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781.
by bd 18y ago
They did indeed design it with more details. It's just that Google Earth is not a perfect presentation medium (compared to offline rendering from local files): http://www.procedural.com/cityengine/rome-reborn.html
782.
by bd 18y ago
Sounds more like game or game-like application. Maybe live betting during some sport event?
783.
by bd 18y ago
It seems you would be better off using some custom in-memory data structure rather than classical ready-made database solution. You do not want to sort the whole dataset after each new piece of data comes. You want to insert each new entry
784.
Bendable, ultra-thin fuel cells coming soon(crunchgear.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
785.
Good to Gone: Disappearing "Great" Companies?(paul.kedrosky.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
786.
by bd 18y ago
My bank sends me SMS with a PIN code when I log in. But they are in the process of replacing the system with a card reader that reads your debit card (smartcard with a chip).
787.
by bd 18y ago
Slideshare presentation is also high-res, just hit "full screen" button in the lower right corner.
788.
by bd 18y ago
Complementary product. Print more PDFs => sell more printers.
789.
Sonic Vox: Real-time voice shifter for iPhone(vimeo.com)
5 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
790.
Rare, profound positive events won't make you happy, but lots of little ones will(bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)
14 points by bd 18y ago|5 comments
791.
Rainfall autism theory suggested(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
792.
by bd 18y ago
For Windows XP there is also a nice installer for having multiple Explorer versions on the same machine (3,4,5,6 in addition to normally installed 7): http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
793.
by bd 18y ago
I found I'm more productive doing almost all development just in one browser (Firefox) and then I fix bugs appearing in other browsers only at the end. The exception is when I want to do something more complex, then I test feasibility of th
794.
by bd 18y ago
You are right. But to play devil's advocate: what if very high intelligence individuals are not more likely to do science, mathematics or engineering? For a very rough approximation: if I remember well, SAT averages for Harvard/Yale/Princet
795.
by bd 18y ago
And this is exactly what Murray is saying in The Bell Curve: over the time (20th century), the system became better at "bubbling up" smart kids, no matter what socio-economic background they came from.
796.
by bd 18y ago
Not necessarily. See for example D.E. Shaw, J.H. Simons, N. Myhrvold.
797.
by bd 18y ago
What you can't say http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/resay.html
798.
Otto the octopus wreaks havoc(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
799.
by bd 18y ago
Ah, EU projects I guess. Been there. Actually, your situation is quite common. I have yet to see something really useful coming from EU project. Try to find something at least marginally related to the project that really interests you, get
800.
by bd 18y ago
That's just the universe getting back into balance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect The raw Raven's APM score that would get you in 1962 1-in-1000 level, would get you only 1-in-10 level in 1993.
801.
by bd 18y ago
I made some new graphs, taking data from all the history I kept (since September 2006): http://joblighted.com/img/jobs_Sep2006_Oct2008_weekly.png http://joblighted.com/img/jobs_Sep2006_Oct2008_monthly.png But bear in mind, I kept adding
802.
by bd 18y ago
Not really. I track 21 job boards and there is indeed a noticeable decline, though it did start already earlier: http://joblighted.com/statistics And there are more people looking for jobs: in the last few weeks my subscriber count went u
803.
by bd 18y ago
Well, they did mention one fundamental problem which also hints at the solution: the system is too optimized thus it is very fragile, susceptible to amplify even tiny perturbations. Basically, we need to give up some performance and uncou
804.
by bd 18y ago
From The Economist article: All this means that hedge funds have been unable to ride to the rescue of global markets. According to the IMF, the average cash balance of hedge funds has risen from 14% last year to 22%, while the amount of le
805.
by bd 18y ago
Here is the actual project page: CASCADES project: Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jure/blogs/
806.
Google Maps API now offers reverse geocoding(googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com)
4 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
807.
by bd 18y ago
See also video: http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/x-rays/
808.
Sticky tape generates X-rays(nature.com)
21 points by bd 18y ago|3 comments
809.
List of emerging technologies(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
810.
by bd 18y ago
Well, 1000 item limit on offset wasn't introduced recently. It was always there, and it was always documented. It's actually that no matter what you do, query always returns max 1000 items, offset just works "locally" on these items. There

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