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by jeremyw 17y ago
Hmm, 12K/mo was 8K/mo a few days ago. Not that this particularly detracts from his points, but .. grain of salt included. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014220
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Hard to argue with the data. The norm is deficits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_annual_federal_deficits...
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Indeed, it's very practical to open the spigot slowly as a way around the two ways of thinking, penny-pinching vs labor/resource abstraction. I would quibble about turning off the switch. It's fine to hand that function to someone else (CF
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Understood -- I'm saying there are growing factions in both parties that will make these old allegiances obsolete.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
.coffee seems an appropriate balance between overloading the namespace and a too-long common string in one's directory. The 2- and 3-letter extension tyranny must stopped!
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by jeremyw 17y ago
I wasn't disagreeing with the author, so I'm not sure what you mean.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
If someone handed you $100,000 today, how would you spend it to maximize future profits? I still find turning off the tight-fisted switch to make strategic investments difficult. Warren Buffet makes it look easy -- and the author's routi
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by jeremyw 17y ago
So this is another odd failure case for science, where researchers from many areas selectively ignored (since the 1970s, let's say) a roughly-worked-out biochemistry. Add political chilling effects and mix. Given that there aren't particul
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Promoting this internal link, an interesting analysis of AT&T's possible packet buffering/congestion issues. http://blogs.broughturner.com/2009/10/is-att-wireless-data-c...
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Whoa, my eyes are bleeding, but surfing just got 10x faster.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
One form of very high temperature reactor , the pebble bed reactor, was theorized in the 1950s and has been under development at various locations for more than a decade -- China begins commercial construction this year. PBRs are one of se
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by jeremyw 17y ago
There is no methodology here as to whether the test was local (~0 latency) or simulated-real (50-200ms roundtrip latency). The latter amendment might change the picture substantially.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Genius. I love the moment of brain-freeze: Wait, how do I remove the .. I can't .. oh!
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Well put: Every one of the Nook’s vaunted distinctions comes fraught with buzz kill footnotes.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
If you're CPU-bound, you can't have greater throughput, by definition. Once you calculate your non-cpu latency (50% in my example) ceil(1/latency%) is your limit per core, before you start wasting resources.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Generally speaking, you want to fill up as much RAM as possible with passenger processes without utilizing swap in order to maximize you performance and throughput. Uh, what? On a single-app box with real traffic (as the article implies),
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by jeremyw 17y ago
I would put the purported plus of introverts "listening to people speak" a bit differently. To generalize, extroverts talk to work through their own thinking. So some/much of what they say is that process in public. As a young introver
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by jeremyw 17y ago
See Steele's comments.
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Scientists as Proxies for Political Battles (Climate)(online.wsj.com)
1 points by jeremyw 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Again, the calls for open access come from scientific fields broadly (where it already isn't happening voluntarily). If you're going to refute that on HN, where the audience isn't pitchfork-wielding, science-averse troglodytes, then you're
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Members of all fields of science are calling for open data and source code, so I read a political message in your opposition (and focus on climatology). As for correctness , the article doesn't use that CS term and I haven't seen anybody a
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Two myths my non-science friends understand to be true. a) A peer reviewed paper is very close to fact. b) Scientists are essentially free from backbiting, tribalism and empire-building. They dispassionately rely on provable data. Modify s
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James Randi: This Cruel Farce Has To Stop(randi.org)
86 points by jeremyw 17y ago|30 comments
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Resonates nicely with something Cormac McCarthy said in a recent interview. Someone asked Flannery O'Connor why she wrote, and she said, "Because I was good at it." And I think that's the right answer. If you're good at something it's very
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Underscores in numeric literals This proposal was just rejected in Go, alas. What a readability difference it makes in Ruby, Eiffel and (originally) Ada.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Well, the ad is via Google Adsense. Blame them. :)
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Agreed. Which is why open access to code and data would make this text publication ready . When I ship code to a client you can bet the ambiguities have been removed. Thorny parts have defensible explanations.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
I made no such point.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Errors are errors. It doesn't really matter from what source they are discovered. It's important for future work that they be eliminated. The number of times I been able to talk to a climate scientist is few, but always full of hedging.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
I'm struck that code/data openness is an interesting point in the history of science. On one hand, how can we be in 2009 and still be having this argument? Most fields of science don't require this dissemination. On the other hand, it's

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