nickolai

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Via sues Apple for patent infringement over 'microprocessor functionalities'(via.com.tw)
22 points by nickolai 15y ago|19 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
>I don't buy it I didn't mean to try to 'sell' anything, though I agree that my comment was needlessly biased here. Revised it accordingly.
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by nickolai 15y ago
I'm no physicist, so I am just guessing. It could be some phenomenon similar to what we see in emission spectrums, where a pure source can emit photons at multiple precise energy levels. except that in the case of particles with mass(appar
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by nickolai 15y ago
Similar results seem to have already been obtained in the past http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino#Speed QUOTE In the early 1980s, first measurements of neutrino speed were done using pulsed pion beams (produced by pulsed proton beams h
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by nickolai 15y ago
Um... is there any trace of neutrino bursts before that? Im not sure anyone bothered checking, since such a correlation would have been very hard to justify. A neutrino burst 4 years before a supernova... so what? Could a physicist clarif
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by nickolai 15y ago
> Practical implications? Print out 90% of physics articles from the century. Get big trash can. Put printout in trash can. Of course i'm exaggerating, but if the story is true, this is going to be big. Speed of light is the main block
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by nickolai 15y ago
Provided the binary has a minimum of debugging symbols, you can get a meaningful backtrace from a core dump of a C program. It is very similar to the java stack trace. You can even get the value of the parameters, which AFAIK, java doesnt d
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by nickolai 15y ago
Good news. So they went with the 'fast and expensive' option after all[1](the 'cheap' one was planning on first launches after 2021 instead of 2018). [1] http://www.space.com/12916-obama-nasa-space-launch-system-bu...
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by nickolai 15y ago
Nice reference, but your wikipedia link is broken (missing an apostrophe) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem
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by nickolai 15y ago
In my limited experience with academia, I would argue this article is more about recognizing one's ignorance in front of a problem, which is indeed one of the most important attributes of a good scientist : "i dont know how to solve this pr
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Sony head-mounted 3D display lands November(slashgear.com)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Science is not democratic(washingtonpost.com)
16 points by nickolai 15y ago|8 comments
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Microsoft Says Motorola’s Android Phones Infringe Its Patents(bloomberg.com)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894 [2004](thefreemanonline.org)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
A line like However it is all moot anyway since we all die in december next year would fit nicely as a conclusion for the article. More seriously the extrapolation just doesnt make sense. a hudred years ago someone extrapolated the
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by nickolai 15y ago
Top Down approach works great for smaller or exploratory projects, yet i have had a few unpleasant cases of "cornering myself" - cases where a significant rewrite was pretty much required because a crucial implementation constraint was not
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Why most people don't finish video games(articles.cnn.com)
52 points by nickolai 15y ago|49 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
Hopefully this issue will get back on the table with increasing mobile internet usage, and people bouncing off because of poor load times. I cant count the number of times I have to hit the back button just because it takes too long to load
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Microsoft offers $200,000 Blue Hat Prize for security researchers(v3.co.uk)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
You dont want build a clone anyway. What you want is a product that does something similar, while being more enjoyable to use.
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by nickolai 15y ago
> users can protect themselves by installing antivirus software McAfee Premium plus. Coming soon to your Microwave. This really saddens me. No matter how much user education has already been done, people still get tricked into installin
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by nickolai 15y ago
I voted for merge. It would also be nice to have an "alternate links" section on top of the comments page, with possibily of upvoting the alternate submissions. Even better if an alternate link could replace the main one if it is voted as m
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by nickolai 15y ago
The quote is usually assigned to Reagan. Quoting a russian proverb (that really does exist). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
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Microsoft mocks Google with 'Gmail Man' spoof to push Office 365(dvice.com)
5 points by nickolai 15y ago|1 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
Thats just generic PR text. Almost boilerplate. Isnt your BS-detector off the charts when reading 'trust' 'transparency' 'community' and 'highest priority' all in one sentence?
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by nickolai 15y ago
In terms of decision making - there is only option 1 left now. If they dont take it they won't have a back to be hit on.
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by nickolai 15y ago
I read it as just an elaborate way of saying "Thanks, but no thanks", and "dont use AirBnB"
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by nickolai 15y ago
For the same reason that we tolerate trolls and a-holes of all races and genders. Which is that most people dont care. We happen to have 80% men in the industry. Since 'male sexists' seem for some reason to be more common among the male p
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by nickolai 15y ago
> The list could only cover a few, few universally recognized crimes, like theft, fraud, and criminal trespass. In other words: this wouldn’t work for politically inflammatory speech or copyright infringement; Copyright infringment is
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Judge rejects Oracle's damages claims(theinquirer.net)
4 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments

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