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by neolefty 13y ago
I don't think that's the plan, because if they want old XP users to upgrade, that would not be sufficient, since old XP users of course want their old XP apps to keep working.
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by neolefty 13y ago
Our righteous indignation seems a little shrill here. The fact that he was awarded $1.6M is being glossed over -- clearly this was not, in hindsight, a reasonable procedure, and everyone recognizes it.
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by neolefty 13y ago
It's actually a runtime switch. A compiled x86 binary that uses extra-wide number-crunching instructions (SSE etc) must also work on older processors that don't have those instructions, so it will have two or more code paths. The
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by neolefty 13y ago
I believe you -- I also have 2-3 y.o memories. But most people I know don't, so I can understand their skepticism. I've encountered one or two young children (age 2-3) who seem to remember their own births, but those memories defi
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by neolefty 13y ago
Same here. I consciously reinforced memories from earlier childhood, but I know I've lost many of them. My earliest, from before 3, are still there in sketchy form. There are no photos, just memories of playing alone and questions I as
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by neolefty 13y ago
How do other distributed databases handle this?
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by neolefty 13y ago
Of course they can, but as a parent, I find it easier to supervise their store purchases than their online purchases, because they have to physically go there, and I can notice it.
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by neolefty 13y ago
Wouldn't inequality make efficiency worse ? On an individual level, it would seem that poverty makes your life less efficient -- you end up treating your own time as less valuable, and so you do less productive things, such washing ou
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Official MIT Report on Aaron Swartz is out - details involvement in prosecution(alum.mit.edu)
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by neolefty 13y ago
Stayed right next door in another "Mansion" place -- with my whole 5-person family. Had a great time. We got one of the few family-sized rooms. Big enough for two beds + a bathroom. And if one person got out of the way, the othe
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by neolefty 13y ago
Sounds like it's time for a "design pattern" or "best practice" -- that is, covering up for a tool's faults. What if you treat DropBox as a raw, strict hierarchical store and never use it directly, but only link into it from elsewhere? Mov
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by neolefty 14y ago
In China, Yum's KFC is a luxury brand, according to my Chinese friends. It is more expensive and higher quality than its Chinese competitors. I know that's hard to believe from the vantage point of the U.S., where KFC and Taco Bell are pret
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by neolefty 14y ago
You and me both, browlther. I found a Nexus 7 (thanks, visiting relatives) to go along with my aging Nexus One, and before I even knew what Now was, it figured out my commute (which is by bus, in Chengdu, China), telling me how long it wou
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by neolefty 14y ago
It helps tremendously to have whole-hearted support from someone who believes in you: > It got so discouraging that Lee reportedly contemplated learning computer science so he could find a job during this time, but was scolded by his wi
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by neolefty 14y ago
They're creating plenty, no doubt, but Musk talks admiringly of Apollo and how valuable the experimentation and open designs of that era have been for SpaceX. It allowed them to focus on a much smaller design space. Unfortunately, I can't f
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by neolefty 14y ago
Dangit, I did that and discovered that I prefer Arial! I think it is (slightly) easier to read; it also seems more relaxed and fluid, less unnecessarily squared-up.
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by neolefty 14y ago
He said 2M from each of the people who complained ...
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by neolefty 14y ago
Instead of a string, how about a continuous stream of rocket fuel? You'd need a large enough black hole that: * the gravitational acceleration at the event horizon can be overcome by your rocket engines * the tidal forces at the event
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by neolefty 14y ago
It's more about escape velocity. Your neural signals would not be able to escape to an observer "outside" the black hole -- I mean outside most of its gravitational influence -- but they could move around locally. The larger the black hole,
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by neolefty 14y ago
Another comment on Prismatic (it took me a few days to get around trying it): Hacker News and Reddit are good for finding interesting new information, and they combine it with a pretty good discussion that usually attracts experts. That com
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by neolefty 14y ago
Looks good.
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by neolefty 14y ago
That's a really thought-provoking point. How about the second item, "consumers should ... use their money to benefit others rather than themselves" -- any ideas for a startup there?
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by neolefty 14y ago
Still not getting it -- how do you do business development via APIs?
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by neolefty 15y ago
I'm curious: What are specific examples of "variety of tasks" and "crowd applications" that the author is talking about? Are we in some kind of cyborg software revolution?
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by neolefty 15y ago
I'm new to the details of Bitcoin, but I found these explanations to be illuminating: Bitcoin relies on agreement among peers on a single unbroken chain of blocks: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_chain It takes computation work (searchin
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by neolefty 15y ago
Isn't it 6 million squared? 36 x 10^12. Factorial would be the number of ordered sets that include all the elements.
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by neolefty 15y ago
The 6.001 lab didn't have color monitors, and the software was only available in the 6.001 lab -- not even on Athena. Well, in 1988, anyway.
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by neolefty 15y ago
Woo, I love it. I wondered if something was up ever since they collaborated on a video about scale: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/vi-and-sal-explore-how-we-t... In hindsight, it looks suspiciously like the practical problem-solving pa
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by neolefty 15y ago
I think there's a very strong "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude in China, and most of the people I've met here don't consider IE 6 to be broke, so they see no reason to fix it. After all, every mainland Chinese website still suppo
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by neolefty 15y ago
Younger than high school, too. His lectures on basic arithmetic are really sweet and disarming, good for both grade-schoolers (and remedial adults).

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