lujim

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by lujim 10y ago
When did China start caring about intellectual property?
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by lujim 10y ago
A few years later there would have been Rails or Django. With the strides FB made in PHP it would have been cool to see what they could have done with those frameworks/languages.
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by lujim 10y ago
Facebook wouldn't use it if Facebook started two or three years after it did.
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by lujim 10y ago
I think that it's also common for teams to get painted into a corner trying to use the next great, bleeding edge, thing. I too shudder at the term "Enterprise", but I also shudder when I see a company desperately trying to h
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by lujim 10y ago
50% smug developer snobbery and 50% truth. As much as I hate to admit it, it is easy to be mediocre in the legacy webforms world of .NET and a lot of places are stuck in that world. To some degree that speaks to the success of ASP.NET all
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by lujim 10y ago
That is coefficient of drag. You have to remember that goes into the drag equation which includes velocity squared. force_of_drag = .5 * mass_density * (velocity^2) * coefficient_drag * area. As that coefficient starts tapering off after t
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by lujim 10y ago
I think cost/benefit is pretty well known. Getting empirical data though flight testing is definitely a large portion of building full performance numbers for the manual, but Boeing and Airbus has some solid expectations on performanc
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by lujim 10y ago
That's an excellent point. For the price of a ticket on a supersonic transport you could probably charter a Falcon 900, Citation 10, or Gulfstream 4 to get you there much more comfortably and reliably albeit a bit slower. I would be
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by lujim 10y ago
Another factor is that with advances in global communication is that it may be hard to justify the need to physically go from JFK to LAX at mach 2 just to conduct business.
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by lujim 10y ago
The cost of speed rises exponentially while the returns are linear. This is true even in subsonic flight, but above mach 1 the penalties are prohibitive. No gas turbine, jet fuel powered aircraft will ever make this commercially viable wi
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by lujim 10y ago
Subsonic flight is cutting through cheese with a sharp knife. Supersonic flight is cutting through cheese with a hammer. There is no way it will ever be commercially economical with gas turbine engines and afterburners. Even super cruise
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by lujim 10y ago
Ouch, I knew it took a big hit after dismal earnings and guidance last time (or two) but thought it had recovered a bit. Congrats on breaking even then I guess to anyone holding since Feb.
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by lujim 10y ago
Congrats to anyone who was holding LinkedIn stock. Microsoft's bid of $196 per share has LNKD up $63 bucks a share or 48% in premarket. Edit: Also a cautionary tale for anyone shorting a stock that fundamentally sucks but could be a b
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by lujim 10y ago
While I do appreciate Gawker telling me about PT's sexual orientation and showing me the hulksters junk, I will reserve journalistic martyrdom status for Assange and Snowden. That's the ethical, necessary,pick your battles part o
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by lujim 10y ago
"when unethical, unnecessary, and/or pointless to do so, and may result in you taking a literal or figurative beating". ie "common sense" meets "pick your battles"
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by lujim 10y ago
Who said it has anything to due with equivalency? Go try to bully your boss, or a cop, or a 6'9" meat head. You're free to try, but you might not like the result. Part of life if using your brain to determine what you are
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by lujim 10y ago
Gawker can say or publish whatever they want and the Feds won't come throw them behind bars, but free speech doesn't make someone immune to ALL repercussions. You are free to go tell your boss whatever you want, but it might impa
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by lujim 10y ago
Well Gawker isn't exactly the Wall Street Journal and they didn't get the bankruptcy treatment for having a differing political opinion or some different viewpoint. They were bullying people and now they are getting bullied.
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by lujim 10y ago
You could build suicide booths for other people! Edit: One other thing to think about is how drastically automation could reduce the cost of living. In 1928 "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage" was a campaign slogan
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by lujim 10y ago
We've hit Peak Hunter/Gatherer and a Farmer Wants Your Job. Now What? This has been going on ever since humans started thinking up better or different ways of doing things. Maybe we don't need as many money managers and bro
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by lujim 10y ago
What's with the swearing and lords name in vaining? Relax. How would you feel if I used John Olivers name in vain?
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by lujim 10y ago
Well to be fair you're stripping away the context of the discussion I was having. An internet enthusiast believed that I was minimizing John Oliver's work by calling him a slacktivist. I felt like pandering to beliefs and emotio
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by lujim 10y ago
I didn't make the jump with him and quit watching Comedy Central after Colbert signed off.
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by lujim 10y ago
So you don't question the motivations of a televangelist minister with private jets as long as he spends some money on what appear to be altruistic purposes? If I said that guy is just using peoples emotions and beliefs to generate re
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by lujim 10y ago
You zero sum straw manned me. "Large swaths of people believe A" , but "no serious group does B". Not saying anything you said is wrong, just find that humorous.
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by lujim 10y ago
Ok slow down there. They don't SPEND hundreds of thousands on those topics, they MAKE hundreds of thousands on those topics. Comedy Central/Viacom is not UNICEF and John Oliver is not a career humanitarian. They entertain peopl
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by lujim 10y ago
I wasn't being literal about the percentages. It's subjective. At this point we are trying to dissect humor and killing it in the process.
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by lujim 10y ago
Yeah I think so. Using 60k of someone else's money to buy some token debt and announcing it to the world on a TV show isn't exactly saint status. His take on the refugee debate also seemed to wreak of holier than thou preachy ho
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by lujim 10y ago
Not sure what your last sentence means. I get the gist but neurostatic precepts is new to me. Just because data supports global warming doesn't mean everyone agrees how to solve it or likes being berated and shamed because don't
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by lujim 10y ago
John was smart, likable, and funny. Even my most vocal right wing buddy watched him because he was informative and entertaining. Stewart was quick on his feet and could out think anyone Fox news could pit against him. Colbert was Stewart

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