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by hencq 14y ago
As an aside, the article points out how the City of London is a separate entity from greater London, but doesn't go into a lot of detail about it. This video does an effective job in explaining how things work: http://www.youtube.com/watch
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by hencq 14y ago
The article makes that exact point: > Only governments had the long view and available cash to fund things like supercolliders, deep space programs and - oh yeah - the development of the Internet.
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by hencq 14y ago
Except this wasn't a 'fake article' (whatever that means). Sure, there were some valid criticisms over the accuracy of the reporter's notes, but overall the conclusions seemed valid. They weren't even overly negative; just that the car does
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by hencq 14y ago
Yeah, the Carl Barks stories and Donald Duck in general are very popular in the Nederlands for example. Most families will have a subscription to the weekly Donald Duck magazine; supposedly for the kids, but I think all the parents read it
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by hencq 14y ago
Does Topaz benefit at all from the work that's been done already on Rubinius? I seem to recall that Rubinius implements as much of Ruby in Ruby as possible. It seems like this would help Topaz as well in implementing the standard library. O
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by hencq 14y ago
Most likely to impress its own people I think. It's not like Iran's government is very popular with its own people nowadays. They seem to derive their legitimacy from standing up to the West (and particularly the US).
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Yeah it's pretty amazing. I wonder if his comparison to the X-1 is right. That now the barrier has been broken, we'll see even faster designs relatively rapidly. The margin by which he went over it seems to suggest it might. I also liked th
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by hencq 14y ago
That was the joke.
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> Now, it's a very mature category where it's all about refinement, not major innovation I disagree. You are completely right that in that situation it makes sense to develop an interchangeable supplier base. as you mention it allows yo
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by hencq 14y ago
As a counter point, outsourcing has served the car industry quite well. At one point in its lifetime Ford had it's own rubber tree farms. Nowadays car companies rely a lot on suppliers and heavily involve them in design as well. It's just v
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by hencq 14y ago
Wow, that's absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing. It's particularly impressive to see how old (and accurate) some of these measurements are.
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by hencq 14y ago
In a lot of cold war spy novels they have stuff delivered to hotels all the time. I always wondered if that would work for non-spy parcels as well.
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Not doing anything wrong legally perhaps, but it definitely goes against common social norms. Notice most people don't actually yell at him, but just ask him what he's doing and ask him (politely) to leave. It's only when he doesn't, that p
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by hencq 14y ago
Exactly. I hate how he's pretending to make some elaborate statement, but in reality is just being childish and annoying.
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by hencq 14y ago
Could this be mixed with Mirah to have it dynamically typed, but with types added where needed for performance? Sort of like Dart's optional typing, but for the JVM.
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by hencq 14y ago
Did you read the article? The author isn't arguing that people should flee the country. At least not permanently. He's simply saying that the US could learn from other countries and that people should study/live abroad to gain new perspecti
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by hencq 14y ago
I found the examples the article gave about students' common misconceptions interesting. I'm wondering whether the tracking and analysis by Khan Academy picks up these misconceptions as well. For example, in one of the examples (8 + 4 = _ +
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by hencq 14y ago
No, he's not. A CVT doesn't have fixed gear ratios (that's where the continuous comes in). A traditional automatic transmission uses planetary gears to have a fixed number of gear ratios.
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by hencq 14y ago
Firing people in the Netherlands is sufficiently hard that it causes me to think that this story has been fabricated or at least been exaggerated a little. I can see how his original 'cheating of the system' could be seen by his employer as
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by hencq 14y ago
Alternatively I guess you could detect non-SNI browsers and redirect them to appspot.com instead, but that feels a little messy.
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Finally, SSL for custom domains: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl
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by hencq 14y ago
Is there any specific reason why macros can't work in a statically typed language? How does Typed Racket handle this. Or does it not have macros?
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by hencq 14y ago
I agree: of course there is a lot of value to book learning as well. However, I do think that practical or hands-on learning can be a way to show the relevance of the material taught in books. I remember having trouble with probability and
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by hencq 14y ago
I really hope he gets an apology from Neil Armstrong and other critics if (when) SpaceX actually delivers on its promises. It must be very tough to even have your heroes root against you, and like you say it shows a lot about what you stand
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by hencq 14y ago
Very true. It's definitely easier to make packaged food cheap than to make fresh food cheap. Regarding labour costs however, there's also a chance that the people currently pressing the microwave buttons, would actually be able to (and perh
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by hencq 14y ago
That's not at all what happened. Android was released by the Open Handset Alliance as open source before any phones were released. The HTC G1 was the first one and the first phone released by Google (the Nexus One) was much later.
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by hencq 14y ago
Yes and on top of that a lot of products are "designed for assembly" which often means using parts that 'click' together, instead of using screws. This means they're fast to assemble, but almost impossible to take apart again, making repair
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by hencq 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but that picture doesn't really say anything. Each one of those machines could still be running 16 VMs
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The stated goal is apparently to be able to strike anywhere on earth within an hour. What's the advantage of something like this above an ICBM? I can imagine one advantage would be that the target can't be easily inferred from the flight pa
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by hencq 15y ago
Datomic looks quite cool, but I have to admit I don't fully understand its niche yet. Is anybody using it for anything already? If so, what are your experiences? Is this something that you'd use as (e.g.) the backend of a web app or more fo

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