acveilleux

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by acveilleux 10y ago
I always thought of BeOS as basically a reboot of the NeXT. Same niche, same promise, same flop ;-(. BeOS was later so they avoided the H/W side-road. A good thing.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Last generation of iBook G3 went through graphics chipsets at an astounding rate. Most of my friends who bought one got all the way through the 3 strikes and you get a replacement machine with them. All of them got a free iBook G4 for their
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by acveilleux 10y ago
It's likely to add up to the printing cost pretty fast.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
It was common in many customer cages. I even saw cages setup in 2000 where a cage contained 500k of sun and cisco hardware still in their box after 8 months. I guess that startup was growing so fast they hadn't gotten around to pluggi
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Raid 10s or bust. But otherwise correct.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Everyone in SV in 1999 used Sun boxes. Racking Ultra-2 Pizza Boxes was being very Internet Professional and money was flowing freely enough to pay for them.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Symmetrix, two Ms. They were more of a mainframe thing I thought. I never really got to play much with the really big gear, Starfires, Superdome and so on. By the time I got to use a 64-way SMP box (Origin 3800) it was already obsolescent a
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by acveilleux 10y ago
I still can't believe a top-tier UNIX vendor required an expensive 3rd party software to have halfway decent file-system. Or in the case of HP-UX, partitioning. I get that Veritas also did logical volume, raid and so on and that was a
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by acveilleux 10y ago
That's what I had in mind when I said "boxes with multiple modems in them".
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by acveilleux 10y ago
A few decent things I could find online that jive with what I remember: https://www.patton.com/technotes/build_yourself_an_isp.pdf http://www.gwi.net/behind-the-scenes-of-a-90s-internet-start... https
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by acveilleux 10y ago
So much memories from that era. I saw my first 1TB storage array back then, it was an EMC Clariion fibre channel raid box, it cost nearly 1m$ and it was a full rack of 9GB dual-ported 15k RPM disks.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
That's how the FDA works. The FDA is required to approve the study plan, the pharma (or really, the contract research organization (CRO) acting on its behalf) reports back to the FDA. The FDA decides based on the reported study result
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Quite possibly, the 38 licenses was the number deemed necessary, after negotiations, for the purpose of a limited trial. It usually goes something like "OK, we need 20 licenses for the lab, 6 for the devs to use when integrating with X
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by acveilleux 10y ago
There's tons of jobs in Canada that pay better then software jobs in North Dakota... But in pure dollar amount, you're not going to beat a Google or Facebook job in SV. Best you could do is work remotely for an SV company. That sa
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Maybe arch with variable width pointer types like some embedded platforms?
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by acveilleux 10y ago
I would've thought the first question was a big red flag but I guess in Windows and x86 linux int is 32 bit even with 64-bit processors. Not the case in MIPS64 (under IRIX) or on DEC Alpha. I had my formative C experience in the DOS er
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Or perhaps you're not a native english speaker?
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by acveilleux 10y ago
No, the pretensioner just has to beat the deceleration of the car. The goal is to retain (or even pull in) the passenger in the seat to reduce the impact on the airbags. Typically the pretensioner will pull in on the order of 10-12cm of web
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Affordable cars get built because the market for cars is saturated. Where the supply of some key component of cars a limiting factor on the production capability of car manufacturers, expensive cars would be the only ones produced.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
One could argue that "affordable" long-term housing is a market who's supply should take precedence on the temporary housing market. Since the two must, by nature, compete with each other for the same real estate.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
There are network effects actually. Bombardier is one of the main anchors around which many major aircraft industry company are located. In turn those suppliers also help explain the Bell Helicopter Textron plant. I'm thinking of compa
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by acveilleux 10y ago
> At the cost of higher temporary housing costs for people that want to visit. Addressing supply by ripping supply from a different market is a bandaid. That's not such a bad thing. The market has demonstrated that hotels and simila
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Exactly, the it's the Land, not the structure. If the land is practically worthless, there's a ton of money left over to build on it. The most telling in the prices you posted is that 758 sq. ft. house for 527k: > Last sold: Ja
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Not unlike the house I live in in terms of scale though a different style. House I'm in was build ca. 1896-1906, about 1550 square feet with 3 bedrooms upstairs (one of which is quite small and my office.) The material costs are not di
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by acveilleux 10y ago
I like the Picasso reference. The line between art and "a bunch of crap put together" is sometime difficult to pin down. And it takes a Picasso to navigate that boundary without stepping over.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
How that story goes seem to be a cultural thing depending on the org culture. I've seen places where the loop goes: 1. BizDev and/or Sales identify a feature set that would enable a deal or broaden the market suitability. 2. Dev t
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by acveilleux 10y ago
I love Safari's reader mode exactly because it gives me a larger font black text on a white background. I'm not even that old (mid thirties) but years of monitors and glasses have taken their tolls on my vision. Low contrast, smal
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by acveilleux 10y ago
No idea about this material in specific but a lot of nanoscale stuff is manufactured using photo lithography, basically the same way we make micro conductors since it's a process we understand well and we can scale (just ask Intel.) It
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Those prices are for processing tomatoes. Not the kind of tomatoes you'd find at the grocer, rather the kind that will go into a bottle of heinz ketchup or a can of tomato paste. They are grown differently and treated differently becau
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Backpages, unlike Craigslist, doesn't really have any other business then adulkt ads.

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