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by rudyfink 16y ago
This is the first time "in at least a decade" the magazine was profitable, so this common sense might be worth noting to the establishment. Some elements in this type of business must still be psychologically adjusting to the ocean of choi
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by rudyfink 16y ago
For a second I thought it was a play on create (Cr348 = Cr-48), but your explanation sounds better.
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by rudyfink 16y ago
The fact that they tinkered with the Y axis scaling on the graph makes me quite suspicious of their results. I admit it is knee jerk, but anytime I see charts asking me to compare things and the scales are different I just wonder what else
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by rudyfink 16y ago
In reference to the uniform voice of center controllers--the "Houston Center" voice, Tom Wolfe tells a related story about pilots in "The Right Stuff." He asserts that all of the test pilots of the era copied the slow, calm, and always sub
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by rudyfink 16y ago
Microsoft did just buy Canesta ( http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/29/microsoft-rumored-to-be-bu... ).
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by rudyfink 16y ago
That is a very pretty road.
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by rudyfink 16y ago
It'd definitely put a new bent on up or down voting comments. I'm using it to blow away the comments.
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by rudyfink 16y ago
Judging from some of the articles I seen on-line the answer may, in part, be plagiarism or more politely extensive copy and paste. That seems to simple of an answer though.
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Recursive Pizza(slice.seriouseats.com)
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by rudyfink 16y ago
Building a phone, the solution to all of the modern software company's problems.
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Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds - Michael Lewis piece on Greece(vanityfair.com)
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by rudyfink 16y ago
Also, remember that the meaning of the words and phrases in the independent claims are subject to intense debate.
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by rudyfink 16y ago
Bruichladdich Octomore (~130 ppm) and Ardberg Supernova (~100 ppm I think) are way up there beyond the Ardberg 10. Off the top of my head I'd guess the Ardberg 10 is something like 20-40 ppm. The "ppm", in the Scotch context, is for the am
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by rudyfink 16y ago
Technically and nerdily, I believe that was a form of toilet paper and not a toilet.
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by rudyfink 16y ago
Are your problems just on the international side? I've been having some issue where my mobile rings forever before going to voicemail and then occasionally doesn't capture whatever message is left.
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by rudyfink 16y ago
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Your sentiment made me think of that quote. I completely agree.
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by rudyfink 16y ago
Here are some nonfiction books that I've enjoyed. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life - Gilovich - a good book on the inability of the human mind to accept things as random. Crucial Conversations:
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by rudyfink 16y ago
I think about patents as options on lawsuits. A 20-50k patent gives you the option of a ~1-5 million dollar lawsuit(s). As you noted there are also concerns about time. It takes years to get the option and then years to exercise it.
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by rudyfink 16y ago
You missed my favorite one. B.F. Skinner had a WWII weapons program that trained pigeons for use as the guidance system of bombs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon ). From a video I saw (but now cannot find) the pigeons were
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by rudyfink 16y ago
Amazon and Apple my have a different contracts with the publishers?
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by rudyfink 16y ago
Being able to find quality applications for my problems has been the biggest deterrent to me in participating, as a customer, in the Android market. I have not encountered any real problem in getting an application once I know it exists. W
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by rudyfink 16y ago
I think a better example would be do people think they will experience similar changes to the people in the before and after photographs (beauty/weight loss/dental) or do they believe the examples of computer speed/performance improvement (
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by rudyfink 16y ago
“Classic - A book which people praise and don't read.” - M. Twain
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by rudyfink 16y ago
I also noticed in one view that ceiling has extremely uniform air ducting, presumably to prevent any kind of gusts (possibly to cause them though). When I see this same demo being performed out in a field with a combination of variable rota
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by rudyfink 16y ago
There are times when I realize what all of humanity has been building towards. Having built machines that could compute billions of cycles per second and then having connected them with networks signaling each other across the planet at fea
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by rudyfink 16y ago
I think that is correct with the caveat that the article assumes that Chen would be considered a journalist. The article says that "Federal and California law both protect reporters against police searches aimed at uncovering confidential s
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by rudyfink 17y ago
I think all we know is that the search is failing to produce results. I also tried "collateralmurder" and "collateralmurder.com" and both fail to give any web results and indicate no warning banner. Both results do link to MSNBC's own stori
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by rudyfink 17y ago
That seems reasonable, though if MSNBC did tracking of people clicking through and their success rate it could still be true. I have no idea if that is common practice or not though. When I try out wikileaks I get the message "We are unabl
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by rudyfink 17y ago
I'd propose the theory that a plausible explanation is that when the domain becomes unreachable/times out the search engine removes it from search results. Someone might have made a design decision that says that domains that cannot be reac
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by rudyfink 17y ago
Yes, it is that time to just ignore the internet for a day.

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