jxcole

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by jxcole 15y ago
I've always been a fan of stuckincustoms. His collection of HDR photography is incredible. I recommend everyone to check it out.
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by jxcole 15y ago
"Faster than the speed of light" Though the underlying science is very interesting, I wish we could have less sensationalized coverage. Nothing under this section title involves going faster than light.
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by jxcole 15y ago
I wouldn't cash your chips in yet. We don't really know what's possible in the realm of personal manufacturing. Theoretically, if it costs a certain amount of materials and energy to produce something, producing it in a smaller factory will
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by jxcole 15y ago
That's the point of the 100 most recent. If they are power users and they can submit 80 posts a day, each of which gets at least 20 points, then they are obviously making a contribution. If they just have high Karma though, they won't neces
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by jxcole 15y ago
Users should be rate limited based on the average score of their last x (say 100) submissions. If their last 100 submissions got an average of 1 (no points) then they should be rate limited to 3 a day. If their average score for the last 10
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by jxcole 15y ago
Negotiator: Our free lunch costs us about 15 to 20k per year per employee, so add at least 15k to our offer to find it's true value. Me: If I were left to my own devices I would make myself a PB and J sandwich and have an apple every day. T
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by jxcole 15y ago
Ok, so I'm a little sketchy on where I heard it originally, bu I think I was watching some sort of space show that said that hydrogen and oxygen mix together to propel a rocket but they capture some of the emitted water vapor and turn it ba
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by jxcole 15y ago
Ok. I hope I'm not going against the rules of HN discourse here but I'd like to go out on a limb and say any article in which the author doesn't bother capitalizing the first word in his sentences is not an article I'm going to bother to re
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by jxcole 15y ago
It's kind of hard to put a simple number on that (of course, you could have done tons of research to support this, I'm not sure). But it turns out one of the ordinary byproducts of ordinary rockets is water, which is why all space food is d
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by jxcole 15y ago
I think that this technology will eventually replace the current GPU processing that people have been doing. It has all sorts of cool crazy applications, but people will probably still need their good old fashioned deterministic CPU as an o
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by jxcole 15y ago
When I was in 5th grade the Nintendo 64 came out and a friend of mine commented that this was going to be the last major video game console release of all time. After all, the graphics were so mind bogglingly good that no one would ever hav
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by jxcole 15y ago
Tom Brown claimed (I'm not sure of it's validity, but let's say it's true) that he walked into a forest one day with nothing but clothes on and a Knife and walked out several years later feeling fine. THAT is minimalism. Anyway, I don't thi
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by jxcole 15y ago
DHTs/Torrents are great for static data (like a movie) but bad for dynamic data, like a website with a list of movies, their ratings, user comments, etc. There are, however, other systems that are designed to combat this, like freenet. They
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by jxcole 15y ago
Not correct. This is one of the things I dislike about the constitution and why when someone tells me I should go into law, I say that I would hate it. When the constitution says "freedom of speech", it has nothing to do with speech. What i
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by jxcole 15y ago
> It could be bad news, though, for the super-fast quantum computers that are hoped to come next. It doesn't sound like it. It sounds like this is a very special property of phosphorous infused nanometer wide wires. It sounds like if yo
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by jxcole 15y ago
I disagree strongly, even after your edit. Revenue right now does not ipso facto translate to a better or more sustainable business. Google is a great example. They could plaster their front page with advertisements which could, quite possi
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by jxcole 15y ago
Funnily enough, I would be very interested to hear of the craziest implementations of javascript.
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by jxcole 15y ago
I would be interested to see before and after shots. Was their advertising problem really so bad or was just about the same as any other city? Edit: Found one: http://banbillboardblight.org/?page_id=4251
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by jxcole 15y ago
I was mostly thinking of your first version, where antimatter is really more of a battery. We would create it from some energy source at the launch site and use it as the most efficient rocket fuel of all time. Most of my thoughts on anti-m
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by jxcole 15y ago
My opinion is that we have not given anti-matter a serious enough thought. It certainly is expensive to create now, but it seems like the scientists are and were focused on creating antimatter to confirm it's existence and properties. Once
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by jxcole 15y ago
You are absolutely correct. However, representatives are not idiots and I think that it's likely that they will be aware, just like you are, that despite the incredible number of faxes/calls/emails they receive the number of people who actu
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by jxcole 15y ago
It could also be viewed as basic freedom of speech and information. The majority of people have no idea that SOPA/ProtectIP exist or what kind of effect it would have on their lives. I'm pretty sure it's all in the wording.
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by jxcole 15y ago
I think that the general suggestion of a more tepid response (that is, blacking the background of google/facebook but leaving everything else usable), would probably be completely ineffective. Most people are incredibly unconcerned with thi
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by jxcole 15y ago
Go OO is like Java only they took stuff away. They took away class extension and they took away the requirement that you declare interface implentations. So if you have all of the functions required for an interface then you implement the i
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by jxcole 15y ago
Totally misses the point. Kim jong il was good at being an evil dicator. But that doesn't make him any less crazy. For example, once there was a German rabbit breeder who was able to breed rabbits the size of dogs. KJI heard about it and de
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by jxcole 15y ago
The idea is to dramatically reduce the cost, not bring the cost to zero. I agree that the idea that we will be able to keep ISS in space infinitely with this technology is doubtful though.
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by jxcole 15y ago
Money is not speech. If money were speech, then the government forcing me to pay taxes would be a violation of the first amendment. If money were speech, the government telling me not to give money to terrorists would be a violation of the
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by jxcole 15y ago
Here is what I recommend: Facebook, google, youtube and wikipedia should take down their sites and replace them with a message about SOPA all on the same day. But it shouldn't end there. They should also personally attack each of the origin
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by jxcole 15y ago
Since SOPA could be used to take all of Wikipedia down because some single user posted something in violation of copyright, I think it's appropriate for Wikipedia to advocate this. If it were any issue that didn't fly directly in the face o
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by jxcole 15y ago
Could you clarify GA for me? The only thing that comes to mind are "Genetic Algorithm" and "Google Analytics".

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