nknight

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by nknight 14y ago
I'm pretty sure the basis is "You don't own a car? You some kinda communist?". Large corporations don't react well to things that are unusual. Only 8% of US households do not have a car[1]. 1/6th of those are concentrated in New York City a
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by nknight 14y ago
Right now (2012 launch price) it would cost about $500 billion to launch the equivalent mass with Falcon 9s. They expect to cut the current cost in half, and with a very high launch rate Musk has said it could be 1/10th, but the required la
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by nknight 14y ago
> This is a bit of FUD IMHO Would you care to tell us why? As-is, I could rewrite your comment as "Java is better than C IMHO" and it would be exactly as useful.
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by nknight 14y ago
Yes, Oregon's U-turn law is a constant source of annoyance in the pacific northwest. Meanwhile, if U-turns were made illegal in California, navigating the bay area would have a twilight zone quality to it.
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by nknight 14y ago
Er, what needs clarifying? And why would you compare the cost of constructing an aircraft carrier to the cost of launching its equivalent mass? He wasn't speaking of any particular property of a Nimitz carrier other than its mass, and the c
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by nknight 14y ago
No, SpaceX themselves have done it several times, and I'm about 90% sure there's prior precedent as well. It's a theoretical capability of any liquid-fueled rocket, assuming an adequate hold-down system. Edit: Looks like Ariane 5 has simila
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by nknight 14y ago
People are also totally ignoring the reality of the market as a whole today. In the literal sense of "today", Facebook launched on kind of a crappy day. In the more expansive sense of "today", nobody's terribly optimistic right now. The US
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by nknight 14y ago
My image of you is now a cranky old man who never learned how to have fun. I assume you're similarly annoyed by any Rube Goldberg machine?
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by nknight 14y ago
First of all, you're not bursting into someone's office. Second of all, if you burst into my office while I'm working and start making smalltalk, I will, depending on my mood and whether or not I've previously judged you to be a useless per
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by nknight 14y ago
It'll probably be an hour or two, actually, it didn't start trading when the market opened. I'm not sure who decides when to pull the trigger, but apparently recent NASDAQ IPOs have been starting around 11:00 eastern, give or take a bit. Ed
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by nknight 14y ago
You need a good operations team with the authority and willingness to say "no" with overrides coming only from senior management, the authority to say "yes" for the obvious stuff, and a direct line to senior management for grey areas they'r
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by nknight 14y ago
Not "faster", immediately . Say absolutely nothing until you've typed out your question. Would you send an email that says "Hi", then another that says "I have a question", then another with your question?
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by nknight 14y ago
In this case, there was someone with basically good judgement, but they were operating from high within their hierarchical framework, which inherently induces delays. In retrospect, Philip, David, or both, should have been copied on the tic
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by nknight 14y ago
I'd say the "every man for himself" mentality you embody is what's child-like.
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by nknight 14y ago
You don't get it. This isn't just about connecting urban centers (which we could, in fact, do a much better job of), it's about getting real, meaningful transit even in places like Los Angeles. Some of these cities rival many countries in p
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by nknight 14y ago
Even the most zealous are rarely devoid of all nuance. Note he actually says "Nonfree games (like other nonfree programs) are unethical". That one believes an act is unethical is different from believing it will have a net negative effect v
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by nknight 14y ago
> The Control key is in a far more comfortable position below the Tab key, where caps lock would be on a traditional keyboard Well, there's tradition and there's tradition... Traditional Unix systems usually had ctrl there, and the ol
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by nknight 14y ago
Maybe not if you're a very poor typist, I suppose, but most developers I've met are at least marginally competent typists.
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by nknight 14y ago
Inertia, accidents of history. Relational databases had obviously-useful properties at critical points in the history of mass commercial adoption of computing. As a practical, real-world matter, "object-oriented programming" barely existed
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by nknight 14y ago
> Feedback would be greatly appreciated! My main piece of feedback is that explicitly comparing your product to a database engine that people love to hate is probably not a great way to market it. Lots of us have horrible memories of
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by nknight 14y ago
Of course it's creepy, but it's not new, either. The UK went Big Brother long before even 9/11, their CCTV obsession has been making international news since the 90s.
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by nknight 14y ago
SFO, SJC, SEA, PDX, ORD, ATL, DEN. Never touched the New York area. TSA everywhere, but nobody carrying anything remotely rifle-like.
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by nknight 14y ago
> The first cop you see entering a British airport concourse will probably be carrying an MP5. Last week, a friend told me that when he flew into Amsterdam some years ago, there were people with automatic weapons standing around, and
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by nknight 14y ago
I can imagine a lot, but that doesn't mean I get to substitute my imagination for reality. You're reading into the post what you want, not what is there. If you actually had any interest in truth, you'd ask him. Instead, you've decided you
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by nknight 14y ago
How can it be said to show his opinion in 2006? This is the only part of that post written in 2006: "I can't find this on the web, so here follows a note I wrote in 1991 of an odd event in my computing career." Everything after that is fr
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by nknight 14y ago
I don't have a lot of first-hand context for Matz's behavior, not being a Ruby developer, but it's entirely possible, even likely, that in the context of Japanese culture, Matz's niceness would not be seen as especially remarkable. Pitting
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by nknight 14y ago
You can get an ASA 5505 firewall with all the features you'll ever need for a small library installation for about $1200 retail (hell of a lot less if you're buying, say, 50 of them), and any network engineer who can't handle ASA configurat
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by nknight 14y ago
How do you intend to "update" an immutable list? Isn't it... immutable?
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by nknight 14y ago
I don't really buy that. It enables a syntax that otherwise wouldn't be possible, but so does struct. The only thing really "magical" about it is the optimizations it makes possible, but if that were your concern, it would be the first time
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by nknight 14y ago
It's absolutely not "magic", it's clearly-defined, easily-understood syntactic sugar that makes code smaller, simpler, and cleaner. There is never a case where you have to wonder what the type of an "auto" variable is, it is always the re

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