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by rudyfink 18y ago
Link to the Nature article if you'd like a bit more information http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080730/full/454561a.html . The video (linked at the bottom of the article) is pretty good.
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by rudyfink 18y ago
Created in 1938 and protected through 2063. One hundred and twenty five (125) years of protection does seem like a bit much...
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by rudyfink 18y ago
"Because it's cool" implies its own form of necessity.
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by rudyfink 18y ago
In case you were curious about what the current percentages were, here is the link to the NSF statics site http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf07307/content.cfm?pub_id=36...
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by rudyfink 18y ago
Code Visionary
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by rudyfink 18y ago
I kinda hope that is more like when someone said "I don't want to use betamax" than when someone said "I don't want to use the telephone".
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by rudyfink 18y ago
Did you leave out Prolog because she was an impossible contradiction?
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by rudyfink 18y ago
I am always amazed how much it feels like we are in a world of guilds who are concerned their "secrets" will escape.
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by rudyfink 18y ago
By the end of the thread there is price competition for batches of 100s of verified accounts. I'm not terribly optimistic in how successful this will be.
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by rudyfink 18y ago
Yeah, I've wanted this service, but I want it for my own domain. I want a Firefox widget that sits in my browser and communicates with something on my server. When I show up to a site it offers me the option to log on or generate an address
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by rudyfink 18y ago
Borrowing money to buy a depreciating asset is surprising to me too.
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by rudyfink 18y ago
It seems insane to me that the overall editorial conclusion is "we need to do more to fund public pensions". The entire rest of the article seems to be to the point that "pensions are an artifact of sky-high prosperity that ultimately rob
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by rudyfink 18y ago
Reinventing the wheel, in this case, could be seen as a way to direct traffic to a profitable business. Being the central point for people investigating or sharing information about music on web seems like it might possibly have some value
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by rudyfink 18y ago
It is always good to be reminded how formidable a problem communication often is.
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I agree. It could be a false perception, but it seems there used to be a far greater amount of start-up reviews. What was a great way to discover new and interesting products/services seems to have changed into editorial on the valley, te
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by rudyfink 18y ago
This makes some sense if making the transaction has a fixed cost. If I had to spend the same amount of time to fill out a 14 day loan as a multi-year one, I'd need to price the shorter one higher even if I wanted the same APR otherwise.
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by rudyfink 18y ago
Fredric Bastiat - "The Law" - http://www.freeaudio.org/fbastiat/thelaw.html (audio book) http://www.amazon.com/Law-Frederick-Bastiat/dp/1933550147/ (5 stars with 83 reviews so it's not just me) It'll only take about forty minutes to fin
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by rudyfink 18y ago
In case others need some help persuading, here is the link to that recent Scientific American article to that effect ( http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-sm... )
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by rudyfink 18y ago
I've been really pleased with the quality on the Dell XPS line. Comparing it to the new T61 I got for work, the Dell seems better in every way with the exception of the lack of a force mouse in the middle of the keyboard.
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by rudyfink 18y ago
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/ http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=techtalks
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Mob Software - poetic and long essay on software engineering(dreamsongs.com)
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by rudyfink 19y ago
Not trying to troll, but isn't lowering prices always a competitive pressure on other players in the market.
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by rudyfink 19y ago
I think there are two issues in losing weight: 1) Dropping the fat aka expending more energy than you absorb and working to keep muscle as you go. 2) Changing your habits to effect a change to not go back to where you were. Frankly, most of
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by rudyfink 19y ago
I agree. So much h8 for pharmacists. It must be all that standing above others that creates this.