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by jjs 16y ago
Does "Viable" mean you have sales data to share? ;)
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by jjs 16y ago
You're looking for the Ideal Gas Law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas_law ), which is derived from Boyle's Law (relation between gas pressure and volume), and Charles's Law (expansion of gas when heated). The related concept here is
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by jjs 16y ago
How long did it take for Dave Bowman to exit the pod and pressurize the airlock? :) (SPOILER if you haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92vSua8XJY In this clip, he ejects at about 0:20 and hits the leve
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by jjs 16y ago
Is there much advantage starting out defining how rich you want to be? Yes. Quantifying your goal helps you answer questions like "How can I get there from here?", "How long will it take?", "Will I ever make it there at my current traject
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by jjs 16y ago
I like your general point. I'm sure there are unforeseen expenses in all of those scenarios that would require some padding to insure against, but the contracting scenario is the one I'm most experienced with, and the assumptions behind you
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by jjs 16y ago
I'm thinking more along the lines of a general accomplishment. This "doing well by doing good" thing could inspire people who run companies in other industries as well.
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by jjs 16y ago
bill at $52/hour If you have year-round, full-time contract work with no downtime due to acquiring new clients or negotiating new jobs with existing ones, then you probably don't have enough clients to be truly independent.
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by jjs 16y ago
This doesn't make the project any less worthy, but their OSS approach shouldn't veil their corporate gain. On the contrary, that actually makes it more worthy, since they're providing a clear example of how a publicly-traded company can
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by jjs 16y ago
Advancements like this make it feel exciting to be young and have so much time ahead of you. What, you're still using your original telomeres?
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by jjs 16y ago
0% chance. Answering randomly may give you a result that coincidentally matches the truth, but you have provided no logical or epistemological support for your choice, nor any chain of reasoning that leads you from the available evidence
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by jjs 16y ago
* (latest-album 'sigur-ros) NIL
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by jjs 16y ago
I'm curious what a native port of Emacs on an iPad actually contributes over an Screen/SSH session on a "real" machine with "real" compilers and tool-chains. To get it running, you'd need (a) the ability to modify, redistribute, compile,
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by jjs 16y ago
But maybe you should stick with the Ruby. I hear there's money in that. Come on, Mike. That sort of snipe just isn't like you.
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by jjs 16y ago
Does writing blog posts making fun of people who get crypto wrong count as a hobby? ;-) I believe that's more of a public service. :)
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by jjs 16y ago
The author is presuming that the IMs that an anonymous person on the internet claims they have access to are real. Why quibble about whether he said those words, when he has expressed them so damningly in his actions.
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by jjs 16y ago
Or, The ESTJ's guide to managing an INTP .
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Eventually the platform will develop and mature, and perhaps in five years time or so, it might be powerful enough to replace a traditional computer for most people. The frustrating thing is that it is powerful enough to be a computer
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by jjs 16y ago
I also learned C at that age, but I was excited about it. My motivation was thorough disgust at the limitations of QBasic and VB, which a friend and I had been running into in our more ambitious video game projects.
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by jjs 16y ago
Reprints are contractual matters. Draw one up. Email is wonderful because people don't understand that an agreement in writing doesn't have to mean ink on paper .
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by jjs 16y ago
With in-house processor design (Intrinsity), perhaps secrecy (and anti-jailbreak) is their aim: In this scenario, they want to be able to ship an XCode and iPhoo SDK without having to distribute the source to their code generator.
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by jjs 16y ago
- Text selection is really awkward, drag too far and you select unrelated stuff from nearby elements instead or as well Same in Chrome. Perhaps making images into CSS background images of the slides would fix this.
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by jjs 16y ago
HN died for you in 55 days?
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Sure Ancient Hindu and Buddhist mystics had said this about time using the language of religion Bear in mind that in the ancient world, there wasn't necessarily a sharp distinction between "philosophy" and "religion". There is evidence t
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I allude to that elsewhere in this thread. :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1317736
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by jjs 16y ago
He has apparently re-discovered Kant's original claim that time is a creation of our own minds If by "original" you mean, in response to Hume's earlier statements on the origins of the idea of time. :-) http://seop.leeds.ac.uk/entries/ka
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by jjs 16y ago
"Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving." — The Gateless Gate , Koan 29
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Or perhaps "self" is the leaky abstraction.
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What if his name is Scotty, and rather than zapping you, he merely stored you in his transporter buffer and delayed beaming you to your destination for a moment? What if he didn't delay at all? Did he kill you just by letting your atoms ge
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Suppose that, in an instant, your body and mind ceased to exist. Just completely vanished. And suppose further, that nobody witnessed this, and that one instant later, by some very unlikely process, some matter or energy spontaneously orga
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by jjs 16y ago
Supposedly the ancient Romans believed that one's body and soul renewed itself every seven years, which is probably the origin of this myth. Regrettably, I can't find a good citation on that, although it's widely cited as the origin for the

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