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by kbob 16y ago
I'm hearing-impaired.
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by kbob 16y ago
Moore's Law, as originally stated, is that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months. Flash memory is definitely on that trajectory, and SSD controllers look like they can make good use of increased transistor counts for
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by kbob 16y ago
They're just another product on the Moore's Law trajectory. Treat them the same as you do computers and phones -- plan to buy a new one every 2-3 years, and plan on only having the latest and greatest for about 12 minutes after you get it.
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by kbob 16y ago
Here's an example. Java Drive (no relation to the language) in Sunnyvale is five blocks long. According to Google Maps, the following businesses are on it. (Plus I'm pretty sure there's at least one Yahoo! building there.) Supertex Logic
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by kbob 16y ago
I always think it's fun to drive down random streets in the commercial areas of Mt. View, Sunnyvale and San Jose and see the crazy mix of famous, has-been, and still unknown companies' signs on the buildings.
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by kbob 16y ago
Your page took 35 seconds to load here. (Here being the rural US where broadband is not available.)
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by kbob 16y ago
The HN headline is extremely misleading. It's the first sustained flight of a FLAPPING WING human powered aircraft. The Gossamer Condor demonstrated sustained flight in 1977. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Condor
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by kbob 16y ago
I know Profounder is in very early stage, but where is the interface for investors? It's important to see how investors will interact with the site.
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by kbob 16y ago
+1 on "I miss Techshop".
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by kbob 16y ago
Arrived in 1992. Left in 2001. Lived in a Sunnyvale apartment two years and a San Jose house (NW of Campbell) for seven years. I moved there for my career, which did very well. I largely hated the valley as a place to live, simply becaus
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by kbob 16y ago
Commit a felony and go to jail. That will meet most of your requirements. You will probably be paroled early, so commit additional felonies as required.
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by kbob 16y ago
A Pagani Zonda.
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by kbob 16y ago
The graph is deceptive, I think. The X axis is household income, which has not been linear with time, and likely declined during some of the recessions noted. It makes no sense (to me) to use that as the independent variable.
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by kbob 16y ago
You might have read it that way but I don't think that was the author's intent. In fact, the Zonda has gone out of production (twice so far), so the only way to get a new one is to order one custom. Not that "production" versus "custom" me
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by kbob 16y ago
That's slightly less impressive when you remember that it takes about 1,000 lines of Cobol to write Hello, World.
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by kbob 16y ago
Lisp was for big iron in 1975. Machines with over a megabyte of RAM and several hundred KIPS. There are several Lisps and Schemes targeting the embedded world these days.
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by kbob 16y ago
Because the buyer could build the technology themselves for $50K in 5 months. (Okay, $100K in 10 months, given the efficiency of large corporations.)
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by kbob 16y ago
Or one 8 megabit HD video stream running 24x7.
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Intel's Sandy Bridge, SSD roadmaps leak out(electronista.com)
4 points by kbob 16y ago|0 comments
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by kbob 16y ago
Treat the startup like a client. Juggle it into your schedule with the same priority as your other clients.
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by kbob 16y ago
The headline is misleading -- it's only US and coalition casualities. Doesn't count civilian casualties, which are an order of magnitude higher but much less carefully recorded.
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by kbob 16y ago
How would you know? It takes a while to recognize a technology as revolutionary, and angels typically get in early.
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by kbob 16y ago
They're rewarding their educated people to leave the country? What's the rationale?
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by kbob 16y ago
For fun, I re-ran his million-digit calculation last night. What took three years starting in 1987 took 2:21:09 (2 hours, 21 minutes) on a 2006-vintage PC* and 1:38:55 on a 2010 laptop . I got the same termination message (pass 2415836).
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by kbob 16y ago
"People" don't hate lifestyle businesses. "Investors" (both VC and angel) hate them, and it's for the obvious reasons: if an entrepreneur doesn't take outside funding, and doesn't shoot for a big exit in 5-7 years, then there's no opportun
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by kbob 16y ago
Field researcher in oceanography, zoology, biology, archaeology, geology, or similar field.
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by kbob 16y ago
Compare this to the number of notes a decent jazz pianist plays. Then compare the number of hours required to really master either craft. (Jazz because jazz is generally extemporaneous, like gaming)
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NewScientist's Enigma brain teasers(newscientist.com)
3 points by kbob 16y ago|0 comments
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by kbob 16y ago
The Ubuntu Server Guide is an awesome resource if you happen to be running Ubuntu on your server. It's got exactly the right recipes ready for cut 'n' paste. https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/index.html
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by kbob 16y ago
The original Mac OS fit on an 800K floppy (plus 64k ROM), with room for user programs and documents too. It might have had some Pascal, but was >99% assembler.

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