chadgeidel

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811.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I've often wondered if this were true in general or only in the tech industry. Do Doctors, Lawyers, or Nuclear Physicists think they know about everything else?
812.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I wonder how much of the NT codebase is still portable. Back in the "early days" you could get NT for MIPS and Alpha ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Supported_platforms ) but I don't think Microsoft is willing to make a ARM versi
813.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
You might be surprised to hear there was extensive user testing when designing the ribbon. Jensen Harris blogged about some of the design work here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/tags/Why+the+New+UI_3F... Here's a presentation fr
814.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I've often wondered how much diet plays a role in "mental acuity." When he referred to poor children being adopted into upper middle class families that was the first thing that came to mind.
815.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I completely agree. They can either have (publicly advertised!) caps OR they can do traffic shaping. Not both. Honestly ISP's need to move their entire offering to a "business-class" level of service (tiered, published data prices, some
816.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I think it's more cost effective to just design components that are more efficient. I believe there is a whitepaper that was published by Google's datacenter engineers that points this out. I can't find it right now. Edit: Sorry about th
817.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I'm not sure that was the intent. Security is hard . Most of the time these "simple" solutions are applied in the thought that we can fix our security problems easily. I think the author was just pointing that out.
818.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
Also take a look at "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed" by Ben Rich (manager at Lockheed after Kelly Johnson). Despite the title, he also talks extensively about the U2 and SR-71 projects - Amazing pieces of engineerin
819.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I had always heard that 1 page (one side) of plain text was about 1KB. Unfortunately I can't find any resources to back that up. The closest I could find was this article which indicates 2KB per "typewritten page": http://searchstorage.t
820.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I too, would like to see this discussed. There certainly is a PHYSICAL upper bound - that is the number of people living on the planet. What would the world be like if every man, woman, and child were an entrepreneur (maybe better put - a
821.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I boil the water with the pot covered, and then cook the pasta with the pot partially covered - maintaining just enough heat to keep the water boiling. It does take more effort, but it uses less energy (water evaporating from the surface c
822.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I don't remember where I read it, but diffuse light from the back of the screen is the way to go. Kind of like the Phillips TV "Ambilight" that was advertised on TV a few years ago. I do this and IMHO it works well. It takes a while to ge
823.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
Wow, I think you just sold me a Kindle. I'm not even kidding. That was really amazing. Thank you.
824.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
From the section on coffee: "Try to limit yourself to fewer than 100 cups a day." Ok, I'll try . 8*D
825.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
You are absolutely right. Quite a few of my 30-something friends "Internet browsing" seems to consist solely of using Facebook. (It's the new AOL)
826.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I clicked the link hoping to see "emergent behavior" from a NN. Instead, the thing is called "Emergent." cries
827.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
You are right of course, but who gave those two such autonomy? Jobs knows that autonomy is what makes Pixar so great. Will the other Disney "overloards" realize that or just grind Pixar into the ground like they did with their own (once b
828.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
You might want to back up your entire system before installing a beta OS...
829.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
Reinforce the bias even more...
830.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I've thought of this too, but I can't get around my "moral" (not really, but that's the best description) qualms about this. We already self-select news to reinforce our bias. This idea would just reinforce the bias. Still I'm thinking a
831.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
Yeah, this isn't "uncanny valley" it's just weird. Arms (even if static) would help. If not, don't give it "shoulders."
832.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
Yes, you should be willing to explore new interactions as computing power increases. Many advances made over the years were due to such increases in computing power. Take for example: the mouse, the windowing UI, desktop search, and spati
833.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
My parents worry about the HVAC in their (more than) 3500 sq ft house. Not worry in the sense that "we might not be able to live" but worry in the sense that "turning down the upstairs thermostat a few degrees sure saves a lot of money."
834.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
I always preferred this one: "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination." -- Andrew Lang
835.
by chadgeidel 18y ago
Really? I thought knowledge of undersea gas hydrates was fairly common - just that retrieving them was cost-prohibitive. That being said, is this really the solution to the fuel crisis? Acknowledging that we are running out of a fossil fu