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by personZ 12y ago
Isn't it possible that such a comeback is reflected in small areas at first? That the city isn't going to wake up one morning restored to its former glory? Comments such as yours (and the parent above it) seem to believe that Detr
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by personZ 12y ago
Using HTML5 enables the operating system to be very lean and it requires less memory consumption. This claim is deeply suspect.
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by personZ 12y ago
simply because docker will make VM obsolete This is not true at all. Docker fits a very, very specific use case, and is a very small subset of what we use VMs for. To enhance Docker to cover those cases you would eventually end up with VM
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by personZ 12y ago
Ignoring your obnoxious and ill-placed reply, I (and others) responded specifically to what you said, which was that the "debate" in your household was about " you need to be the best at a narrow skill and you do that by work
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by personZ 12y ago
I look at the clear stand-out stars of the world and it is undeniable that the vast majority of them started working on some aspect of their talent between 4 and 6. The development of a standout isn't generally talked about unless th
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by personZ 12y ago
Your point was diluted, the conversation misdirected, when you used Australia as the alternative. Of course there are countless options that remain in the continental United States and have far less of a risk profile. Nevada, for instance.
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by personZ 12y ago
Column-oriented databases virtually all feature this in the form of column compression (e.g. "repeat this value for the next 1000 rows"). And if you don't want column compression, they have sparse data filling/interpolat
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by personZ 12y ago
Sarcasm does not further a debate. If you want to froth at the mouth and show your agenda, sure, but not actually having constructive discussions. Posting enormous gripe lists is not useful on any board, relevant or not, even minus the co
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by personZ 12y ago
It doesn't contribute to the discussion. It's a wall of noise hit list of entirely random quality, that draws absolute, nefarious conclusions from complex situations. If someone hates Google, then sure, it's "contribut
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by personZ 12y ago
They also created a new account to post a mixed list of random complaints. Sorry it's actually a repost given that this identical list was posted by angularfan -- also a fresh new account created purely to post this list -- 20 days a
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by personZ 12y ago
>Silicon Valley can afford better software people than labs can. LabCorp made (income) $600 million last year. Quest made $1.5 billion. They can afford teams of very capable developers. They can have the best software, the best presentat
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by personZ 12y ago
http://beekn.net/2014/07/ibeacon-for-android/ iBeacon is some interaction standards atop BLE, and early on everyone assuaged themselves that it was safe and open -- because it's just some BLE interaction
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by personZ 12y ago
Three questions and a comment- Q - is it really iBeacon? iBeacon is a specifically licensed "technology" from Apple (which, to go offtopic, should be avoided because it's intentionally exclusive and locked in, despite the exi
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by personZ 12y ago
I've written about something similar -- http://goo.gl/SbveOA -- though in that case I was about making proclamations on behalf of future you. In some ways the theories are at odds. My argument is that people often view
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by personZ 12y ago
The overwhelming bulk of the changes in the car from track to track are setup changes. These are designs they put an enormous amount of work into over the off-season, and a significant amount of test time, so it seems circumspect that they
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by personZ 12y ago
"It's a completely bespoke car for each circuit." This may give the wrong impression, so just to be clear there are strict regulations in F1 regarding the reuse of components and static designs. http://www.formul
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by personZ 12y ago
YC investors are not "neckbeards". Further, this is a professional issue in every industry, in every locale. In hospitals. On the factory floor. In the retail outlet. At the fast food joint. Put the sexes together and we're s
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by personZ 12y ago
Cortex-A15 designs and up already offer 36 to 40 bits of addressable memory, or from 64GB to 1TB. This is at the OS level, of course, so individual 32-bit processes would still be limited to 2-3GB without intentional PAE, but that's ha
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by personZ 12y ago
Victim blaming is generally reprehensible. Further, I imagine that as a nascent business the notion that competitors would be so unethical didn't seem to be a top priority. Is it obvious now that they should have caught it? Yeah, thank
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by personZ 12y ago
This is one of the most gut-wrenching condemnations of mobile/casual game development I've read Eh, is it? The author was sure that mobile was where it was at in 2010, observing that no one was playing consoles (consoles were an
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by personZ 12y ago
The i7 low power part obviously is the premiere low-power part. And exactly like bitL I would like a nice i7 very-low-TDP, preferably passively cooled desktop machine, grossly overpowered for the vast majority of tasks that people do. Esp
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by personZ 12y ago
the TV remote example given is why Google TV flopped and Apple TV sells well Google TV was trying to do something entirely different from Apple TV. The former was about adding intelligence to cable (which is an enormous issue because ther
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by personZ 12y ago
Quite a few of the replies are practical, but unfortunately reality isn't always practical. Instead we often use technology for signaling, and the truth remains that the Microsoft stack (even if you talk up open source equivalents like
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by personZ 12y ago
Interesting consideration, but is it a legitimate concern? For the actual "Bunchers", it seems like there are much easier ways of acquiring cats than trying to steal domestic cats. And for cat owners, free roam cats face an endles
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by personZ 12y ago
Related but incidental, but what's the deal with Aeon? They don't seem to have a revenue model, but I read and enjoy virtually everything they produce. Is there a gotcha coming?
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by personZ 12y ago
When you, or a hedge fund, or any other market participant, decide to sell or buy a security, the trade is submitted to a broker. That broker may submit the trade to the floor, an ECN, or market maker, and so on. Only in very specific cases
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by personZ 12y ago
10 milliseconds is far too long for STP for anything in the financial industry Somehow very niche HFT trading platforms have come to define finance, when the reality is that the massive bulk of the industry runs on Excel spreadsheets, Jav
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by personZ 12y ago
Of course they do. Or if two people are disagreeing through multiple comments, you can tell as each person comes along as every one of your comments will get a downvote (and, I'm sure, the person you're arguing with is probably
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by personZ 12y ago
What a fascinating, seeming convoluted (but clearly intentional and purposeful), flight path. Fascinating stuff, and it's amazing it has that much residual thrust available.
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by personZ 12y ago
I assume that it isn't actually orbiting the comet, but instead is just adjusting to follow the same orbit as the comet, right?

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