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by glimcat 15y ago
To the best of my very limited knowledge of nuclear plant design - no. Insufficiently paranoid and not gifted with perfect knowledge of the future - maybe. The facility was fairly hardened versus geology as it was. It's just that geology is
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by glimcat 15y ago
Human suffering. Dwindling biodiversity. Exhaustion of natural resources. The nature of the universe. The meaning of life. The sound of one hand clapping. It's a good sort of question to ask, but it helps to narrow your domain.
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by glimcat 15y ago
First thought is that people who don't understand technology shouldn't generally make rules about technology. Hire an aide who gets this stuff if you have to. One less donor's kid on the payroll shouldn't hurt you that much. But really, the
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by glimcat 15y ago
Examples are abundant. Stephen Wolfram would be a prominent example. The "I need X, but existing X is nonexistent or crappy, so I'm going to make my own X" thinking seems to be a common motivator. Technically-competent entrepreneurs often f
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by glimcat 15y ago
The attributes of good entrepreneurs and good research students are highly correlated. It's quite common in engineering, but less so in other fields where research isn't as likely to have direct commercial applications.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Given that mail forwarding is buried in the settings where users will almost never see it, this is a very significant security measure.
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by glimcat 15y ago
The 3DS is an interesting venture. The problem is that it introduced fragmentation and uncertainty into an established and active platform without really achieving the perceived benefits of the migration. Users almost never flock to your ne
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by glimcat 15y ago
To click or not to click...that is the test.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Yeah, it's a game of silly buggers all around. At least it's not on the level of the "app store" nonsense. It's also hard not to develop a rather cynical attitude towards the USPTO given the unending tide of negative press swirling around i
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by glimcat 15y ago
TIL grad students who have second thoughts about their PhD program are the new college dropouts.
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by glimcat 15y ago
It is quite generic. I've been calling my network-writeable folder "dropbox" since before there was a web. I should rename it now because someone wants to name their company after the colloquial expression for the functionality?
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by glimcat 15y ago
It also completely discounts the human cost of warfare, if such a thing is even measurable.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I see it fairly often on blogs. From a strictly pragmatic perspective, it is boring if you only talk about yourself all the time, while talking about the interesting things others are doing lets you promote yourself less overtly.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Well, matchup.com is a fine art gallery. What percentage of your prospective users are you willing to send to them? http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-na...
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by glimcat 15y ago
Oh noes, a 3% bounce rate for a new service on a base of 10MM+ users. What horrors. But is that result even accurate? It doesn't include mobile traffic. For something like this, a scenario where people start out on the site and then migrate
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by glimcat 15y ago
That's not at all what I meant, nor are all academics scientists.
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by glimcat 15y ago
You would have it that any arbitrary theologian is implicitly informed and unbiased? This is not about religion, this is what people think about religion in a profession which stereotypically tries to keep religion at arm's length despite i
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by glimcat 15y ago
At a marker board, in a notebook, in the shower, on the bus...the typing part is largely just data entry and debugging.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Startup land is the land of many hats. I've seen some seriously shoestring-and-bubblegum prototypes that were cobbled together by people with little to no relevant background. Both engineers and investors will respect that way more than you
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by glimcat 15y ago
No, Gmail is a fermion. Therefore it is impossible for a second fermion with identical properties to occupy the same quantum state as per the Pauli exclusion principle. Sorry, physics humor. Real answer: Drive space is very cheap today. It
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by glimcat 15y ago
Doing search is fairly easy. Doing search well is extraordinarily hard, arbitrarily so depending on what approximation of "well" you're willing to accept. There are many factors which scale in computation very rapidly. The entire concept of
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by glimcat 15y ago
Many good companies start out as side projects that grew to the point of crowding out the full-time job. The odds of it happening are lower than if your startup is your full-time job - which already gives low odds - but it's much higher odd
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by glimcat 15y ago
Now that's how you do idea proofing.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Article & original at Cornell have very limited info. Here's the paper. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~myleott/op_spamACL2011.pdf
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by glimcat 15y ago
I think it's safe to say that this is one thing nearly everyone learned in college.
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by glimcat 15y ago
WTF?
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by glimcat 15y ago
Interesting. The problem of equivalent mutants sounds fairly difficult to deal with if you want it to do a broad search. Some will possibly compile to an identical result, but many won't. Too many false positives would be prohibitive.
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by glimcat 15y ago
If I need money, I do something that generates money. If I don't need money, I do whatever the hell I want. To the extent possible, I try to make these activities overlap because I occasionally need money and don't like doing stuff I don't
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by glimcat 15y ago
I long ago customized it away from the default L&F. The first thing I did when they released the new L&F was to find a way to disable it. Google is not very good at design. Their good designs are minimalist functional layouts. I don
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by glimcat 15y ago
One year left: finish the damn thing. The ROI is pretty good there. You can also do other things at the same time like trying to sort out your career plans. People who dropped out of college and founded some giant tech company didn't do i

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