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by ajdecon 15y ago
No idea, as no commercial-scale production has been attempted. This is all still lab-scale.
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by ajdecon 15y ago
A big part of this is the more consistent flow, yes. Two of the major factors in the ink design were balancing the viscous properties of the ink (mildly shear-thinning, iirc) with the need to keep the silver nanoparticle concentration as h
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by ajdecon 15y ago
I used to work in the lab in question, though nowhere near this project. (And I'm ridiculously proud of my colleagues right now. :D ) To answer your question, setting the components on fresh ink is often sufficient but not always. IIRC, com
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by ajdecon 15y ago
I'd leave chemistry off the list: lab work is essential, and very few individuals have the money or the permits to obtain the chemicals you work with in a chem-majors class. I don't know biology well enough to talk, but I suspect that mole
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Chad Orzel, an experimental physicist, has a pretty good explanation of this experiment (including the paper figures!) up on his blog: http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2011/06/watching_photons_...
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The Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis in IT - Server Fault Blog(blog.serverfault.com)
20 points by ajdecon 15y ago|4 comments
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Why Comparing Different Stacks With Numbers is Silly - Server Fault Blog(blog.serverfault.com)
1 points by ajdecon 15y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 15y ago
I'll admit to typing "tracking data" after misreading the following bit of the release: Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic se
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Sometime in the next few weeks Apple will release a free iOS software update that: - reduces the size of the crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower database cached on the iPhone, - ceases backing up this cache, and - deletes this cache
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Why Facebook Is Still A Startup - TNW Social Media(thenextweb.com)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
This can work in rare occasions, but has a high probability of coming off as creepy. The entire reason for dating sites, more or less, is to create a list of people who are open to a cold-email for dating and facilitate the process.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Agreed. Sphere sells vintage rules though: http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sliderule.html
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I actually played with a slide rule quite a bit when I was in middle school (but not in school), and it was much more useful as an actual learning aid than my calculator. The visualization of logarithms is in fact rather helpful.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Matlab or Python+numpy for scientific prototyping. Usually Fortran for translating those algorithms into speed, sometimes C. Bash or Perl for sysadmin work. Python for playing around with random crap.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
In my experience, it is usually possible to get through periods of rapid growth without pre-existing support or knowledge. Sometimes you learn fast enough to manage on your own; sometimes you have to bring in experts after-the-fact, and pa
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by ajdecon 16y ago
More correct (if less vivid): see Amdahl's Law. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahls_law ) Most activities can only be made partly parallel. The rest must be serial; that is, will depend on steps done before, and cannot be made faster by
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Absolutely. We're using Salesforce's Chatter internally, but if a Google Apps (internal-only) Buzz were present, it would have been a no-brainer.
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Windows Server pushed to the super limit(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ajdecon 16y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I'm happy that Canonical is thinking about usability, but has any of this actually been backed up by any kind of experiment? I see one link on Google to a study done on Thunderbird (sadly down, as it's the same blog), and a bunch of blogsp
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I currently like pdsh ( http://code.google.com/p/pdsh/ ) for doing remote sysadmin: it parallelizes very nicely, and I love being able to issue commands like "pdsh -w compute[000-100] yum update package" to manage hundreds of nodes at a tim
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Combined with flex-time, this is amazing. Results-based evaluations ftw.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
As a startup employee, the biggest quality of life boost for me is that our company actually has an office manager/general gofer, and treats him well. It's amazingly important to have someone around whose job it is to handle tasks not rela
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by ajdecon 16y ago
As everyone else is saying: it's a buzzword. :-) Re "private clouds", though: While many of them are just P2V projects as the OP said, some organizations are using them in "cloud-ish" ways in the sense of dynamic provisioning and resource a
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Mapping the SLA Landscape for High Performance Clouds(hpcinthecloud.com)
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HPCwire: IBM Watson Heads for Jeopardy Showdown(hpcwire.com)
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Well, or there's Blackberry.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Getting the truth is what being a journalist is about. Unfortunately, journalists are rarely in charge of news organizations.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
It depends heavily on exactly which engineering field you're talking about, and what kinds of jobs. Engineering PhDs in non-computing fields (ie materials, mechanical, bio-, etc) are often faced with the dilemma of being overqualified for
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Whamcloud Staffs up for Brighter Lustre | insideHPC.com(insidehpc.com)
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Coalition Of Lustre Users Announces Open Registration for LUG 2011 - SC Online(supercomputingonline.com)
2 points by ajdecon 16y ago|0 comments

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