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by danjayh 12y ago
One wonders if that this is used extensively in urban areas, could it mitigate the urban heat island effect to some extent, and in doing so offset some amount of measured global warming?
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by danjayh 12y ago
Seeing this on a 4mhz machine with such low specs makes me wonder what sort of impractical demos might be possible on modern equipment that harbingers of things to come 20-30 years. Can anyone think of anything off the top of their heads?
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by danjayh 12y ago
Yikes indeed. I have to wonder if the sailors aboard the victory ships closest to the blast in the linked article knew the level of danger they were in. Absolutely terrifying.
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by danjayh 12y ago
Neither ... it's a subcontractor. Also your mention of ARINC brings to mind another thing - the business environment is way different than most of tech. Patent lawsuits are basically unheard of. Many of the companies within the fiel
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by danjayh 12y ago
Numerous factors. I work in the midwest, where the cost of living is dramatically lower (in fact, in terms of salary/cost of living, it may actually be better). You also trade in some potential returns for a large reduction in pote
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by danjayh 12y ago
This is a true takeaway. Redundancies are even layered - for example, there may be redundant computing modules, running redundant (and possibly independently developed software). These computing modules may be multi-processor, have multip
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by danjayh 12y ago
Nice title. "Finally, a use for Big Data..." -- as if it were a technology lacking in practical applications.
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by danjayh 12y ago
I wonder if they can print without using support structures? I would have expected layer bonding to be an issue due to no gravity, but if it's really not a problem (as indicated in the article), I think that 3D printing should work b
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by danjayh 12y ago
No facts, no cold hard hard data, no references, all emotional hand-waving.
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by danjayh 12y ago
Agreed. Although LEDs are far more efficient than incandescent bulbs, they still produce a non-trivial amount of heat. Almost all useful LEDs have some form of heat sink (for a flashlight, it can be a substantial block of aluminum, for a
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by danjayh 12y ago
I've seen a lot of 5) where I work. The company that owned our business prior to the current owners had a policy of intentionally hiring local engineering graduates and building their skills. This has held wages in the area below ave
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by danjayh 12y ago
Do you know of any retail stores that still sell electronics components besides Radio Shack? Honestly, that will be what makes me the saddest when they go - when I really need a switch, resistor, or LED I just don't know of any othe
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by danjayh 12y ago
What an amazing speaker. He brings what should be boring technical details to life in an engaging, humorous dialogue. Obviously a very technically intelligent man, and an excellent public speaker, that seems like it's a rare combinat
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by danjayh 13y ago
I really wish they'd broken that group down a little more to identify how many had obtained advanced degrees. I'm curious about whether there's truth to the idea that 'the master's degree is the new bachelor's
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by danjayh 13y ago
It almost sounds to me like they're seizing a collection that was probably bought and paid for by this man. If that's the case, and the only thing illegal he's done is break some 'you can't have that' laws, I&
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by danjayh 13y ago
It depends. If she's relying heavily upon frameworks and canned tools (which is actually a good thing , because re-inventing the wheel is bad), it's entirely possible to build a website without doing any 'engineering'.
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by danjayh 13y ago
It's really even worse than that - not just the consumer is paying, but netflex, etc. also buy bandwidth from their ISP. Comcast is refusing to allow an adequate interconnection between the the content providers' ISPs to the co
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by danjayh 13y ago
Which makes me wonder ... why Visual Studio? If they're using the GNU toolchain, then they're just using VS for the IDE and eschewing all of the compiler-y and debugger-y bits. Don't get me wrong, VS is a top notch IDE, but
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by danjayh 13y ago
I knew it. Netflix isn't to blame when my Internets keep getting stuck in the tubes, they're just taking a wrong turn through that beam-splitter thingamajig. Somebody should explain it to Ted Stevens and he'll get right o
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by danjayh 13y ago
That works both ways, though -- I went through college from 2000-2004, and aside from some brief forays into other languages (Ruby and Perl, from what I remember) we were taught exclusively in C. I had some VB experience (self-taught) from
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by danjayh 13y ago
Yes.
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by danjayh 13y ago
They sell it through wal*mart http://www.walmart.com/ip/Tmobile-30-Wireless-Airtime-Card/1...
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by danjayh 13y ago
I have mixed emotions on this. On the one hand, Adobe's poor security has hurt _millions_ of their users. On the other hand, Adobe has invested many millions of dollars into the development of Photoshop, and thousands of people rely
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by danjayh 13y ago
Is there information available anywhere on the required resources? Specifically: 1) How much space does the compiled code require? Can conditional compilation be used to omit unused features? 2) What is the overhead for the various data s
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by danjayh 13y ago
I might eat this as snack food, or to replace an occasional meal, but the idea of eating exactly the same thing every single meal scares me a little bit. I guess I just don't have confidence that modern science has fully quantified ev
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by danjayh 13y ago
The difference between viruses then (most did little real harm, left your computer in perfectly working state, and were meant to show off the skills of the writer) and now (network zombies used to make people money, or replace web content w
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by danjayh 13y ago
And if you find one, and the owner doesn't post his face in a video, how do you track it back to him? My greatest concern with this is that they'll destroy RC aircraft as a hobby. There are many experienced RC helicopter and air
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by danjayh 13y ago
I find it interesting that something that looks so similar to the shuttle (at a glance) is actually a completely different design & configuration (how/where thrust is generated).
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by danjayh 13y ago
Why C? Performance. I wrote a C webserver on a PIC32MX795F512L (80 mhz/ 128kB RAM), and it was _screaming_ fast (for what it was running on). Easily handled ~100 clients making 2-3 requests/sec continuously to a JSON based API
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Production costs for US-made Moto X are on par with iPhone & SGS 4(money.msn.com)
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