mrsharpoblunto

Seems like his benchmark is not really measuring a realistic use case. Typically a client-side rendered application will have a big blob of external script (i.e. the application code) that it will have to pull down before rendering can begin - in his example the client side rendering code is A) tiny, and B) already bundled into the page itself meaning that there isn't going to be any delay on client side rendering once the html is downloaded.

Server side generation helps when there is a large amount of application javascript that needs to be downloaded before rendering can begin on the client. Having some html bootstrapped from the server means that the user gets a faster first paint time (though the page is admittedly non-interactive) which gives the impression of a faster page load.

It also depends if they have registered the trademark on the principal or supplemental registers. Trademarks which are descriptive in nature (such as this one) often can't get on the primary register (though they may after extensive use that results in the mark acquiring a secondary meaning). If a trademark is registered on the supplemental register it doesn't afford the owner the right to exclusive use of that mark - even for similar products. All being on the supplemental register gets you is the right to prevent other similar trademarks being registered.

Not true, the numbers clearly show that its consultancy companies that take up the vast majority of the H1B quota.

http://foreign-employment.findthedata.com/

Microsoft is the first big 'tech' company on the list at no. 11 with 3600 applications. Compare that to Infosys which had over 23,000 applications, or Tata with 14,000.

Its also conspicuous that the consultancy companies pay much less and seem to apply for drastically less green card labour certs as a percentage of H1B's than the tech companies.

Personally I'd love it if TV networks would bring up ESPN style player stats summary sheets on politicians involved in a story listing a few key 'stats' such as what their top 3 sources of funding are, former employers, brief voting record summary etc. For so many politicians their motivations are so obvious when you see their records, but for most people that aren't willing to do a bit of digging, its essentially hidden in plain sight.

One key difference being that the death penalty removes the ability for later appeals and compensation if they are found to be innocent. According to one study the wrongful conviction rate of prisoners on death row could be around 4.1% [1] - that equates to around 120 innocent people currently being on death row.

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/many-prisoners-on-...

I disagree - aside from blog sites or marketing/portfolio type sites basically every web application on the modern internet requires per-user dynamic content to function - e-commerce, banking, productivity apps, social networks, messaging etc. the modern web is all about displaying and processing users data.

Really any distributed cache is only going to be useful as a replacement for existing CDN's serving static assets (and thats totally fine - it would be great to see the democratization of the performance & scalability of a global CDN)

This kind of programmer archeology is super interesting and pretty important for keeping knowledge of early gaming culture around. Its fascinating to imagine the software development practises and company culture that bought about a codebase containing such function names as 'CalcOpponentConspicuousnessWithAViewToCheatingLikeFuck' and 'MakeFlagWavingBastardWaveHisFlagWhichIsTheProbablyTheLastThingHeWillEverDo' (Well actually in this case you don't have to imagine - The Carmageddon creators Stainless software have footage of their Christmas parties on youtube where they pretty much destroy their office once a year)

I use some of my spare time to hack around on proc gen stuff - mainly targeted toward generating starfields & planets using GPU's. Here's something I worked on recently regarding generating realistic nebulas and starfields http://www.junkship.net/News/2014/02/02/my-god-its-full-of-s...

I've used a cubemap approach to render procedurally generated asteroid geometry and it works pretty well. I start by generating the heightmap using 3D simplex noise, Then when rendering I use a domain shader to offset the vertices of an icosphere along the normal vector according the the height in the heightmap.

http://imgur.com/rpKalpk

I've got a bunch of other procedural content generation blog entries over at http://www.junkship.net, including this entry http://www.junkship.net/News/2011/11/13/building-steam-with-... which covers a lot of similar ground to the parent article.

As someone going through the US immigration process at the moment, the real issue as far as immigration reform goes should not be raising the H-1B cap, but rather fixing the insane greencard backlog. At the moment its pretty common for people to have to spend over a decade waiting in a legal limbo with an uncertain future.

In addition to this, requiring companies to sponsor greencards for all H1-B workers would go a long way toward stopping those who are simply looking for cheap captive labour and would leave the pool open to those companies who are legitimately looking for skilled workers in good faith.

If one factors in the 2-3% YC acceptance rate, and makes the assumption (that I admittedly haven't checked out) that no startups rejected by YC are now billion dollar companies, that closes the difference down to around 100x

Pretty sure the Shanghai Transrapid does 430kph in regular use, or at least it was the last time I rode on it. Definitely worth taking for the trip from the airport into Pudong if you're ever flying into Shanghai.