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by nagrom 14y ago
It seems like an odd interview to give; almost more like a rallying call to staff than a marketing pitch to the public. But whenever I've seen an interview with Elon Musk, he's always been extremely honest. Maybe he's not thinking this thro
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Steve Yegge - Programming Politically Part 2(plus.google.com)
21 points by nagrom 14y ago|4 comments
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Supersonic Craft Fails Another Test Flight(bbc.com)
1 points by nagrom 14y ago|0 comments
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by nagrom 14y ago
That sounds like a good idea until the collaboration is acrimoniously torn apart in a legal battle over patents, trademarks and revenue sharing. Then, Apple file a brief that proves conclusively that it was their idea anyway and demands $20
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by nagrom 14y ago
A board that must necessarily select only men may not be composed of the best people available, but a board that happens to consist only of men may, in fact, have the best people available...looking a posteriori at a group's gender composit
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by nagrom 14y ago
Well, the comment above yours says that the whole thing is available: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4272721 There's nothing to stop you from creating a Github project with all that information yourself. In my experience, physics res
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by nagrom 14y ago
For a large-scale organism, how would you set the starting conditions? It seems unrealistic to not include some external influences from, e.g. air and diet. When you simulate a bigger organism, not only do you face a geometric increase in t
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by nagrom 14y ago
I'm confused. In what way is Python not there? If one specifies, e.g. Python 2.7, what do you consider to be the short-comings? I'd also like to know how you think numpy/scipy are short compared to Matlab. I've not run into their limitation
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by nagrom 14y ago
There's nothing stopping you from having a transporter, but this implies no FTL, no time-travel and likely no anti-gravity machines :-(
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by nagrom 14y ago
This isn't exactly my field, but as I understand it a Higgs of 125GeV implies a supersymmetric model with relatively light squarks and no excitingly novel features. Basically, a small adjustment to the standard model that allows for one mor
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by nagrom 14y ago
I am a particle physicist. The most interesting point of this announcement for me is that this is a confirmation of predictions of a very exotic particle. The properties of subatomic particles include something called 'spin' - that's a fund
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by nagrom 14y ago
This is very pretty, but the UI is anachronistic. Whilst it is very cool to be able to do this and I really hope that people don't do this . Scrolling through is a much nicer way to read through a site as you're not limited in your prese
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by nagrom 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_W... That's the wikipedia link to the time that the unelected committee called the internet Watch Foundation managed to cut off access to Wikipedia after they judged that legally-
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by nagrom 15y ago
Well, some will drive and a lot will get a coffee or breakfast to drink and eat on the train, and save money too on the cost of lunch which can be made more cheaply at home. Frankly, I'm surprised that it was only £9k...that's only £3/per
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by nagrom 15y ago
I think that in this article Steve discounts the effect of actually doing the math for yourself. It's comparatively easy to read about something and think that you've understood it. It's another thing entirely to be able to do that math on
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by nagrom 15y ago
I do research in physics. Typically we use git and latex. That's because it is easy to branch out and change the structure of the document, you can include the scripts and data used to generate data in the same repository and there's a nice
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by nagrom 15y ago
SL lost its way in recent years. Right now, it seems little more than a (basic, out-of-date) redhat clone. It could be much better - I don't understand why it doesn't include GEANT4, ROOT and the associated CERNlibs, matplotlib, Octave and
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by nagrom 15y ago
This isn't true; at least it wasn't a year ago. SL, out of the box, doesn't include all the cernlibs or the ROOT libs and is even a royal PITA to get these things to compile on. Don't even think about things like ADAMO or PAW. I tried to ge
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Women Key to Successful Startups, Suggest Studies(technologyreview.com)
2 points by nagrom 15y ago|0 comments
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by nagrom 15y ago
The pie-chart on the delete-o-meter on that blog sidebar doesn't reflect the numbers underneath it. At present, there are 50k accepted comments and 17k deleted, but the deleted slice is much less than 25%.
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by nagrom 15y ago
The tone is a little similar to GlaDOS in the portal games. "Friendly sinister". I don't believe the dismissive message, either. I cannot imagine a scenario where the TSA becomes 'popular' now; where the populace as a whole gets respect bac
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The Financial Cost of an Execution on Death Row(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by nagrom 15y ago|0 comments
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by nagrom 15y ago
It's re-publishing the entire creative work by a for-profit corporation and its users. If it's not possible to infringe copyright by re-publishing the entire work in this way, then copyright means nothing.
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by nagrom 15y ago
Unfortunately, none of these reasons really holds up in my (non-professional, non-legal, non-advisory) opinion. 1) That commentary rule would hold up if someone posted entire movies and then left comments or groupings attached to them. I do
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by nagrom 15y ago
I'm curious...I haven't thought about this much at all and I've no experience in it, but your assertion doesn't seem obvious to me. Can you back it up with examples?
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by nagrom 15y ago
There are body scanners in Europe. I went through one at Schiphol on the way to Washington last week. And I didn't see any sign there to tell me that I could opt for a pat-down, whereas there are screens to tell you that in Washington on th
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by nagrom 15y ago
OK, thanks. Looking back at the reports of instability, they all seem to have come from people who have installed Lion on top of Snow Leopard and seem to involve problems with the graphics drivers. I'll likely wait and see how ML performs b
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by nagrom 15y ago
I'm still running Snow Leopard after being scared off Lion from reports about instability when it was first released. Is Lion mature enough to replace Snow Leopard now, or should I just hold off and see what happens when Mountain Lion is re
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by nagrom 15y ago
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1403295/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7752640 I was originally looking to link to something less like a lab report, but you can see the original studies here, and in the references assoc
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by nagrom 15y ago
There have also been many studies that show that the idea that alcohol makes you agressive or dangerous are, to a large part, placebos ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3035442.stm ). It seems that when people behave like dicks "due to al

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