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by a-priori 14y ago
Yes, on a per-project basis, it's in the best interests of the consultancy to drive up the project costs, thereby driving up their own revenues at the client's expense. But that's a toxic way to do business, and in the long run it's against
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by a-priori 14y ago
Also real-time.
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RIAA claims its owed $72 trillion dollars by Limewire(nme.com)
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by a-priori 14y ago
You're thinking of Deferred Gratification, and specifically the results of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment. Basically they put a marshmallow in front of children and said, "You can eat this marshmallow now, but if you don't eat it the
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by a-priori 14y ago
Depending where you are and how old you are, it's already happened. Same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada for 7 years now, since 2005. My wife's a high school teacher, and when it was legalized her students were 8-9 years old -- too yo
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by a-priori 14y ago
A while back a blog post popped up here arguing that Chrome is a repackaging of a new Google bot: that Chrome was developed first as a crawler, then later repurposed as a desktop browser. http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/ There's
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by a-priori 14y ago
Interesting, thanks! I didn't know about RTSJ and a cursory search in preparing my earlier comment only popped up links that looked bitrotted, so I assumed it wasn't a widespread technology.
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by a-priori 14y ago
There is one thing that helps about C and C++. In a safety-critical system, the entire runtime has to be certified. This isn't a problem for C and C++ because their runtimes are very minimal. DO-178b Level A-certified implementations of the
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by a-priori 15y ago
My question is, do we need movements? When I flick through my textbooks from my physics degree course, they don't read as a series of cultural movements within the physics community. What is true is true. If we keep testing it and it keeps
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by a-priori 15y ago
Both the Netherlands and Spain are in the Schengen Area, so there's no border controls between them. The same happens if you go to Zürich via Paris, for example. I've done that a few times; you don't go through Swiss customs.
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by a-priori 15y ago
In downtown Lausanne, Switzerland (in this plaza, if you're in the area: http://g.co/maps/tupbn ), there's an outdoor washroom that's enclosed in that sort of glass. When you walk up to it, all the walls are clear. When you lock the door,
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by a-priori 15y ago
I would never ask a for-profit company to open source their core software if it doesn't meet their business model (sell support, etc.). Here's the thing though: I don't care one bit about how they process tweets internally. However, the "bi
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by a-priori 15y ago
They still can use it offensively. They just have to get the inventor's permission first.
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by a-priori 15y ago
If I had to guess, he's going to implement memory-mapped I/O. So, there's going to be another specification that lists various memory locations' functions. Reading from some will return information about the ship's systems; writing to other
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by a-priori 15y ago
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp
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by a-priori 15y ago
Let's say I run a site with lots of Google juice. For the low, low price of $[big number], I'll link to your site to give you some of my Google juice.
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by a-priori 15y ago
I quote from http://developer.espn.com/terms : The following default rules apply to all Apps: - Branding. All Apps must include an approved ESPN trademark, logo or other intellectual property (each, an "ESPN Mark"). - Advert
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by a-priori 15y ago
Yup, there's surely a ton of ways to compress that. Occlusion culling would be one, since you'd never see the insides of objects. For another, modulo atmospheric effects like fog and smoke, there'd be a lot of empty space between objects th
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by a-priori 15y ago
Assuming the holographic system uses voxels, it would need to be capable of displaying 108,900 (330x330) voxels per cubic inch to allow the same level of resolution as an iPhone 4 if it produces a flat surface. This would allow Retina-quali
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by a-priori 15y ago
At one point, when Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, he sold all but one share of Apple. So his 1% was the result of converting his NeXT shares, not original Apple shares.
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by a-priori 15y ago
Because all the connections between ideas within a domain have already been mined for everything worthwhile. By connecting two domains, you're exposing a whole new set of connections between things that are rarely connected. There's a theor
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by a-priori 15y ago
So push the URL over a WebSocket, and then download the data over HTTP.
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by a-priori 15y ago
The developing world has birth control but, in large parts of it (e.g. most of africa), most people aren't using it. This is for economic reasons. I would argue that in many, if not all, of these places this is instad due to poor educatio
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by a-priori 15y ago
The world population is not experiencing exponential growth. It's experiencing logistical growth (i.e, following a logistical function rather than an exponential function). We've just been seeing the first half of the curve, which does appr
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by a-priori 15y ago
Yes, dunning sucks. I did two projects for one client and they paid within a week both times. I liked them for that. Most other clients, including the regular one I mentioned before, varied between 4 weeks and 8 weeks. There's a fine line t
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by a-priori 15y ago
I attempted to start freelancing full-time about 2 years ago but had to call it quits. I had an okay portfolio... more than it sounds like you have, but nothing spectacular. It was enough to allay doubts about my expertise. My problem was m
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by a-priori 15y ago
Interesting idea, but a huge security nightmare. Essentially you're opening the door for anyone to send and receive arbitrary ZeroMQ messages to any address via your server, bypassing any outward-facing firewall that might be in place. One
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by a-priori 15y ago
Be warned, there's some evidence that GoogleBot now executes Javascript. http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/
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by a-priori 15y ago
Maybe have a deal where if they pre-pay some number of months, you'll include that equipment with their first order?
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by a-priori 15y ago
I'm going to need a whole lot more than one random study from 1998 to believe that. The whole idea seems very cooky and alarmist.

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