MrBuddyCasino

Thats not so easy to answer. It starts to matter a lot when you get into very high performance architectures (think disruptor, anything requiring lots of mechanical sympathy, highly contended memory a…

Actually, no. 90% of the problems with strings in any language is somebody screwing up the character encoding, usually out of ignorance. The fact that every object in Java has some overhead and probab…

It boggles the mind how many different ways to represent Strings there are in C++, and String handling in general is the major reason I'll never touch it (or C) with a 10 feet pole. I'm inte…

Every Hackerspace I've seen has one of those modified pizza ovens with an Arduino controller attached. Its really cheap to do nowadays.

A business or simply freelancing?

For someone who can articulate what he wants as well as this guy, frankly I'm willing to ignore minor signaling issues like missing domain names.

That article, as far as I can tell, makes a single point, namely that rapists shouldn't be expelled from campus, for various reasons. I'm not sure why that points to gaping holes in the UVA …

The author makes the argument that it was a mistake not to talk to the alleged perpetrators and get their point of view, which is a fair point. I don't think it invalidates the whole piece though…

Related: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campu... Warning: this is quite a shocking read about what was going on in frat houses at UVA, and the admini…

Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20141013114803/http://cpudb.stanf... …

As someone who only works now and then with Postgres, this is what made it click for me: "Loosely, it means that a LATERAL join is like a SQL foreach loop, in which PostgreSQL will iterate over e…

You might want to spell out Germany - people will ctrl+f to search for "germany" or "deutschland" to navigate this thread.

> I think the amount one gets paid is equal to the amount of value one creates for others. I get what you mean, but thats not quite true, it is also supply and demand, intelligence, salesmanship, t…

This looks like a good opportunity to point people at Mercury: https://github.com/Raynos/mercury It is similar to Mithril, but with a strong focus on modularity. To quote the we…

I agree this is a good one, thanks for bringing this up. I like how he's trying to avoid too much jargon, and really getting people to understand the subject, instead of showing off with his know…

Ah, now the number 8 (see my posting further down) makes sense, too. Its one of the chinese lucky numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture#Eigh... …

So the phone: - is called i8 - has 8 corners - has an 8-core cpu - has 80 gb flash - and a camera sporting 8 megapixels. Plus it has a square logo that looks like the writing above an old-established …

Hmm, theres at least this quote: "The electrodes, in tandem with the liquid metal that settles to the bottom of the tank and the oxygen above, form an enormous battery." I know nothing about…

You mean the extra M3 core I guess? I wondered too, but I suspect it was just part of the vendor's chip design and went unused - if they could have saved some money by not including it, they prob…

Do you know if VMs like the JVM depend on hardware features also? I suspect that would be more an optimization, not a necessity though, since they should be able to de-optimize jitted native code on s…

An interesting framework, somewhat similar to Mithril ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/ ), and nearly as fast, which means its quicker than Angular / Ember / Bootstrap e…

> I also feel like in the age of many-cores we could do away with problems like GC pauses completely. Unfortunately its not a resources problem, or else there wouldn't be an issue with GC paus…

Nice! It went a little unnoticed in all the noise, but Facebook's Flow project might be of interest here. Its not "just" an advanced type-checker, but it seems it was intended for IDE …

Looks very clean, thanks for bringing this up. It might be a good cultural fit for Clojure devs, which is why I'm going to have a closer look. To save the next guy some googling: https:/&#x…

Yeah but manufacturing competitive silicon nowadays requires mucho dollares. Making small-scale engines is probably several magnitudes below that. Still, you've got a point.

Whats wrong with MIME encoding and SMTP? They are simple and they work.

algorithmia.com looks like a fantastic idea, never heard of it before. What do you use to wrangle your infrastructure?

Looks really nice. I'm suprised lanyrd.com and similar didn't get that idea. Charging per badge is a nice business model.

Probably true, and I guess if you're a mathematician, you quickly get used the symbols. And I'm not arguing against having those symbols in the first place, its just that some of them have a…