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Re:Web MIDI API on Sunday January 18, 2015 @03:42PM (#8908793)
Latency would worry me with this. The browser VMs aren't real time systems.
Re:Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster on Sunday January 18, 2015 @03:38PM (#8908777)
In a similar situation. In fact stupider. We have a 120Gb baseline of data inside a relational store. The vendor has a file stream option that allows blobs to be stored on disk instead of the transaction log and be pushed through the DB server rather than using our current CIFS DFS cluster. So lets stick our 950Gb static document load in there too (while i was on holiday typically) and off we go.

Do thing starts going like shit as expected now it has to stream all that through the DB bottleneck.

So what's the solution? Well we're in big data territory now apparently at 1.2TiB (comedically small data and almost entirely static data set) and have every vendor licking arse with the CEO and CTO to sell us Hadoop, more DB features and SAN kit.

We don't even need it for processing. Just a big CRUD system. Total Muppets.

That's a fine whitelist of messaging systems to use if there ever was one!
Re:Motorola Moto E modifications for anti-surveillance on Monday January 12, 2015 @06:28AM (#8873330)
Assuming that the WiFi controller isn't compromised...

They're usually 100% closed firmware blobs containing vast amounts of non trivial software.

Re:DIY calculator: HP30b to WP34S on Monday January 12, 2015 @03:54AM (#8872973)
Only problem with the nSpire is its a usability disaster. Great for education but as a productive device its horrible. I tried using one (nSpire CAS) for a bit but I felt like I had to do battle with it, not use it.
Re:DIY calculator: HP30b to WP34S on Monday January 12, 2015 @02:43AM (#8872857)
Mainly complex values wrapping in the display, memory corruption and annoyingly, really poor trig accuracy.
Re:DIY calculator: HP30b to WP34S on Sunday January 11, 2015 @07:43PM (#8871961)
Slightly embarrassed at two years of lurking on HN and the first post being critical of HP...

I've had two HP35s units and they are buggy as hell. Ended up with an old TI86 after trying every calculator in existence.