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ulvund | 12 years ago | on: Julia for Numerical Computation in MIT Courses

I think the idea is that you can move the threshold on when to implement in Fortran/C(++) since you only have a '1x-5x slowdown' for most common application compare to the 20x-5000x slowdown with R/Python/Matlab/..

ulvund | 13 years ago | on: Bitcoinica sued for $460,000 by 'out-of-pocket' punters

That's just glib. People use lots of bitcoins on silk road every day with no interest in speculation. Bitcoins are a real currency with value backed by the interest in silk road products.

If you can only look at bitcoins from the viewpoint of turning a quick buck, then you are not able to see a substantial part of the elephant.

ulvund | 13 years ago | on: Bitcoin just crossed $7.00.

My guess is that bitcoins are mainly used for college students' and drug hobbyists' $50 purchases of LSD and the like on silk road and not for big transactions.

ulvund | 14 years ago | on: Tell HN: RAM Requirements are going through the roof

Exactly, OP does not understand the role RAM plays in computers.

It is a disappointment for me to see the link get so many points in this community where you would expect the baseline of knowledge of technology to be 'above the average'.

ulvund | 14 years ago | on: The Slashdot Effect from the Other Side

Static. On this site I host mostly huge-ass html files (about 1 MB per request) with apache 2 and mod_deflate :-)

There is also a wordpress site and another database-request-heavy site with 500 requests a day.

The problems I had was that the access.log and error.log quickly ate up the 5GB space of the micro instance :-) Causing mysql to stop operating and me to scratch my head for a few minutes.

5GB is not a lot .. you want ruby1.9 with the default setup? That will be 180MB, and so on :-)

ulvund | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where is the Django community?

List of communities:

https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoResources#Communit...

Mailing lists:

https://www.djangoproject.com/community/ on the right

Sizes of communities:

reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/django - 4,181 readers

http://www.reddit.com/r/rails - 1,994 readers

http://www.reddit.com/r/rubyonrails - 921 readers

Stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/django 20k tagged

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ruby-on-rails 40k tagged

ulvund | 14 years ago | on: What G+ is really about (pst it's not social)

On Facebook you buy ads for ~$1+ because you can set target demographic to something as specfic as "women; 42-47 years old; looking for relationships with other women; with a degree in biology or computer science; attened Harvard; Works at IBM; who likes horseback riding or skiing"

Imagine if google knew BOTH your search term and your complete personal history. Then the ad price and conversion would increase enormously.

That is what Google is trying to get a piece of.

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