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by russell 15y ago
Pop Quiz: Why do CEOs get such outrageous compensation? Answer: They are all on each other's boards, so when it comes time for their own compensation review, they trust that the other board members will remember their generosity.
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by russell 15y ago
The Wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-Land_Service , is more interesting from the historical point of view. As I read it, McLean had the idea of using trailers to ship cargo around the world, originally with the ordinary
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NASA's Dawn Collects a Bounty of Beauty from Vesta(jpl.nasa.gov)
3 points by russell 15y ago|0 comments
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by russell 15y ago
Not really a problem. All the software was rigorously tested using emulators running on mainframes. The Guidance computers were truly bizarre things. They used core memories for program storage, but to save weight only the 1 bits were e
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by russell 15y ago
I worked at the MIT Instrumentation Lab on a compiler for the Apollo Guidance computer. The language was rather bizarre. Each line was encoded on 3 punched cards. One for the main expression, one for subscripts, and one for superscripts.
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by russell 15y ago
"...kids today can now dream of one day walking on Mars." Hell, I dreamed of walking on Mars when I worked on the Apollo Project. I never dreamed that 2011 would come and we would never have even gone back to the moon. It makes me regret
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by russell 15y ago
Good poll. I like the analytics drill down. If we all go there, we might see some interesting results.
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by russell 15y ago
I'm originally from Maine. My family goes back to the 1600s on both sides. My great*7 grandfather on my mother's side moved from Boston to Maine in 1690 and married a local girl. The number of generations is low because because there wer
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by russell 15y ago
Absolutely the first thing to do id you want to pursue this is to get rights to the software from the bank. In the US they own it because you were an employee using their resources. Use a lawyer because employment and IP law are a mine fi
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by russell 15y ago
I had to deal with the converse of the problem when I was working for a company that ran the vehicle smog checking for the state of Illinois. A driver's license id was composed of birthdate, sex, and some location information (I dont remem
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by russell 15y ago
My point was not that ORMs are bad, but that SQL is required knowledge to communicate with a databases, including getting around the problems an ORM causes. It is hard for me to believe that someone who doesnt understand SQL can be a compe
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by russell 15y ago
Wrong. Relational databases are one of the fundamental components of most large scale applications and SQL is usually the interface. If you are going to be a journeyman or master programmer in this area you must understand it. If you don
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by russell 15y ago
Christ no! Do they have an obligation to out heterosexuals who engage in adult consensual kinky sex? Same answer. I think even Republican politicians deserve a little privacy. :-) How about outing corruption, influence pedaling, and ques
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by russell 15y ago
There are enormous benefits for any architecture that puts the memory adjacent to the processing units on the same chip. You eliminate the latency of registers to L1 memory to L2 memory to main memory giving enormous speed improvements. Fo
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by russell 15y ago
IIRC C was not context free, a requirement for BNF. The problem was in variable declarations, probably structures, but I dont remember the details. (It may have been fixed by C99.) It is often possible to transform a grammar from context
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by russell 15y ago
My mind boggles. I know dictators and terrorists collect porn. But Condi Rice? I remember when Nixon was considered one of the 10 sexiest men in the world. It makes me wonder if there is a world of kinkiness that I have completely misse
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by russell 15y ago
This is a case of the legal system working the way it should. Had the decision gone the other way and been upheld, it probably would have meant that ISPs could not do spam filtering. Most people would then be getting thousands of pieces o
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Rick Perry Sought State Profits From Teacher Life Insurance Scheme (huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by russell 15y ago|0 comments
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I clicked on the link and got a "500 Server Error". I cal that pretty damned rude and socially inept.
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If this is upheld, I see all software patents being eventually voided. "as a practical matter" can be attacked by using induction. Do an image transformation on a 10x10 image. Do it again on 11x11. Argue that the patent is invalid by ind
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by russell 15y ago
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part6/section-12.html In the middle of the table is an interesting chart that shows the distance that radio can be detected. You will notice that for large distance you need terawats of power and a
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by russell 15y ago
Then you have to feed your easy to remember pass phrase into an algorithm that requires capitalization, numbers, but no punctuation and a maximum length of 8 characters.
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by russell 15y ago
These experts seem to be missing fundamental: You dont do huge amounts of budget slashing in the middle of a recession. We dont need hundreds of thousands added to the unemployed. Sure, we can trade priorities like trading wars for infra
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by russell 15y ago
From the article, possibly damage to a satellite. However, a really big one, like the Carrington Event of 1859 would take out long distance power transmission lines, most satellites, and unprotected electronic equipment. No Internet, airl
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by russell 15y ago
In several years of PL/I programming, the compiler correctly inserted a semi-colon exactly once and then aborted the compile. I remember because it was such a surprise.
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@geius: 3) Health care: it is screwed up because of the economic model. A single payer system is much more efficient with the government overhead at 5% vs private at 20%. Allow the govt to negotiate drug prices. Currently it's prohibite
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by russell 15y ago
While I'm an avid supporter of space exploration, it is not the cure for our economic stagnation. Much better are infrastructure improvements: replacing aging bridges, high speed rail, high speed communications, electrical transmission lin
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by russell 15y ago
BS. I have a patent on some work that I was proud to have done, because it contributed a substantial amount of the company's revenue. However, I didnt consider it valid, because there was a substantial amount of prior art. The company wen
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by russell 15y ago
This is completely unlike the usual fare on Huffington Post. It is an analysis of the fight over Section 18 of the legislation which would ban vague business process patents. Something we would like. Except that it applies only to banks,
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by russell 15y ago
If I had to nominate favorite chapters in a book, it would be the one in the Vax C manual that walked you through translating C declarations into English and English to C. There was also a program that would do the same They saved me from

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