adamgravitis

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by adamgravitis 13y ago
It's actually not about having "earned" it; it's not meant to be a token of having completed the degree, or having been stupendously good at some technical piece of work. It's meant as a reminder to the obligation you have to society not
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by adamgravitis 13y ago
This organizes a lot of thoughts I've had regarding the economic history of the 20th century. It seemed that something really changed in patterns of invention and investment somewhere in the late 70s, whereby - as Peter notes - big ideas a
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
I'm actually doing pretty OK visualizing these results in my head... :-)
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
As I've rapidly discovered, trying to calculate aggregate stats over the basis of Poisson arrivals... is a pain. To work out anything interesting, you end up studying piecewise-deterministic markov processes in more detail than you'd wish.
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
On the other hand, this issue reminds me of Peter Thiel's TedX talk, where he makes the argument that real technological invention may be slowing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOB7nezuQ7g I agree assisting people to reach the airport on
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
Incidentally, I really love the soundtrack. Does anyone know if this is just stock music from somewhere?
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
I seriously thought this was going to be about diabetes or sugar addiction or something :-)
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
Regarding usabili.ca, the domain you're using... If you're "three geeks in Tehran", you really shouldn't be using a Canadian domain. Unless you're Canadians, or are incorporated within Canada. Just saying.
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
Heh. Are you Neal Stephenson? :-)
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
"a monumental fuck-up." - no pun intended, I'm sure ;-)
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
That's not devops - that's system administration. Not complaining; it's still a well-presented list.
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
Indeed. There's even a name for the anti-pattern: "nanoservice". http://soa.dzone.com/news/soa-anti-pattern-nanoservices
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
Where is this useful? The bus speed across to the GPU is so slow, I thought it was only meaningful for near-autonomous operations.
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
My brain had trouble parsing the headline: I don't want to be part of your fucking (ecosystem) -vs- I don't want to be part of your (fucking ecosystem)
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by adamgravitis 14y ago
Both Todd and Cam are brilliant aero engineers. While not a fait accompli, this certainly isn't their first negotiation with nature...
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by adamgravitis 15y ago
Thank you for posting this on HN! This is exactly the kind of underreported bleeding-edge engineering I hope to discover on places like HN. It's very easy for mainstream journalists to jump on new technologies once they've been developed,
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by adamgravitis 15y ago
The author's sudden and poorly supported conclusion doesn't really fit. Because people with bachelor's degrees have the least unemployment, it is imperative we pass a GI Bill to ensure everyone gets a bachelor's degree?! He's getting the c
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by adamgravitis 15y ago
In fact, businesses (companies) are not permitted to donate to political parties in Canada. And this same "neo-con" government has lowered the maximum personal donation from $5000 per person to $1000 per person. If anything, this has encou
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by adamgravitis 15y ago
The parallel vs serial queuing problem is very well established within the operations research community. And, IIRC, it's not that there's much impact to average performance, but rather that the variation (sigma) drops by a factor of n.
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by adamgravitis 15y ago
The thing I've found about message queues is that it's pretty unimportant what platform they're based on. I used to be tempted to go with ActiveMQ "because it runs on the JVM", but that turns out to be pretty irrelevant. No matter what you
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by adamgravitis 16y ago
Funny, I always thought Paul would speak in received pronunciation... :-)
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by adamgravitis 16y ago
Indeed, as the above mentioned, he founded the Post. Followers of the story (largely, Canada and UK) have seen quite a drama over the last few years. It's helpful to understand he is, in fact, a British Lord - after renouncing Canadian cit
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by adamgravitis 16y ago
Wholeheartedly disagree. As evidence, the author mentions the late average age that the underprivileged "received" their first computer. As I recall, one Bill Gates began hacking at an early age, not because his privileged family showered
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by adamgravitis 16y ago
That's pretty much Yuri's modus operandi.
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by adamgravitis 17y ago
Looking forward. Don't forget there's a StartupDrinks the night before at Elephant and Castle - if you don't mind hearing the latest about, er, Rails...
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by adamgravitis 17y ago
Hrm - GuestListApp just sent the confirmation, saying "error in parsing this message..." :-|