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by kenny-log_ins 10y ago
I like to be able to tweet someone after I have consumed some of their content - If I read a good guide/technical article or an interesting post it's nice to be able to instantly send something telling the author that it was usefu
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
yep. whenever i read anything sensational about QC I immediately head over to his blog to read about what it actually means.
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
This guy reminds me how normal i am in the grand scheme of things: "I felt discouraged and depressed. I tried to buy myself some fancy clothes and toys to feel better about myself. I immersed myself in a shallow relationship with a mod
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
I vehemently disagree with the authors taste in music, but she makes some good points. Soundcloud is just a platform though, and if you live by the sword of constantly available unlimited new content all the time then you kind of have to
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
On this note, design and web skills. Whatever you do, its useful to be able to make it look good. If you are working with people who aren't savvy with web tech then it is very useful to be able to knock good looking sites up quickly
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
It depends - the amounts of data involved are mammoth by today's standards, but the idea is that we will develop new methods and tools to make the project feasible. The announcement and funding of the SKA will probably help this proce
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
The optical private network from CERN to the tier 1 site where I work was upgraded from 10 Gb to 40 Gb between the first and second runs of the LHC. depending on what goes on during the second run that might need to be increased again. Bu
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
The technical challenges posed by the SKA really are astoundingly huge. The data generated by these dishes will require much higher data throuput than even the fastest optical links between CERN and its tier 1 sites (40 Gb/s), and the
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
cool didnt know about the algolia tool! thanks for the tip :)
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
I posted this because I thought that while most HN readers probably don't think like this, it's a useful exercise to get a different perspective in case you come across people who do.
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Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice(kalzumeus.com)
16 points by kenny-log_ins 11y ago|6 comments
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
If you enjoyed this I highly recommend both his book, "Quantum Computing Since Democritus", and blog ( http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ ). Tagline of the blog is "If you take just one piece of informati
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
Is there any way that cookie clicker could have been farming CPU cycles? I remember playing it and thinking that it was consuming an awful lot of resources after a while...
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
Hi mannimow, I experience the same anxiety - I have a divergent way of thinking about things and tend to get interested in lots of different things at once rather than one thing in depth. Sometimes its good - I can think of different appro
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by kenny-log_ins 11y ago
I find myself noticing that a lot of the solutions that The Economist proposes are very similar - opening markets, decreasing regulation - make everything more "liberal". They always make compelling arguments for their suggestion