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by chrisb 17y ago
But surprisingly it doesn't ban you from searching on this, unlike searching for "google.blogspot.com": http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=google.blogspot.com Edit: I realise this has been pointed out before, but I find it curious that "google.blo
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Search Baidu for "Tiananmen square massacre" - guess how many results?(baidu.com)
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Frozen Britain(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by chrisb 17y ago
Just to comment on the often repeated claim of the unavailability of the data - try visiting: http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/ipcc/about_ipcc.php - contains all the models used in the IPCC AR4. http://tamino.wordpress.com/climate-data-links/
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by chrisb 17y ago
See http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cr... for the other side of the story. The oft-made claim about the non-availability of the climate model data can be proven false by visiting: http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/ipcc/
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Greenland really is melting - two independent studies confirm(greencarcongress.com)
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by chrisb 17y ago
The headline has been edited since I made the comment. It originally didn't start "At peak". It is now more representative of the article.
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by chrisb 17y ago
Impressive. But the headline is slightly deceptive, as 53% is the maximum ever recorded. What's more impressive is the that over the 24 hours presented the contribution from wind never drops beneath 30%. Contrast this with the current UK re
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by chrisb 17y ago
We always ask our candidates to write code in our interviews, but is there a reason why many companies seem to do this with pen & paper, or a blackboard? We sit them in front of a computer with various editors/IDEs and ask them to code
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by chrisb 17y ago
A quote from the Hacker News Guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): "What to submit: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups . If you had to reduce it to a sentenc
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by chrisb 17y ago
No, no, no, ... a thousand times no. As applicable to climate change as to ethics: Two wrongs don't make a right.
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Superfreakonomics: elementary climate change errors illustrated(realclimate.org)
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by chrisb 17y ago
But if you're doing the commute anyway (you sinner)...
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by chrisb 17y ago
They do. But the switching power supply that regulates the mains voltage to 5v (or whatever is required) is always on, and although they are extremely efficient the loses do add up. Arguably it should be possible for the phone to switch off
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by chrisb 17y ago
"So cheap that I convinced a lot of my friends to sponsor my new home" What? Maybe it's because I'm in the UK, but I don't understand this at all - why would friends sponsor your new home? And what does it mean? Do they just buy all your st
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by chrisb 17y ago
For the record - I consider it way beyond dispute; mostly caused by human activities; I try to limit my carbon footprint (not driving, etc...). And I'm attempting to develop a "car conversion" kit to convert popular family cars to be plug-i
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by chrisb 17y ago
Soros is quoted as stating "The science is beyond dispute" on global warming, and is prepared to invest $1 billion as proof of his conviction. Do you consider the science beyond dispute? Do you think it is primarily caused by human activiti
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Climate Change Crock of the Week(youtube.com)
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DIY .NET LINQ provider for MsSql, MySql, SqlLite(blogs.msdn.com)
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by chrisb 17y ago
True, although GWT uses manual splitting, Doloto is profile-driven automatic splitting. Of course, arguments can be had over which is better, but this certainly appears to be a neat and quick solution to a common problem.
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by chrisb 17y ago
Interestingly, this is the same solution that is used in GWT - for all the same reasons given in this post.
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Software Transactional Memory for .NET(msdn.microsoft.com)
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A scalable reader/writer scheme with optimistic retry(bluebytesoftware.com)
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by chrisb 17y ago
A .NET interpreter for embedded/constrained systems where MS.NET or Mono aren't suitable: http://www.dotnetanywhere.org/ It now implements most of the core .NET 2.0 spec, a usable subset of the base class library, and an implementation of