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by jamespitts 16y ago
I was very happy with HP's "return to engineering" when Hurd came aboard, even invested in it. The whole Fiorina drama really left a bad taste in my mouth, but somehow Hurd brought HP back to its cultural center-of-gravity, even considering
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by jamespitts 16y ago
"Dead perl" reminds me of when Bill Clinton said "you just don't get it" to Bush 41. Essentially meaningless, yet devastatingly true. So, some interesting tidbits to add to this "conversation": 1. Perl developers are older (on average) than
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by jamespitts 16y ago
AAPL has been the greatest investment of our era. When I first bought in, it was not even clear that the company would survive. But the shares were going at a bargain... Love the point about the university media. This is also how I stumbled
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by jamespitts 16y ago
Early 1995: viewed source in Netscape, saved the file to my desktop, modified the file, and opened the file back up in my browser. Of course, I was (very luckily) ready for what I saw; I had been doing graphic design at the time and had rea
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by jamespitts 16y ago
Michael Mol did a demo of rosetta for the Lansing, MI perl mongers and it was a riot (far better than my DBIC/architecture talk). There are fewer better forms of entertainment for geeks than eating pizza while discussing common programming
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by jamespitts 16y ago
Taiwanese creative "re-enactments" are awesome and I hope that the format gets widely copied. Televised news has become a complete farce, so why not inject some humor into it?
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by jamespitts 16y ago
There's nothing wrong with taking 10 years to create something new. Since they began, I've taken serious ganders into java and ruby. Now that I'm back in the perl camp I find that I know a lot more about programming in other cultures. And n
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by jamespitts 16y ago
Power will corrupt any interesting intellectual movement. Still, postmodernism cannot be discredited just because it does not make sense to people outside of its paradigm. It must have been quite irritating for the old art establishment whe
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by jamespitts 16y ago
I'll be among the first to stand up and defend whatever Richard Dawkins has to say (because he provides a much-needed service: skepticism). However, I do appreciate postmodernism for its (accidental?) beauty. This is truly poetic stuff, col
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by jamespitts 16y ago
I love the term. It has clarity, and also hints of self-mockery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
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by jamespitts 17y ago
They might get away with this in their community because the people who actually have business to transact with sequoia will know what to do. However, what about non-digeratti who just want to find out something? Are they now some irrelevan
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by jamespitts 18y ago
Simulating physics and chemistry to overcome limits of the Von Neumann architecture. Specifically, using IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer to simulate neurons and synapses. "Performance measurements show good scaling behavior on the Blue Gene/L
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by jamespitts 18y ago
The real problem with this scenario is that those people who are being taxed 90% might feel less of an obligation to contribute back through charity (even if they are paying far less than 90%).
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by jamespitts 19y ago
Arlington should apologize to Cook for this disparaging post. Downtime is obviously a serious issue, but implying that Cook is an amateur is as irresponsible as it is false. Are we supposed to believe that, while Twitter became a rock star
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by jamespitts 19y ago
@raghus - we just got a no as well. Life deals out a lot of set-backs, but each one contains some very useful information (ideally examined in the rear-view mirror). Despite being rejected, I do think that the self-reflection involved in ap
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by jamespitts 19y ago
How about this approach: the earlier a member signed up, the more their votes count in the rankings.
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by jamespitts 19y ago
Flat-fee hosting plans are much more reasonable considering the bandwidth costs. For example, the virtualized hosting plan at Media Temple serves 1Tb of data for $50 per month. If you can justify the cost of the logs/data upload, EC2 is be