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90,242karma·8,021submissions·April 29, 2008
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imho, a better (generic) definition of caching would be that it is based on carrot-and-stick princple. locality-of-reference being the carrot, and amdhal's law being the stick...
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i really like how two or more chain of events occur, and then converge for one effect. also, some parts are used multiple times e.g. spinning thingie that sling-shotted the ball, and then was used aga…
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well, the obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/114/
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gnus email/news-reader already provides, such a fature via scoring. You can score somebody up/down. At a configured threshold, you dont get to see the posts/articles from such folks anymore. love to h…
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multitty emacs ( http://lorentey.hu/project/emacs.html ) already allows you to do just that either from a graphical or a vanilla-tty environment.…
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i would highly recommend the beautiful mushahi-miyamoto samurai trilogy by hiroshi-inagaki. very, very nice indeed. it has the feel of 'siddhartha' by herman-hesse, but with samurai scenes.
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ooh a flying wing ! i have tried this a number of times myself, and it works great indoors. however at the two extremities, i generally fold into a canard like thingie... works fine.
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honestly, i am not very sure if this really _is_ HN material. however, i am very pleasantly surprised at the smooth communication from the developer, and the subsequent ease in getting info out. far,…
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its not a silver bullet for sure. 'debunked' seems a bit excessive though.
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well, i played around with it for sometime. it is pretty good e.g i really like the new (and much improved!) template mechanism especially meta-programming abilities, variadic template arguments, con…
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Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love. -lazarus long
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> Contrary to both the Libev page and Marek's analysis, setting timeouts on individual I/O events is not the only way to
implement "idle timeouts" just a quick question: what would you consider, …
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couldn't you take for example K&R and a copy of Objective-C language spec to get going ? or are the semantic differences just too great...