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by gjkood 11y ago
Canada should be congratulated for selecting a PM who atleast takes the trouble to educate himself before spouting an opinion. Here in the US, we elect politicians who actively deny science and are proud of their lack of knowledge.
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Isn't getting funding for science actually politics and not science? Using the funding is science, but getting the funding is politics, no?
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Thank you for the link to the video. Its probably the most intellectually stimulating 20 minutes I have spent in a long time. I loved the conversation around politicians, religion, ufos, aliens and their particular proclivities. I am remind
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This is my kind of Super Bowl. A win for humanity.
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Do you have kids of a school going age or will be in school in the next few years? That makes a huge difference as far as SV is concerned. Fremont is one of the better school districts in CA second only to the Cupertino school district. Cor
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Rosebud.... On a total segue from the topic of this post; two of the earliest memories of movie scenes that are etched into my brain are: a) The snow globe falling down and breaking from Citizen Kane and b) Slim Pickens riding the bomb in D
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Isn't the number 760 employees PER company? That would make the total as 760*44=33,440 employees.
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Major outage being reported worldwide. http://downdetector.com/status/netflix Anything interesting deployed in the last hour? Something in the CI/CD tool chain, Spinnaker, failed for it to move all the way to Live
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by gjkood 11y ago
I read a book a long time ago about AT&T Bell Labs. I think it may have been "Three Degrees Above Zero", but I am not sure now. Something that impressed me a great deal at that time was the testing that AT&T used to do wit
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"The Rubaiyat" [1] by Omar Khayyam [2] has numerable references to wine. Omar Khayyam was one of the great Islamic Scientist-Scholars and a famed son of Khorasan. [1] http://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.h
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What can I do to increase the ratio of women in CS/Engineering? As the parent of a teenage boy and pre-teen girls here is what I do/can do. Start/Coach/Mentor a FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Team for your teenager. I coach
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I recently went through a Boy Scouts Adult Training called Wood Badge. The most important thing I learned there was a Team Dynamics study, reportedly used by the DoD, which was distilled into four words: Forming Storming Norming Performing
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From personal experience, having programmed in a small number of languages C/C++, Java, COBOL, Pascal, Python, Ruby, various shells, Assembly (Intel) etc, there are a few things that keep attracting me back to Python: a) Somehow the fa
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This. I was reminded of the Japanese and Middle East based investors who were on a real estate buying rampage in the 80s.
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A pet peeve of mine: Scenario: Finished requirements, analysis, design; completed development and testing; in UAT; Production deployment: 1 week away. Customer: Hey this field name does not exactly represent what we want to convey. Can we c
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by gjkood 11y ago
Do you think that none of the best scientific minds in America worked on the Manhattan project?
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Thank you Taniwha. I have signed up to be notified for the next one.
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Just bought 2 copies myself. Looking forward to taking an introductory/exploratory trip to Shenzhen by this Summer.
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For those of you budding Kubricks, you may even be able to recreate his amazing candlelight scenes (yes, no other artificial lighting was used) using Kubrick's specially made lenses. The f/0.7 prime lenses were originally made for
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by gjkood 11y ago
You may have found a future succesful Hollywood scriptwriter.
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Have you gotten her the beautiful Resistance Color Code charts yet? You can learn the colors and resistance values. A fantastic twofer if I may say so myself. :).
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jack9, isn't it a privilege to be able to interact with folks such as Robert Virding (one of the co-developers of the Erlang language)? I know of few other forums where such interaction opportunities are offered. The fruits of their la
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by gjkood 11y ago
Elixir compiles to bytecode for the Erlang VM/BEAM. Erlang + OTP = scalable/fault-tolerant distributed systems. Phoenix is closely coupled with OTP. Not sure if Trello itself requires it or benefits from it, but any distributed s
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One of the most interesting experiences I had very early on in my career was reducing a 12,000 line C program to a roughly 1,000 line version (in C itself) without losing any functionality. No, it had nothing to do with my prowess as a youn
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I believe we need to measure ourselves on how close we are to the imaginings of the The Jetsons[1]. Do we need to create a universal standard to measure how close/far we are to/from The Jetsons? [1]. https://en.wikipedi
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I remember the days when it was a point of national pride to own a Cray supercomputer. In the 1980s, India tried to get access to a Cray XMP-24, but was denied access due to dual use capabilities. Instead, they were only allowed to purchase
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Recommended reading for all Cray fans http://www.amazon.com/Supermen-Seymour-Technical-Wizards-Sup...
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I see plenty of comments saying that the parents orchestrated this. If you truly believe this, I can only assume that you are not now or never have been a parent. If you truly believe that a parent could send their child into a situation wh
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The book/movie depicts Rich Purnell using some NASA/JPL supercomputers to verify his calculations. Knowing nothing (or less than nothing if thats possible) about Celestial Mechanics, considering that the technique (gravitational a
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A study forwarded by another HN member in another similar discussion. Very interesting statistics. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/12/new-report-sh...

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