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by nkassis 15y ago
That probably just proves that those "rules of thumb" were some random round number someone picked for TV ;p
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by nkassis 15y ago
2,000 bucks is a lot, I know the rule of thumbs is like 3 months net salary to keep for bad days but that's just hard for people like most on HN that are young, trying to either bootstrap a business or have a ton of student debt. Not sure w
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by nkassis 15y ago
I wouldn't put it past google to be working on fixing that too.
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by nkassis 15y ago
Thanks to google making beta cool, now dev and companies have stopped lying about something being 1.0 when it really should be 0.1 beta 0.1
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by nkassis 15y ago
I agree with you, it was dumb to put it in Toronto after what happened in Quebec city. And that he's the only one left in jail is even more telling. They have to convict someone it seems for all the billions on a couple day event.
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by nkassis 15y ago
Don't forget science degrees. But it's interesting to note that engineering degrees cost more than liberal arts degrees to universities yet in general students in engineering are paying the same. It's changing now, where engineering cost pe
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by nkassis 15y ago
Financial aid is pretty hard to obtain now days. Your parent's must be in the lower range of salaries combine for you to obtain anything other than unsubsidized loans. Pell Grants and other such things are pretty uncommon from what I've gat
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by nkassis 15y ago
You forgot Canada with Harper's government which is actively trying to push legislation that would allow the government to spy on internet traffic. So with Russia that's 4-8 G8 countries I'm pretty sure the other 4 are probably in league wi
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by nkassis 15y ago
Yeah that's how I felt about the whole video but I think this is just the introduction. Maybe the future videos will show people at work. They could talk to a video game programmer who takes them throught the process of displaying an object
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by nkassis 15y ago
Can't they implement client side encryption? A javascript based encryption mechanism could be interesting.
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by nkassis 15y ago
I don't really get the difference, in both cases the a,b will be stored somewhere no? I mean, when you return that function it references a and b as the original function would have and you've done absolutely nothing different. Can someone
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by nkassis 15y ago
This, if it was true, would have been a good move for information and software preservation efforts.
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by nkassis 15y ago
What if I don't trust my friends, can I turn this off? I mean not that I don't like them or anything but I trust google's algorithms more than most people I know :p
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by nkassis 15y ago
no no no, that's to warm up my arm and get my accuracy up. Same as why I mash buttons right before starting to play SC2. It's all science no superstitions.
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by nkassis 15y ago
Ad networks will doom us all.
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by nkassis 15y ago
Well the likelihood that this becomes popular and allowed on road (imagine if everyone was to flyoff in the middle of a traffic jam, you'd get air jam and probably planes hitting each other). It's more likely to be used in remote areas like
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by nkassis 15y ago
Actually he makes it clear in the video, it's a good car that can be driven in excess of 95 mph does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds. So it is definitively a flying car ;p
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by nkassis 15y ago
I'm probably not the best person to explain the whole process but I can put you in contact with the person who's working on it. (My email is in my profile). I'll try to explain what I know: For the most major tears and breaks we've actuall
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by nkassis 15y ago
<shameless_plug> "Jülich Katrin Amunts has begun work on a detailed atlas of the brain which involved slicing one into 8,000 parts which were then digitalized with a scanner." The lab I work for is working with them on this project
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by nkassis 15y ago
Microsoft produces a lot of paper in a very large set of fields related to computer science. They invest a lot in research and I know it doesn't seem like it for those outside of academia. Hell I bet Bell labs didn't seem too impressive exc
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by nkassis 15y ago
Yeah this is giving me new respect for Carmack. I'll definitively be buying Rage for PC as soon as it comes out (well was planning to do it anyway) I don't think I've missed a single ID software game except for like Hexen one. I'm still ama
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by nkassis 15y ago
I great example of the trouble someone had to go to prove they were first is the ABC computer. It's an important case if you consider that without John Atanasoff the personal computer would never have existed. At the time IBM and some other
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by nkassis 15y ago
I think this is an important function of libraries too. It's a nice quiet place and with enough work room to read and relax. With that said, other than at Universities, I doubt many people think that's a valuable thing. The value of librari
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by nkassis 15y ago
I think it's mostly because science fiction molds are view of the future and many inventors are influenced by that. I'm pretty sure that Star Trek influenced some of the inventors of the cell phone even if it wasn't consciously. Now we have
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by nkassis 15y ago
This happened to me twice in the last year. The first time the it was mostly just copying the idea and that gave me a real kick in butt to work faster. Second time they went as far as taking my stylesheet (they couldn't copy my apps code si
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by nkassis 15y ago
VirtualBox is a great tool for sure. VMWare does beat VB for large amounts of virtual machines. But that should really not matter to anyone who's not running a datacenter.
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by nkassis 15y ago
That's sort of the way I see, yes gfx card drivers are terribly brittle but this is something the card manufacturers need to start looking into. We can't blame this all on the people trying to bring something awesome like WebGL which I thin
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by nkassis 15y ago
The author mentions healthcare as an area of innovation but until something happens to the massive regulation hurdles that are in place, healthcare is hard to revolutionize. I'm working on a research project that could be used for clinical
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by nkassis 15y ago
I get ssh based attacks from EC2 a lot, I've blocked completely their ip ranges from servers I know should never communicate with EC2.
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by nkassis 15y ago
I think their response is very good. Basically Context is claiming that there is a possibility of WebGL being used for kernel level attacks but has not shown any proof. And as for crashing users machines, my boss reported that my app crashe

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