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by jrabone 14y ago
I read an article somewhere (sorry, don't have reference to hand) that suggested it was diminishing returns from error correction vs number of levels per cell rather than lithography limits per se.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Really? I thought it was an alkaloid (solanine) similar to other members of the nightshade family.
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's just as well that 256GB is enough for anyone. Maybe I'm pre-empting the next part in this series, but it looks like simply scaling NAND flash geometry might be a dead end: "While the growing capacity of SSDs and high IOP rates will
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by jrabone 14y ago
Would be useful to have control over output encoding (ie. generate an octet stream output in UTF8, UTF16BE/LE). Generation of surrogate pairs would also be needed for encodings that support them, since many applications get this wrong (even
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by jrabone 14y ago
There's an English-language article (rather than a translation) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18338956
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by jrabone 14y ago
Error writing /dev/lp0 (on fire, eh?)
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's probably thermal calibration; I had a couple of IBM 10K SCSI disks that used to do that every so often. It sounds like delicate electronics in pain... They lasted for years. You might be able to get more information from querying the S
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by jrabone 14y ago
And this is why antivirus is, by and large, an utter waste of CPU cycles and IO wait time. The ones it catches you could have avoided by not being an idiot. The ones you WANT it to catch go sailing by. Meanwhile your life is a misery becaus
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by jrabone 14y ago
Yes, you're quite right; I thought that was a particularly ugly patterned carpet he was standing on. I think that says more about British carpets than anything else :) Looks like their wire floor is a bit more permanent than the design I wa
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by jrabone 14y ago
I've worked in one of these for a happy summer making measurements of acoustic diffuser panels. I quite enjoyed it. However, it looks that that room actually has a regular floor; mine didn't. You lowered your own suspended floor (metal gril
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Dish Network Sues Broadcasters In Battle Over Ad-Skipping Device(online.wsj.com)
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by jrabone 14y ago
This is not going to end well. Back to the dark ages for strong crypto (ITAR et al.)? Perhaps RIPA in the UK is already sufficient.
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by jrabone 14y ago
An Arduino to do the BCD conversion? Has the world supply of 7448/74184/74185 chips run out?
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by jrabone 14y ago
Pretty much - with folding and other niceties. Have a look at http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/UsingANote... for a brief overview, and http://www.wolfram.com/technology/guide/SymbolicInterfaceCon... for more information
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by jrabone 14y ago
The terminal metaphor isn't so great either; in fact I think it's miserable, compared to the workbook-type approach provided by something like Mathematica from 15 years ago (last time I worked somewhere that could afford it) I find it depre
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by jrabone 14y ago
apt-get --no-install-recommends is quite helpful in that respect, as is aptitude why | why-not if you have aptitude installed.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Now you've ruined it for everybody. On the other hand, I shall get rich offering SAAAS (SpamAssassin As A Service) on Mechanical Turk...
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by jrabone 14y ago
Seconded, and it's so very, VERY British. Perhaps when the rest of the US wakes up the tone of comments might change, but right now some of them feel like they came straight from the playground.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Is it wrong for something to be interesting because it's unusual?
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by jrabone 14y ago
Ah, "the" start-up scene, AKA "everything that's wrong with London-centric UK". I hope Propelly takes off and reminds the tech-luvvies that there IS a world outside London. It might stretches as far as Scotland, if you squint hard enough an
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by jrabone 14y ago
You can always require Mechanical Turks to pass qualification tests before they work on your HITs. There are also pre-existing qualifications like language and location. Of course, you need to pay well enough to get enough people to bother,
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's not just Wall St. Everywhere I've worked has had similar clauses (even though some of them are of dubious legal stature in the UK).
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by jrabone 14y ago
Um, no, they don't. They're desperately trying to find a proxy for "is a good hire" without spending a lot of time on it. GitHub is just the latest in a long line of such. I have some sympathy with them; recruiting is hard, vital to get "ri
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by jrabone 14y ago
Your fake passionate guy knows that GitHub is a place to get noticed, can cut and paste a json parser in python, can follow a node.js tutorial, and can parrot the cool kids bitching about Java verbosity. Sounds pretty standard graduate fare
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by jrabone 14y ago
Increasingly, I'm thinking that "show us your GitHub" is a good filter for companies or recruiters I don't care to work for or with, but then perhaps I'm not the target market; I've been doing this for a while, I'm not a shiny new graduate.
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by jrabone 14y ago
As pointed out (by Pekka) in the blog comments, writer doesn't understand CSS px. It's already an angular measurement.
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by jrabone 15y ago
I think DNT+ ( http://abine.com/dntdetail.php ) also solves this problem...
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by jrabone 15y ago
Well, if that 1% happens to be "all the banking websites in the world" I can imagine why they would bail.
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by jrabone 15y ago
The last 7-odd years in my 20 year career, 50 (very smart) people, multiple teams. Long enough to watch it spread through a company, with the attendant disruption, only to be revised away as the realisation set in that, like so many silver
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by jrabone 15y ago
Totally agree. The whole Agile farce is about treating programmers as idiots who'll end up putting a flight simulator in your spreadsheet unless you nail them to a task card, and program managers as drooling morons who spin a wheel of fortu

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