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by jackfoxy 17y ago
Fewer things bother me more than flippant replies to pseudo-intelectual jackasses. I'm just not bothered by very much.
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
If you are interested in more of the background, Scott provied this link to his previous posts that touch on D-wave http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?cat=20 A commentor to the most recent post points to this rebuttal http://scienceblogs.com
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
I have been following Scott's site for several years. He is at the top of his field, one of the most qualified quantum computing theorists. Sometimes his sarcasm is juvenile and falls flat, but this post is classic. Yes you would have had t
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
Watched his Christmas tree lecture, and he said the hardbound vol. 4 (not the facsile) will be out in 2010. I consider that the true vol.4...only, what, 5 or 6 years later than he originally proposed.
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
Having slogged through the 3 volumes of the 3rd Edition of TAOCP, I came away with 2 impressions: 1) How did Knuth work art into the title? 2) Disappointment that he took so long coming out with subsequent volumes. So long, that I no longer
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
Thanks for the reply. The airforcetimes article is really very good. I wish you had originally posted it instead of the strategy page article. The usatoday link seems to be MIA.
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
Another rich guy telling those not as lucky as him how lucky we are. Oh, and btw, pay your taxes.
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
My apologies for not first reading your link before my curt response. Both the article and website are interesting in their own way. First a primer on websites reporting military/intelligence affairs: two sites that occupy the ends of the c
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
That doesn't give you the flight path information
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
About 17 years ago I took instruction from a teacher of the Bates Method (as refined by some woman whose name I cannot recall). It’s a lot of work. You can expect to put at least an hour a day into it if you want any results. My results wer
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
The Serbian downing of the F-117 almost certainly had more to do with a spy in NATO relaying flight path info on a moonlit night, making visual contact possible. But as is the case of all black bag operations, the real story will likely sta
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
Because if you really are that important your nemesis will go to a lot more trouble than that to crack your security. Camouflage is about using simple means to hide in plain site.
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
Bravo! How come you don't have more points for this comment? Or am I the only moron who never thought of this?
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
This is what I used http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2238
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
Now that Verizon will have a serious marketing launch of a phone designed for Android in November, things could get interesting.
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
I tried really hard to make an old XP machine last until Win 7 came out, but the hard drive decided otherwise. Having heard too many horror stories about Vista the first thing I did with the cheapest replacement machine money could buy was
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
There are too many powerful people who would have had near real-time knowledge of the March 11 meeting, the insight to connect the dots, and the means to cover their tracks. I'm guessing it was a consortium that made the bet on Bear, thus s
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
I smile every time a journalist gushes about solar energy in Germany. I lived there for 3 years in several parts of the country. The southern most latitude in the country is approximately the same as Vancouver, and it can be overcast for we
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
Another confirmation that our culture is largely post-literate.
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
Boolean algebra is conspicously missing from the Basic List, probably because the parts of Boolean algebra that are most useful are the first thing any programmer learns (although there are plenty of people making a living programming who c
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ The pace of progress in quantum computing is slooow, so Scott may not have much to say for a while. http://motls.blogspot.com/ Good physics (sometimes very technical, sometimes not), if you don't let L
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Time for a Real World Linux/Apache - IIS Comparison(jackfoxy.blogspot.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 17y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
Have you tried Craig’s List? I used to get good applicants in the Bay Area from there, but it’s been awhile. The last time I hired the economy was better and it was darned hard to find anyone I even wanted to interview. My best results have
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
BTW, we'd have to re-architect to avoid the whole world in one repository. And even if we could figure out a clever way to do it, it would likely present organizational complexities.
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by jackfoxy 17y ago
It's the latest and greatest SVN as of August, (can't recall what release that is). Branching is instantaneous, which is faster than TFS. Where it slows us down is iterfacing with the trunk (primarily updates to the local working copy). Bec
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Some Observations on Real World Software Development Life Cycle, pt. 1 (jackfoxy.blogspot.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 17y ago|3 comments