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by iigs 18y ago
Land isn't perfectly fungible -- in fact, one of the cornerstones of the tech startup world is that land near SF, CA or Boston, MA is worth many orders of magnitude more than land in eastern Iowa or western Texas for certain people. There's
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by iigs 18y ago
We have a smattering of 100-150 HP DL380s and BL460c blades. We've seen approximately a 5% infant mortality rate (DOA or issues in the first 90 days). Depending on the channel HP's custom configurations come as a base and add on accessories
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by iigs 18y ago
You'll find good jobs in either place. Do consider also the cultures of the two locations. I know granola west coasters that would not be able to hang with the east coast hustle, and I know east coasters that would be driven bananas by the
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by iigs 18y ago
No. There are two categories of developers: one understands why this is a warning-worthy situation and would never do it, and the other, that shouldn't be trusted to do the right thing and this message is for. It saddens me that a site as r
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by iigs 18y ago
Heh, you sure don't like appleinsider, do you? :) Incidentally, given the self inflicted wounds Microsoft has given itself with vista, and the ability for Mac hardware to run Windows now, should you want it, it doesn't seem impossible to me
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by iigs 18y ago
My first reaction to this was "why would the carriers strangle their business this way?". You'd think that they'd want to encourage innovation to increase consumption of high margin features like SMS. It occurs to me after a moment of thoug
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by iigs 18y ago
The bad: It seems to default to "Click to center" instead of "click to zoom, centered here". [Essentially] Nobody wants really precise centering of the Western Hemisphere -- they want to see their house. It doesn't take advantage of my 1600
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by iigs 18y ago
I don't know how movoxx works, but I can say I always get a really uneasy feeling when I think about my phone number being close to an advertiser's database. Even if they give you the ads and they never see the numbers, as your customer I c
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by iigs 18y ago
Strong agree. Case in point: the politics and automaker bailout stuff that has had more of a pass since the election. Even in the weeks leading up to the election the articles were policed more heavily than now. Not sure it doesn't beat ano
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by iigs 18y ago
This was my immediate thought. Going half way from search to youtube comments is a drastic step down/back. Even in his screenshot you can see he gave the up arrow to everybody who gave him a compliment, without regard to merit, and he down-
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by iigs 18y ago
I am not computer science trained; I have to admit I had no idea there were so many ways to slice this. Unfortunately the reading is a bit unapproachable if you aren't already versed in the terminology. Does anyone have a more accessible tu
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by iigs 18y ago
As an adult of acceptable means, I've found that my appetite increases substantially in the fall and winter, and diminishes in the summer, despite slightly elevated exercise levels in the sunny Seattle summers. It doesn't explain the holida
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by iigs 18y ago
You might decompose burn rate into a core that is rather fixed (a few employees that you have to have, an office space, substantial hosting or other commercial machinery) and an incremental component that increases with projects undertaken.
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by iigs 18y ago
There are no links in the article either. (Not counting the garbage "other news in this category" links that stay in-house)
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by iigs 18y ago
This thought occurred to me as well. I think it's of merit but Apple actually has a really hard problem on their hands, namely that the app store UI is terribly simple and at the moment doesn't appear to have a good way to prioritize sugges
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by iigs 18y ago
Sounds pretty angry to me. I don't know what the tone of his site was like in general, but maybe he needs to take some time off and cool down a little bit. Life's too short to be constantly bitter toward people.
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by iigs 18y ago
What's wrong with FLV? I don't know much about it but as far as I know it's a decent container format, especially now that it can wrap H.264 and AAC.
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by iigs 18y ago
Cool. It sounds like maybe they're adding a FPGA in a manner similar to a FPU -- an annex to the CPU. It would be huge to be able to design, load, and execute custom instructions for your CPU. For example, it would be pretty slick to be abl
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by iigs 18y ago
It's a bit presumptive to call men the reference case and to ask what's wrong with {universities, women} that has caused a drop in female enrollment. Maybe a better question is: Why are there so many men in computer science. The article's
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by iigs 18y ago
The plunge is so severe that some executives are comparing it with the dot-com bust in 2001, when hundreds of companies disappeared and Silicon Valley lost nearly one-fifth of its jobs. I had never heard that statistic before... Interesti
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by iigs 18y ago
I would like to nominate firearms, and especially the political landscape around firearms, as an informally off-topic subject for this site. Everyone that has an opinion about this topic has a strong one (even me), and I've never seen a for
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by iigs 18y ago
Net Neutrality and Common Carrier status are kissing cousins. I can't, for the life of me, figure out why AT&T was hell bent on abandoning the Common Carrier advantages just so they could piss their customers off.
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by iigs 18y ago
In the earliest versions of MySQL that supported subqueries IIRC you could see different EXPLAINs for what, to me, appeared to be equivalent queries. That is to say, I don't believe the query optimizer is/was MySQL's key feature at that tim
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by iigs 18y ago
Good question. It makes you wonder what the electronics in that room think, as well. Granted that's not the data center itself, it's in an adjacent human-friendly workspace, but even those computers can't be too wild about mist/smoke.
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by iigs 18y ago
Gah. I had initially replied to the parent post with the Great Zero Challenge link, submitted and saw that you beat me. :) AFAIK, the technique for magnetic disk recovery after one dd pass is to remove the heads and attempt to retrieve the
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by iigs 18y ago
Everybody's mad at the financial institutions for spending their bailout money on bonuses and other seemingly irresponsible things. Because these companies are not bankrupt, they're not able, as far as I know, to renegotiate much of anythin
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by iigs 18y ago
Sorry for replying to the root, this thread is kind of a mess, with stuff scattered everywhere. Here's what I think: What you're asking to do is very hard for anything beyond simple static page retrievals. Tiny mistakes in schema design (le
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by iigs 18y ago
Carbon fiber has a bunch of desirable properties, but I don't believe that absolute thickness (thinness) is generally considered one of them. As far as I know the most common uses for carbon fiber are when light weight and high strength are
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by iigs 18y ago
Other than the obvious P2P file sharing that grows to fill the available space, better responsiveness (less buffering time) for high bit rate streaming video will probably dominate bandwidth needs for the near future. Remote computing appli
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by iigs 18y ago
When the US interstate system was built many small towns lost vitality as drivers bypassed towns, stopping generally only at their endpoints. It seems to me like there is an analog here. I don't smoke or drink carbonated beverages, and I th

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