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cot6mur3
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cot6mur3
4y ago
True, but the Net Income numbers ($3.8 billion from GM Financial, $9.9 billion at all of GM) are a lot closer. Looks like 38% of GM Net Income is earned by GM Financial?
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cot6mur3
10y ago
To be fair, though, this webapp emulates the look & feel of Windows 95 (or greater), which was released in August 1995. Windows 3.1(1) (and NT 3.1 as of July 1993) were the current versions of Windows in 1993; each had far less polished
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cot6mur3
11y ago
Interesting advertizing industry trend based analysis of Google's and Facebook's financials of late and some future projections - quite informative.
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Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever
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12y ago
Decent read - it further helped me appreciate the position from which Python 2 devs require certain non-trivial, non-ported libs are coming. That said, as a mostly Python 3 developer, PEP 404, to which he links, provides much insight and ju
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cot6mur3
15y ago
Nice response. As for ultimate limits, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound . Of course, this bound doesn't really give bits per quark/particle limits - just an overall limit based on the spherical radius of the information
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15y ago
Sadly, Eclipse Indigo is only downloadable by 'Friends of Eclipse' at present.
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15y ago
Agreed. Poorly paraphrasing a line I read somewhere: "Software is like a fish: once it stops moving it dies."
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16y ago
Thanks for naming the idea. For those wondering what the Seinfeld technique is but who are too lazy to Google at the moment: http://www.nevblog.com/motivations-the-seinfeld-calendar/ .
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16y ago
You need a templating + biz logic language, and a database. The usual starters for non-purists are PHP and MySQL. Also, most front-ends use JavaScript these days, often with a helper JavaScript library like JQuery. Myself, I'm more of a P