Month: July 2011
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Credit card gift cards
I’m not sure why, but lately I’ve been seeing a lot of prepaid credit cards being advertised as gift cards. And why not — it’s like giving a gift card but without constraining where you can spend it. It’s great for the credit card companies, since they make money, and good for the gift giver […]
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Brawny vs wimpy cores
Interesting writeup in favor of brawny cores, by Urs Hölze: Click to access 36448.pdf Seems like the big argument is that many operations are latency-oriented, rather than throughput-oriented. This is clearly true for web processing when a user is waiting for a result, but he makes the point that throughput-oriented batch processing is latency-sensitive, […]
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