janm

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by janm 16y ago
Genetics plays a part. Diabetes in Asians is a different disease; the excess fat in Asian men is stored in the muscles rather than around the belly. 150 generations of eating rice will change things. By comparison, food like potato (now a s
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by janm 16y ago
Color strikes me as the pets.com of 2011.
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by janm 16y ago
Yes. I have seen many projects fail in big companies because management are frightened of programming. The "risk mitigation" is using large teams of people with the right "skillset" who don't need to think very much because they are doing t
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by janm 17y ago
Exactly: There are people who have repeated the same year of experience thirty times in a row ...
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by janm 17y ago
> Single founder can get feedback from other sources too: customers, friends, etc. > On the plus side that feedback can be less biased. But the cycle time is so slow. Feedback with a co-founder happens very quickly, and both parties
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by janm 17y ago
Co-founders can create a feedback loop between themselves that a single founder cannot. Comparing my "single founder" and "one of two" experiences, when there is another party the ability to talk and get feedback makes a huge difference. W
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Report Warns Silicon Valley Could Lose Its Edge(nytimes.com)
7 points by janm 17y ago|3 comments
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by janm 17y ago
Wasn't that Sun?
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by janm 17y ago
> Imagine if Microsoft had vetted every DOS and Windows app We associate the BSOD with Microsoft software. However, in the majority of cases, the bug is in someone else's code or is a hardware problem. These days it drivers, but in ea
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by janm 17y ago
I have a D630 and I agree; it is a laptop and does all the right laptop things. However: I got my wife a Dell E4300 and had many problems. Other colleagues have got other E series Dells have have had basic problems like not being able to
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by janm 17y ago
I agree, and it's not just the MacBook Pros, it's also the keyboard that comes with the non-laptop Macs. My new Mac Pro came with a keyboard that was comparable with the keyboard on the Tandy Color Computer I had in the early 80s. On the M
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by janm 17y ago
I thought that applying for a job at Google was applying for a job in advertising ...
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Abstruse Goose: A Mathematician's Apology(abstrusegoose.com)
3 points by janm 17y ago|1 comments
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by janm 18y ago
Yes. Just back from holidays and a problem with beer was concerning. Very relieved that it's just the economy.
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by janm 18y ago
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (Jim Gray & Andreas Reuter) isn't just one of the best database textbooks, it is one of the best computer science textbooks. It is an Important Work. On the other books, it depends on wha
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by janm 18y ago
Yes, there will be many more cores, but I suspect that the cluster programming model will start applying to smaller and smaller systems. I can imagine a system where each CPU die has multiple cores with on a chip with memory, and multi-CPU
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by janm 18y ago
I think clusters are going to start getting much smaller ...
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Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers(spectrum.ieee.org)
7 points by janm 18y ago|3 comments
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by janm 18y ago
Yes.
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by janm 18y ago
The difference between letting an exception bubble up and seeing a system call fail and aborting is pretty small. Either way, you need a higher level way of dealing with it. One of the most interesting papers I read was "Why computers fail
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by janm 18y ago
I disagree with both these points: In some cases old, actively maintained code is more reliable. However, I have seen many cases where old, actively maintained code (depending highly on the quality of the maintainers) has lost reliability
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by janm 18y ago
Yes, this is true: A lot of embedded code is poorly tested. Even more is poorly designed and written by poor programmers (like most software.) Some people have to deal with the machine, and C is a good model of the machine. Even reliable
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by janm 18y ago
> I use this on my mail server and with 200 users > I've yet to ever get a false positive. How do you know? I don't see how you would measure that; if you can figure out it is a false positive, you have discovered a better filter.
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by janm 18y ago
Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Kunth and Patashnik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Mathematics
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by janm 18y ago
Sydney is real estate, through and through. London: "You should have been here 150 years ago" is essentially "you should be more aristocratic". I think that signal is strong in London. I have been at dinner with friends who started arguin
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by janm 19y ago
What is the problem you have with SMP support in FreeBSD?
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by janm 19y ago
64 bit support on FreeBSD is pretty good; the only real issue is being able to compile for 32 bit targets on a 64 bit host out of the box. The ULE scheduler improves SMP support considerably.
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by janm 19y ago
> ... we realized that making something for public schools > was a really bad position for a tiny startup to be in ... Well, the question is: "Who is un(der)serviced in this market?" If the public schools are bad, it is probably t
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by janm 19y ago
Interesting. Sounds a lot like Christopher Alexeander's "Nature of Order" work. Specifically, trying to answer the question: "What makes something good?"