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by otto 17y ago
Have less kids? Adopt? Not that I'm advocating this. I think people should be responsible enough to choose how much to reproduce.
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by otto 17y ago
The author seems to be a bit misinformed. because there are only a few shuttle missions left. After that, nada. Nothing. Zilch. True, there are only a few more shuttle missions( http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle ). However this isn't the end o
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by otto 17y ago
The probability that a fair election would produce [these number distribution disparities] is less than .005. How did they calculate this probability. I can see what they did in other spots, but this number seems to come out of nowhere t
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by otto 17y ago
These posts come up every few months, more often than not written by people that did not go to college. "Students today leave school with so much debt" I finished school debt-free. I saved up for school and applied for as many scholarships
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by otto 17y ago
I found that to be quite the opposite. Having finished my CS degree and taken various analysis of algorithm classes I found proofs to involve lots more hand holding and shortcuts. I'm working on finishing my Mathematics degree and proofs a
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by otto 17y ago
I've worked with a person that received a Software Engineering degree from the University of Phoenix. He was a very intelligent and interested computer scientist. The degree is just a piece of paper that gets you in the door. The college
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by otto 17y ago
What type of pumps did you use, the link for them didn't work? I've been trying to find cheap food-grade pumps for a similar project.
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by otto 17y ago
That sounds horribly unethical. If there was future litigation between the two sites, this would look very bad.
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by otto 17y ago
One important distinction to make is: Are you considered a contractor or an employee? I'd recommend talking to the legal department, or contacting someone you know in IP law(an actual lawyer, not some random HN reader).
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by otto 17y ago
The artist has done other sculptures that have been solved, and the first 3 parts have been solved. So I doubt it is gibberish. If you are interested you might check out Elonka's website: http://elonka.com/kryptos/ She's given talks all
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by otto 17y ago
You can generally find a seat. The only issue I ever ran into was finding a group of seats together; in that case you might want to reserve seats(otherwise you get to hotbox with a cigarette smoking Japanese businessman!)
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by otto 17y ago
http://github.com/moriyoshi/quercus-gae/tree/master Seems to be the patched code. There is also a HOWTO document.
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by otto 18y ago
Only in countries with laws similar to the DMCA is it illegal.
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by otto 18y ago
Do you know where the vim configuration files are in macvim? I'm curious to see how they did that. http://repo.or.cz/w/MacVim.git?a=tree;hb=refs/heads/master
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by otto 18y ago
That really depends on how you plan things.If you want to go to college you will find the means for it. I personally planned financially for it, applied for as many scholarships as I could, hold 2 jobs and work through holidays. Not to ment
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by otto 18y ago
But they also are providing trackers. They are assisting in copyright violations and they often mock requests to remove such files that help others violate copyright. That said, my thoughts are based on US copyright. Please mod me down, bu
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by otto 18y ago
Does Google break the law because it makes it easy for me to search for mp3s to download? Google isn't hosting the files that point to trackers and ultimately other peers to download from. There are cases similar to this: Galoob v Nintendo.
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by otto 18y ago
This idea has been discussed. I personally remember 3 years ago when everyone though people would be working off of thin clients within the year. However a lot of people do more with a computer than currently offered by online spreadsheets
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by otto 18y ago
Even "novice developers" are able to: 1. download macports 2. double click an installer and click next a few times 3. type 'sudo port install git-core'
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by otto 18y ago
Historically that has not been the case though. In the short run it probably will not be much of an issue for Apple as there is not a huge shift in management.
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by otto 18y ago
http://superbrightleds.com/edison_globe.html is currently selling LED products for homes and vehicles currently. Though they are expensive. What sort of area of the market are you planning to target with your product? Full disclosure: I
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by otto 18y ago
It's been done. Apparently these videos are very impressive compared to current forklifts(or so I've been told by forklift operators): http://www.airtrax.com/
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by otto 18y ago
That's similar, however the Segway RMP is using mecanum wheels.
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by otto 18y ago
Though RAM is volatile it is possible to get data off of it. I've heard of techniques of using extreme cold temperatures to slow the clearing of data. I think there are papers on this referring to it as "Low temperature data remanence"
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by otto 18y ago
"Gates has a compelling point — largely because the shortage of Americans holding or pursuing advanced degrees in fields like computer science defies conventional market explanations. The average annual salary in the field is more than $100