MrBuddyCasino

Ok, I was aware of the difference between Direct vs. Heap ByteBuffers, and I guess I understand the argument about poll/epoll. Now what I don't quite get is why most open source projects cho…

Thats what I meant, sorry if the wording was poor.

Ok, now I'm curious: what is a good implementation? Also, whats wrong with ByteBuffers? I was under the impression that they are usually memory-mapped and should be 0-copy.

I never understood that argument. The reason you can have nice text based formats is that it will all be compressed by the server anyway, or am I missing something?

Only if we pretend that the HN and 4chan audiences are disjoint. I'm afraid whats happening here is more inbreeding than many are comfortable to admit.

I remember that one, apparently it is still being sold, but development seems to have stalled: http://www.daz3d.com/bryce-7-pro/ …

Can you elaborate why it wouldn't work in a wide area setting? In a demonstration, they had a lot of cellphones on a desk, but not a matching number of pCell antennas, so it seems they can suppor…

That was interesting - is it known if he is dead or has just gone silent? Seems he worked on something new after that.

There is definitely some mixed feedback, apparently for the users it wasn't actually that pleasant, some describing the switch as a nightmare. A green politician made that public, and she was sub…

2 months old, previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7389258

Can you comment on the dermoscope? I'm curious why something like this costs 500$ - it sounds like a plastic lens and some LEDs would fit the job description.

Except HongKong, US, Singapore and Australia. Anyone knows why those are outliers?

Honestly curious - I've read, watched and scratched my head. Why the cult? Its nice, and certainly more so for its time, but still - maybe I'm just more the flying toasters guy? Also: I sum…

Excuse my ignorance, but I've read all the comments and I still don't quite understand what this is good for. I get that GPUs are a bad fit for many problems, but how fast can this thing be …

I would be much more inclined to read those papers if you gave a short reason as to why you think it got some things right, where others have failed.

Sorry I don't have the sources, but I've read a study once that this actually isn't true - bullies do it mainly for the boost in social status, not because they are insecure deep down i…

Thanks, didn't know there was such a public database. Seems hard to search though, there are no tags or categories or something.

I have thought about this a lot lately, but couldn't find anything in Munich, Germany where I'm based. If anyone's interested, it would be nice to have a chat.

For me that would suffice - but its not the answer, I'm afraid. Management/IT wants to: - have workflows, so documents can be approved among other stuff - have document lifecycle, so they ex…

I've got some experience in the field as a consultant for a similar product called Alfresco, and I can see why it is such a big success. If there is anything that is much better, I haven't s…

This example can be quite easily explained: its generated from a designer tool, as it is part of the Nimbus LaF. Its not really part of the JRE API, even though the class may be public. Btw., the long…

It seems you are a German startup, is that correct? If so, where are (were) you based?

German citizen here. 70% of all tax literature is German, because our law is notoriously complex. Efforts to simplify it have largely failed. So, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Oh wow, basically its Chernobyl with wings. Don't miss this, its pure gold: http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html Quote: "Meanwhile, at the Pentagon, Pluto's spon…

Sounds interesting - but please, provide sources for such bold statements or expect to get downvoted.

To quote Ted Dziuba: "Anyone who ever told you that swear words have no place in technical discussion is right. They're right, and sadly, they're part of the problem because they miss t…

This is slightly OT, but I always wondered: what is the overhead of fetching cached stuff from the file system vs. having a built-in cache? Is there a way to circumvent going through the kernel and av…

Thanks a lot for the detailed reply, this is why I love HN! 1-2 years back I saw a benchmark stating that PG works better than MySQL on I/O constrained AWS instances, so I didn't expect this…