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by grandinj 15y ago
I'm curious as to why the windows Google Talk product has stalled - I always thought Google planned to improve it to make it a worthy competitor to Skype, but it seems to have stalled. And now this news indicates that it appears to be Aband
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by grandinj 15y ago
LLVM in fact already has a VM available. See http://vmkit.llvm.org/ I don't know why the scala-over-llvm authors didn't simply build on that, it would have been way easier.
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by grandinj 16y ago
If it stays bad, and doesn't get better, you may be suffering from a form of depression, and you may need some degree of professional help. Do it sooner rather than later, there is no point in suffering unnecessarily.
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by grandinj 16y ago
This is a classic case of a solution to a problem that does not exist. Firstly, Uranium is practically an insignificant cost of a nuclear power station. The price would have to go up by a factor of a 100 before it made a difference. Secondl
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by grandinj 16y ago
So what they're really saying is "Yes you should enable HTTPS provided you check all sorts of things and understand all sorts of complicated stuff". Speaking for those of us living with long-latency links to the US (South Africa), unnecessa
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by grandinj 16y ago
Microsoft started from a point of having such terrible security that was practically impossible __not__ to improve. The point is that, despite all of the work they have done (and they have done a lot) they still have a very long way to go t
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by grandinj 16y ago
Given any large group people, a large fraction of the people with advanced degrees will be engineers. This is independent of the group itself. The more interesting question is, "does the fraction of engineers exceed the population fraction"
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by grandinj 16y ago
Summary: they didn't really solve it, but they re-affirmed it's stability under certain conditions, and proved some interesting mathematical properties
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by grandinj 16y ago
I don't get it - if you're on any kind of growth curve at all, you should be getting wealthier. The drop from a 3% curve to a 2% curve just means you're getting wealthier slower, but you can't lose wealth unless the growth goes negative. He
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by grandinj 17y ago
Executive summary: Took them 5 years to formally verify 7500 lines of kernel code. Good luck doing that with a real kernel - linux is more than 2.4 million lines of code
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by grandinj 17y ago
By an accident of history and a lot of skill, Microsoft wangled themselves a virtual monopoly. Their skill at keeping that monopoly was second to none. But now that other markets are opening and their monopoly power is fading, we see the tr
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by grandinj 17y ago
Maybe that's because the answer to the question you're asking is NaN. What you actually mean is that you want a plot of the price of gold and the price of silver vs time. For which the query is: gold and silver price history Took me about