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nevinera
17y ago
>How? Let's say you want to buy a computer and you go direct to, say, Dell. How would you have heard of Dell if not for advertising? Seen a Dell at someone else's house? How did they hear about Dell? It has to start somewhere. You would
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nevinera
17y ago
That's a bit disingenuous - the explosive damage is a tiny fraction of the net destruction a nuke can cause, especially if it's a windy day.
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nevinera
17y ago
I rely on safety in numbers!
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nevinera
17y ago
Have you considered a trackball? It seems to me that attaching a large trackball to the arm of your chair would be far better than having a trackpad on your keyboard. Example trackball: http://www.ooscare.co.nz/products%5C154_Kensington%20
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17y ago
"Native Resolution 2880 x 900" I guess you're not supposed to sit very close to it..
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nevinera
19y ago
it's less profound, but MUCH easier to read without training. the 'pick up and go' factor is pretty high.
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nevinera
19y ago
it's pretty easy to tell the difference in a brief conversation too. look for comments about how smart you are, or how 'i could never do that', versus comments like 'its so cool that you know all this stuff', or 'im not very interested in t
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nevinera
19y ago
unless your application is very unusual, you could've just ported your < 10 bottlenecks and made the same gain. (and x60? right..)
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19y ago
evidence? pg hasn't given any either, but he gets somewhat more starting cred than you by virtue of staking his own money on his belief. (If his advice doesn't work, he gets low returns on his investments). You two are stating as fact two c
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19y ago
Some calculations don't need to be done that often. Recalculating for a massive data set can often be.. fudged for a period of time, in scientific computing - accuracy decreases over time, and then a full recalculation is eventually necessa