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by preview 14y ago
The issue is whether a state-by-state single payer system would be universal. It would not be in the US--the Republican states would never enact it. How would Canada's system react if Ontario had single payer but British Columbia did not?
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by preview 15y ago
A non-technical boss managing technical employees can lead to problems. It is rare to have a non-technical manager who 1) knows what they know/don't know, and 2) can effectively manage a technical team.
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The growth is impressive, but did Whitman cause it to happen, or did she manage it as it was happening? My opinion is that she managed it as it was happening. That may make her a competent manager, but I think HP needs much more than just a
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by preview 15y ago
You make a good point. I started to write what promised to be a lengthy reply, but I realized it came down to a simple characteristic--flexibility. Ultimately, what's needed is flexibility provided to the employee. Provide the means to work
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by preview 16y ago
But if that is the main (or only) goal, why spend $3 billion to buy the company when you could license or buy IP for much less?
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by preview 16y ago
The FPGA fabric will also have to be configured whenever power is lost. This probably includes the low power states of the Atom since the FPGA wasn't designed to support it. It would make sense for this to be part of the BIOS-level code sin
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by preview 16y ago
The comment on the fabs is not exactly true. If Intel has maxed its fab capacity on higher margin chips, then producing lower margin Atoms is undesirable. If there is fab capacity remaining after producing sufficient quantities of the other
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by preview 16y ago
It can be that bad. Such a chart can be gamed (like any table or chart). It can also be a crutch. Do you need the chart to show your differentiation versus the competition? If the perspective customer would otherwise not know how you're dif
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by preview 16y ago
You're already seeing domain specific chips, but they're in the form of a FPGA rather than an ASIC. If it can be implementation with traditional gates, a FPGA is the way to go for low to medium volume. While Lyric may incorporate classic ga
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by preview 16y ago
This is a great point. Power usage is growing in importance. I think power management APIs will continue to evolve. In the not too distance future, power will be another axis of optimization.
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by preview 16y ago
The prices vendors quote are also, in a sense, pulled out of thin air. There is some floor to the price based on cost to produce and minimum acceptable margin, and volume also plays a role. But, there are many other factors that are subject
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by preview 16y ago
I have lived in SV, and I currently live in Austin. The $1M for a house is not completely out of line, It does depend on how far you're willing to drive and if public school quality is a factor. I think is $200k for Austin is a little low.
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by preview 16y ago
But, it is possible to be profitable (even have increasing profits) but still have problems at the top. See http://steveblank.com/2010/06/07/when-big-companies-are-dead... for some anecdotal evidence.
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by preview 17y ago
Practicing in the form of a game makes practice more fun, and, therefore, makes it more likely that you will practice. Those of us would-be casual musicians may need an additional motivation to practice other than a pure love of the instrum
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by preview 17y ago
Is this really that much different from releasing the hard cover well before the paperback version?
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by preview 17y ago
My problem with Vista has always been the lack of a compelling feature that would drive me to upgrade. If Microsoft is claiming that Vista (or 7) is a solution, I'm still left asking "To what problem?" For new hardware, I would stick with 7
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by preview 17y ago
> Managers have to force-rank their employees. The more > Machiavellian managers make a point of telling their > employees where they stand. Haven't other articles (and other research) shown that force ranking is not an effectiv
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by preview 17y ago
Unfortunately, using 75% of the rated capacity may not be enough to handle the inrush. The article discusses this point, "...if you power up both PSUs at the same time, it can draw a large (14 amp) spike of 120V power from the socket." That
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by preview 17y ago
I wonder about the single point of failure posed by the power supplies. One failed box is not a big deal (since I assume the data is replicated over several). But, what if they get a bad batch of supplies and see a relatively high failure r
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by preview 17y ago
Item 6 (goodbye custom chips) is not a new trend. It's been happening over the last several years. Programmable logic has progressed and encroached on all but the high volume ASICs. If the volume is there, an ASIC makes sense. Otherwise, th
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by preview 17y ago
That limits the allowed solutions to those that are purely software. What about a hardware/software hybrid or hardware-only solution (e.g. PCI Express card with one or more FPGAs)?
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by preview 17y ago
Do FPGAs count as cheaper electronic circuits?
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by preview 17y ago
One book that I've seen recommend is A Verilog HDL Primer, Third Edition by J. Bhasker. Some books focus their attention on coding for simulation without giving synthesis its due. I have been told that this book does not make that mistake.
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by preview 17y ago
FTA: So I would argue further that the “innovation probability” of a high I.Q. individual whose family has been in the U.S. for many generations is less than that of someone who’s new to our nation and has a comparable intellect, but far mo
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In the article, Zed says, "it’s just that nobody learns about state machines unless they take an obscure compiler design class. Very few universities teach state machines as a method of specifying the logic for a program." My background is
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I'm surprised at the university representatives who were disturbed by Clemson's gaming of the system. Shouldn't this make those people (and US News) question the validity of the ranking? Instead of making a display of outrage, why not find
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For reading PDFs, the key differentiator is battery life. Also, the aspect ratio of the display on the Kindle is better for reading a document. If the laptop is always plugged in, then the battery life argument goes away. But, reading a doc
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by preview 18y ago
I disagree. The lesson from the dot.com bubble was that anything put on the Internet could be monetized and would become profitable. That was (and is) silly. The "Web 2.0" mindset, at least the mindset I've seen most often on HN, is build i
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by preview 18y ago
"Nobody has ever made a compelling argument for how having unionized teachers helps students. Nor has anyone ever made a compelling argument for how having tenured teachers helps student performance." I agree with these statements. However,
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by preview 18y ago
This is an interesting perspective, but it seems to be (potentially) true of one class of startup, but there are many others, requiring much large amounts of money to start, that will still rely on VC funding. Software startups, specificall

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