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by jbester 14y ago
I think that has to do with feynman's time at Thinking Machines: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
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by jbester 14y ago
Formal methods != safety-critical. I think it'd be a hard sell to use ML in safety-critical systems due to the non-deterministic runtime of the GC and potential for memory exhaustion. As a counter-example, C doesn't prevent formal methods -
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by jbester 14y ago
Yes, there is no separate tool specifically for drawing shapes, but, you can stroke any selection or path.
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by jbester 14y ago
I agree, the GP is thinking of this news story: http://www.billboard.com/news/pearl-jam-r-e-m-trent-reznor-c... I don't think a lawsuit was ever filed. At the time there was speculations as to whether it was considered a public perform
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by jbester 14y ago
It's also used as part of the CORS handshake for cross-domain XHR calls.
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by jbester 14y ago
They still exist in the US, they are working "embedded" now. Embedded has made a huge jump in the last 15 years from custom OSes or no-OS to now COTS RTOSes/Linux. Even the embedded guys lament the newer guys can't debug an ISR anymore...
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by jbester 15y ago
It may be worth retrying as an experiment to see how lisp fairs now.
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by jbester 15y ago
Perhaps he's referring to the batteries included feel of other platforms. Every other platform (i.e. .NET/java/ruby/python) have gobs of built-in functionality in the standard library - everything from parsing, to different I/O models (NI
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by jbester 15y ago
It's anonymous assuming the mint-chip value message and the mint-chip request message are not intercepted or stored. This is a PKI-based system, so they can verify if you signed a transaction. So if you use it online - you can't guarantee
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by jbester 15y ago
By 1963, the PDP line was already in production, COBOL, FORTRAN and LISP were already defined, and there were military/space vehicles with custom computers around or in development.
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by jbester 15y ago
There are a couple use cases: 1) applications where the OS is a commodity - abstraction layer to IO (disk, network). MS solution is their PAAS (which is expensive). 2) existing libraries/services that aren't available on Win32 where it
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by jbester 15y ago
Think you have that flipped. The median is the 50th percentile. The mean is the average.
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by jbester 15y ago
The loan guarantee is actually against government induced project delays not default. The goal is to make the government a stakeholder. The last two built at that same site had > 10x cost overruns for that reason.
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by jbester 15y ago
That's a 100k gross salary. I don't live in CA, but I'd guess about 30-40% overall tax rate including state tax. That leaves the earner 60k-70k overall to live on. That rent is >= 50% of their income.
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by jbester 15y ago
Half of all teams are below the median .
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by jbester 15y ago
Not the GP, but the general principal is to use Redis as a task queueing system. The front-end puts a task into a redis queue. One or more C++ programs are waiting on the queue(s) and execute the given task (like a large DB insert). If r
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by jbester 15y ago
Wouldn't this hit anyone who linked to wikileaks-like sites?
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by jbester 15y ago
Obsolete is a strong word. What happens in these industries is that they get split into the high-end (organic farming, small order manufacturing) and the mass-production low-end. Yes in many ways margin have fallen but overall production
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by jbester 16y ago
DD-WRT firmware supports it in certain firmware versions. A little start up script hacking is required, but, you can setup a ipv6 tunnel through hurricane electric or one of the other tunnel brokers.
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by jbester 16y ago
Any reference to SCSH should make note of Olin Shiver's infamous acknowledgements page in the manual. http://www.scsh.net/docu/html/man.html The story goes: while Olin was working on his doctorate he had the idea to create an anti-acknowl
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by jbester 16y ago
It seems more like the string decodes to multiple base 59 numbers. The cipher is another layer on top of that.
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by jbester 16y ago
> I would love to see inmates having the ability to pursue a trade, learn programming Brings a whole new level to the saying "Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you liv
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by jbester 16y ago
Since it's maiden voyage I would guess not much other than a prolonged check-out, maybe some surveillance and/or mapping. As for the overall mission mandate may directly or indirectly be related to prompt global strike, a kinetic kill syste
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by jbester 16y ago
By law, information may not be classified merely because it would be embarrassing or to cover illegal activity. Information may only be classified to protect national-security objectives/interests. I imagine this release is more contentiou
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by jbester 16y ago
A spreadsheet would have prevented the author from using floating point to represent money.
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by jbester 16y ago
It's more a replacement for VMWare Server than VMWare ESX. I think KVM/Xen are closer to ESX. VirtualBox ships with a webservice that you can write custom front-ends against (or script against). Most of the VM tools seems to miss an abil
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by jbester 16y ago
I've tried slicehost, linode, and mosso (now rackspace - cloud servers) they were all pretty similar. I think the new linode pricing now matches the old mosso pricing.
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by jbester 16y ago
SoC processors have several built in controllers on the CPU. For instance, you'll typically see: a flash controller, an ethernet controller, one or more UARTs, i2c controller, DRAM controller, etc. Development boards break out all of thes
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by jbester 18y ago
It is no doubt possible. I've done something similar to this on a single forum 3 or so years ago and had reasonably interesting results. Basically, I scraped the site, removed formatting/spacing/dead-words, stemmed (using a modified porte