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Mac OS X does appear to mount with atime but I happened to use this:

$ cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.nullvision.noatime.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.nullvision.noatime</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>mount</string>
<string>-vuwo</string>
<string>noatime</string>
<string>/</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

I don't know if there's anything like relatime.
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> "If Twitter is making money..."

Is it? Doesn't seem very likely at all that it is.
First thing I thought when I read the title was "Never heard of Okami?". Fortunately, the article mentions the game as well. It predates Twilight Princess, but is obviously heavily inspired by the Zelda franchise in a good way. It's very original and beautifully styled. I highly recommend anyone who enjoys playing Zelda to check it out.
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Unfortunately most of the drivers are in the long tail of unpopular devices. This results in greatly reducing the average number of eyes per driver.

This has a double effect: there are less developers who can attempt to fix problems with a driver and second, the incentive seems smaller - make general I/O 0.5% faster and you're a hero of the public, fix a critical problem in an unpopular device driver and maybe 1 person notices.
Why is this a canonical thing?

It seem to me to be a kernel thing.
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Yeah Metroid and Castlevania (the 2D ones, like SotN) really fit the bill best I think.
>> auto repair, animal feed & health products, confectionery processors & manufacturers, optical services (glasses & contact lenses),

Counterfeit products, perhaps?
You could try this (from an elevated command-prompt), but the general consensus is that it has a small (if any) effect:

reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" -v DisablePagingExecutive -d 0x0 -t REG_DWORD -f

Disable it with:
reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" -v DisablePagingExecutive -d 0x1 -t REG_DWORD -f

More discussion here:
http://serverfault.com/questions/12150/does-the-disablepagin...

The easiest way (if you have enough memory) is just disable the paging file.
I didn't downvote you, but the article _directly explains_ why The Elder Scrolls games are not relevant in his opinion.

The 'unique abilities' point he makes (whether you agree or not) fails here: I love Skyrim (lvl 38 right now), but magic is not needed so far (I don't know anything special), nor any skills. Combat is the same, whatever weapon you use, from the process point of view (sure, some weapons look cooler. You can do sneak attacks. Still - you do the very same thing, all the time).
The interesting part is at the end- that the Path re-launch has made it into something useful. I agree.
The thing that always brings this home to me is how much harder it is (for a developer) to rethink a design to remove the need for an option than to not bother and defer the decision to the user.

It's sometimes instinctual in these situations to be lazy, but a small amount of reflection (try having a conversation with an imaginary Steve Jobs) makes it obvious that the time and energy cost for you will be easily justified by the time saving for a non trivial amount of end users.
Poor class. Even if you agree that such "things" are patentable, BT has never brought anything to market that makes use of these patents.

And as a Brit, I take umbrage with BT's choice to enter the patent wars. They're costly and destructive. If BT wins,Britain will not see reduced costs for operating and maintaing the infastructure, but if BT lose and get's sucked into the more and more patent suits, Britain as a whole will foot the bill.

It's reckless. It's cheap. It's undignified and It's just not cricket.
Chrono trigger is almost there. I really like the time based should-I-wait-for-combo-or-go-now Combat system.. Also, it has one thing many zeldas do not - various endings
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I don't mind at all working for a bank... I'm already I'm fortune-100 land.

Currently living in southwest china, but coming from NYC so wondering if salaries are comparable? Are there any i-banks or hedge funds with dev shops in HK?

That said I'm really a UX guy with an enterprise background, so any BigCorp would do.

Only caveat: I have very little putonghua and zero guangdonghua. How screwed am I?
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It's kind of crazy how open the old unix systems used to be. Even when I was in college in the mid 90s almost everything was still on and open. w, talk, finger, rwho, even write. Windows was almost as open for a while, it took a while for the messenger service to be disabled by default.
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Agreed. But there is very little to be hopeful about: North Korea has survived for many years by threatening violence and chaos to put a meager amount of food on its table. Its neighbours (and the international community) are about as afraid of the fallout from its collapse as they are the threats it puts forward. However, we are soon approaching a time when the global economc crisis will result in no one meeting its demands.

Couple that with a twenty year old playboy leader who's been fed his grandfather's crackpottery from the womb onwards, and there's no way this will end well.

For those who do not know much about the brutality of north korean life, there are several google videos of real life inside north korea. Be warned, though: they aren't graphic, but there isn't much on the internet that is as disturbing.
In Total Commander you can configure the buffer sizes used while copying. Maybe in your homework you chose the right buffer size too (and, of course, asm is fast, but hard to write, I'm sure you didn't bother too much with error checking and other "small" problems).

Moreover, the optimal buffer size is different for small and large files, maybe Windows is not optimized for large size like a DVD image.
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From my experience with grad jobs, it's due to the large volume of applications, each of which are different. Some attach cover letters, some detail their grades, etc.

Though it's a horrible method, it means all of the data from an application will be in a standardised format, which can be compared with other applicants, queried, etc. very easily.

If you meet their minimum criteria they can then actually look at your cover letter and CV. Broken system, but they're all the same.

Sane way is speaking directly to recruiters or hiring managers.
NTFS is a slower file system, that's probably the main reason why. Also console I/O is much better on Linux than Windows.

Our software builds everyday on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows on servers that are identical.

The windows build takes 14 minutes. The FreeBSD and Linux build take 10 minutes (they run at almost identical speed).

Check out is more than twice slower on Windows (we use git).

Debug build time is comparable 5 minutes for Windows, 4 minutes 35 on Linux.

Release build time is almost 7 minutes on Windows and half that on Linux.

VS compiles more slowly than gcc but overall it's a better compiler. It handles static variables better and is not super demanding about typenames like gcc is. Also gcc is extremely demanding in terms of memory. gcc is a 64-bit executable, Visual Studio is still a 32-bit execuable. We hope Microsoft will fix that in Visual Studio 2011.

Its easier to parallelize gmake than Visual Studio, which also explains the better Linux build time. Visual Studio has got some weird "double level" mulithreading which is eventually less efficient than just running the make steps in parallel as you go through your make file.

However our tests run at comparable speed on Linux and Windows and the Windows builds the archive ten times faster than Linux.
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For all you know you're seeing the HDD cache and not any kind of filesystem caching. evmar mentions SSD making a difference for workloads that should fit in RAM, which means HDD caching also would, for a very modest workload.
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... or by stoned young men aged 12 to 25.

Seriously though, it pales in comparison to its stylistic forefather Ren & Stimpy, but it's still a really solid show.
Perhaps the difference is that when people write awesome tools for Windows or Mac they try to sell them rather than give them away.

Well, if that was true, then you could just buy the better tool and use it, right? I suspect they don't exist because

a) On Linux, you have the existing linker to build your better one on. On Windows, you'd have to write your own from scratch making it less appealing for anyone (only people who'd buy it were those running huge projects like Chrome)

b) What you said about the file system itself just being plain slow.

PS: (Long time follower of evan_tech - nice to see you popup around here :) )
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What is this archive step you mention in passing, and what makes Linux slow at it?
I did. More often, I don't install apps that look ugly, and also avoid some companies and products for things like making aesthetically bad ads, having crappy webpages, logos, or even stupid-sounding names. It's irrational, but sometimes I won't use an app/webapp because I just hate how the name sounds.
I don't know if it passes the Zelda test but "Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy" (GameCube, PS2, Xbox) is - as far as I remember - a good clone.
no one bothered to set proper file permissions

That's why shared hosting accounts are so bad. The Unix security model isn't designed for hosting a bunch of unrelated websites on the same box. Why should I even be allowed to make a file world readable or run the w command on a web host on which the users don't even know each other?

People should really be using VPS now that they are so cheap.

Edit: After reading the answer to this comment it seems my fear of shared hosting may not be justified. Obviously good sysadmins know how to properly secure these systems.

Still it seems that when Unix was designed it was expected that people would chat with the talk command, see who was online with the who command, and intentionally make files readable by other. With web hosting you really don't want that. You shouldn't even be able to see what other accounts there are on the machine. I was probably wrong to say that shared hosting accounts are "bad" but it doesn't seem like a perfect fit either.
> People in executive positions should set behavioral expectations and develop corporate sleep policies (...) It’s important to have a policy limiting scheduled work:ideally to no more than 12 hours a day, and exceptionally to no more than 16 consecutive hours.

This sentence seems like having been taken straight out of Marx's "Das Kapital", volume 1. I know this is the Harvard Business Review, a bastion of capitalism if there ever was one, but I gathered that business owners had smarten up a little in the last 150 years.

If they don't want to do it for the benefit of their employees, they should do it for the benefit of their family and business friends, because at some point or another some guy like Lenin or Trotsky could come again and ride the wave of discontent and the consequences would not be pretty.
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They wouldn't be trying to buy this sort of legislation if they didn't think it was, in balance, in their commercial interests. They've likely already modelled the effect of any consumer backlash in their analysis, so why would they listen to you? They were expecting to lose you anyway.
I don't know why Linux is so slow at it, it's when we build the tgz containing all the binaries before uploading it to the distribution server.
Well, wouldn't a complete elimination of bribery be a good thing?

Call me old-fashioned, but if the complaint was 'it put taxes up', I'd rather see a tax-funded than bribery-funded system.
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I disagree with the "turn-based". There are loads of RPGs which aren't strictly turn-based or even feature action-oriented battles. Games such as Final Fantasy and Xenosaga would fall into the former category (which really is blurring the line a bit because it depends on what you define as turn-based) while games such as World of Warcraft or the "Tales of" Series, which feature real time combat, either more tactical (WoW) or even in the style of Beat-em-Ups (which was essentially pioneered by Tales of Phantasia and became a selling point of the series as a whole).

I would personally define RPG as a game that features most the following:

- a story that isn't just background for the gameplay (like in many FPS, where the story is just an excuse for you to shoot stuff). This will most likely includes character development and other sorts of progression in the game world. (Zelda? Check.)

- some sort of combat system, whether turn-based, action-oriented or with strategic elements doesn't matter (Zelda? Check.)

- generally non-linear gameplay including sidequests. There's usually a red thread along which the main game progresses, but you can "pause" at almost any time and just do what the fuck you want - go explore, do sidequests, grind levels or equipment etc. (Zelda? Check.)

- character progression, through acquiring new items, abilities, levels, skills etc. (Zelda? Check.)

I kept this intentionally fuzzy because there are many fringe cases, such as Monster Hunter, which basically lacks the story (it's really just an excuse to tell you "go hunt monsters"), but is otherwise considered an RPG too.

Zelda definitely IS an RPG. I think it's partially due to being so special that many people don't like to classify it as such - they might feel like it takes away from the magic a bit.
It might be, actually, since dir is a command built into cmd.exe on Windows, not a separate .exe that gets run. It may be smarter to use "ls" from cygwin for the test.
Cool. I just bought the game to support the author in taking the time to write this article. I think we all remember early video games when being pixel perfect in landing a jump was enough to pull our hair out.
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I've always wondered. On the one side you get the naysayers who don't think Twitter is significantly monetizable at all.

On the other side you've got the people who think the Firehose is the greatest thing since sliced bread and is pretty much a golden ticket.

I don't think I get Twitter - I've never found the service to be at all useful, and I find the 140-char limit quaint and out of touch with how users want to use the service (see: URL shorteners, tweet expanders, Twitter-speak shorthand, etc). However, I am willing to accept that there's a social network I totally don't get that nevertheless rakes in some serious money (like WoW!)

But what exactly is the value of Twitter's data? Unlike Facebook, Twitter doesn't even remotely approach having a representative sample of the population. My parents are on Facebook, my uncles and aunts are on Facebook, along with everyone from my generation - Facebook has meaningful demographic data. What data does Twitter have that isn't almost exclusively limited to "young, urban, tech-savvy"?

As a marketer or data miner, what is so good about Twitter's data that would compel me to pay The Big Bucks(tm) for such a feed? Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like Twitter's biggest proponents believe that the company can justify a multi-billion dollar valuation by providing glimpses into the thoughts of a tiny sliver of the population at large.
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I had to inform a professor he was running an open home directory like that. Pretty tricky to do as it implies you were looking for it in the first place.
But then you'd be comparing NTFS implementations. The codebases are completely diffrent.
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It's an odd definition of RPG that would exclude Skyrim, Deus Ex, Dragon Age, The Witcher, or even World of Warcraft as none are turn based.

If anything RPG has come to mean quest style game with XP.
I think I'm one of the five people on HN who do not hold Zelda as the pinnacle of gaming. To address a few points:

1. Op chooses to compare Zelda (and let's be clear, this is modern day zelda) to what amount to first gen games. However, comparing modern Zelda to Doom seems a bit unfair. How about The legend of Zelda, which by my count, has 25 items and pick-ups (including sword and shield upgrades). The original Doom, which is continually referred to throughout the piece, has 26 items.

2. Devil May Cry 3 is not a button masher. Go ahead, beat the game, and then tell me you could randomly tap buttons and progress. Just because you are quickly hitting buttons does not mark a game as a masher.

3. I just don't understand the point that is being made. He claims other genres are all just clones of each other and then defines them so loosely that Twisted Metal is now not worth mentioning because, more or less, it is just Gran Turismo...

I'm finding that this response is growing rather uncontrollably and frighteningly I could probably write an entire blog response to this article. But, I think this article skims a bigger idea: Unique games stand alone in their respective genres because they bring together multiple disciplines/genres and blend them into a cohesive experience. Some games try to do this (Duke Nukem Forever) and most fail. Others like Zelda, Portal,and GTA succeed and become fan favorites that influence future game designs.
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It's not broadcast for free it has commercials. Plus for cable/hbo/ect. you pay extra for the service.
If files are typically bigger than 16KB, 16KB clusters can potentially save space vs 4KB clusters, by needing smaller cluster indices. Not sure if that's the case for NTFS though.
Possibly Linux isn't using the same compression settings?
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I haven't used Windows as my primary OS for almost a decade and haven't even booted it on bare metal for the past couple years, so my guesses must be taken with a grain of salt. I always found directory fragmentation (much more than file fragmentation) to be a huge performance problem on Windows. If increasing cluster size effectively reduces directory fragmentation, your life under Windows will be much better.
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Anecdotally, I appear to get better battery life with Windows (and some vendor-specific additions) than with Ubuntu on my laptop.

It's great to hear this is an active area of development, as it's probably the biggest remaining factor in me choosing host OS.
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True, I agree it's not necessarily a good way to test the filesystem, but it's only the shell that's being hit, nothing really to do with the terminal.

I pointed it out mainly because terminals can have a significant impact on performance, because dumping millions of lines a second isn't their intended purpose,[1] whilst the shell can be reasonably expected to do that.

Having it entirely as a shell built-in possibly actually better than the equivalent '/bin/ls > somefile' since it doesn't need to context switch back and forth as the stdout buffer fills up and the shell has to write it.

[1] I recall there being a Gentoo-related thread about why "Gentoo-TV" -- having the output of gcc scroll past as your background with a transparent xterm -- was actually slowing down package builds significantly.
"You just generate a cert locally and then copy the public key to the site when you register."

But how do you know you're copying your key to the right site and not some fake? Answer is, of course, you don't, so you need something else. And it's not stronger than the weakest link..
This is a really exciting time to be a consumer (and indeed producer) of online courses.

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I think it's more a caching thing, it's as if Windows isn't rereading the files from disk.
Exactly. I'm afraid this isn't a solvable problem. Device makers must be responsible for device drivers, open source or not.
BT is a private company these days, has been for a long time, how does Britain as whole foot the bill?
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