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by joshAg 14y ago
I think the fact that the SNES hardware is proprietary would make it very tough to catch all the corner cases (since we'd be reduced to tons of test and check cycles or using SEMs to examine the chip). Plus, many cartridges has supplementar
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by joshAg 14y ago
i don't disagree; i stupidly answered the question poster asked (how could microsoft not make a profit selling xboxes) instead of the question s/he meant to ask (why did the entire bu lose money).
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by joshAg 14y ago
Consoles are sold at a loss, so that more people will buy the console (licensing fees are proportional to the size of the audience/consumer base). Even the PS3 when it first came out at $600 was a loss leader; if i'm remembering right for t
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by joshAg 14y ago
Number 4 is awesome! Portland, Reno, and San Diego are all weekend car-trips away (~8 hours 1 way, so 16 hours driving gives about a half a weekend's worth of time for exploring) for two or more people. You can also fly to have more time th
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by joshAg 14y ago
Since it's too late to edit or delete the parent to this comment, I sincerely apologize for attempting to make a joke on hacker news.
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by joshAg 14y ago
No. Nope. No thanks. Not at this time. No way, Jose. Never.
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by joshAg 14y ago
If he managed to come up with a multi-page business plan, get enough money to recruit 8-10 developers, get a couple million dollars in funding, come up with an actual spec himself, trust the team he assembled to write produce an mvp with al
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by joshAg 14y ago
here's why I don't plan on leaving the bay area for anything other than the perfect job with the perfect pay and perfect benefits (note, those are all time-varient): 1) employment options: I'm most likely not going to work for the same comp
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by joshAg 14y ago
I don't use zsh because I don't spend a lot of my time at the shell or do anything complex with it when I am using it. Most of my time is spent in a text editor, and for the little amount of time I spend doing things on the shell, bash (or
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by joshAg 15y ago
that sounds interesting. is the event open to the public?
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by joshAg 15y ago
Since you know how to program, I'd recommend picking up Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming (aka SICP aka the wizard book), and reading/working through that. It does a great job of showing why lisp is awesome. Paul Graham w
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by joshAg 15y ago
"I firmly refuse to install non-free software or tolerate its installed presence on my computer or on computers set up for me. "However, if I am visiting somewhere and the machines available nearby happen to contain non-free software, throu
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by joshAg 15y ago
how do you know that i didn't, and this is just a diversion?
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by joshAg 15y ago
if you don't mind, I'm going to borrow that line from you...
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by joshAg 15y ago
my typical response to ads for rockstars is pointing out that rockstars tend to earn 10 to 100 times more than a great studio musician and generally have to be the prima donna all the time. Then I ask if forcing myself to be the center of a
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by joshAg 15y ago
ah. i was going to point you toward/ask about berkeley's more real-world classes since it sounded like you went to Cal.
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by joshAg 15y ago
depending on how the warrant is worded and what specific law enforcement branch and what specific division within that branch is doing the investigation, there won't even be an investigation. do you really think the white collar crimes unit
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by joshAg 15y ago
depending on the wording of the warrant and previous case law, any information found not directly relating to the specific target or anything found because of that information could be inadmissible as evidence.
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by joshAg 15y ago
did you go to berkeley, by any chance?
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by joshAg 15y ago
berkeley does the same thing: eecs.berkeley.edu
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by joshAg 15y ago
a degree in the US pretty much only means a bachelors unless there's an adjective in front of it. if you mean a masters degree, then you refer to it as a masters or a master's degree or a graduate degree. if you mean a ph.d you call it a ph
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by joshAg 15y ago
Where does it say that air is drawn out of the chamber in order to maintain pressure? All I could see was scrubbing co2 and condensing h20 so that the pilot doesn't die/pass out.
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by joshAg 15y ago
here are some back of an envelope calculations i did yesterday, if you're interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3730747
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by joshAg 15y ago
"In a modern submarine, where crush depth is likely to be deeper than 1,000/2,000 feet, the hull is likely to implode, collapsing completely. In the process, the air inside the hull is compressed very rapidly, raising the internal temperatu
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by joshAg 15y ago
http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-122838.html "When the hull of a sub fails, it normally fails ni one location, and water shoots in through that spot, relieving the stress on the rest of the structure. That's why all the wr
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by joshAg 15y ago
> So it starts out at as high a pressure as it will end up at the bottom? Ignoring shrinkage of the chamber (not insignificant), yes the human chamber will be at the same pressure at the surface and at the bottom. Counting in shrinkage
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by joshAg 15y ago
> Decompression sickness only occurs when a person is under elevated pressure for a period of time, and then the pressure is released. Pressurizing the sub could in fact cause the decompression sickness, not prevent it. Only a too rapid
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by joshAg 15y ago
one of my discrete math professors was cut from the same cloth. We didn't learn about stable marriages; we learned about stable orgies.
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by joshAg 15y ago
That requires two sign figs to appear so it's not that far off of what i guestimated (1 order of magnitude off: 9.01E11 - 8.83E11 is 1.8E10). If i had said, "if you remove all NASA spending from the budget, the total budget remains the same
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by joshAg 15y ago
Almost certainly not since the submarine is pressurized, just like how an airplane is.

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