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by gefh 11y ago
Orwell's quote was: > ... can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face.
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by gefh 11y ago
So 2GB of memory, 4 cores at ~250Mhz (was the foreground processor the same? Brochure seemed unclear), runs a *nix. About 15 years ahead of a late 90's Pentium I guess, but more ram. Just need the spare 16 square feet of floor space.
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by gefh 11y ago
https://goo.gl/maps/Md3Do for the lazy.
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by gefh 12y ago
A space elevator takes care of a portion of the earth escape velocity, still leaving >20 km/s left once you get to the top.
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by gefh 12y ago
The cynic in me says the signs are confusing because it increases revenue. But then I may be ascribing to malice that which is the result of incremental institutional incompetence.
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by gefh 12y ago
Maybe they even stack rank.
187.
by gefh 12y ago
I've moved more than 10k in cash around just to avoid paying that 10 bucks. $10 is still $10.
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by gefh 12y ago
Or maybe it's just the start of the end of the education pricing bubble, and they're trying to land gently.
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by gefh 12y ago
Which is way less secure. Caller id is spoofable, your ss# is known by hundreds of people.
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by gefh 12y ago
I'm assuming this is about engineering hires. If they both interviewed well they'd both get hired. Of course, getting past the resume screening is not equally likely, but I'd expect an English major applying for an engineerin
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by gefh 12y ago
In IE8 and FF3.6, there isn't. If you believe netmarketshare.com, that's 20% of users right there.
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by gefh 13y ago
The only lighting system I've experienced in a very, very expensive home was kind of hilariously bad. One person turning on the whole house's lights at 3am, having to wave at a sensor every 5 minutes while reading - made me think
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by gefh 13y ago
The processor could recognize that it is in common key generation code, and generate 'entropy' that precisely reverses most of the existing entropy. The existing 'good' entropy could be known by the hardware PRNG.
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by gefh 13y ago
FYI, any dots in your gmail address are immaterial, so you didn't need to have this conversation in the first place. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en
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by gefh 13y ago
Tesla, Mercedes, and others are all working _harder_ on self driving cars now.
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by gefh 13y ago
I think the implication is it's paid off.
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by gefh 13y ago
Article does not appear to be about perf or NorK.
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by gefh 13y ago
"Google does weekly emails" Practices at Google vary widely between teams. Nothing as trivial as this is going to standardized across the company...
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by gefh 14y ago
I physically cringed at that. Even the mail clerk should have noticed there was a 'big deal' about clean rooms and had some idea what the company he worked for did...
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by gefh 14y ago
I have found mistakes in (other people's!) Excel spreadsheets that amounted to (real) 6 figure problems... Then again a replacement system would probably cost about the same.
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by gefh 14y ago
IBM: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se...
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by gefh 14y ago
> those who have worked in the outside world ... and know how lucky they are and how different this is. And those that haven't and think this is just how the world is. As a mid-30s guy at Google for 2 years, I'm never sure whether fresh
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by gefh 14y ago
At the Seattle Bouldering Project I estimate a quarter of all climbers are from Google, Amazon or MS. Also a high proportion of resumés crossing my desk mention climbing.
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by gefh 15y ago
Late answer here, but that's not the delete contact button. That's in a row of buttons above the contact (in a more... dropdown, to be precise). This button just blanks the name, and is kind of a shortcut alternative to ctrl-a delete.
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by gefh 16y ago
I just told you who I work for in another poll, so I think I will avoid this one...