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by 46Bit 14y ago
A million Stanford undergrads cried out in fear.
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Silicon Valley Internship program for UK Computer Science grads(siliconvalleyinternship.com)
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I'd surmise that a miniature probe could get a free trajectory to the Sun by taking advantage of this. Not sure how low a mass it would have to be though.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
That alignment was more about favourable planetary alignment than a noticeably faster trip to the edge of the solar system. The Voyagers did pretty well, but if your only aim was getting away from Sol it's not too difficult a target. See al
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Ah, thanks.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
It reads like science fiction partly because there are things this makes possible that seem to go against everything the 'bedroom scientist' would think. Some of the things this mentions I had no idea about, but the core EM-cloaking seems t
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by 46Bit 14y ago
If any Ruby people want to use some sections of this a bit more cleanly - https://github.com/defunkt/colored
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by 46Bit 14y ago
That's not intelligence, it's instinct!
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Hardly. Obvious camera artefacts caused by radiation.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I think this change is a definite plus, but I disagree this sort of change is startup-specific. Trying new things is just how you're supposed to build a company, at least when you care for the long term rather than next quarter.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
If you need to pay salaries , you're going to have to burn your own savings or seek further funding. This is a seed investment to help you prove your idea, or a bit of a boost for a business with profits too low to get impact from reinvestm
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by 46Bit 14y ago
We don't now? There's more private gun-toting personnel in the Middle East now than you could easily count.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
This makes sense, really. So few votes are cast (on page #1 of the newest, often seemingly 10-per-50-posts) that people voting means something is significant.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
The financial world is a big place. There's everything from backend systems at banks to stock exchanges, trading houses, stockbrokers, all with different requirements. I think perhaps the most ancient systems are the backend money ones at b
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Yep, sorry stinos. Bad phrasing on my part.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
No mention of infection stats, mechanisms, etc. I surmise this isn't a rootkit to worry about (beyond the usual daily scanners, etc) and the writer is a Windows guy who thinks "*nix doesn't get viruses."
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Interesting argument towards the end, although my answer to about half the questions is caselaw.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
This is really the key to Facebook's entire strategy. By forcing you to make your main effort inside the walled garden (with failure as the alternative), they gain. Whether it's a beneficial one for the artist really depends on their abilit
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by 46Bit 14y ago
NPR are probably just being sensationalist. Give a reporter a line like that about anything from earthquakes to organics in the soil and you'll find the reporter files about Martians. I'll wait for an actual announcement before getting exci
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by 46Bit 14y ago
What floor are you on?
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I've not ridden Amtrak, just Caltrain, but as regards UK trains the answer is that background noise doesn't matter. People generally talk loud enough to happily hear each other over any background noise. They tend not to notice, either. As
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by 46Bit 14y ago
> There are even more [1/2 hour offset timezones] than I thought I was pretty surprised at that as well when building http://hackertimezone.com . I always assumed it was mostly confined to small island chains and so forth, but there's
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by 46Bit 14y ago
No startup, I should think, would get funding by gatecrashing a VC in meetings about potential fundraising for other companies. It's just a stupid idea: you're slapping someone in the face by intruding like that.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
It's a webfont not loading for you I suspect.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
At this point, I'd think the FizzBuzz test is to get people to explain what the FizzBuzz test was. Most programmers I'd want to hire would probably have heard of at least the vague problem,
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Similar feelings here, although I've only been playing with it for a week or so. As someone who grew up (literally) on interpreted languages, Go feels far more pleasant to code in than C/C++.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Java isn't sexy any more. You use Java because your problems are, and so it doesn't matter to anyone.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Very true. Twitter may have had a lot of scaling trouble, but that didn't necessarily mean moving everything onto the JVM was necessary to 'make it scale'. It was just sensible to pick a language that would prevent problems in future.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I'm pretty sure I'd use this sometimes as well, especially when struggling to find bugs and needing another eye on the code. I think the few-bucks posts will probably fall away over time as more serious requests get posted.
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Provided this actually happens (ie: it doesn't get sabotaged by the DEA), I expect Colorado's tourist numbers and college applications will compete for the largest increase next year. Not a weed smoker here, but good to see some sanity emer

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