Devilboy

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751.
by Devilboy 17y ago
Well obviously he's not hiring people at the extreme end of the autism spectrum - and he has actual data to back up his statements so I don't see why you should criticize him by taking one or two statements out of context like that.
752.
by Devilboy 17y ago
I'd love to work in an environment where my personality (or lack thereof :p ) is not seen as problem that needs fixing. Currently I'm forced to work in an open-plan environment with no privacy, no noise barriers, nothing stopping random peo
753.
by Devilboy 17y ago
Another article mentioned that each pixel will have it's own microlens to provide proper focus
754.
by Devilboy 17y ago
Is it normal for a MySQL ALTER TABLE to run for 22 hours on a table with less than 50 million rows?
755.
by Devilboy 17y ago
I found this article useful: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/business/24trading.html?_r... It has a timeline diagram which explains it well.
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by Devilboy 17y ago
This thing can selectively kill them by gender which is pretty cool. Vaccines only help against the individual diseases spread by mosquitos, targeting the mosquitos directly is useful too.
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by Devilboy 17y ago
Kurzweil on 2029: Although computers routinely pass the Turing Test, controversy still persists over whether machines are as intelligent as humans in all areas.
758.
by Devilboy 17y ago
Facebook allows public verbal diarrhea too now
759.
by Devilboy 17y ago
Not to mention that dumping on Twitter is a national sport on HN
760.
by Devilboy 17y ago
People seem to forget that he's been around for decades making predictions - and he's been pretty accurate so far.
761.
by Devilboy 17y ago
My phone's battery will last at least another 10 hours.
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by Devilboy 17y ago
Getting pretty close now though. People always complain that the 'paperless office' never happened but for me it did - I don't have a single piece of paper on my desk right now. Hell I don't even own a pen. All our invoices are sent to clie
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by Devilboy 17y ago
The energy conversion efficiency is independent of the cost per watt. 20% is a pretty good figure but not at a cost of $3 per watt for example.
764.
by Devilboy 17y ago
Could you comment on your cost per watt expectations please?
765.
by Devilboy 17y ago
Sounds like the capsule hotels they have in Japan which are basically just a tiny cube containing a bed and a TV for about $20 a night
766.
by Devilboy 17y ago
A smart enough AI chatbot will outsource this request to a Mechanical Turk service.
767.
by Devilboy 17y ago
Er so I have to download a utility to gunzip it, and then download another one to convert it to a PDF? That's pretty annoying. EDIT: I'm just saying, if you're linking something to HN where hundreds of people will click on it, isn't it more
768.
by Devilboy 17y ago
Sorry to be off-topic but is this an audio or video link or something? I can't work out how to open it...
769.
by Devilboy 17y ago
Saatchi & Saatchi does some of NZ's marketing, and they're doing a pretty damn good job!
770.
by Devilboy 17y ago
That's pretty cool but I don't think SQL 2008 is the first Turing-complete SQL Server. SQL Server 2005 could do the Mandlebrot too: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-The-TSQ...
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by Devilboy 17y ago
Yea I see your point. I think in the end it still comes down to scale, for a couple of racks it's not worth the risk and effort while on a larger scale it might be worth brewing your own meta-filestorage system.
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by Devilboy 17y ago
In a RAID 5 set you lose a lot of throughput when a drive fails, and with TB drives it takes many hours for a hot spare to replicate the missing data. During that time another drive failure is catastrophic for your data and the more disks i
773.
by Devilboy 17y ago
When a person only buys drugs for you he's called a 'personal assistant' instead
774.
by Devilboy 17y ago
I dare you to list a more reliable service with a comparable price.
775.
by Devilboy 17y ago
The cloud storage way is to avoid RAID 5 or 10 etc completely and just use triple JBOD instead - store each file / chunk of data on at least 3 JBOD drives and manage replication and whatnot in software. I think Google first popularized this
776.
by Devilboy 17y ago
I was looking for this same drive today and the suppliers in Australia are under the impression that Intel will ship them end of next week (for a pretty reasonable 400 AUD - approx $300) http://www.solidstatecentral.com.au/store/index.php?
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by Devilboy 17y ago
The Australian clone (GraysOnline) adds 15 minutes and emails you if you're outbid at the last moment.
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by Devilboy 17y ago
Lov Grover did find a quantum algorithm that works on general NP problems but that algorithm only achieves a quadratic speed-up and we have evidence that those techniques will not go further. from this article: http://cacm.acm.org/magazi
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by Devilboy 17y ago
He already has autism, what makes you think he'll be better off doing... well... what do you suggest he do instead?
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by Devilboy 17y ago
Did you forget about the alcohol prohibition period?

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