hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling
Hello IE, it's IE calling :)
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hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
Linus must be grinning :)
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: Alan Cox leaves Linux and Intel
Pretty amazing how hn upvotes work :) Guess there is lot in the name(title)
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: The "Clockwise/Spiral Rule" in C
there is a cdecl package in all linux distributions, which can be used inside terminal to expand such C declrations. It was really helpful when I started C programming.
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: Introducing HelloSign for Gmail
I have always admired simplicity and this is easily one of those simple ideas executed perfectly well!!
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
Isnt high level relative. I was once speaking to a friend who is an electrical engineer. While discussing some dsp stuff with him I explained some asm instructions, and suddenly he says you are going high level :) I am pretty sure if he speaks to some physics/semiconductor guy he probably will get the same answer back from them
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: A year without caffeine (part 2)
Why is green tea not included in the drinks to be avoided. I thought green tea also contains caffeine.
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: A New Look for Facebook
The wall design reminded me of Orkut scraps :-)
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: Why Mark Shuttleworth thinks Ubuntu on phones will outclass Android
Could you explain what do you mean by a "totally different programming model"? Do you mean the network state with the external server?
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: Ubuntu for phones
I will be buying this phone. Period!
Why? The very reason why I use linux on my desktop and android just never gives you the same feeling of being differnt from the rest of the world.
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones
I am some how not very comfortable with ubuntu. Its bloating with so much code that its much slower than my arch linux.
But the good thing about this project is that with ubuntu, the other disributions will also try their hands on smartphones, which will certainly bring new ideas on the table. Like with current desktops there will be 2 kinds of smartphones, one which run "linux" and the rest.
P.S: Android only shares a common kernel with ubuntu, with rest being entirely different
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: Google+ Is Growing at Facebook Speed
I read a meme some time back which asked, what is something that everyone has but rarely use it?
Answer: google+
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: What do grad students in math do all day?
I read that answer on quora too a couple of days back :)
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: Cloudera announces real-time query engine for Hadoop
But google's dremel actually doesnt use Map-Reduce at all. So is this using just the HDFS and a new layer along side map-r that is using the HDFS?
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: Cloudera announces real-time query engine for Hadoop
So, what is the key innovation that changes hadoop from batch processing to real time. Is it similar to google's dremel?
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: This Is Why They Call It a Weakly-Ordered CPU
Do, the memory barriers in ARM architecture also flush the caches? In Intel x86 architectures the hardware handles the coherency between all the caches, so a CPU core can directly read from the cache line of another core if it finds its own cache line to be dirty.. Does this happen in ARM also?
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: MIT Lectures on Advanced Data Structures (6.851)
Erik Demaine is a genius, if I am not wrong he is probably the youngest to join as a professor in MIT. I think he was 21 when he joined.
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: MIT Lectures on Advanced Data Structures (6.851)
Do these advanced data structures remain only in the academic world or do they get a chance to come out in the real world?
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data Structures
I wanted to ask this question regarding big O notation. When we say f(n) = O(g(n))
all we mean to say is that f(n) <= c(g(n)) with other constraints. My question is, why do we have an equal to sign, why is f(n) equal to O(g(n)).. they could have made up a new symbol to establish such a relationship... The reason why I think so is because I see equal to as a transitive relationship.. So, if a = b and c = b, then a = c .. This clearly doesnt hold when we use f(n) = O(g(n)) .. n^2 = O(n^2) and n = O(n^2), so n = n^2 which is not making any sense..
hobbyist | 13 years ago | on: 2012 Startup School, Oct 20 at Stanford
@pg will the event be recorded/archived and viewable later?