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by fnid 17y ago
SQL is the rosetta stone between many data storage engines. If NoSQL is going to succeed, I would argue that they will need to standardize their query languages. There countless paradigms that prove my point. The web won out over the des
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by fnid 17y ago
You know what, it's not really that much better. It's better, but it's not so much better that I can really tell that one is written by a computer. If you factor in the costs, time to market, and other factors, I can easily see the autom
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by fnid 17y ago
You would be surprised how hard it would be to lose billions of dollars. That kind of wealth is usually locked up pretty tight such that access is only available to some trickle of dollars coming out of the interest, trust funds, etc... If
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by fnid 17y ago
I wouldn't say he should stop blogging. It's a good way to connect with people from the woods. He's putting himself out there. That's tough, but through doing it, he can learn more than he would if he didn't.
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by fnid 17y ago
never had any security issues You don't know for sure that you haven't had any security problems. All you know is that you haven't noticed the results of any security compromise.
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by fnid 17y ago
No, but it is necessary to show that every effort has been made to protect the trade secrets and obfuscating code is one step in that direction. I am no lawyer, but that's what the lawyers told me.
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by fnid 17y ago
No. I obfuscate it all before I upload it. Call me paranoid. Not only is it a risk to have the code compromised, but if sufficient steps aren't taken to control access to trade secrets, then they can't be called trade secrets. IP has val
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by fnid 17y ago
This sounds like an accurate assessment from someone who doesn't own the code. You get paid to write the code, so it means nothing to you if a competitor steals the code and starts a similar business. Or what if a competitor steals the co
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by fnid 17y ago
You have to stop blaming your inability to get a good team together on living in the woods. There are lots of remote teams working together. People who have never met. Maybe there is another reason you can get a team together. If you ke
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LaserMotive wins $900,000 in space elevator competition(geek.com)
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The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs In America(247wallst.com)
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Winner declared in space elevator race(news.cnet.com)
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by fnid 17y ago
That contradicts the science then that says business leaders are overwhelmingly extroverted.
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by fnid 17y ago
Yep. Unfortunately, this is becoming more and more true. Typical computer users just don't know the difference between "safe computer use" and "unsafe computer use." It's the same as human viruses. If you do things that are safe, you dra
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by fnid 17y ago
I don't believe anything in these articles says that peak oil isn't a reality, they only push back the peak. The only thing that could refute peak oil is confirmation of abiotic oil production. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petr
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by fnid 17y ago
Another interesting perspective of detroit: http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2009/07/feral-houses.html Jim takes lots of pictures of Detroit. He's also got his more original site, which is less bloggy and I like it better: http://jamesgrif
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by fnid 17y ago
The only one not evil in that case is the lie to the guy robbing you.
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by fnid 17y ago
Since 1987 I have personally completed over 40,000 one-on-one, face-to-face sessions. So that's at least 5 of these interviews every single day of the year for 22 years. I'm not really buying it.
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by fnid 17y ago
I thought this was going to be about our short-sighted vision about the future.
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by fnid 17y ago
The health care system in the u.s. is immune to supply and demand. The doctors control the supply of doctors. Laws control supply of medications. Insurance companies control supply of procedures. I agree with the post you are replying to.
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by fnid 17y ago
Considering that military planes are used with the intent to kill, it's not as much of an issue as when passengers are aboard. Plus, most of these fighter planes are going to be flying over war zones where lots of people die all the time.
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by fnid 17y ago
I use opera and it has a quick dial with currently 16 sites, including hacker news and several projects I'm working on and forums I'm involved in.
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by fnid 17y ago
The point isn't the deals, it's the obvious shadiness of the whole thing and the awareness by the perpetrators that it is shady because they are showing one thing to one group and another thing to another group.
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by fnid 17y ago
This will be really great for designers who do a lot of formating and dragging things around the screen with little typing. You could set borders, padding, alignment, columns all sorts of things to make documents look really nice.
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by fnid 17y ago
Often times a movement wakes you up or as soon as you are conscious you are able to move. Waking up and not being able to move is quite a shocking experience. Happened to me once and I thought I was dead. I was very afraid because I knew
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by fnid 17y ago
Nova has changed too. I watched it every weekend growing up and it was much more hardcore. I've seen them mainstreaming themselves and taking on more social issues and less science/physics issues. Nova now is like a blend of Nova Science N
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by fnid 17y ago
I don't know why you guys got downmodded. I agree with both. The article is pretty bad and neglects a very common sense approach to thinking. I see little evidence that it actually reduces someone's intelligence. Maybe their test results a
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by fnid 17y ago
Perhaps it does have an evolutionary purpose. Say you are a male who is constantly rejected by the female. If mate with the female, perhaps even against her will, then you produce offspring. Also, being rejected is a dominance issue. If
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by fnid 17y ago
That's what I suspected too. The thoughts of rejection occupy brainwaves that are otherwise spent thinking about and answering questions correctly.
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by fnid 17y ago
You know, I have to say that London was the most violent place I've ever been. 9 out of 10 times that I'd go out in the city, there were muggings, very aggressive fights, people thrown out of bars, guys running into the street kicking cars

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