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Thoughts on Federally funded science(unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com)
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by likpok 18y ago
You do have a point however. Much like the "recover a disk that has been zeroed out" competition, the prize seems somewhat small for the magnitude of the task. Admittedly, the prize is more then an order of magnitude higher, (and just requi
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by likpok 18y ago
But then why bother having the poll in the first place? If you're just going prune the results so that they look like what you expect, you aren't really polling. You already know the answer, and you're going to throw out data until you get
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by likpok 18y ago
The bigger issue with veganism (and to a lesser extent vegetarianism) is that it requires cleverness to avoid malnutrition. Like it or not, the human colon is too short for a generic vegan diet; we evolved to eat meat. There are people who
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by likpok 18y ago
Straight Debian is much like Ubuntu, but without the weight. It's much easier to get it down to a minimal size for VM's (I know a guy who made a tiny version, with barely enough in the kernel to boot.)
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by likpok 18y ago
I wonder if anyone would notice... Although strictly speaking he has a public account and a private account. So'd they probably take control of his public account, and leave him to his private one.
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by likpok 18y ago
1. I am in this forum since it's beggining. You think I don't know what is appropriate or what is going to be down voted? In fact, the discussion was about the original article, and bandwidth costs, not the possibility of Yout
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by likpok 18y ago
Notice NOAA's statement... When we have enough energy to fly at nearly the speed of light, we might be able to control hurricanes. Given that the NOAA people are probably smart, they probably realize how difficult this is.
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by likpok 18y ago
But Fog Creek is small. Both of my offers for this summer were at least 30/hour. Furthermore, the average wage at my school is 22/hour (for ECE interns).
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by likpok 18y ago
Especially given that many corps. have intranet applications which require ie6. And since Microsoft will not alienate them, they will continue on happily not upgrading.
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by likpok 18y ago
You could just write a FUSE driver to support this. It would not be very hard. Since that sounds like what you want, why not do it?
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by likpok 18y ago
This will not work. As shown by CEO pay, publicizing this data led to people feeling like they were in competition for higher and higher wages. CEO wages increased massively as a result.
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by likpok 18y ago
3D UIs are not necessarily bad. They are not suited to a 2D display. Solve that problem and you might be able to implement an actual 3D UI.
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by likpok 18y ago
An easier but shorter way: How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy 3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 chapters involving quantum mechanics. 8 9 7 9 Not as much as 100, but easier
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by likpok 18y ago
Indeed. I saw a talk by Chris about Gazelle, and the numbers put it far behind IE8 in terms of performance (it is based on IE8, so that acts as a lower bound). Starting from your own core, it might be possible to keep separation of concerns
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by likpok 18y ago
This 'rule' is a very modern invention, IIRC. 'They' was used as the singular indeterminate-gender third person pronoun for quite a while. Then, someone decided that it was bad, and grammarians rejoiced, despite the awkward construct of he/
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by likpok 18y ago
To flush out this point, consider that hiring someone is not free. There can be significant costs of hiring someone who performs poorly (opportunity cost, training overhead, lost work).
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by likpok 18y ago
Especially because the "upgrade" asks nicely. So instead of silently getting IE8, you get asked "Do you want IE8".
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by likpok 18y ago
The problem is that many of Microsoft products are very nice. Things like Office have no competitors, unless you take massive cuts in usability and features.
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by likpok 18y ago
I have never been tased, but I'm told that the experience makes you long for the relative bliss of being continuously photographed. And I have been told that being hit with pepper spray makes you long for the (much) shorter incapa
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by likpok 18y ago
The military do not take kindly with jokes. They tend to return with gunfire. So most likely, people would not take it as a joke.
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by likpok 18y ago
Also, many Microsoft products are actually quality products. The few bad apples give the rest a bad name (also, some of the 3rd party apps give Windows in general a bad name).
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by likpok 18y ago
From what I understand (to some extent personal experience), drugs like Paxil can be very helpful for people with certain problems. Unfortunately, there is a significant cost, and the gain may require more than just low-grade $disorder to r
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by likpok 18y ago
Well, English does have a larger technical vocabulary than most other languages. Admittedly, this is more because English accepts other languages technical words into the language, so therefore (to some extent) is the union of the technical
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by likpok 18y ago
No. The good ones hold out for better men. There was a HN post about it a while ago.
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by likpok 18y ago
There was a commonly held belief that women were property. This was held throughout large parts of the Western world, throughout history (Indeed, I have not heard of any sort of egalitarian society in the past, perhaps barring some special
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by likpok 18y ago
Indeed. Also 64-bit, which probably won't happen any time soon. JIT is hard enough on x86's awful, awful ISA.
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by likpok 18y ago
The big issue with smoking is not the nicotine. It is the tar/additives that make their way to your lungs and give you cancer.
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by likpok 18y ago
clang clearly performs much much worse than gcc. I would much rather correct results than fast results in the general case. The compiler should not make this decision for me.
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by likpok 18y ago
I had always suspected that regular expressions were not, in fact, regular, and now it is obvious. This is in fact why regexs are slow. The old Thompson NFA is orders of magnitude faster than current libraries. However, it can only recogniz

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