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by cpleppert 14y ago
Because their financial projections are bunk and are ridiculously understated. Every piece of technology on the vehicle is custom made. Even if you accept all their projections you still have to assume that they develop it in time and that
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by cpleppert 14y ago
Single Stage to Orbit (or any type of reusable launch system) invariably adds complexity and weight, which in turn eats up any gains by being able to reuse stages. It just isn't worth it to add complexity unless you go whole hog and make th
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by cpleppert 15y ago
I have a minor quibble with this article. We have a pretty good reason why they didn't either extend the watertight compartments or use a double hull in the construction. Extending the watertight compartments up into the ship makes passenge
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by cpleppert 15y ago
NDB can be used as a replacement for the entire SQL stack so you don't need to run MySQL programs at all if you program against the interface.
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by cpleppert 15y ago
as described here: http://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/binaryhandling.ht... Binaries are either stored on a private heap or in a global area where they are reference counted. Binary reference counting depends on ProcBin objects sto
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by cpleppert 15y ago
I have a Macbook Air and a windows desktop that runs all my test browsers and a linux VM through virtual box. I use VNC to test everything on the browsers I have installed on the windows box and additionally run databases on the linux VM. S
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HP's touchpad was bound to be a flop(nytimes.com)
52 points by cpleppert 15y ago|43 comments
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by cpleppert 15y ago
I question whether the tradeoffs that they made are the result of careful planning. Using memory mapped files for a database isn't something a lot of people do because you give up all control over concurrency. There is no way to bandaid con
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by cpleppert 15y ago
The challenge from China on space needs to be kept in perspective the chinese still spend much less than the US on space technologies. The real failure has been the constant insistence by political leaders that NASA utilize shuttle derived
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by cpleppert 15y ago
Given that the success of Rybka can't be entirely attributed to copying an open source engine this does not seem like a smart decision on the part of the author. The similarities are nothing that couldn't have been re-implemented, even if f