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by mkn 18y ago
I guess my point was that it would be a translucent cloud of items that followed the mouse. This way, you'd be able to see/read what was under the cloud but could switch your attention to the translucent cloud to see what was there. Context
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by mkn 18y ago
It may be premature to say that it's neat just for the sake of neatness. It may not have a direct UI usage, but we could probably learn something about mouse events and drawing by examining the code, for example. Also, from a UI perspective
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by mkn 18y ago
a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, [which] means this nanotube "ribbon" has to be pristine and perfect throughout its entire length. To be precise, it only has to be as strong as its engineering factor of safety along its enti
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by mkn 18y ago
I've always wondered why, if you have a material sufficiently strong to build a space elevator, you don't just use it to wind composite fuel tanks for conventional rockets? At 150 times the tensile strength of steel, for example, you could
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by mkn 18y ago
No. The point is that the behavior changes based on whether you are running from the command line or from inside a script, that this is completely arbitrary, and that there was no override possible for this behavior. When run from the comma
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by mkn 18y ago
...some strange edge-case it handles awkwardly. Or stupidly. I don't know if the following should qualify as an edge case generally, but it does in Matlab. The controls lab in the aerospace department at the U of W had a wonderful inverte
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by mkn 18y ago
From the FAQ ( http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/about_FAQ.html ) at Hyperion: Unlike conventional designs, the proposed reactor is self-regulating through the inherent properties of uranium hydride, which serves as a combination fuel
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by mkn 18y ago
It's worth pointing out where Gladwell is wrong about overnight successes and why. While it's true that in a field where continued effort is required for continued success (like acting, to continue the theme of his 'American Idol' remarks),
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by mkn 18y ago
The writer doesn't seem to be aware of the notion of flux when he/she writes that this innovation will make sun-tracking obsolete. Basic trigonometry shows you that, even if the panel absorbs all of the radiation that it intercepts at a hig
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by mkn 18y ago
Wild. I just read today that the navy is funding EMC2 so that they can further their fusion research. I also watched, just today, this vid: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1518007279479871760... , in which Eric Lerner talks about
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by mkn 18y ago
Your reply seems to be a spot-on agreement with my post, except that you don't realize it. Your choice of analogy is particularly amusing in that, right now, if you'd had your money under your mattress, you'd be better off than if you'd inv
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by mkn 18y ago
Am I wrong in wondering if cloud computing might do for computing what hedge funds and CDSs did for finances? By this I mean that in both cases we're talking about attaining the last iota of efficiency by consolidating a resource in the han
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by mkn 18y ago
I've started typing about 5 comments and deleted them all. They don't seem to be saying enough to even warrant comment. When asked about what could happen, there was some talk about a default cascade leading to depressed prices [waves arms]
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by mkn 18y ago
I appreciate your reasoned reply in the face of my (sometimes) animated post! (I hope you could tell, even through the flattened nuance of a forum post, that I was having a little fun and not being a jerk.) However, I think that we really
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by mkn 18y ago
I hear the points about query optimizers that you and the other repliers have made. (And they are valid points, all. I was just misinformed about MySQL.) I was more addressing the points made about database design decisions w/respect to dat
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by mkn 18y ago
Permit me a moment of apoplexy. I'm back. [T]he market place [is] revaluing assets inline with their true values. This begs the question of how the assets became overvalued in the first place. The answer, though hard for market apologists
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by mkn 18y ago
At GE in Jack Welch's days, they routinely fired the bottom 10%. Up or out. At IBM, they rank all of their scientists from top to bottom. One of my favorite examples by Edwards Deming is a factory that has three production lines, each m
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by mkn 18y ago
The meta-point for me is that SQL is just broken, as are its many implementations. We'd never tolerate a scripting language that made you learn all the implementation details before you were effective with it. And yet we tolerate this from
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by mkn 18y ago
Not that I think all of his advice is sound, but every buy recommendation is followed by a justification of how much that item saves. Maybe you could save more through other means, but they are all, in theory, net savers. For example, on th
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by mkn 18y ago
Not to quibble, but there are disorders like Asperger's syndrome, social anxiety disorder, clinical depression, and so on. Many of these would qualify the person as handicapped and therefore a member of a protected class. If there's even a
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by mkn 18y ago
1. Hire a competent but old programmer who has debt, and a wife and kids. Pay him well. It's actionable age discrimination, but go ahead. You gotta break some eggs if you want to make an omelette. 9. Make your team friendly. If there is
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by mkn 18y ago
<snip>how can I take this article seriously when it has "experts" spouting</snip> [that] $10,000 is surely the average [income per capita] is the average [and that] once peoples income exceeds their basic living expenses.
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by mkn 18y ago
This research immediately reminded my of Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling On Happiness , which is a wonderful read. The book details many of the myriad ways in which we fail at predicting the affective result of various outcomes. For example, pe
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by mkn 18y ago
It affects funding, revenue, and side-employment (relevant if you're self-funding), IPO share price, and a host of other startup-related things. In addition, this is a news event of immense scale. The global economy is probably melting down
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by mkn 18y ago
Tax-code complexity regulating income is bad enough; tax-code complexity regulating speech is a First Amendment nightmare. The snippet from the article seems to suggest that the nightmare is due to the special sanctity of the First Amendm
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by mkn 18y ago
I tried in vain to find a valid argument in this article. Instead, it was nearly wall-to-wall non sequiturs and faulty generalizations. There's some arm waving about how increasing the income tax on high wage earners will act as a disincent
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by mkn 18y ago
I once read and author who claimed that goldbricking, malingering and sabotage were really just market effects. When employers pay too little or working conditions are too harsh, employees naturally find ways to remedy the problem. There se
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by mkn 18y ago
If you ever do end up with me interviewing you, I'll likely work one or two of these into the discussion to explore your level of knowledge about Unix. Translation: If you ever do end up with me interviewing you, I'll likely work one or t
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by mkn 18y ago
...(Sun, for example) fancy themselves to be "Workstations" ... If a train stops at a train station, what happens at a workstation? I know. The '90s called. They want their joke back.
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by mkn 18y ago
I think that the point about risking the incomprehension of those around you points to something deeper. I always marvel at Goddard's courage, for example, when he was launching liquid rockets out of a cabbage patch. Here's a guy who moved

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