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by chton 12y ago
OK, so it is usable on some level in scientific experiments. It's a bit much to claim it on the same level as a scanning-tunneling microscope though, a device designed, built and used exclusively in a scientific setting. Blue LEDs ar
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by chton 12y ago
I don't consider it the same class because an STM is a scientific instrument. It is used to perform more experiments, and leads directly to an increase in knowledge. Blue LEDs themselves, while definitely a big achievement, don'
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by chton 12y ago
I've never heard about "invention" as such being a part of the intention of the Nobel prize before, but apparently you are correct, it was mentioned for physics specifically in Nobel's will. I suppose I never made the c
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by chton 12y ago
I'm still on the hedge about it. Yes, it's more relate-able and inspiring, but it isn't really a contribution to physics as much as engineering. If they had been given the prize for their underlying work on semiconductors,
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3D magnet stack subs for transistors(electronics-eetimes.com)
1 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
Thanks for the info. I know about node-RED, since it's a company in the same space and with some of the same intentions as my own. Gotta know your friendly neighbourhood competitors :)
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by chton 12y ago
aha that is a big help, I probably should have searched around more before complaining. Thanks, and good luck with your platform!
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by chton 12y ago
I gave it a quick look, and it does seem interesting. A good addition to the "IFTTT for [category]" crop that is popping up like mushrooms lately. One small nitpick: When you add components, it's not very clear which are usa
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by chton 12y ago
I'm not sure this explanation holds water. Plenty of experts have managed to keep their beginner's mind, and they are often the very best in their field. In lots of fields, keeping an open, learning mind is an important part of
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by chton 12y ago
I'm saddened every time I see supposed experts or 'knowers' react with disdain to simple questions. Even if you've completely forgotten that you were once the ignorant one, shouldn't you at least be happy and helpf
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by chton 12y ago
As has been pointed out to me: ignore my previous comment. I got some fundamentals wrong and should leave the technical explanations to the real physicists :)
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by chton 12y ago
My brain added an 'I' in the middle of "neutron" in the parent comment. Probably because I was in the middle of reading something else about neutrinos :) I definitely agree that neutrons are familiar territory.
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by chton 12y ago
Aha, thanks for the correction, I must have picked up some bad info somewhere. I'll do my research better next time.
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by chton 12y ago
Exactly, and they also have spin 1/2, but we're unsure of their other properties that might make them Majorana particles.
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by chton 12y ago
Photons are something of a special case because they are massless. Gravitons, too. As bosons, their interactions are not limited by the Pauli exclusion principle, so they can not annihilate each other. They interact through different mea
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by chton 12y ago
There is more to being antimatter than just having the opposite charge. The spin of the particle also matters. For a particle to be its own antiparticle, it would have to have spin 1/2. All elementary fermions have that property, bu
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by chton 12y ago
It's an interesting result for solid-state physicists, but the title is very confusing to the layman. The finding is about quasi particles that have the same properties as a Majorana fermion (a Majorana bound state), due to how electr
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by chton 12y ago
In an ideal world, that would be possible, yes. But a company does need to make some money, even if only to pay its founders for their time. That money can come from investments, but if you start a company just to learn new stuff you&#x27
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by chton 12y ago
2015 Ig Nobel award for Politics, right there. I love this kind of 'research'. It's frivolous, but there is an underlying point about the stressfulness of presidency.
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by chton 12y ago
My first thought for something actually doable would be a group of compressed gas cannisters with highly reflective balloons attached to them. Very simple mechanics, all you need is a strong valve on a timer, so it can be made to survive t
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by chton 12y ago
I agree that the 'false sense of security' problem is one of the biggest issues that SemVer faces, but it can be remedied in a variety of ways. Nuget, for example, is strongly focused on SemVer, and most (recent) packages tend to
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by chton 12y ago
I think this is a bad, bad idea. While SemVer is not by any means perfect, the arguments you give for abandoning it are either in SemVer by design or a matter of time. In order: 1. A 'breaking change' in SemVer is a change where
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by chton 12y ago
I'm sorry to hear you're being kicked out of your own company. That's never an easy thing to go through, but you'll pull through. I don't think it's fair to say starting your own company doesn't contribut
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Smallest possible diamonds form ultra-thin nanothreads(phys.org)
2 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
The most commonly cited proponents of this viewpoint are Rosson and Alpert ( http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1455754 , behind a paywall). The first study you linked refers to them and a few other explicitly, and uses their
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by chton 12y ago
I'm a Belgian too, and the beer is always a temptation. Personally, I consider myself a drinker. Not daily, but one drink a few times per week, with heavier consumption on Saturdays. Coping with booze for me is a matter of 'ever
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Scientists twist radio beams, reach speeds of 32 gigabits per second(sciencedaily.com)
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by chton 12y ago
I didn't. I meant 'skeuomorphic' as in 'designed with cues that correspond to reality, to indicate corresponding functions and behaviour'. It's a bit more nebulous when applied to real code, since we're
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by chton 12y ago
I'm exactly in your camp. I would love to see more functional influence in OO, and more careful thought about what to use at what time.
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by chton 12y ago
You should try explaining some business logic to a non-technical person some time. If you are able to properly model the problem domain, non-technical people have a much easier time understanding the flow of the code and how it works if it

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