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by cmccabe 13y ago
He didn't enter the data for the other regions yet.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Google "ground fault interruptor." What are you are talking about already exists. And it doesn't solve the problem.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
You have the wrong idea of how voltage works. High voltage electricity can and will kill you before the ground fault interruptor (or whatever) can kick in. It takes time to break a high voltage circuit, (on the order of milliseconds), and
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Once you start getting into the thousands of volts, it becomes very dangerous. That stuff will arc through the air and kill you. There is a reason why we use a hundred or two volts in consumer appliances.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
If you want the fastest possible speed, what you need is a technique called dynamic recompilation. Essentially, you compile the 6502 opcodes (or whatever) to native x86_64 code, and execute that. It's considered the gold standard of emula
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by cmccabe 13y ago
You are mistaken. You don't need extra checks to determine when to grow the stack. You just need to leave some unmapped space after the stack and correctly handle a SIGBUS error. There is no extra overhead above what the operating system
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Look, there is a shit-ton of coal in the ground. There is a process for converting coal into oil. The Germans used it during WWII. Not exactly cutting edge technology. If you are going to predict doom and gloom, you could at least give m
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I don't agree with the idea that there should be no standard library. There is a lot of benefit to having a big standard library with code for common tasks like manipulating strings, performing network I/O, or formatting text. Sure, you m
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by cmccabe 14y ago
The US population is about 300 million and is not growing that fast. In fact, it might even be declining if immigration were not a factor. China's and Europe's populations will start decling in our lifetimes. Only India and Africa are se
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by cmccabe 14y ago
No, you see, Apple taking a 30% kickback is good. AppGratis taking kickbacks is bad. They're completely different scenarios. For one thing, the names of the companies are different.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
tl;dr: he has issues with FWD.us because he believes that letting in more skilled immigrants is unfair to people who are unskilled. He also has some vague concept that skilled immigrants take jobs away from uneducated Americans. Because,
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by cmccabe 14y ago
A lot of HN users dump on any social network that isn't Facebook (or their new version for dogs, of course). Never mind that LinkedIn is quite useful, and the only social network that actually has managed to monetize itself reasonably well
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by cmccabe 14y ago
tl;dr
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Makes sense-- pretending to provide service is AT&T's core competency.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
If you don't mind me asking - What did you spend $15k on? 15k isn't really that much. One month of his time is probably at least 10k, especially once you start thinking about health care and other benefits.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Dell isn't dead. They took a hit in recent years, but so did pretty much all PC suppliers. The market is just not growing at the same rate it used to, at least in the US. There's nothing wrong with getting into a logistics competition. Y
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by cmccabe 14y ago
There are fundamental language reasons why Java has a slow startup time. jar files do not contain native bytecode. Instead, they contain standardized, platform-independent bytecode for the Java Virtual machine. What this means in practic
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Memory consumption is often not a major concern on modern systems, saving 50 MB or even 500 MB is seldom as important as the ability to process more requests per second. That's what the original designers of Java thought too. It turns ou
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Slower than Java at what? At program startup time? Java is a joke in this area. At memory consumption? Java has a high fixed memory cost. It also uses more memory than Go does. There are fundamental reasons for this. Java needs to keep
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Why not try engaging your brain before spewing another "think of the children" post onto the internets? Calpers has argued that California is legally obligated to pay all pensions in full due to the California constitution. If the pension
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Because the alternative to funding Solyndras is clearly wars? You do realize the disastrous ethanol subsidies were expanded during the Bush years, right? There's a lot of blame to go around for everyone on Capitol Hill. I don't see a probl
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by cmccabe 14y ago
What does this have to do with anything? Let's ask wikipedia. The Federal Reserve's policy of ignoring food and energy prices when making interest rate decisions is often confused with the Bureau of Labor Statistics' measurement of the CP
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Because next year's smartphone will be too large to fit in your pocket, and will make you look like this: http://www.mp4nation.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ano...
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by cmccabe 14y ago
According to wikipedia: "The core CPI index excludes goods with high price volatility, such as food and energy. This measure of core inflation systematically excludes food and energy prices because, historically, they have been highly volat
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by cmccabe 14y ago
You could start with Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school if you're interested in a serious defense of anti-Keynesianism. Note: I'm not saying I agree with them, just answering your question.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Pretty much every big economy is trying to inflate away its debts. The Bank of England recently revised their inflation target upwards. Now Japan's central bank is talking about doing the same thing. As far as the US goes: I've got two w
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Hey man... hire people, not years of experience in X. Let's not pidgeonhole people because of what languages they've used in the past.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Go is awesome, and I'm glad to see people are having success with it. I wouldn't worry too much about the haters. Every successful project attracts them (they wouldn't spend their time trolling unsuccessful ones). I think that any startup
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Web years are a little bit like dog years. I feel like Revel will grow up fast. For the record, I have written some Go, but not worked on Revel specifically.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I never said they would. I just said that expensive tea has less fluoride-- a statement of fact. Based on what I've read on this subject, less than ten cups of tea a day should be fine. Also keep in mind that there is usually fluoride in

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