jameskilton

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by jameskilton 17y ago
Sorry, I've never seen a "need" here. Google gives free lunch, massages, has exercise equipment rooms, the works that they'll never charge employees for. No, this is too much tunnel-vision focus on the bottom line without even a simple th
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by jameskilton 17y ago
Aye, he Accidentally the whole English language. Though given the article, the title can be construed to make sense, albeit still badly worded.
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by jameskilton 17y ago
"We believe some people will be disappointed. But with new [electronic] readers coming and sales booming, we need to do this now, before the installed base of e-book reading devices gets to a size where doing it would be impossible." Wow,
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by jameskilton 17y ago
So he wants Erlang but without: - Massive parallelism via processes - Immutable data structures - Highly refined GC based on immutability of data So he wants the Erlang syntax and not the fundamental core features that make Erlang what it i
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by jameskilton 17y ago
Given that the LHC is literally the most complex piece of machinery and electronics ever constructed by man, having beams properly travelling throughout the system without problems is an amazing feat in and of itself. I fully expect more br
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by jameskilton 17y ago
"You can choose up to a 7-inch screen, 5 megapixel camera, 120 GB hard drive and up to 64 GB of memory" Wha? That's not a cell phone, that's a tablet. You can't comfortably hold a 7" screen in one hand (excluding those with massive hands of
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by jameskilton 17y ago
This one asks, quite directly, for your password. I can't imagine this is anything but a scam for stealing Twitter accounts.
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by jameskilton 17y ago
My sense of environmentalism is caring about what's good for the planet, not what ways we can offset the damage we've done. We have NO idea the cost of geoengineering. Outside of ruining the sky, how many plants will die due to lack of prop
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by jameskilton 17y ago
When I first heard about this, I about broke down and started crying. This is the worst idea I've ever heard in this on-going climate change saga. I'd rather we just went back to coal power and forgot about "clean energy" than implement t
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by jameskilton 17y ago
So to summarize: "Microsoft sucks, but I know their stuff, and I'm too afraid to change." Also, 12 people, from companies of which I've heard of two (NAMICO and Lincoln Financial) do not a comprehensive poll make.
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by jameskilton 17y ago
Can't find the post right now, but there was an issue to where rubyforge syncs were counting towards the download graph. This has been fixed but the data wasn't changed, so yeah, this graph is skewed.
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by jameskilton 17y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=896838
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by jameskilton 17y ago
All covered in this blog post: http://github.com/blog/531-introducing-bert-and-bert-rpc