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by 6ren 14y ago
current estimate: 9:40 AM CT (in the video stream, and they stress it's an estimate).
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by 6ren 14y ago
Question: if Dragon is about 200m lower than ISS, and they are moving at the same velocity at one instant, wouldn't that put them in different orbits? Assuming ISS's orbit was perfectly circular, then Dragon would be moving too slow for its
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by 6ren 14y ago
> there is no need to wait in to collect them. Fast, asynchronous delivery is part of the puzzle. Waiting around for amazon deliveries is a pain; but for low-value groceries, the risk of theft isn't as serious. It works OK for newspape
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by 6ren 14y ago
spaceX says "coverage begins at 4:30 PT" http://www.spacex.com/ Here is that in your local time: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4%3A30am+pt+in+local+ti... It's in 1 hour 48 minutes from the timestamp of this comment
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by 6ren 14y ago
This is the only one which gives me actual video (though it's just of a computer screen atm, a deathstar-like graphic) - the others had voices, and no video but a small blinking light and vertical bands near the bottom of the screen). uh oh
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by 6ren 14y ago
On appeal Oracle will argue that Alsup erred in law in not reinstating the '702 patent. It's unsatisfying to win on a tactical rather than a substantive issue.
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by 6ren 14y ago
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. > "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + > 1 is 2, not 3." It's actually more "direct and to the
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by 6ren 14y ago
Re ARM: they grew up in a market Intel etc didn't want: embedded devices. It's only a "hole" to squeak through when viewed from the laptop/desktop market. From ARM's point of view, it was a legitimate market. This "different market" is pa
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by 6ren 14y ago
I'm not sure it's possible to "iterate quickly", if it takes a year to build the product - unless you can anticipate what changes will be needed, which is the problem Lean tries to address. However, I agree that some deep projects do requir
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by 6ren 14y ago
Probably caught on because it rhymes.
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by 6ren 14y ago
> And I *do* know that the real world simply isn't simple enough that we could > ever do a perfect job, so don't even try - instead aim for "understandable, > maintainable, and gets the main issues roughly right". It
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by 6ren 14y ago
Wow, that was effective story-telling. At first I agreed that accessing the US market was crucial; and then that growing the present market was crucial. It's easy to see explosive global growth like dropbox's being necessary; but usually g
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by 6ren 14y ago
Another advantage of a "lab" is interaction with other bright people in the field. It's a key benefit of YC; Jobs designed the pixar building to enhance this; many great software ideas came out of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC; and I've also ex
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by 6ren 14y ago
Is another difference that dhouston is building a huge corporation (with many employees etc), while you're building something you can run yourself? (Not a criticism - it's my aim too.)
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by 6ren 14y ago
Software is eating the world. But I really shouldn't be surprised as I am at this one, since trading is well-known to be the most algorithmic math-geek industry at present.
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by 6ren 14y ago
Though it's not said, I get the impression that they were technical co-workers... so I need to point out you need "technical skills for technical success; business skills for business success". I've seen developers work hard on cool feature
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A Conversation with Jim Gray(queue.acm.org)
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by 6ren 14y ago
A Conversation with Jim Gray http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=864078
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by 6ren 14y ago
Chipset Exynos 4212 Quad CPU Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9 GPU Mali-400MP http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9300_galaxy_s_iii-4238.php The Mali-400MP is quad-core (x2 from before) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by 6ren 14y ago
Value investing: the last few puffs in the cigar butt. http://www.valuebull.com/Cigar+Butts
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by 6ren 14y ago
Bloch used > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3940683 I think in defining a range, the toIndex means up-to-but-not-including the element at that index. Thus, to include the full array, you'd use the range fromIndex=0, toIndex=le
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by 6ren 14y ago
Obviously ads. Generally I prefer single page (+ Readability), but was surprised that sometimes I prefer multiple pages. I think it's when they act a bit like chapters, giving you a sense of completion. Maybe it's when the content is de
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by 6ren 14y ago
It's a measure of their server farms that each bot in their swarms can run a javascript environment (though probably only needed in a very low percentage of pages). When each can read captchas and open accounts they won't need users at all
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by 6ren 14y ago
I think it was mentioned that this code was used in testing other code - when you're reverse-engineering, conformance testing is about as critical as you can get. You could start coding without it, but it's quicker to catch bugs early. [
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by 6ren 14y ago
Did you include the time it took to read what was needed, including the different exceptions? I would estimate, if one wasn't fresh and up for a challenge, 15 minutes (against your approx 10 minutes). And given that a day of programming i
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by 6ren 14y ago
It's an interesting point, about which Oracle might argue entertainingly. e.g. if a market has a limited life, then 2 days delay means 2 days less to make money (markets don't last forever). e.g. being earlier to market is well known to d
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by 6ren 14y ago
You're throwing a generic exception; Bloch's version throws two specific exceptions, together with appropriate information. Java tends to have excellent error reporting. All this reminds me of people saying that could code stackoverflow or
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by 6ren 14y ago
Note he said "suppose". His argument also applies to the copied test code (that was removed). Parallelization is limited similarly to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law (usually called critical path when applied to development
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by 6ren 14y ago
It's true there's much to be learned from microsoft on commercially successful platforms. They began with BASIC interpreters - a platform - which became a standardization across machines, to the extent that manufacturers boasted they were M
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by 6ren 14y ago
So he was playing dumb earlier for the benefit of the jury - to make the advocates spell out their case clearly. This is what he was responding to: > This copying allowed them to use fewer resources and accelerate that. Suppose they

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