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Central China starts building supercomputing center(news.xinhuanet.com)
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Intel Lifts the Hood on its "Single-Chip Cloud Computer"(spectrum.ieee.org)
21 points by ajdecon 16y ago|13 comments
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I'd call it my primary professional news source, along with Twitter. HN gives me a lot of useful information about trends in the startup world, in (mostly web) technology, and so on. And it's interesting seeing what people here think abo
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Better Benchmarking for Supercomputers - IEEE Spectrum(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Experiments with E-books (Jim C. Hines)(sfwa.org)
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Goodbye Grid Engine(gridengine.info)
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by ajdecon 16y ago
- What were your successes this year? I finally worked up the courage to leave the PhD program that had been making me miserable for the past two years (of the three I'd been pursuing the degree), and look for something better. I joined a
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Older versions of Dropbox had to re-sync the entire file if a TrueCrypt volume changed. The newer version can sync only the changes... at least, my 500 MB volume now syncs very quickly.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
It's not my startup (I'm an employee, not a founder), but I'll put in a shout out for R Systems, a bootstrapped startup providing high-performance computing resources. ( http://www.rsystemsinc.com/ )
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I've definitely found intuition to be valuable, in the sense that my own intuition has been correct more often than otherwise. But intuition is basically the result of my unconscious reasoning based on lots of past experience, so it absolu
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I tend to think in terms of what the community's return-on-investment is with respect to my upbringing and support. Society has collectively invested a lot of money in me without demanding a direct return: some very good state scholarships
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Especially when multiple books are assigned for a class, physical textbooks have one tremendous advantage: as distinct objects, they're great for multitasking and reference. I can't count the number of times I was working on problem sets,
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Oh, I'll agree that a lot of their products are fairly successful in terms of being widely-used. (Revenue? No way for me to know.) But how many of them are evolved or improved on a regular basis? Reader has had some social enhancements,
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Sculley: Apple’s Big Mistake Was Hiring Me As CEO(cultofmac.com)
59 points by ajdecon 16y ago|26 comments
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Not quite the same thing, but I'm leaving a PhD program that's been making me miserable to join a small supercomputing company. In my opinion, being happy trumps everything. Keep in mind, though, that you have more choices than your curren
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by ajdecon 16y ago
If you're starting a business doing something you love so much that you'd be happy in it all your life... sure. Don't worry. But it's rare that you'll have that kind of certainty. If you don't, it's best to have a plan to get out, so y
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Semi-related question: can anyone suggest a lightweight, easy-to-manage ticketing system that doesn't inspire hate? I've been seriously considering setting something like this up on my own server as a personal TODO tracker, but I don't kno
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I generally love priority inbox, but it doesn't do a good job of catching certain classes of mail that I need to read. (Mostly this is work-related email from some previously unknown sender with poor English skills--a regular hazard, for a
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by ajdecon 16y ago
IMO, the best way to compete with Google is to actually pay attention to your product. Outside a few core apps like search and Gmail, it astonishes me how little Google seems to care about their work once it's launched. They just sit ther
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I do, because this is one of the few Internet forums on which I really take the conversation seriously. I've met interesting people here, and had conversations which have helped me in "real life". HN would be substantially less valuable t
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Google's MapReduce in 98 Lines of Python(clouddbs.blogspot.com)
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Andre Geim: in praise of graphene : Nature News(nature.com)
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A Look Inside the NSA's Code-Breaking Museum(theatlantic.com)
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Amending the US constitution is substantially harder than in most countries: any given amendment must be approved by a 2/3rds supermajority in both houses of Congress, and then must be ratified by 3/4ths of the State legislatures to take
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by ajdecon 16y ago
In my upper-level physics courses, where the exams were mostly derivations and intense problem-solving, we had a rough guide to exam difficulty: * One sheet of notes allowed: expect to take close to the full 2 hours alloted. * Open notes an
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OpenOffice.org developers move to break ties with Oracle - Computerworld(computerworld.com)
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Presumably they have a list of all their customers with contact info. Not saying you should spam them often, but for the message "no more international support"? I think it's worth telling everyone.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
In the original post, he described not being able to scrape together $300 for a test to go to college at all, and "not taking the job because you can’t find someone you trust to watch your kids". Sounds like exaggeration to me. Minor corr
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I believe that Scalzi grew up in a household which was "poor", at least for some years, and that he was simply hard-working and lucky enough to be able to get out of it. See his comment on the OP here: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/0
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A photo tour of the Large Hadron Collider(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ajdecon 16y ago|0 comments

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