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by ramchip 16y ago
> diamond vapor-phase deposition I've seen this repeated at a lot of places, but I'm quite sure this should be "diamond-like carbon" and not actual diamond deposition. Even then, I could not see any source for this, besides one blog com
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by ramchip 16y ago
Haskell to the rescue! ghci> let f = let 2*3=5 in 1+2*3 ghci> f 6
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by ramchip 16y ago
Since C has been around 1972, it follows that a lot of software is going to be written in C. I agree with your conclusion but not your reasoning. Try substituting "Lisp" and "1958".
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by ramchip 16y ago
If you'll forgive a little nazism... please be careful with "your" and "you're". It gets distracting.
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by ramchip 16y ago
What's so fundamentally wrong with waiting a year or two to establish a family because you want to get a company started?
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by ramchip 16y ago
The iPhone 4 launch was popular. I agree. But how is this related to reception problems and Nokia's tongue-in-cheek post?
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by ramchip 16y ago
For a fairly liberal definition of "from scratch", of course...
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by ramchip 16y ago
I would say it's important, although the base is of course also important by itself. People in general rarely understand how science really works. It's glaring in journalism where often an article takes some non-reviewed research and cites
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by ramchip 16y ago
You can say a lot of things about the guy, but I don't think you can call him incompetent without at least a little justification. I think the Dunning–Kruger effect/paper is one the most abusively reposted things on HN and Reddit.
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by ramchip 16y ago
Assuming it's on the same machine: perhaps they have an instrument which runs on Windows 95 and they do some light data processing, or use Matlab to make it interoperate with another device? We've had a similar need in my lab, although it w
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by ramchip 16y ago
That's a air horn, not a vuvuzela.
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by ramchip 16y ago
How about a "Y is the new X" or "X is dead, long live Y"?
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by ramchip 16y ago
What about language acquisition? I think it's quite established that ability goes down with age. My experience seeing retired people (with plenty of free time) taking language classes is that they take quite a bit more time to achieve the s
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by ramchip 16y ago
The allegations are factual in nature but are generally stated Minor thing, but could you clarify this statement? Do you mean "usually stated", or "stated in a general manner"? I'm unsure about the legal meaning of the words.
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by ramchip 16y ago
At my university every single lab/research group is named after the professor directing it. It's the standard in Japan. The name simply changes when a new professor joins or takes over. I find the practice a bit in bad taste, but it's not e
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by ramchip 16y ago
All employees are not developers, however. There are apparently 1400+ employees ( http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet ), so that would make 1.1B / 1400 = $786k per employee of revenue. Here are some numbers to compare it to: h
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by ramchip 16y ago
I work in a physics lab. It would make a nice little controller to run some of the stuff we make. Eg.: for one of our microscopes it could display some parameters like the rotation speed or scan frequency (with eg. a PLL to measure frequenc
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by ramchip 16y ago
It probably depends on your research field. In my main field (part of optics), articles must usually be sent in a specified format. If accepted, the final version is prepared by the authors and published as-is. Journals provide templates, u
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by ramchip 16y ago
The author has a more recent version on his website, with more data: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~babcock/LeisureCollege_4.pdf I wouldn't jump to conclusions, though. As far as I can see, this isn't peer-reviewed research, and it looks heav
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by ramchip 16y ago
stop governments from stealing the wealth of the people You're appealing to emotions, not logic. It's not a good way to make decisions.
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by ramchip 16y ago
Perhaps older/retired engineers simply have more time and patience to put on hobby projects like this. I don't think there's such a large emphasis on software engineering; at least in the universities I've been to, software engineering is s
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by ramchip 16y ago
How about a "Hackers ring"? You'd have a "Hacker news" rotating gif picture on your page, with arrows that would point towards the next or previous homepage in the ring. You could also click on the gif to get the whole list. :)
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by ramchip 16y ago
You don't even need to know Outlook, you can often do stuff like that just from the command line. ;)
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by ramchip 16y ago
> If they implemented it, I'm sure they've found that there's a performance boost for large datasets. Argh! Perhaps I take things too literally, but the logic in this statement is just painful.
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by ramchip 16y ago
My point is that gamma/beta radiation is not "in the form of iodine". Iodine releases radiation; this radiation is the same, wherever it came from. Gamma and beta radiations can in fact be meaningfully compared on their effect on the body.
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by ramchip 16y ago
You just need more numbers/sources. Intuition is a limited tool, especially in physics. According to this ( http://www.calctool.org/CALC/other/games/depth_press ) the pressure would be around 15 MPa (this isn't hard to calculate by hand e
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by ramchip 16y ago
Is this a fact based on actual calculation/experiments, or your personal theory? I don't think the solution is practical in this case for various other reasons, but the fact that offshore platforms exist incites me to think that long, under
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by ramchip 16y ago
> So there is no real comparison to make between bananas and any dose of gamma+beta radiation Why is that? Let's say you receive a millirem by standing close to a nuclear power plant core. Then you eat a banana, which spends one day in
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by ramchip 16y ago
Site didn't work for me so here's another link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100613/ap_on_re_us/us_oil_leak_... I think this kind of joke would be far more appropriate on reddit, though.
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by ramchip 16y ago
In Chinese at a carpet convention? ;)

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