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Hacker News, What is your setup (hardware, software) and your workflow? If you had to give an elevator pitch - explain why is it the best for you and how it helps you be productive…

How can you actually make sensitive operations take constant time? This sounds impossibly hard. For example, your operating system could be context switching thousands of times per…

Just to follow up on topic of WhatsApp and Erlang, here is a presentation given at Erlang Factory 2014 about their goals with scaling WhatsApp to billions of simultaneous users. ht…

He did spell organisation correctly, just used British rather than of American English.

A small webpage I put together using JavaScript and Chart.js to help show the difference in utilization that can be achieved between slotted and unslotted ALOHAnet.

Can you not have end to end encryption of the frames that go over the wire? I guess it's immensely expensive when you're transmitting at 100Gb/s.

Oh wow. These were installed on all the computers at school. We would often have hours where we didn't have any lessons scheduled, but couldn't play games, watch YouTube or go on F…

British Airways does offer quite a competitive service. Now that Willie Walsh has stopped IAG bleeding cash from the acquisition of Iberia (an airline desperately in debt) they're …

Hi, thanks for your comments. You can type help to see a list of commands that are support. To answer your question about cd, mv, nano, etc I made this in the few hours I had yeste…

Nope. I'm actually looking at second hand ThinkPads, T series.

In the title. I have a 11" 2011 MacBook Air (which I feel is one of my best consumer decisions to date, and isn't going anywhere) but I'm looking to purchase a cheap laptop that I …

We're getting hooked up at home with FTTP this month with Gigaclear. Up to 1000Mbps symmetric up and down.

Are you speaking of COBOL or C++?

Birthday paradox!

Haha, I read that and thought exactly the same!

How embarrassing for OP!