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by hapless 14y ago
More on the australian google blog: http://google-au.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/build-bringing-lego...
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Best WebGL demo yet: Build LEGO things on Google Maps(buildwithchrome.com)
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by hapless 14y ago
Graduate students are typically well above the poverty line. Graduate student stipends run from $15,000 to as much as $40,000 (for 20 hours of work!) The median wage in America is around $26,000. Many graduate students make more mone
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by hapless 14y ago
X11: 1987. Still works in 2012.
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by hapless 14y ago
I'm not one hundred percent sure that this is a problem. Context is important. Pornographic material in Wikipedia's "NPOV" and encyclopedic context is probably not unsettling to children. If this is a real issue, and pedagogues or parents
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by hapless 14y ago
Moore's law is a relationship between transistor count and cost . The physical limits of the universe govern transistor density. Cost may continue to drop in the face of increasing tranistor count for some years: dies will have to get bi
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by hapless 15y ago
So we are now nested, what, six deep in forks? I've long since lost track: OpenSolaris => OpenIndiana => Illumos => this new thing ? are there some in-between steps? And we don't have 100% solaris api/abi compatibility. Or a Sun
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by hapless 15y ago
This technique exposes you to a new pool of mediocrity. Sure, you're guaranteed exceptional candidates, but what how are they exceptional ? Did they, in the past, work for exceptionally abusive employers who need them back? (The new g
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by hapless 15y ago
37signals had an obvious business model and revenue stream on day one. It's pretty much the perfect example of the difference the author is trying to draw: google and twitter were highly experimental ventures with no visible means of suppor
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by hapless 15y ago
Python does not include: * a self-documenting editor * a doc browser, which integrates with said editor * a high performance compiler, which integrates with the above two * a debugger that can step through OS code as easily as program code
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by hapless 15y ago
Torrent sites don't derive content from Hulu or Netflix because the quality is poorer than iTunes. There's no conceivable reason for pirates to settle for a 1 mbps Netflix stream when the 6 mbps iTunes is available. It has nothing to do wi
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by hapless 15y ago
I suspect the reason single-serve "pod" machines are successful is convenience. It's a single serving, piping hot, exactly when you need it. This is not impossible to achieve with a regular grind-and-brew machine, it just has high up-fron
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by hapless 15y ago
Mad Men produces 13, 45-minute episodes a season. 13 hours of content for $33 million (at 2.5 million an episode.) That's $55,000 a minute, versus $1,462,962 a minute for Avatar. An order of magnitude difference. Each minute of Avatar
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by hapless 15y ago
It would be my guess that the origin is electrical. A "driver" is a common term for any subsidiary circuit supplying the needs of the components you really care about. (e.g. mosfet driver). Unlike a particularly driven SO poster, I'm too la
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by hapless 15y ago
Isaac doesn't really refute any of the original article's points. He (clearly and persuasively) asserts that Atlanta's development pattern reflects the preferences of Atlantans. The original author of "Cars Kill Cities" seems to hope that
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by hapless 15y ago
Google is diversifying because they've already tapped out their first revenue stream. Early on, as a developing firm, Google focused on that single revenue stream to great success.
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by hapless 15y ago
The free service etc are lovely perks, but a year of notice would be nice.
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by hapless 15y ago
I don't think it's obvious at all. I prefer to sit, but I am by nature a restless individual. A standing desk would allow me to make some of my pacing time productive. To put it another way: every person may have a different use pattern w
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by hapless 15y ago
This looks like a total turnaround on policy, announced in a low-key two paragraph note to LKML. The last official kernel.org "stable" kernel release was 2.6.7 or 2.6.8, I've forgotten. Since then, kernel.org has made a policy of doing wha
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by hapless 15y ago
I considered it. Tall ergonomic chairs are very expensive. A top-of-the-line aeron is about $700; the stool version is about $1200.
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by hapless 15y ago
An inexpensive standing desk is nice, but I don't think I would be any happier standing continuously than sitting continuously. Unfortunately, rapidly adjustable sit/stand desks are insanely expensive. I think this person has found a heck
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by hapless 15y ago
Most monitors that require dual-link DVI will also have DP inputs, since DP outputs are extremely common. That's every 30" and most 27" monitors. Every laptop I've had in the last few years has had a DP output. I've read that this is beca
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by hapless 15y ago
Something to keep in mind: the gamut of your LCD is a pretty crude mapping of the actual paint colors. In the best case, on a wide gamut panel, these are very rude approximations of what you might see under the unnatural lighting experience
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by hapless 15y ago
> If Emacs is nearly an operating system then it's kind of nearly a software Lisp machine. This is not an accident. GNU Emacs was probably intended to be the first step towards a complete lisp system for GNU, akin to zmacs on symbolics
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by hapless 15y ago
The e-mail implies that their plan was to knowingly infringe for months/years before negotiating a license. They could then use the data gained from (infringing) streaming/uploads as a bargaining chip while negotiating the license.
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by hapless 15y ago
They weren't licensing anything. They were relying on DMCA safe harbor provisions to protect them from infringement suits. The problem is that the executive e-mail indicates plain as day that they were ineligible for that safe harbor in at
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by hapless 15y ago
If nothing else, this proves that Oracle is serious about OpenJDK. If they weren't planning to continue to provide the commercial/patented features under the open source license, why have a gate/switch to disable them ?
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by hapless 15y ago
AUR is part of the problem that Debian Linux seeks to solve. AUR gets you 32,000 packages with uncertain quality and provenance. It's about two steps from downloading a zip file of binaries off the internet. Debian has 29,000 packages that
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by hapless 15y ago
That's not really a current concern for the perl community. That was true 15 years ago. Lots of 15-year-old code is out there on the internet for folks to sneer at.
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by hapless 15y ago
Judging from the agenda, Nokia World is primarily for developers. Nokia Series 60 sold 116 million handsets a year, 36% worldwide market share. Windows Phone 7 has roughly a 2% worldwide market share. Yes, it's very easy to say "I don't kno

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