foobarbazoo

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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
The original purpose of the XBox was to kill the profit margins on Sony's cash cow, the playstation. It succeeded in that, and Sony is no longer threatening Microsoft across a range of areas. This was a wise strategic move, and profit was
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Can we ban whoever submitted this article? For stupidity, if you must give a reason.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
I find it surprising and sad that this comment has the most points on HN. The poster may not have cheated in school, but he/she clearly has a bad case of sour grapes. You're not helping him/her by upvoting their post, though if you are a ch
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
And here I thought students were people . /sarc
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
This happened to me with Apple. The pay cut was huge; I declined. End of story.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Wow, feel the fear. Grow a pair!
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Security experts are saying it's security theater. And they're right.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Not impressive at all; it's Ruby roots are obvious and it screws up virtually every place where performance matters in JavaScript and the DOM. Definitely an 0.1 attempt. You're better off with SproutCore or Cappuccino. Also, it's not even l
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Though Shalt Not Lie: a stupid article title, idiotic advice, and other lies
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
nVidia's Fermi chip has coherent L1 and L2 caches, and that is what is used in Amazon's GPU Compute cluster nodes. Branch-prediction and superscalar execution are still missing, but IMO aren't needed due to other architectural decisions on
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Somehow, I doubt Facebook will miss you. The product is not designed for you.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
And yet, they are widely known to not be "people persons". Hmm...
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
I negotiated my contract with Apple; it had to go through legal and get VP-level approval, but the changes were approved. I doubt everyone can do this, though.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Opera is the Amiga of web browsers.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Supposedly they are at $0.5B/quarter, so the $2B is an annual rate.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Hmm, I wonder if Google has tech to do that. Thinking...
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Use "structure", not "design". As in: "The human body's structure is...", not "The human body's design is...". There is no need to use the word "design" to refer to the complexity of the human body. "Design" implies a creator; "structure" s
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
It's not just that. Look at the life progress in our world. How long until we're trucking around the galaxy? Not long... So given that, if life were on another project, well, we'd expect them to be trucking around the galaxy too by now. A
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Sadly...
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
I find it amusing that Google doesn't have a full-text search engine. I seem to remember them having code to do that...somewhere. Hmm.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Interesting. Are you saying that Ayn Rand's ideas are so obvious that anyone could come up with them?
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
That's also the same as the FairTax, which is a major policy proposal in the US. And it involves sending everyone a check each month. So this idea is actually not that far out for the US, at least. I should also point out that the FairTax
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Half a dozen? Do tell, how often is too often?
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
You can enter any major airport securely by flying in from a smaller, regional airport. So you need to secure those. But you can get into a smaller, regional airport securely by flying in from an even smaller airport. So you need to secure
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
You had it right when you said "They don't think." Should've stopped there.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
"Diagonalization" strikes again. There's a lesson here kids: when you can't prove something, "diagonilization" is the proof-tool of choice. Sure, if you include it, you won't have proven anything either, or useful, or correct, but you might