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by qdog 15y ago
When I grew up in the late 70's and the 80's, a lot of US made stuff seemed to be crap. I think that part or most of the stuff now made in the US is more quality, because it's much more difficult to make cheap stuff and compete with China.
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by qdog 15y ago
I wasn't aware I had to subscribe to any particular political viewpoint to be a geek (I am totally down with Fedaralism, anti Rand,Paul, and progressive). This article on law might be bad, but it's likely most articles on law are bad. I'm
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by qdog 15y ago
Anecdotal, I have had a few items made in China over the years I've replaced with USA made stuff that was much higher quality: my gas grill (going on 7 years of use, chinese one lasted 2 years) and some bakeware I recently bought. Some thin
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by qdog 15y ago
Yeah, complaining about the CDC's definition just make him sound like someone trying to cover up a problem. Maybe he doesn't have a problem with alcohol, but it's possible to read this essay as "I drank too much at least 4 times last month
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by qdog 15y ago
Putting your files on a 3rd party site like MegaUpload is a lot like buying food at a random food cart in a 3rd world country. You might not get sick, but there's no guarantee. If there was a motto for life, it would be Caveat Emptor. If
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by qdog 15y ago
This sounds interesting at first (I thought they must have some hardware kit for you), but I'm thinking 10 million isn't very much money for a 'tricorder' independently developed. If they were offering up some new qualcomm sensors or whatev
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by qdog 15y ago
Ok, cool, I should have looked it up, but the sentence in the article was "Except for Qualcomm, which makes its own ARM-compatible cores, every other ARM chip on the market uses reference CPU cores", which I didn't think was true (and I don
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by qdog 15y ago
ARM produces a design people incorporate into their chips. I'm not entirely certain you cannot take an ARM core and enhance it if you pay the right fees (when I worked on them, I don't think we did, but we just need a core to do management
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by qdog 15y ago
This sounds interesting at first (I thought they must have some hardware kit for you), but I'm thinking 10 million isn't very much money for a 'tricorder' independently developed. If they were offering up some new qualcomm sensors or whate
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by qdog 15y ago
Not to pick too many nits, but I didn't use free() or malloc() for about 7 years of my career in programming C. Embedded systems sometimes still frown upon willy-nilly memory allocation ;) Of course, days when your build breaks and it's bec
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by qdog 15y ago
Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics, etc. all existed before coding. So far, the number of people willing to do hard 'mental' tasks has been pretty low. More than a few people I have known haven't gotten into working with their brain that
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by qdog 15y ago
I once drew up some sketches of a two-legged robot with a head and a tail like a velociraptor. I theorize you could weight the head and tail to balance and make the walking a little more mechanical, so if you start to tip, there's a lot mo
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by qdog 15y ago
Oh get out of here with your facts, everyone "knows" how bad the US education system is. Part of the deal is the US is not at all like most other countries, I've mentioned we provide public schooling for all children, which some countries d
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by qdog 15y ago
Ah yes, that was it, from Ken Thompson, thanks.
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by qdog 15y ago
Stroustrup apparently listened to a lot of people at Bell Labs while creating c++, essentially creating it by committee. I think there is a quote by someone about this, Rob Pike? Can't find it at the moment.
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by qdog 15y ago
The only McMenamin's theater I've been to is Kennedy school, might have to try out the Mission Theater, will have to look into the Living Room. Also, the Hollywood Theater on Sandy now serves beer, but they only show indie films, so I have
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by qdog 15y ago
Everyone in the US has the opportunity (or close to everyone) to attend a near-standard public school in the US. Not all countries subscribe to this model, I believe. Although the US average is low, I strongly suspect that the top 10% of
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by qdog 15y ago
Oops, forgot about the McMenamins, but their beer/food isn't really very good imho. Also, I would like it if they had more table areas, I had to sit my beer on the floor. They do have awesome buildings, though.
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by qdog 15y ago
Alamo Drafthouse was great last time I was there (crap...6 years ago?). For those of you not fortunate enough to get to Austin, the seating was not regular theater seating, you had some space and a table area for your food and/or bucket of
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by qdog 15y ago
I think he mentioned that as printing out biological structures that would eat Monsanto's products. You can take this to mean it is creepy, but I think he meant it was a threat to Monsanto and when Monsanto realizes this, they are going to
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Publisher's Cartel on Law "a chilling effect on reaching consensus"(exple.tive.org)
2 points by qdog 15y ago|0 comments
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by qdog 15y ago
When he says they live in a 'bubble', he literally means they(or we) live in a bubble isolated from issues. I'm sympathetic to OWS, but on the other hand, I come here and worry if my salary (which is X% greater than the average American's
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by qdog 15y ago
I don't know what is disappointing, I read the full thing, it sounds like your regular IT sweatshop if you read between the lines. Things like: 1) Giving the new guy an entire module to own (written by someone else). Ok, so it's an entire
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by qdog 15y ago
I don't think they are "effectively unlimited" either, perhaps closer to "effectively dividable forever", which might not be true, not sure. However, once they are in full circulation they will be a deflationary currency, and giving someon
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by qdog 15y ago
Yes, most interviews are like this. "Here, solve problem X on a binary tree on the whiteboard, you have 15 minutes, go!" I'm not good at it, I have to study for a while before going on interviews. The whole "study ahead of time to look lik
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by qdog 15y ago
This. And anything else you can find that registers with the kernel for file system calls. Logging mechanisms, etc. Anything the kernel has to talk to about file i/o is going to slow it down.
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by qdog 15y ago
Depends on what security flaws they update, I've had my linux box up for over a year before, but I don't run many services and it sits behind a router. Windows is set to autoupdate, so it reboots pretty often, though. I'm not saying I'm ag
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by qdog 15y ago
What problems were you having? I have a T-mobile G2 that runs pretty well, but I don't do much on it. The last upgrade actually seemed to introduce a random shutdown, making me actually regret upgrading the OS, but that's about the only p
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by qdog 15y ago
According to Wikipedia, hydrogen is flammable in concentrations from 4% to 75%. Its likely any tank and transfer system for hydrogen fuel would be cost prohibitive or risky. It's been a long time since I had chemistry, so I don't know, a l
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by qdog 15y ago
Where is this miracle flashlight? In my younger days, I thought that perhaps we would use solar power to split water for this type of thing, but I think it takes more energy to do the water splitting than hydrogen is produced. If the appr

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