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by nwatson 17y ago
At US$9,000 per square foot ( http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1204057... , section "A Real Estate Bubble (Sound Familiar?)") Hong Kong isn't really affordable as a place to live. And if you get in now you'll be there i
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WSJ summary of climate research center data breach(online.wsj.com)
7 points by nwatson 17y ago|11 comments
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by nwatson 17y ago
quote: "Similarly digitally enhanced are the electric violins, a family of new hybrid instruments that are sufficiently well-established to become a mainstay of the modern music scene." I don't know about the new part of it, Jean-Luc Po
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by nwatson 17y ago
Many believe in 'emergent' phenomena where if you put enough components together, put them in the right environment, and stress them properly they will react in unexpected and coherent ways that while describable and maybe useful from an ex
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by nwatson 17y ago
quote: "Modha imagines a cognitive computer that could analyze a flood of constantly updated data from trading floors, banking institutions and even real estate markets around the world — sorting through the noise to dentify key trends and
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by nwatson 17y ago
Maybe the results aren't significant to full 4-digit precision and maybe individuals participating didn't test to their full true "type" ... but when large numbers participate we start to uncover some truth. It's nice to see the analysis.
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Peace.facebook.com -- slacktivism: feelgood vacuous "activism"(neteffect.foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by nwatson 17y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 17y ago
For enterprise scale with 100+ terabytes of Apache logs (or any other logs) use a tool like SenSage ( http://www.sensage.com ). It adds real-time alerting and operational/security analysis of your entire server history.
909.
by nwatson 17y ago
Google is patient and the G1 phone was the beta that let Google work out many Android kinks. I was surprised when people declared Android "dead" after "only 1 million phones sold in the first year." This will be a long war and Android wil
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by nwatson 17y ago
I'm sure if Oracle abandons MySQL then after some initial confusion developers and users will settle on 1 or 2 forks and continue from there. Some are already forking MySQL to scratch their own itch.
911.
by nwatson 17y ago
For low-level performance-critical stuff you can always go down to C++, though I believe that's limited to operations on your own internal data and does not extend to system-level programming.
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by nwatson 17y ago
Fortunately at my workplace (a Microsoft/Exchange/Blackberry-Enterprise-Server -related software shop) we went the other direction. Sharepoint was so bad people got used to using e-mail and file shares instead. By the time I managed to ge
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by nwatson 17y ago
I'd just use any Wiki that allows hierarchical divisions/namespaces (e.g. 'webs' in TWiki) and file attachments. Check out TWiki ( http://twiki.org ) or a comparison between wikis (google >wiki comparison matrix< and I think you'll
914.
by nwatson 17y ago
The "Northern California Digital Library" ( http://califa.lib.overdrive.com ) already loans out digital books (read with Adobe Digital Editions software) to patrons of many Northern California library branches. The system enforces limits o
915.
by nwatson 17y ago
Thanks to the Boost.org developers the C++ pointer issues are mostly a thing of the past. Using shared_ptr et. al. for all but the most time-critical code has made memory-smashing, memory leaks, etc. so easy to avoid!
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by nwatson 17y ago
Body-tagging as a means of identification for payment is an old idea, almost 2000 years old at least, perhaps longer ... From the New Testament, Revelations, chapter 13: "Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth ... He exercised a
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by nwatson 17y ago
Here's where using fork() without an ensuing exec() is very natural ... A server process that must reply to hundreds of network requests per second but still remain single-threaded pretty much needs fork(). The persistent parent process se
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by nwatson 17y ago
There's a movie about modern slavery (haven't seen it, don't know the quality) titled "Call and Response." If you're in the Silicon Valley a group showed the movie at the Red Rock Coffeehouse in Mountain View on September 19, 2009. I'm not
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by nwatson 17y ago
You say a third-worlder in a lean-to shack might not spend their hard-earned money on iPhone apps. I lived in Rio de Janeiro in the early seventies as a small kid. My parents were missionaries and we'd visit very poor areas of town often,
920.
by nwatson 17y ago
Smartphones will become cheaper, more powerful, more rugged, and third-world customers will opt for them because they can't afford the PC yet want access to the wonderful things they can do on the web. Data plans will be ubiquitous even in
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by nwatson 17y ago
Why do we need to solve the round-trip problem to Mars? Many set out in the past from the Old World to the New World with no intention of returning. There are plenty willing in the near future to go one-way to Mars. "Humans in space" isn
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by nwatson 17y ago
any time
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by nwatson 17y ago
humans are unique in the universe among all life forms and inanimate objects, are more than the sum of their physical parts, have a connection with something larger than the universe, and though in an insignifcant corner of an insignificant
924.
by nwatson 17y ago
I worked at SenSage, a company that creates a log-archiving/querying product (used by NSA/IRS/Dept-of-Treasury/Navy, banks, insurance companies, telcos, etc.). Our customers all had very good reasons for archiving logs: * Real-time securit
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by nwatson 17y ago
Check out http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thr... for people using client-side GWT with PHP, Python, .NET. There no absolute need for Java on the backend with GWT.
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by nwatson 17y ago
also be aware when you join a pre-series-A company that your percentage of the "founding shares" will not be the percentage of the final shares that comprise the eventual company at the big liquidity event. during the various funding round
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by nwatson 17y ago
For a current successful commercial expert system see for example http://www.zenprise.com -- Zenprise is a rule-based expert system that monitors Microsoft Exchange and Blackberry server deployments, and Active-Sync (Windows Mobile, iPhon
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by nwatson 17y ago
quote from grandparent: "It's only the presence of foreigners that is causing Americans to fail science and forcing them to aim for law and MBAs in their struggle to find a job." ... I agree with parent, obvious sarcasm. Great point.
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by nwatson 17y ago
don't know about your other issues, but I love DoggCatcher (see Android Market) for podcasts. I'm in no way affiliated with the developer. Downloads programs in the background ... when I want news/interviews/talk-show I have plenty. I use
930.
by nwatson 17y ago
I'm in the same situation. I've never really written a DB-backed web-based application, so I'm starting down that road. Been working mostly on C++ distributed multi-threaded servers with lots of asynchronous network communication. I'm a b

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