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Re:Kindle Paperwhite
on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @12:15PM (#9732924)
Which regular Kindle? The built-in backlight was the selling feature to me. My old Kindle had the light built into the cover which worked OK but was too bright for my wife. The paperwhite is great for reading in bed.
Re:How the Tudors Invented Breakfast
on Sunday January 25, 2015 @11:56PM (#8945574)
Yes, but Tolkien invented Second Breakfast. No comparison.
Re:The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow Checking
on Thursday December 18, 2014 @03:42PM (#8769516)
Modern processors can generate different micro-ops depending on whether the flags are observed. In old non-pipelined/non-speculative/non-rewriting processors what you said is true but all bets are off in the world of massively funded x86 processor development.
Re:Introducing .NET Core
on Thursday December 04, 2014 @07:41PM (#8702548)
It would be super difficult to represent value types, generics and the reflection metadata in the JVM without building some kind of giant abstraction layer. MSIL is rich, maybe overly rich. If you get rid of value types and generics from C# you're basically left with ... Java.
Re:Is My Startup Burn Rate Normal?
on Thursday November 27, 2014 @10:49AM (#8667661)
I find this disturbing. I realize that startups are usually associated with non-linear returns but assuming the burn rate in the OP is about gross expenses, not just net burndown of the funding, I think that there's a huge problem with hiring the cheapest engineers hoping to make big bucks from the IPO rather than the best engineers who can solve the problem in a reasonable manner.
This speaks to the problem with demand for entry level (meaning cheap) folks in the tech sector as well as the disruption culture over delivering long term customer value.
Re:Is My Startup Burn Rate Normal?
on Thursday November 27, 2014 @10:46AM (#8667648)
Revenue per employee is certainly interesting but isn't comparable to the topic of discussion. It would be very interesting to see what the run rates for each of these enterprises is. I suspect you could compute this from the annual statements.
It would be even more interesting to see it broken down by employment category. Amazon's 132,600 employees probably includes a large number of pickers and packers diluting the comparison, whereas Oracle's, Microsoft's and Google's staff are predominantly technical.
Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason
on Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:57AM (#8635987)
Will you buy the newer products without the newer UIs? I didn't think so, so the manufacturers are motivated to keep changing.
Re:President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet
on Monday November 10, 2014 @12:58PM (#8585062)
It's a trap! I want net neutrality as much as the next person but having the federal government oversee it like it oversees utilities is a cure far worse than the disease.
Re:Why Silicon Valley Works
on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:49PM (#8553007)
Except for the phone observation, he matches what I saw in say '90 completely. And replies like yours were also common even back then.
I'm inclined to agree that it's about the money.
I'm not sure that it's a good thing but it's certainly an engine that's spinning hard.
Re:Optifine dev on performance problems in Minecraft 1.8
on Monday October 20, 2014 @11:32PM (#8485783)
Some people have built string processing libraries which operate on struct which have a string object reference and an index to the first character and a length. This lets you slice etc the strings without forcing any heap allocations.
Re:Apple Accidentally reveals iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3
on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @02:00PM (#8460424)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad
Retina came in the 3rd generation.
Re:How to Squeeze a Huge Ship Down a Tiny River
on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @11:50AM (#8362122)
You have to type it three times.