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by akamaka 17y ago
When I was in university, I had a friend who had faked her thesis to get a Master's degree from a university in Beijing. She admitted to me that she had simply found an obscure English journal paper and translated it into Chinese. I wouldn
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by akamaka 17y ago
Thanks for posting your annual write-ups. You have a straightforward style of writing that's very enjoyable to read!
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by akamaka 17y ago
Wow, NVIDIA is on the same list as Infosys, Nortel, and Perot Systems? I find it hard to imagine that a company with such a great developer relations department (and a pretty strong stock price) would be so horrible to work at. I never hea
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by akamaka 17y ago
Second that, in fact I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who is using this in production.
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by akamaka 17y ago
I like your style of graphs.
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by akamaka 17y ago
I find this kind of high-level thinking about hierarchy and conflict in society to be pretty silly. It's true that there's always some insight to be gained by bringing ideas from different times and places together, but in this case, the co
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by akamaka 17y ago
I spent most of my childhood either running around outside or reading books -- I barely watched TV and never touched a computer until I was 12. I'm pretty sure that has a lot to do with my perfect vision. All of my friends wear glasses, an
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by akamaka 17y ago
Gotcha, you were talking specifically about spot pricing. I read the OP's comment more as asking "Why are they so consistently innovative?".
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by akamaka 17y ago
I disagree. When Amazon started out, their datacenter couldn't have been nearly as big as those of top hosting companies. I can't imagine it would have taken more than a handful of Google-style shipping crates to host the site. I'd attrib
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by akamaka 17y ago
I don't see anyone addressing the question of whether good content actually exists for certain keyword searches. How can you blame Google for giving you bad results when they are the only results? For example, if you search for "digita
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by akamaka 17y ago
Yes, I'm a graphics programmer, and VRML sucks. I won't touch it. A fresh start is definitely needed here.
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by akamaka 17y ago
It's really nice to see a blog post with a simple, clear headline. Some other bloggers would have chosen something like: "10 things I hate about tabs", or "Why I'm quitting Chrome", or "The death of browser usability" Kudos to the author f
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by akamaka 17y ago
I'd like to see a proper quantitative analysis done on this subject. When you take money into account, are SSDs really worth it, or should I just buy more RAM?
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by akamaka 17y ago
It has been about one year since I last heard any talk of raytracing, so that sounds about right. I'm glad they're not wasting time on that!
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by akamaka 17y ago
Fantastic article. This is the best piece I've seen written on this subject so far, with lots of context and a good background on what's happened over the last five years. One thing I don't see mentioned, and which has been a huge red flag
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by akamaka 17y ago
Weird. It works now, unlike the last time I checked. Something must have changed, but I don't know what.
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by akamaka 17y ago
This article is a complete waste of time. It follows the same pattern as the exploitative "Violence is on the rise!" articles we see in the mainstream news. There's no examination of the fact that the number of scientists has exploded, or
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by akamaka 17y ago
I tried using those servers, and they didn't work. If I do an nslookup or dig through them, it's fine, but when I use them as the default nameservers in my network configuration, they seem to reject my requests. Anyone know why?
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by akamaka 17y ago
I think he means that he doesn't want the CrunchPad to become like other HBR case studies, not that he hopes a case study isn't written about this story.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Hey, you finished second place in the application benchmarks, not too far behind Linode, and the stability looks quite solid. Considering how little I paid for my 512M prgmr VPS, I'm very pleased to see these results!
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by akamaka 17y ago
There is, in fact, a climate conspiracy. It just happens to be one launched by the fossil fuel industry to obscure the truth about climate change and delay any action. And this release of emails right before the Copenhagen conference is ju
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by akamaka 17y ago
If you have enough time, you might want to read Steve Wozniak's interview from Founders At Work. It's very long and detailed! http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html
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by akamaka 17y ago
If we were in a formal debate, you'd be right. But we're not. The original poster's point is that ESR shouldn't even be admitted into the debate. Personally, I'm ignoring everything I read about this story unless it there's evidence that
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by akamaka 17y ago
Well, not entirely true, depending on what you're optimizing for. If it's cost, you need to see if gas bill savings + price difference of appliance < electric bill savings. If you're optimizing for CO2 emissions, and live in France, wit
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by akamaka 17y ago
Correct. That's often forgotten when promoting more expensive, efficient appliances. For example, Ontario is banning incandesent lightbulbs. However, studies have calculated that because of the colder climate, there will be no net cost sa
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by akamaka 17y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. Wood can be both green and non-green. Burning a full grown tree could release hundreds of years worth of carbon in an instant. Replanting that tree won't offset the effect of that CO2 within the 50-
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by akamaka 17y ago
In case you found the title confusing, these are intercepts of pager text messages sent on 9/11 (possibly leaked from some US goverment agency?). There's no explanation of what geographical area or what network providers are covered.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Now isn't the nicest time to be going after shipping companies, with the way their profits have collapsed over the last year. The recession has been pretty hard for airlines, but the drop in shipping prices is shocking by comparison: more
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by akamaka 17y ago
That may well be true, but the article isn't very convincing from any angle. There's no technical or economic analysis of other ways to make magnets (say, emerging technologies vs. more expensive, low-tech technologies). No in-depth data
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by akamaka 17y ago
Summary: rare earth minerals are probably going to be increasingly important in the future, and governments are getting involved in managing the supply. Currently most of the production takes place in China. I wouldn't recommended reading

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