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Ask HN: Elevator Pitch: Your Setup and Workflow
2 points by rbsn 12y ago|3 comments
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by rbsn 12y ago
How can you actually make sensitive operations take constant time? This sounds impossibly hard. For example, your operating system could be context switching thousands of times per second. Your password comparison function could cause a pag
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by rbsn 12y ago
Just to follow up on topic of WhatsApp and Erlang, here is a presentation given at Erlang Factory 2014 about their goals with scaling WhatsApp to billions of simultaneous users. http://youtu.be/c12cYAUTXXs
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by rbsn 12y ago
He did spell organisation correctly, just used British rather than of American English.
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HACK: Hierarchical ACKs to Improve TCP Performance on 802.11 Wireless Networks [pdf](usenix.org)
2 points by rbsn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rbsn 12y ago
A small webpage I put together using JavaScript and Chart.js to help show the difference in utilization that can be achieved between slotted and unslotted ALOHAnet.
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Show HN: Visualizing the Utilization of ALOHAnet(rbsn.me)
1 points by rbsn 12y ago|1 comments
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by rbsn 12y ago
Can you not have end to end encryption of the frames that go over the wire? I guess it's immensely expensive when you're transmitting at 100Gb/s.
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by rbsn 12y ago
Oh wow. These were installed on all the computers at school. We would often have hours where we didn't have any lessons scheduled, but couldn't play games, watch YouTube or go on Facebook as we would get our accounts suspended. Th
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by rbsn 12y ago
British Airways does offer quite a competitive service. Now that Willie Walsh has stopped IAG bleeding cash from the acquisition of Iberia (an airline desperately in debt) they're turning a healthy profit for an airline - a complete pa
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by rbsn 12y ago
Hi, thanks for your comments. You can type help to see a list of commands that are support. To answer your question about cd, mv, nano, etc I made this in the few hours I had yesterday afternoon, so I'm afraid I only had time to implem
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Show HN: Got Bored This Afternoon – Made a Terminal Emulator in HTML5(rbsn.me)
5 points by rbsn 12y ago|4 comments
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by rbsn 12y ago
Nope. I'm actually looking at second hand ThinkPads, T series.
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Ask HN: Cheap and Cheerful Laptop for BSD/Linux: what are my options?
11 points by rbsn 12y ago|17 comments
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Gigaclear Deliver 1000Mbps Symmetric FTTP in Kent, United Kingdom(thinkbroadband.com)
2 points by rbsn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rbsn 12y ago
We're getting hooked up at home with FTTP this month with Gigaclear. Up to 1000Mbps symmetric up and down.
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by rbsn 12y ago
Are you speaking of COBOL or C++?
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by rbsn 12y ago
Birthday paradox!
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UCL Provost Email Spoffed, Students Sent 1000s of Emails(ucl.ac.uk)
1 points by rbsn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rbsn 12y ago
Haha, I read that and thought exactly the same!
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40% of managers avoid hiring younger women to get around maternity leave(theguardian.com)
1 points by rbsn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rbsn 12y ago
How embarrassing for OP!
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Eliminating Global Interpreter Locks in Ruby(researcher.watson.ibm.com)
6 points by rbsn 12y ago|1 comments
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by rbsn 12y ago
How is it anything like that?
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by rbsn 13y ago
Can we see your results?
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by rbsn 13y ago
Could your performance problems be closer related to http://news.rapgenius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-a... than the performance of Django or your code?
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by rbsn 13y ago
I am an undergraduate student in my final year at university. I am undertaking a dissertation to look at developing an open source web analytics package for large scale websites. I want to understand how individuals, companies and organisat
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Survey for Dissertation: Web Analytics in the Cloud for Large Scale Websites(surveymonkey.com)
2 points by rbsn 13y ago|1 comments
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Using your computer as little as possible?
54 points by rbsn 13y ago|53 comments
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by rbsn 13y ago
I am confused as to whether this article is trying to compare the security of the language implementations (PHP Interpreter, JVM, Ruby Interpreter, V8) or what vulnerabilities can be exposed in programs written in the language (SQL injectio

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