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Apple already has all the PDF technology they want, and the creative products are too high end (too niche) or Apple has a competing product.

kbob was replying to a post about a "performance boost" and then claimed without qualification that HDs were "on the Moore's Law trajectory"... I didn't invent anything here.

I totally agree. Moore's Law is completely inapplicable when it comes to disk performance.

It would be stunning for SSDs to take off with exponential speed improvements. Sure, I expect them to get faster and faster, but I have no doubt that there's no Moore's Law at work in this case. I stand by my original comment.

Wrong. HD speed improvements have been pretty flat, and has been far outpaced by HD capacity which is closer to Moore's Law. SSD offers a nice boost in speed. Don't just throw around Moore's Law as if you know something.

If there's anyone from Foursquare here, I'm interested in what monitoring you have in place. How long had the shard been poorly performing before you noticed? Do you use anything to monitor MongoDB in particular, or load on servers, anything like that?

If you find this interesting, you may be interested in this as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_height_problem

Microsoft used to say that Linux TCO was lower than Windows. Clearly that argument it totally inapplicable to consumer phones. Their choices are very limited at this point, so I expect the patent shakedowns to continue. So far, it is working like a charm... Amazon, Salesforce, HTC, etc. I see no reason why they'd stop.

Oh sure, they could try competing based on the quality of the product. But I think they realize this is too difficult for them to pull off now.

Finite and Infinite Games

only in the php community would semaphores be considered a dark art

Seattle, WA. Networking (not social, computer) startup, need systems people and C programmers. Email me at ben at rkgenubc.pbz (rot13 the domain part). No remote.

I called one of my senators, Patty Murray, since she's up for reelection. I also called her challenger, Dino Rossi. I talked with staffers from both. Sadly, neither indicated that they had taken any position on S. 3804.

Very cool! I'd love to do something similar to this, something simple, like a remake of Atari Tank. Just drop in and start playing, instantly. Great demo.

It is a perpetual arms race.

I think Jason doesn't have much of a clue what he's talking about. There's still a lot of details just with the display itself, see this for example: http://www.displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_1.htm

I agree. I-1098 also cuts the B&O tax and helps fund education. Employers need educated and skilled employees.

Fellow Washingtonians, let's consider passing I-1098 especially in this light: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/426758_fair16.html

They know how to run one kind of business, that much is clear.

The political issues are serious and your sense of how to solve the problem is distasteful.

There were some folks who owned a lot of slaves back in the day, too. Not a good argument, by itself, sorry.

Riiiight, if only AltaVista had done a redesign... sure.

I think it's far more likely that, already, the only ones with regrets will be the ones involved.

Ron comes across as a phony.

Hardly ever use it, but we have, for example, used the tricks to count the number of set bits found in Hacker's Delight :)

Exactly right. To think otherwise is to have cargo-cult thinking.

Having a remote cache gets rid of one of the few reasons for having a cache at all.

Meanwhile, important already existing programs under DOJ purview like the FBI's DNA forensics department are underfunded and backlogged by at least a year for often time-sensitive cases like missing-persons investigations. Do we live in a democracy or an oligarchy?

See: http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a1039.pdf

I don't like the government subsidizing stadiums either. At least, very recently, Seattle decided not to build a new basketball stadium and as a result the Supersonics moved to Oklahoma. I think that was the right call. I just wanted to point that out just so nobody falsely accuses you of painting with too broad a brush in the future.

Washington has the most regressive tax structure in the entire country and is facing a significant budget problem. An income tax is a step in the right direction, and frankly I would be happy to see the $200K (single) - $400K (married) limit lowered even to the point where I would be paying it.

Washington state has the most regressive tax structure in the entire country.