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by ajays 15y ago
I'm often surprised to see that few people get what's going on. Jerry Brown wants to raise taxes (yet again). But the public at large is tired of waste, and refuses to go along. So the Governor proposes cuts to those things that cause maxim
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by ajays 15y ago
Niagara Falls, NY has a statue of Tesla: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajays/245729699/in/set-72057594...
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by ajays 15y ago
I agree. I was just pointing out that the streams having a temporal sequence give the wrong impression (as if people are moving to different places at different times, when it's not the case).
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by ajays 15y ago
Having said all that: I think it is a beautiful piece. It looks very nice. Thank you for sharing it. :-)
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by ajays 15y ago
It's a neat idea, but I think it has some rough edges. As I understand it, the underlying data has no time component (i.e., we don't know on what date the person moved; just that they moved). Therefore, showing a stream of particles moving
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by ajays 15y ago
That's not the point of visualization. A good visualization should convey something even to those without any domain knowledge.
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by ajays 15y ago
" which by the way the junk mailers /already have/ since they're sending you stuff. " Not necessarily. A lot of times junk mail is directed to just the address, and not the resident. You can tell that by the "To" line, which will say "Cur
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by ajays 15y ago
Terabytes per second? Really?? Given that SATA-3 is still at 6Gbps, this would be 1300x faster than SATA-3. How would you get data to a drive that fast for it to write?
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by ajays 15y ago
Question: why isn't my data's copyright owned by me? I should have the same rights over my data (my searches, my browsing history, relationships, etc.) as an artist has over his creations. And they (companies that use this information or t
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by ajays 15y ago
What is even more revolting (to me) is that not a single person has gone to jail for perjury, signing false declarations, etc. The Obama Justice Department is too eager to settle these cases with a modest fine; when in fact these people sho
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by ajays 15y ago
Here's what I do: 1. Copy/paste the title into Google and hit search [1] 2. Click on the link from the SERP. 3. Profit? [1] http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&#3...
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by ajays 15y ago
LOL ... guilty as charged. :-D
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I've crossed into Canada numerous times. On the Buffalo border, if you basically said "I'm going to the casino" or "I'm going to the strip clubs", they just waived you right in. On the way back, depending on the person at the booth, it coul
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by ajays 15y ago
Things have changed dramatically since 9/11 . I remember coming back to the US via the same Lewiston bridge, after a night of partying in Canada, and on occasions not even being asked for an ID (I was not a US citizen then, and I'm not whit
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by ajays 15y ago
Facebook's revenue will eventually shift from display advertising to data selling. There will come a time when no display campaign will run without input from Facebook. Before any impression on any online media, advertisers will make a quer
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by ajays 15y ago
Doesn't Google also have dual class shares? They seem to be doing well despite that. Maybe it'll work for Zuck too.
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by ajays 15y ago
I would be hard-pressed to believe that if some company in some backwaters place just implemented snippets, then they would be as productive as engineers in Silicon Valley. What makes Silicon Valley is the whole package. There's a critical
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by ajays 15y ago
IIRC, I had it memorized by thinking that "anions" move towards the "anode" ; since "anions" are negative ("anion" = A Negative ION :D ), then the "anode" must be positive... I'm not a EE major, so I could be wrong. This page has some schem
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by ajays 15y ago
Since 1997, he was paid $1/year in salary. But he certainly wasn't living in the poor house. In 2001, the company gifted him a $90 million Gulfstream jet, and paid for all related expenses. According to Apple’s proxy statement from February
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by ajays 15y ago
Johnson pointed out that last year, JC Penney had 590 promotions, which made it seem that everyone was always on sale in some form or another. Honestly, that's tremendously confusing for consumers, as you basically can't keep track of what
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by ajays 15y ago
CEO to the Board: I am indispensable; therefore I need the 10s of millions of dollars as compensation. CEO to the employee: You are indispensable; therefore you can't leave for a better paying job.
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by ajays 15y ago
Why are people defending these practices? This is not a personal attack, but are you so deluded to think that your 2-person startup is in the same league as Apple, Google and Intel?
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by ajays 15y ago
I just can't break through delegation. Any suggestions? I do have many years of programming experience (C, Perl, some JS), but can't quite grasp delegation.
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by ajays 15y ago
Eli is not adding anything to the discussion. S/he is not disputing the content of the article; just the motive. Are we going to have an SEO discussion about every article that makes it to the frontpage?
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by ajays 15y ago
I am continuously amused by how humans get in a huff when people anthropmorphize animals' actions... "surely it can't be empathy!" ... "we don't know if the rat is _really_ feeling the trapped rat's pain!!" The question is: why not? Who are
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by ajays 15y ago
> It is one thing to offer free steaks at lunch (a real perk) vs offering beans and rice every day. [just using it to illustrate a point, not saying Google is serving rice and beans only]. If they just offered (note: it's an offer, no
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by ajays 15y ago
Google is located in an area where there aren't many restaurants close by. By offering on-site lunches, they keep the employees on campus. So instead of wasting, say, 1.5 hours getting to MtView, hunting for parking, waiting at a restaurant
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If the evidence is so damning, why settle? Why does the government seem so quick to settle when a company does something wrong, but lays down the hammer on citizens who do something wrong[1]? [1] http://madmikesamerica.com/2011/08/young-wo
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by ajays 15y ago
All that has happened is the following: the Congresscritters have decided that an overt, named, Internet censorship bill may not work. Now look for SOPA to appear as a part of some defense spending bill, or the debt ceiling bill, or somethi
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by ajays 15y ago
There are a couple of things at work here. 1) Some people choose to spend their time on learning and improving their brains, instead of their outward appearances. Over time, this makes them smarter than those who don't. 2) In most societies

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