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by nebula 17y ago
The overall ocean ecosystem seems to be perilously closer to collapse: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sylvia_earle_s_ted_prize_w...
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by nebula 17y ago
Interesting. I can't say I know Indian history thoroughly, but from what I know India never had slavery like America did. There were other social mechanism that were used to exploit human labor in India though. can you elaborate on what peo
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by nebula 17y ago
I guess the 'Indian' here is referring to native Americans. It amazes me that a bunch of Europeans occupy the Americas, call themselves Americans, and call the people who have been living there Indians.
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by nebula 17y ago
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet_fix/
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Google Begins Fixing Usenet Archive (wired.com)
41 points by nebula 17y ago|10 comments
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by nebula 17y ago
(Update: Google has begun fixing the Usenet archive in response to this article)
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by nebula 17y ago
I'd much prefer to read blogs via an NNTP reader If you use Thunderbird RSS reader to read blogs, you pretty much get the Same look and feel. I was used to Thunderbird NNTP client, when I started adding blog subscriptions to Thunderbird,
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by nebula 17y ago
While I agree with the "test of the time" point of view, I don't think the other part of your argument makes much sense: 1)better alternative model: generally it would not be that hard to guesstimate the possibility of a significant improve
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by nebula 17y ago
<quote> and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA </quote> For a moment there I didn't see that this one was for work on CCD; And was surprised thinking Bell l
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Less than zero(sethgodin.typepad.com)
1 points by nebula 17y ago|0 comments
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by nebula 17y ago
it(MSFT) is competing in too many different arenas That is one of the reasons I don't like them. Whenever someone comes up with something innovative, MSFT jumps into that area, copies the concepts; uses the financial muscle and its huge p
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by nebula 17y ago
You are absolutely right. Look at http://storagezilla.typepad.com/storagezilla/2009/08/vmwares... For some perspective on Vmware's strategy in this area.
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Seth's Blog: Spare no expense(sethgodin.typepad.com)
3 points by nebula 17y ago|0 comments
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Eric Giler demos wireless electricity (video)(ted.com)
5 points by nebula 17y ago|0 comments
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by nebula 17y ago
The data being collected is purely demographic. And I don't think that the data set would be very big either. Around a thousand entries even if most of the HNers take interest? I am not able to imagine anything significant that can be done
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by nebula 17y ago
Any definition of polymorphism should at least mention something about the method that is invoked depends on runtime data, and is not resolved (or known) at compile time. At least in C++ world, it's not true. There things like compile tim
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The Dark Cloud: malware's cloud computing platform(storagezilla.typepad.com)
1 points by nebula 17y ago|0 comments
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by nebula 17y ago
Linking to such a thing is a bad idea: i) people can accidentally click on it ii) you might be contributing to its Page Rank iii) The fact that it's linked from HN, gives it certain credibility. can you please consider making it text, inste
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by nebula 17y ago
What are the effective strategies to use when the bottleneck is disk I/O? We have memcached to cache data that is frequently accessed. However our usage pattern is such that repeated access of data in a short span of time is rare.
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It's official: NASA is a jobs program. (fourmilab.ch)
86 points by nebula 17y ago|83 comments
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by nebula 17y ago
If you are asking to validate the source of this document, Netflix has this slide deck embedded on thier jobs page: http://www.netflix.com/Jobs
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by nebula 17y ago
Wow! I love these guys. Their Jobs page quotes Godfather: "I will make an offer he can't refuse" http://www.netflix.com/Jobs
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Two views from the 2009 Google Faculty Summit(googleblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by nebula 17y ago|0 comments
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by nebula 17y ago
Are you kidding? or do you have a stone for your heart? An innocent eleven year old kid died because her parents are morons, and you respond to that with a wisecrack taken out of context. <quote> The night before she died - and she
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Build Profit Not DMCA Suits: YouTube and the Wedding March(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by nebula 17y ago|0 comments
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by nebula 17y ago
<quote>Einstein and just about every other physicist insisted that light travels 186,000 miles a second in free space, and that it can't be speeded-up or slowed down. But in 1998, Hau, for the first time in history, slowed light to
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Wireless charging for Palm Pre(palm.com)
2 points by nebula 17y ago|2 comments
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by nebula 17y ago
Factually completely incorrect. 1. IISc was setup by Tatas, a private company, not by Indian Govt. Also IISc, then called Tata Institute of Science was established long before (around 50 years) British left India; nobody at that time had an
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Microsoft Offers to Add Rival Browsers to Settle Case(bloomberg.com)
6 points by nebula 17y ago|7 comments
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by nebula 17y ago
From the article: "This is an extraordinary game and certainly not representative of the average revenue from other paid apps in the App Store. But it also isn’t even currently on the top list of paid apps, and it continues to pull in subst

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