threads in para
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by meastham 15y ago
In general at least the two processors with the conflict will either have to block for a bit or switch to another hardware thread when write conflicts are occurring. There are lots of architecture tricks people pull to try to mitigate the i
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by meastham 15y ago
I believe his argument is that it would reduce thrashing between the caches. With the GIL ownership of a cache line containing the reference count for any given object will only have to be transfered at most once per timeslice. If multiple
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by meastham 15y ago
The issue is not that they aren't distributing the parser generator, it's that they're not distributing the grammars that are the input to the generator.
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by meastham 15y ago
Actually, both popular mobile operating systems have a POSIX-y system programming interface under the hood. Whether application developers can get at it is a different matter.
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by meastham 15y ago
Because that's not what rm does. Changing it would be breaking all sorts of standards. Many, many things depend on rm simply unlinking files. Why don't you use a different program if you would like to have some sort of trashbin behavior?
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by meastham 15y ago
Almost all of the desktop environments commonly used with Linux do have a trash bin.
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by meastham 15y ago
There appears to be a bug in recent versions of Chrome that erroneously disables hardware acceleration on machines running OSX with ATI video cards. It seems that they decided to blacklist multisampling on these machines because of a driver
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by meastham 15y ago
Just curious, do you actually think that the author or any of the people here don't recognize that the libc and coreutils (for most distributions) come from the GNU project? I don't understand why people insist on being so pedantic about th
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by meastham 16y ago
This is excellent news. It makes me significantly more likely to use disqus for my own projects.
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by meastham 16y ago
Github just threw 20 repos my way for my students to use for class projects. It was totally painless and I'm extremely happy.
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by meastham 16y ago
I did. I just don't see how this is any different than intentionally removing features from software in order to sell it at lower prices.
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by meastham 16y ago
Why do these types of market partitioning practices anger people so much? Isn't it a good thing that these companies are offering different price points for people to choose from?
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by meastham 16y ago
This is the model I have. Too bad, seemed like it would be amusing.
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by meastham 16y ago
Seems like they were using crypt().
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by meastham 16y ago
Did anybody else get oddly broken graphics when they tried this out? I see a some large red triangles on the borders that fade out and I never see any characters.
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by meastham 16y ago
They have a way to bundle code for multiple architectures into a single .apk. They don't yet have support for x86 but it appears to be forthcoming. Source: http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/overview.html
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by meastham 16y ago
Sure, if you completely ignore all of the extra circuitry for the on-chip network and cache coherency and everything else you would need. Transistor density is far from the limiting factor in the number of cores we can wedge into a single s
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by meastham 16y ago
Is there anything to stop people form just writing a macro beforehand that does each task? I'm guessing that's how the guy who 4 keystrokes on Simple Text Editing accomplished that.
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by meastham 16y ago
Kinda a bummer for those of us who don't use twitter.. Edit: Still a very cool project though
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by meastham 16y ago
I've heard good things about this plugin, which uses clang to do autocompletion inside vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3302
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Tir 0.6 Up, With Background Task Goodies(sheddingbikes.com)
1 points by meastham 16y ago|0 comments

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