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They certainly are. But my point is that if you're only servicing the same number of IO connections as you have cores, it's not extremely scalable. Most networking servers should b…

> The idea that threads or processes are intrinsically slow was sheer unmitigated propaganda, and probably not only failed to contain a grain of truth, but are actively false. Thre…

Yeah because I have as many cores as I have concurrent HTTP requests, and obviously it's CPU bound...

why would anyone still be using threads or processes these days? :/ hardly scalable or efficient.

It's really not a defining moment, in any sense of the word. Same old, same old. In actual fact though, The independent has stated that it wasn't leaked anything by the government,…

I remember when hacker news used to be about hacking, programming, startups etc. What the hell has this political article got to do with any of the above?

The supply of electricity however, is apparently limitless!!!

My first laptop was an Amstrad PPC512 in the mid 80s - almost 30 years ago. I'm still not convinced batteries have come that far since then. I'm actually thinking of going back to …

> lithium-ion batteries (the latter were under active development), but they're now the primary power sources for portable devices, and lithium-ion batteries power the Tesla Model …

Take an AA battery. Now go back in time 30 years and look at an AA battery. Identical. Why has battery technology not improved one bit in the last 30 years? Well, obviously there's…

I don't believe electric cars are technologically better. Lugging a half ton battery around, then waiting for hours for it to charge doesn't seem that clever to me. Of all the thin…

Firstly, I don't believe electric cars are a good idea. Secondly, I absolutely hate the idea of cars so dependent on electronics and software. My neighbour has an old dumper truck …

HN has a raging hard-on for tesla. It's not surprising, but I agree it's ridiculously one sided here. Personally, I hope Tesla fail, and think they will.

It would probably take at most a few hours to rewrite a JSON encoder and decoder. It's hardly a complex piece of code is it.

Even that's not correct though. Port 80 is just the default port. Not to mention the number of web servers only doing HTTPS on port 443 and not 80. More correct would be "A scan of…

I think he meant scanning all ports, UDP+TCP+ICMP etc etc

Also what about the sudden population explosion? What if the survivors need after care for the rest of their lives, or expensive drugs?

The problem is, if wikipedia did alter articles based on advertisers demands (Which seems pretty far fetched to me), the public would just alter them back. Or see the edits wikiped…

Welcome to the internet. You seem new. Everyone goes to Google.com to search for things. You know that when you do a search, you're going to see helpful related adverts. That level…

That is one issue, indeed. But the downside is that you're hassling your users to give you money, rather than hassling advertisers to give you money. I'd rather not be hassled as a…

It wasn't really fraud. The terms of use etc weren't really clear enough or lets face it enforceable. Was it fraud if you got a dog to play with the mouse, and never looked at the …

For me personally, it ends up being far more annoying. I really wish wikipedia would just put small unobtrusive text adverts on each page rather than the massive intrusive banners …

Advertising on Reddit is not the same as advertising in general. If you advertise on Reddit, you're advertising to a violently anti-corporate anti-advertising audience, who may lov…

It's ironic that the alternative to advertising, is to splash big "DONATE NOW" adverts over a website.

I think the mantra from the startup community is often: 1. Make money doing whatever it takes. eg come up with some crappy website, sell it to google, then shut it down. 2. The mon…