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by flogic 16y ago
The imaginary component is the y coordinate. Thus your vector is one complex number, which you can manipulate in a single operation.
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by flogic 16y ago
I thought free electrons might have something to do with it, but I'm making do with an only slightly better than high school education in chemistry here.
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by flogic 16y ago
Speaking without any domain knowledge, I think it has to do with "what can support the complexity required for life?". I would think it requires molecules that can do interesting things while at the same time survive their environment long
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by flogic 16y ago
lol! I guess it's official. RIM has decided they're a has been.
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by flogic 16y ago
That's just another flaw of the series. They can never really decide if Star Fleet is a science or military organization. So you wind up with wierd things like science vessels on the front lines or shooting wars.
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by flogic 16y ago
I'm not sure there is enough room in the high end market for anyone other than Apple. I don't think the new tablet market is going to be nearly as tolerant of fragmentation as the phone market.
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by flogic 16y ago
I think that has to do with the manner in which the layers are cared for. Chickens and cows don't produce eggs or milk at the same rate throughout their lives. So farmers cull them once their production drops below the economical point. Als
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by flogic 16y ago
That's one of those critical to include details. Otherwise the story makes the prof sound like a douche.
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by flogic 16y ago
Some of these apps imply an Emacs like ability for customization. Considering that touch screens have only recently stopped sucking, I think that's very important. As sexy as the iPhone is, it doesn't have swipe or 8pen. We don't really kno
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by flogic 16y ago
Who said anything about JSON? XML is just shit. It requires documents be well formed which sucks when you want a secretary to deal with the documents. It's just a poor combination strict and loose.
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by flogic 16y ago
The only good point for XML is there are existing tools that do things via XML. There are tools that generate ATOM and RSS for you. And there are tools that consume ATOM and RSS. So if XML is already a well defined and followed standard for
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by flogic 16y ago
It's not whether businesses could do something different. It's how much time and money it would cost them to make the transition.
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by flogic 16y ago
Haven't actually tried it but it looks like it doesn't allow for nebulous plans. Lots of plans start out only half formed at best. Say you want to go to the beach. Your only time constraint may be some weekend soon. However your friend migh
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by flogic 16y ago
Well political realities make it almost impossible. Not putting the nation at risk is doable.
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by flogic 16y ago
Yeah. When I was younger I used to look down on things like VB. Now that I've pulled my head out of my ass, I realize many of those apps were a net win and would have been less of a win in a man's language like C++.
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by flogic 16y ago
I think it's probably an executive with enough power to say things but without enough knowledge to know what he's saying. That's fairly normal for large companies.
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by flogic 16y ago
Yeah. I thought it was some exec shooting his mouth off the first time. There didn't seem to be much a of a traditional DRM reason to lock the Kinect down. So the most obvious answer is it wasn't.
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by flogic 16y ago
"default-directory" is already buffer local.
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by flogic 16y ago
The only real measure is benefit - cost. Sometimes quality costs more than bugs. Take a simple editor macro. You record some simple set of actions and have the editor apply them en-mass. They may not be correct, but just getting the job don
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by flogic 16y ago
Really, Linus's greatest work is the organizing he's done. People can argue about how great Linux or Git are. What really stands out is the community focus on them. They've passed a technical threshold, where their community benefits comple
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by flogic 16y ago
Guns are a good illustration of this. Where I grew up, kids have been known to get guns for Christmas so they can go deer hunting. It's probably not the safest thing but it's not really a problem. Here in NYC though it's completely differen
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by flogic 16y ago
Maybe. Sometimes no matter how hard you try test and production are significantly different. I wind up in a number of situations where any meaningful testing has to be done in production.
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by flogic 16y ago
Can we be prosecuting them now please?
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by flogic 16y ago
In my anecdotal experience, decreasing screen size has a significant impact on eye strain. I get the most train when I'm using the TV as a screen and the least on the iPhone. Well actually, the nook still has the least but the iPhone is neg
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by flogic 16y ago
I hate that. It really perplexes me when things pretending to be News Papers leave off dates.
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by flogic 16y ago
True. Also to count software accurately you'd need to break each device sale into both a software and hardware sale.
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by flogic 16y ago
Managers love Excel. Some of them are really good with it. It's probably the wrong tool for their job, but it is a tool they know how to use. For managers it's the lingua franca of data manipulation. They view it the same way most of us vie
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by flogic 16y ago
This depends heavily on the situation. It from the letter it sounds like the most realistic outcome of making waves is getting fired. Incompetence can become well rooted and surprisingly competent at protecting itself. If I were in this sit
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by flogic 16y ago
Ok. From my limited understanding of the FAQ. Sun agreed to release the TCKs without "field of use" restrictions when they entered the community process? But they failed to meet that obligation with the JavaSE TCK? Isn't there some legal st
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by flogic 16y ago
Yeah. It's completely unsurprising. It also looks like a chunk of the meeting is getting them situated with HR. It's mind numbing but better than getting situated with HR via phone tag.

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