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by digikata 11y ago
There is a strong current of blind faith right now that private services/products are automatically the most efficient choice. Really there's a lot of market conditions that need to be in place before that's likely for a spec
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by digikata 11y ago
To give it a car analogy, it feels like the weight loss discussion is asking: "Why are there so many automobile accidents?" Then come a lot of replies in that say "When you hit the brake, the car will slow down!" I feel
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by digikata 11y ago
If you change jobs, one can always roll over 401k accounts to Individual Retirement Accounts instead of the next company's 401k program. At that point you can control your own retirement funds in the roll-over IRA. (As always check wit
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by digikata 11y ago
But one knows what the numbers can be used for when assigning performance review numbers to people. So instead of picking a name out of a hat, the process is to pick a number out of a hat corresponding to a name?
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by digikata 11y ago
I don't have the link handy right now, but IIRC there was a mention of some system level differences in how Go might like to change things in the toolchain under the language level which could move in a fundamentally different directio
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by digikata 11y ago
Loved using nvAlt. I need to get back to playing with my cross-platform version of nvAlt in Qt. I got as far as getting a search as you type with minimal file create/load/save going and then trailed off to work on other things.
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by digikata 11y ago
This might be more of a resource than a program of study, but the Computer History Museum runs an Oral History collection which collects first hand discussions from the people at the point of development of many computing technologies. htt
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by digikata 11y ago
Well, they could buy Sourceforge and Slashdot. Though that might end up a distraction...
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by digikata 11y ago
The press release seems to be intentionally silent on the actual memory cell technology. Another possible tech the cell might be based upon is some variant of Nano-RAM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-RAM
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by digikata 11y ago
The review/ranking process is not going to influence if top performers stay one way or another. I'm strongly skeptical that the review process that I've seen various company is any good at helping to make the real connections
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by digikata 11y ago
Do you backup the library to something outside of iPhoto? I've been wondering if there's a nice automatable way to backup that library onto a home Linux computer.
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by digikata 11y ago
I think that used to be Microsoft Access, but as a product I think it lost focus on the easy transition. I remember as an intern using a pre-Microsoft FoxPro (all text GUI) that was so easy to setup as an app backed by a database with CRUD
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by digikata 11y ago
"It's great that they lavish insane attention to detail on the bezel of an iPhone or getting the color just right. They need to lavish that insane attention to detail on their services." This comment to that article expresses
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by digikata 11y ago
Same topic, different podcast: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/03/411777635/episo...
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by digikata 11y ago
My favorite is the Vought V-173 (and XF5U). Also known as the flying pancake (or flying flapjack). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_V-173 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_XF5U https:&#x2F
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by digikata 11y ago
The lifetime of the battery will likely be much longer than it's life in the car - if the plans for 'second life' re-use as static energy storage devices come to pass.
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by digikata 11y ago
I wonder if it is possible to design a currency union with just a small amount of decoupling between the individual national bonds and the unified currency? e.g. all members of the union are required to make certain transactions in euro, bu
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by digikata 11y ago
> Here we have a highly intelligent and inventive creature repeatedly trying its best to escape - it's hard not to identify with it! - and the scientists just recapture it by force. > They actively oppose the animal's attem
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by digikata 11y ago
Her son was also 22 according to the article.
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by digikata 11y ago
If you can get the the same diagnosis without a CT, then wouldn't it be better to skip the known risk in the first place?
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by digikata 11y ago
Most discussions about radiation safety seem to concentrate on being exposed to emissive radiation sources. In small doses and in exceptional situations where you walk away from the source, it does indeed seem low risk. I'm no expert,
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by digikata 11y ago
Beavers don't comply with local waterway planning?
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by digikata 11y ago
Perhaps some people at Sony or the Office of Personnel Management could explain...
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by digikata 11y ago
What's your feeling on how much CRISPR and techniques around it may lower the thresholds for #1 in genetic engineering?
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by digikata 11y ago
The reforms may be a long term solution, but pushing austerity to far makes the end solution push out in time and actually make it less likely that the loans are able to be paid back in a reasonable time frame.
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by digikata 11y ago
Why would a HFT maintain a huge inventory of stocks? If you make money on the ability to execute trades faster than others on the movement of stocks, you're losing money by holding them. It feels akin to a car maker holding an overlarg
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by digikata 11y ago
Does ice return a different spectrum than liquid water?
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by digikata 11y ago
Not to criticize the tools themselves here (Atom or Nuclide), but the process of building an enhanced X over some large base application code didn't work out well for a lot of Eclipse tools. Or at least my experience is with working wi
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by digikata 11y ago
Bigger than those names, might be companies in the finance industry (the largest economic sector in London, if not the entire UK) which shouldn't wish to a lower levels of encryption available to protect information flows critical to t
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Is Now a Good Time to Meet Your New Virtual Assistant?(technologyreview.com)
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