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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I am sure they have a lot of tiny performance improvements. But since when is CS research about tiny performance improvements? It's not like Oracle or anyone else has any secret algorithm which runs in linear time when all of academia only
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I'm pretty sure we have Wall street quants here, unless one of them offers a convincing argument that yes, they are well ahead of academia, I don't believe it. In my anecdotal experience, the financial industry is light years behind most po
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
One area that's heavily under NDA (though perhaps not quite the situation described) is graphics drivers. But that's not because the algorithms are new and awesome, it's mostly just because the exact specs of the hardware are not happily
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Or are they just not comparable or additive.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
The more relevant and current that comparison becomes, the less of a joke it is.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
The fact that most of the time market leaders resist cannibalizing the main source of their income is well known. The reasons are complex and connected to the nature of large human organizations. And it is also why most truly disruptive i
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
They had them play games right before bed. How is this different from reading right before bed? That's what often messes up my sleep. And I am in my 30s and know I shouldn't read in bed, even though I love to.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
TIL: Square is not what Foursquare had pivoted to. (I seriously thought Foursquare turned into Square as the news is full of Square and I had not heard anything about Foursquare until now.)
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
That is not inflation. That's a price swing of a commodity. Apples and oranges. Price swings can go both ways. Deflation is extremely rare.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
That was before we tried to make Linux a mass market OS.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I am big electric engines for cars fan, I just thing we should use fuel cells and fill them with something very similar to gasoline just generated from wind, sun, tides, or nuclear sources.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Also, slowing the moon's escape from our orbit, and helping to maintain the earth's rotational speed!
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
The article makes some good points, but I think they apply almost equality to both science and engineering, and frankly everything else.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I hate to pull this card on you, but what have you done? A legitimate question. However, I've known incredibly smart developers who get shit done, and often they like to hobble themselves. They tend to hobble themselves out of a somewhat
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Only if you are intellectually ambitious.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I try to avoid PDFs as much as possible, I hate them. I am not interested in video playing on Linux. And I used to work for a video editor maker who's products worked on Windows, OSX and Linux. (And used to work SGI) But my workhorse Linux
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
But this is only relevant if they plan to expand to Russia. The Chevy "Nova" was a good name in English speaking countries, they should have checked what the name sounds like in Spanish. So basically the point here is translate your product
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Initial goal of desktop linux was to provide a 'free as in free speech' desktop Linux has been my free as in speech OS for many years. I love it! I don't give a shit about the "Desktop". Sorry, KDE contributor, KDE is a very impressive pr
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Consoles and PCs take turns being "dead". If the PC is "dead" it means consoles are at their top of performance. If consoles are "dead" it means the current console generation is getting old and in a few years new consoles will appear, thei
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
if I were 20 and still had a cell phone with all my friends from 4 years ago I think that's the key here. Smart phones which you use like a database. If you had that when you were 20, you might have hundreds of contacts in your smart phon
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Good point. But the US is also doing its best to make foreigners feel less and less safe in the US.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
1. Slovenia isn't some far off magical, difficult to reach, place. It is a first world EU member in the center of Europe. 2. Was there a point to this besides the author bragging how many places he visited? Call me jaded, but I moved to Eu
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I dream of Rob's dream setup as well. I suspect many people do. But I hope it shouldn't be too hard to make it a reality. A smart phone which is always connected to remote storage (the cost could be a problem here?), and how about an electr
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
1. Random anecdote. 2. Lots of exercise and healthy food and many friends even for very old people, on average results in a long life. 3. Joke about the guy from the anecdote, apparently all his American doctors died, while he is in his 90s
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Pretty good apparently. My current small employer was almost bought by IBM. Only because it is privately owned, and the owners didn't want to sell.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Soon we'll have very clever, slow going, open source Facebook scrapers, created for free just because we love a challenge.
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Actually I wonder if IP might be a bigger problem for software?
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
I had no interest in this game so far, but now I will try to run this. Open sourcing almost any project is to programmers, like blood in the water is to sharks :)
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
That's what I am thinking. But part of me is hoping it is more like going to a bar and saying: Hey babe, ever heard of reddit?
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by fghh45sdfhr3 14y ago
Screw tops are better. Tighter, less oxygen, easier to deal with, and they don't ever rot. If you ever get a glass of wine that smells intensely rotten it could be because the cork has started rotting.

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