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by cygwin98 13y ago
Thanks. Fixed.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
The pdf was a fun read. Thanks. Don't know where did you get the figure of 35kg though. The article talked about a payload of 12kg if the balloon is filled with NH3. My estimation is that the payload can be increased to about 60kg if h
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Thanks for the detailed explanation, very informative. Could a big Zeppelin-like airship filled with hydrogen make more sense on Mars?
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by cygwin98 13y ago
The pressure on the surface of Mars (0.6 kilopascals or 0.087 psi) is about one tenth of the pressure at the height of 20KM from surface of Earth (Armstrong limit 6.25 kilopascals or 0.906 psi). Of course, the structure of the "Martian
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Why not send a drone plane together with the Curiosity? It sounds more efficient doing exploration from sky than land. I get that the weather could be a problem. Anyway, just food for thought.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Umm, my take is that developers are taking over the world, in term of duties. We don't need BA, since we do agile development and talk directly to customers. We don't need DBA now that we have ORM and NOSQL. We don't need sys
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by cygwin98 13y ago
For a second, I thought you're talking about THE Armstrong who landed on the Moon. I have to blame the context of the conversation here.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
That's understandable. You know even the fact that America's moon-landing has been challenged for a long while. I was hoping China to land their rover to exactly where Armstrong landed on the Moon. Supposedly, the USA flag and the
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Most DBAs these days are grown internally from developers or system administrators who decide to (or are forced to) specialize while on the job. I agree with you on above statement. Though my conclusion is different from yours. I think i
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by cygwin98 13y ago
If you spent some time to learn Scala and tried it on a project, and still prefer using Clojure, I'll believe you. if you say you prefer Scala over Java, I will force myself to respect you and avoid being accused of an ad hominem atta
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by cygwin98 13y ago
I think we share a similar background. I was coming from Ruby on Rails and C# background, and now am spreading into JVM via Clojure. Before C#, I did everything in C++, which I don't like. The past few years has seen a turmoil of battl
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by cygwin98 13y ago
It seems to me that what you want is a CoffeeScript for JVM, a language that is much more expressive and concise and at the same time can compile to JVM and utilize the aplenty Java libraries. Like CoffeeScript, this language should mainly
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Basically, you're describing C++. That's the reason why I upvoted that rant post, as I share the same opinion with that author that we don't want another complex industry-grade language.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
This scene somehow reminds me of one of my favorite old DOS games -- Civilization I. Ａ lot of you may share the same good memory. In the game a number (up to six) of civilizations/nations compete, you control one while the computer AI
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by cygwin98 13y ago
In a dull corporate environment, the equivalent is "No ETA yet".
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Javascript is also a dynamically typed script language, which Google managed to make at least one order of magnitude faster with V8. It's likely same tricks can be applied to Ruby.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Didn't watch this video. But as far as I recalled back then, the guys at Twitter was complaining about the slowness of Rails and MRI, as Rails was not asynchronous and MRI was CPU-bound, so instead of fixing this root cause to apply th
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Twitter was in a nice position to better Ruby in terms of performance, though they chickened out and escaped to Scala. Even Twitter went public recently and posed to challenge big guys such as Google, Facebook, they've lost my respect
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by cygwin98 13y ago
He was a lecturer, not a professor. In universities, lecturers are considered at the bottom of the totem pole, probably even lower than those desktop support staffs as the latter are often unionized.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
One comment from sdrawkcab on that page seems to resonate with my opinion very well: Microsoft is the only major technology/software company that thrives well in both the consumer and enterprise space, giving up Bing and Xbox is givin
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Nice app. It reminds me of http://www.refurb.me , which is to track the stock of refurbished Apple devices.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Wish T-Mobile came over to Canada and take Wind Mobile.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Are there any open source load balancing solutions like what Amazon ELB does? Say, install the load balancer on to one or two Amazon VPS, proxy traffic to third party VPS/dedicated servers, Linode, OVH, etc. Wonder how feasible this ap
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Not really. If they execute their rules faithfully and efficiently, the bad ones will be blacklisted and filtered out. That might be doable if they can program their VOIP phones and automatically block whoever violate their rules.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Not sure if Instagram is a competitor to Adobe though, maybe over their low-end mobile apps. I was thinking of Adobe's cashcow -- Creative Suite. That could be a good niche market for C++ programmers from game companies to build their
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by cygwin98 13y ago
PR damage control. BTW, Adobe seems to be a vulnerable giant to be taken over. Not sure why no startups target them.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
>We haven't really ruled out any of the common stack tech choices. They are all good in their own ways, and have their own tradeoffs - and the intention here was not to spark wars about which tool is the best. This is way diplomat
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by cygwin98 13y ago
I would like to know the reasons why they rules out Java and the gangs on the JVM such as Scala, Clojure.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Stockholm syndrome? You have to use/write Javascript doesn't mean it isn't bad.

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