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Isn't it crazy how the Palestinians are always portrayed as the bad guys, but whose on Western media 24/7 every war trying to explain why killing children and destroying civilian i…

Why do people always take the IDF at face value? Just two days ago they admitted to lying to the media about a ground invasion as a military tactic, what makes you think they would…

Kind of crazy what you can get away with when the world's sole superpower gives you a blank check. What's next? Hospitals, places of worship, UN buildings? That's a rhetorical ques…

Similar to overall performance, power consumption has many factors. As others have pointed out, a new process is a big part of it. Additionally, they have very efficient and well d…

To follow-up on my own point, once an x86 instruction has been decoded into a micro-op, it gets stored in a micro-op cache, where the vast majority of the frontend spends it's time…

4 x86 decoders, all modern x86 CPUs have micro-op caches that are wider than 4 and the retire width of the machines are 6 or greater. Saying it can process twice as many instructio…

Are you asking how C gets turned into Assembly or how does C interact with the machine? A compiler will compile your C code into assembly and an assembler will produce machine code…

Java is still relevant because of how much code is written in Java.

I keep looking into the language wars and I believe perl is a crappy language for many reasons and anytime anyone says that all the perl fanboys reply is "CPAN", is it really THAT …

Some people just don't make the cut, I believe the number isn't small of who can, but it isn't that large either

How often is it important to treat code as data (in general) and would you say it makes things less complex than a C-like language?

I grew up coding in C and the many languages it inspired syntactically. I am currently learning some Erlang, which is cool. I for one can not understand the draw to Lisp or its syn…

1. get accepted into MIT 2. continue losing weight (40 lbs so far) 3. just got a Xilinx/Digilent Atlys FPGA board and hope to have a pimped out CPU implemented on it with HDMI, Eth…

So I was thinking about the election and I was wondering if you had N numbers, what type of algorithm would best be able to tell you if a tie is possible? I know that the sum being…

Hey fellow hackers, I am a programmer, but most of my work doesn't involve the web. The most I have done with web design is an EC2 instance running a LAMP stack. I am working on a …

Greetings, Lets face it, mobile is the way forward and I feel as a developer that is the way to go. Instead of App development, I am considering offering some kind of service to mo…

I am willing to do some work to show off my skills too :D

Greetings all, I am a regular here on hacker news and see all these people doing amazing things and was wondering if anyone would be willing to work with a college student remotely…

Does anyone know of a startup / company that offers logging via an api?

I know that sometimes building a product from the ground up is hard, but has anyone considered or do any of you use, another start up's infrastructure, and just add a layer above i…

Would a start up hire me and value me out of college? Computer Engineering w/ math minor, 1 year left to graduate, 4.0 GPA, worked for a start up for 6 months (during school), Aver…

I agree with this. I am a college student and I recently left my part time job at a start up. It went from trying to change how people interact across the globe to trying to put an…

and that 7 hours is my semesterly average over the past 6 semesters, not a one time thing :)

I currently attend the University of South Carolina/their honors college, which was just voted #1 public honors college in the nation, and yes we rock football