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by DavidPlumpton 13y ago
I don't know much about RAID and other systems, but does anything other than ZFS read data from disk, determine that it was corrupt, go to another disk and get the same data and verify that the hash is good and then automatically fix t
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by DavidPlumpton 13y ago
I read this as "from a single photon"
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by DavidPlumpton 13y ago
Double slit experiment with a key ring laser. Liquid Helium.
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by DavidPlumpton 13y ago
This is not the anthropic part, but still. http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_te...
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by DavidPlumpton 13y ago
Maybe interstellar travel is just really hard even with technology far beyond our own.
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by DavidPlumpton 13y ago
Thought I read that the Mersenne Twister has a major vulnerability. It's possible from a small number of samples (<1000) to predict the future values. Hmmm, this is the best link I can find http://b10l.com/?p=24
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by DavidPlumpton 13y ago
Wait until a customer confirms their claims. You may be waiting several (more) years before you give up.
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by DavidPlumpton 13y ago
Bad developers tend to be really bad. They have seldom heard of SICP, or contributed to an open source project etc. You sound like you are simply going through a run of bad luck.
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by DavidPlumpton 13y ago
Maven is ideal for when teams of programmers work on a number of projects. How do you build this project from long ago? How do I set up a new dev machine? I'm moving to this new project, how does it work? We've got a new guy starting tomor
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Plans for a manned Mars flyby in 2018 detailed(spaceref.com)
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by DavidPlumpton 14y ago
I love Git, but a workmate of mine pointed out an interesting deficiency. During a merge from a branch some time in the distant past he said, "Hang on, who created this branch and when? I can't even tell." It would be nice to have a feature
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by DavidPlumpton 14y ago
There have been many visits on the shore of their island by Indian anthropologists.
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by DavidPlumpton 14y ago
Don't forget to require them to pay in advance.
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by DavidPlumpton 14y ago
The logs of the clojure IRC make fascinating reading http://clojure-log.n01se.net/
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by DavidPlumpton 14y ago
Specifically try to judge whether an "early exit" leads to simpler, more maintainable code in this particular case. Optimize for lower cost, not for just following a rule.
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by DavidPlumpton 14y ago
Looking into Cyc I infer the following... Q: So what is Cyc used for? A: You could use it for games Q: Has it been used for a game? A: No