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True enough, I love reading Chinese literature (in English translation because my Chinese is extremely basic) especially loved Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" or Mo Yan's stuff like "Shifu, You'll Do Anything for
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And for historical context, Freescale Semiconductor is the spinoff of the original Motorola's Semiconductor Products Division, that was a transistor and semiconductor pioneer as well as building the 680x0 and several of the PowerPC pro
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It's not uncommon for Apple to launch other products at the same time as major products (with no event coverage except maybe for a press release).
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After several of its most plaintiff-friendly judges retired. The district still has a disproportionate rate of out-of-court settlements in the country;
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I remember wondering if the Joy Division album cover was related to one of the computer displays shown in the movie Alien. Here's an image of the two side by side (scroll down a bit): http://asiwyfab.de/2013/02&#x2
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"The government has tabled Bill C-51, which provides greater power to the security agencies to collect information on and disrupt the activities of suspected terrorist groups." FYI for any Americans reading this, when a bill is ta
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Octavia Butler wrote some amazing stuff too.
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If people knew of him at all, I'm afraid the Solaris films really damaged people's perceptions of Lem's work. I've been reading his stuff since 1986 and he can be as innovative and experimental as Philip K Dick, JG Balla
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The telescreens in 1984 were two-way, it was mentioned in the scene with the exercise instructor : "‘Smith!’ screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. ‘6079 Smith W.! Yes, YOU! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. Yo
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The manager didn't even make any money from the bookstore, it was the cafe that paid for the salary.
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Seaweed was a pretty common insulator in old houses in fishing communities along the eastern seaboard of Canada and the US.
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Are you planning to have the ability to skip columns when importing?
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The iPad 2 WiFi didn't have any GPS, it uses WiFi Positioning to geolocate hence the need to have WiFi on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system There are several good VNC clients for iOS, here are
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Any thoughts on why their chances are so low?
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IBM doesn't report its headcount in the US any longer, but in 2009 IBM had approximately 105,000 employees in the US, based on congressional testimony (via this article http://www.computerworld.com/article/2520399&
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For Fantasy I loved the Thieves' World shared universe. The first 4 books were my favourites. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieves'_World While some of his work hasn't aged well, I am still quite fond
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Ted Chiang is my favourite short fiction author, he doesn't write a lot but what he publishes is first notch. Podcast of his short story Exhalation: https://archive.org/details/ExhalationByTedChiang
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I find I write less code nowadays that makes me go WTF later but it still happens ("The only valid measurement of code quality is WTFs/minute" [1]) Probably the best thing you can do is seek out code reviewers, as they find p
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"On the other, how much pressure is reasonable to put on parents to vaccinate their children against an illness that poses less danger to them than meteors." Lifetime odds of dying from a meteor strike: 1-in-250-million source: Dr
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There have only ever been 21 strains of measles discovered, nothing seems to suggest that current infections involve a novel strain.
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Silverbacks are male Mountain Gorillas, Diane Fosey studied them for 18 years starting in 1967 and George Schaller studied them back in 1959 and he wrote 2 books about them. The giant squid is rare but not unsubstantiated. https:/&#x2
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I could see that freedom becoming technical debt if the project is big enough and poorly documented. I keep picturing the legendary missing Novell server that was buried behind drywall at the University of North Carolina: http://
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"And, more seriously, computer booking systems used by Qantas Airlines all struggled, delaying flights by hours .... Matsakis spoke of a Switzerland power company whose backup systems only turn on when needed—otherwise, they sit discon
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To be completist add: * the original iPod which used a Firewire port * the original iPod shuffle which you plugged in like a USB flash drive * 2nd gen iPod Shuffle which used a special 3.5 mm minijack docking station for charging * 3rd-4t
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No it was not 13 months, it took 4 months from WWDC 2007 to announcing the SDK, which was then released another 5 months later. Jobs was being slippery because they had nothing to show at WWDC 2007, but here is the timeline: iPhone revealed
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The first instance is the only real case of that phenomenon, the others Apple openly framed them as temporary compromises.
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I think the author is talking about something else (or is confused), the Motorola 68K processors were big-endian and the PowerPC had a big-endian mode (which was used by both PowerMacs and other POWER architecture systems). Intel x86 proces
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Sturgeon's Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law "I repeat [Sturgeon’s Law], which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who us
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I quite enjoyed Professor Stephen Ressler's video course series "Understanding Greek and Roman Technology: From Catapult to the Pantheon" http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/understanding-greek-a... I
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Worth watching the documentary Kingdom of Dreams and Madness. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_kingdom_of_dreams_and_ma... The documentary is an amazing peek at Studio Ghibli (primarily of the group working on Miyaz

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