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by russell 16y ago
For comparison, this is about 10x the efficiency of an ordinary incandescent lamp. EDIT: today's Fast Company story is better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2311641
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by russell 16y ago
I had the same reaction, so I took a look at the style sheet. Two things struck me: line-height is 35px which is way more than the normal 16px, making it look like double space typescript. Second letter-spacing is 1.6833 which makes it l
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by russell 16y ago
Forget free. It's illegal, even fro interns, where you produce value for the company. I would consider it unethical for me to hire you for minimum wage, cheap is OK. You are in an oddball situation, so HR types wont pass your resume on.
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by russell 16y ago
If this had been titled ...(1980), it would have mad a point. Back then there was a practice that managers had to make more than their subordinates. There was real salary compression among engineers. If an engineer go to 40 he had to bec
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by russell 16y ago
Hell no. You were in diapers when I started. Edit: That goes for pg too.
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by russell 16y ago
old programmers become managers or they loose their edge and fade away. Rubbish, as the comments in the article point out. Programmers who love their craft stay current in the areas that interest them. No one talks about older writers or
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A Four-Domain Model for Detecting Deception (2003)(au.af.mil)
1 points by russell 16y ago|0 comments
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by russell 16y ago
This is a nice catalog of algorithms to study to home your analytical skills and a good place to start if you are doing sequence matching outside of the usual text matching.
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by russell 16y ago
It sounds useful, but I fear that new comments would be buried in the old comments, particularly if old comments retained their points in determining the ranking.
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by russell 16y ago
I started so far back that the only thing written down was TAOCP. A book on Simula 67 would certainly have influenced me had I known about it. The mythical Man-Month, dated but still a good read. Sedgewick, Algorithms, although there ar
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by russell 16y ago
If they could have accurately predicted today's women's clothing, the cards would have been banned as porn. Even SF cant manage the future. Forbidden Planet, one of my favorite movies, all the men had DA haircuts. Start Trek crew had the
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by russell 16y ago
The idea of net neutrality comes from the concept of Common Carrier in the Communications Act of 1934: carriers cannot block communications between any two parties (such as favoring their subscribers over those of another carrier). In ex
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by russell 16y ago
Infrequently. The good stories end up on HN with better comments.
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by russell 16y ago
Firebug does the job for me.
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by russell 16y ago
I get a really mixed picture which is all secondhand. As I said in another comment, my ex (10 years ago) was Brazilian-Japanese and several of my brothers and sisters in-law worked there as guest-workers in the second tier subcontractors.
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by russell 16y ago
Let me echo VivTech. You dont need to memorize all the algorithms and variants, but you do need to know what is there, so that sometime later when you need a solution, you know where to look. Also you need to dive deeply into some aspect
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by russell 16y ago
The Japanese is(was?) stratified into two distinct layers. The top layer is the large corporations that we all know about: Hitachi, Mitsubishi, etc. These are the companies that hired for life. They dont hire old people, except for those
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by russell 16y ago
I've seen some curious robotics demonstrations out of Japan driven by a labor shortage and a stance against immigration. And a reluctance for young people to become salarymen. One was a human washing machine, which looked very much like a
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by russell 16y ago
The 80's were Japan's time in the sun. I remember shock waves in the Valley when HP announced that it was no longer going to use US-made memory chips because Japanese ones were so much better. And a picture in Forbes Magazine open on a To
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by russell 16y ago
"There's nothing to see - move along ... " Good conclusion. Much better than the more common, "You stare at my page for 15 minutes and see if I said anything." :-)
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by russell 16y ago
I agree with you completely. It is worth doing for what we learn, but what I was trying to say is that the real breakthroughs are going to come from other directions. The people who will get rich are probably the generation after that.
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by russell 16y ago
Color me skeptical. The project will fail, of course, because it is too ambitious. There are too many required new developments for it all to come together: new chip, new OS, new forms of scheduling, a lot more bookkeeping, not to mention
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by russell 16y ago
IANAL, but she could try suing in small claims court. If he doesnt show up, she gets an enforceable judgement. If he does the judge might give her the domain name back. Surprising things have happened in small claims, like neighbors shut
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by russell 16y ago
Chairs. B&N has comfy chairs where I can peruse a pile of books. Borders doesnt. But Amazon won for us. We live 40 miles from either so my GF gets everything from Amazon or other Internet sites. Even though I work not far from both
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by russell 16y ago
Sometime in the late 90's I was driving north on I280 near Woodside CA. I got off at the Sandhill exit and found myself in the middle of Al Gore's motorcade to one of those private residence fund raisers. Evidently the offramp had been un
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by russell 16y ago
One thing that the last boom showed is that the first well executed play in a segment captures the segment and makes competition nearly impossible. Examples Google, Amazon, and eBay. The investors are betting that Facebook, Groupon, Zynga
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by russell 16y ago
No it's not a bubble. Sure some companies are trading at absurd valuations: Facebook, Groupon but there is not this froth of worthless companies like there was in the .com boom. Airmailing dog food across the the country, indeed. One dif
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IBM Watson Wins(huffingtonpost.com)
3 points by russell 16y ago|0 comments
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by russell 16y ago
I remember reading an article in Technology Review a few years back that the real problem is inefficient processing of the waste. Most of low hazard that decays to harmlessness in a few years or decades. Much of the dangerous stuff can be
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by russell 16y ago
It was the Carterphone decision in 1968. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone The Carterphone was a device that allowed amateur radio to connect to the phone system, albeit with a Bell interface device. Another decision in 1978 remove

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