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by alephnil 13y ago
Norway have plenty of tech startups. It is just that most of them are in the oil technology and oil services, and very few are in the IT business. In fact, the oil technology business is the second largest industry in Norway after oil produ
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by alephnil 13y ago
Most institutions that have a real supercomputer also has clusters that are used for tasks that does not need fast interconnect. The reason is that there is quite some tasks that does not need fast interconnection, and for those a cluster i
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by alephnil 14y ago
The object model of C++ is almost entirely from Simula rather than from smalltalk. The object model of Simula is less dynamic and the language itself is based on Algol rather than being built from scratch like Smalltalk. In many ways, Simul
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by alephnil 14y ago
There are no examples of a bank crisis in a country of the size of the US economy other than the one in 1929, and I guess nobody want to repeat that receipt. That is probably what a purer capitalist/liberalist would prescribe still. Of larg
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by alephnil 14y ago
It is far more difficult than sequence alignment. Sequence alignment has quadratic complexity, while fragment assembly is NP-hard. Se for example http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=131745416915434219...
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by alephnil 14y ago
> I think this was also one of the first applications that could qualify as an instant messaging tool I would certainly consider IRC to be an instant messagig tool, and that has been around since around 1988, while the orginal PowWow se
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by alephnil 14y ago
It forgets to mention that some technologies just dies after the "peak of inflated expectations" and never manage to turn the slope.
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by alephnil 14y ago
I would guess that the letter frequency, digram and trigram frequencies etc are quite skewed compared to random. Just by taking that into account, you would crack an average password much faster than you suggest by trying the most likely pa
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by alephnil 14y ago
> Comparison is not valid, since I'm considering many new projects. If C++ had never been considered for new projects, it would have been in sharp decline, which it is not. What I said was that most of the growth has been elsewhere, lik
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by alephnil 14y ago
> Did they? Somehow I didn't notice everyone moving to other languages Neither did the FORTRAN and COBOL programmers back in the days. The reason is that there were plenty to do (and still is) for those already involved. That is also th
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by alephnil 14y ago
I experienced a server that was slashdoted back in 2001, which resulted in 1,5 million hits, most of it during in a 12 hours period. That should be around 100.000 hits an hour. If a server get 6000 hits an hour, that is less than two access
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by alephnil 14y ago
For some sorts of copyright, that is the case, like for music. A company can legally deny another company a license to a patent or set an unreasonable price for it. Normally it is in a company's best interest to license the patent, but they
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by alephnil 14y ago
> It's running on windows, which makes the "real-time" argument void. That is simply not true. You can set a windows process to use real-time priorities.
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by alephnil 14y ago
I think you should put things in perspective. Ireland is not the least corrupt country in the world, but definitely on the right end of the list. Only Scandinavia, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is less corrupt. The rest of west
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by alephnil 14y ago
>A neo-liberalist wouldn't necesseraly make the two a difference A (neo-)liberalist would not approve the difference, as long as money is made, but the patent system is government regulation of trade, so he would not approve of the pate
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by alephnil 14y ago
Electric vehicles are far more efficient than ordinary cars, over 80% including both the charging/uncharging of the batteries and the electric motor. Compare that with the 25% of ordinary cars. Even if all the electricity comes from coal, i
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by alephnil 14y ago
The podcasts and iTunes U are affected by this as well, so it means that Apple stop people from finding content that talks or teaches about jailbreaking as well.
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by alephnil 14y ago
> Can I ask what the hell Europe is expecting that the US isn't? Probably terrorist attacks like these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_and_Vienna_airport_attacks
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by alephnil 14y ago
There are perfectly good industrial electrolysis cells that can split water with 85% efficiency, and that does not require platinum, only nickel (and by that I mean elemental nickel, not nickel-molybdenum-nitride). They need to be big and o
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by alephnil 14y ago
According to the people at Ada Core Technologies, that develop gnat, the GNU Ada compiler, all compliance tests has been done using the -O2 flag with the compiler. Thus that mode should be the most tested and reliable option for generating
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by alephnil 14y ago
Indeed. The chemical properties of the elements will make some easier to extract than others. Metals that have been known since prehistoric times (copper, tin, lead, silver, zink and others) easily combine with sulphur in the crust, and can
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by alephnil 14y ago
Plastic is one of the most valuable things that can be made out of oil, and one of the things we will still use oil for when its availability is limited, simply because the utility per barrel of oil is much larger for plastic than for fuel.
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by alephnil 14y ago
Maybe not too practical as presented here, but if you start with mechanical turks doing the recognition, the pairs of images / description could be an invaluable source when developing and training automatic algorithms that does this kind o
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by alephnil 15y ago
Languages like matlab, R and Python (via numpy), let you do efficient computations as long as you can let them happen in the core, that is written in C and Fortran. This is very often possible, but in some cases you find that it is not, and
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by alephnil 15y ago
> Dismantling the state run businesses should have been done more slowly, to allow the Soviet people time to adapt. Poland, Hungary and the Baltic countries mostly did this, and they had far less problem after communism than Russia and
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by alephnil 15y ago
I have read none of the books on the first list, but 4 of 5 on the second, is it something wrong with me? To be more serious. All the books on the second list comes from people that were signinficant contributors to the field the book is ab
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by alephnil 15y ago
> Israeli airports handle ~1 million passengers a year That sounds too few. Even if you only consider individuals rather than flights that means that less than one in five Israelis flies any given year. Norway, with about the same popul
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by alephnil 15y ago
In fact it is so mature that what we today call biofuels was what e.g Rudolf Diesel envisioned that his engines would run on, and the prototypes used for fuel. (He also thought of coal dust) The problem is not the fuel itself, but the possi
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by alephnil 15y ago
> You may be interested to know that it takes energy to remove salt from water. Yes, the osmotic pressure is similar to a head of about 240 meter. In practice it will be less in practice (110-120m), but still significant. > There ar
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by alephnil 15y ago
I found this quite biased towards recent papers. Almost all papers was published after 2000, and not a single paper before 1990. Many of the best papers was published in early days of computer science, but not a single one of these was on t

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