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by russell 16y ago
Dont blame Microsoft for the crapware. The manufacturers get paid a boatload to install it. One manufacturer I know was paid 9 figures for the front page on the default browser.
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by russell 16y ago
A periodic conversation I have with myself about my career in Silicon Valley, "If you're so smart, how come you're only a thousand-aire, not a millionaire?"
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by russell 16y ago
It's an interesting question. but if you are an old hacker in the US or probably anywhere else in the developed world you qualify for a retirement income. At age 70 it would be something on the order of $2500/month. If you had an unmarrie
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by russell 16y ago
I think it would relieve a lot of stress if meaningless homework were eliminated in elementary school. I can see the value of math and writing homework, but social studies drills are worthless but take as much time as English. It seems th
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by russell 16y ago
Oracle = hardware, remember Sun? HP = consulting. Oracle = consulting. They overlap in lots of areas. HP stupidly fired Hurd and now he has gone to the company most likely to eat their lunch in a lot of areas.
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by russell 16y ago
Diesel got a very bad rap in the US in the 70's and 80's because some engines were essentially derived from gasoline engines. Also, until recently, the US standards for diesel were very low with high particulate matter in the exhaust. Hig
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by russell 16y ago
I'm not a car enthusiast, but I'll give my .02. My first car was my parents 56 Chevy V8 that weighed over 3000 pounds and got 15mpg on premium (.35 per gallon). My current car is a little over 2000 pounds and gets 38 mpg, 4 cyl, nothing s
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by russell 16y ago
It can be if your data structure is a simple tree. But usually it's a complicated, maybe inconsistent, multi-rooted graph. It got that way because of incremental implementation. As the article illustrated, you then have to tease out the p
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by russell 16y ago
Sorry, the stupid outnumber the rational. I once was brought up short by a woman on a cell phone driving 40 mph straddling the two left lanes of a freeway where the normal speed is 70-75. Since CA passed the no-cellphone and no texting la
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by russell 16y ago
I didnt see the show, but I think I am making the point. There will be an influx of legal , non-cartel, growers that will drive down the price. Unlike tobacco and alcohol, the taxation opportunities are limited because you can grow your o
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by russell 16y ago
The current price is high because the supply is constrained. If CA Proposition 19 passes, the price is probably going to drop by an order of magnitude. The dreams of the tax revenue rescuing the state are going to vanish. (No citation bec
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by russell 16y ago
Doesnt EVER win. They will just ambush your ambushers. The best you can do is just let it pass.
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by russell 16y ago
Good grief! She should take the female out of the question. Find a personable developer with a decade or two of experience, so that he has some perspective. Ask away. Most likely he would be willing to spend the necessary time to answer
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by russell 16y ago
Xanadu was a pre-web attempt to create all that the web is and more. It failed because it was too ambitious and too complex technically. For example, links were two way, so from a document you could find all the documents that pointed to
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by russell 16y ago
>>> To keep them valid, companies must pay maintenance fees every four years. I wonder how many patents are invalid because of neglect.
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by russell 16y ago
That is a killer release cycle. It is a inefficient as hell. It encourages people to hide in the long deadline. Switch to 2 week releases, even if it is only internal. Eventually switch to two week releases to customers. They will get
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by russell 16y ago
Humans are mostly monogamous, but men with status/wealth get more women. The tribal chief gets several wives while others have only one. In early civilization the distribution was even more disparate with emperors having hundreds even tho
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by russell 16y ago
Could it be, could it really be, that bad 3-D movies arent going to do any better than bad 2-D movies?
589.
by russell 16y ago
No, you insensitive clod. (pardon the/.) I find no problem highlighting an underrepresented minority in any profession. It serves to give encouragement and role models. "Outstanding Male Nurses" would probably be equally justified.
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by russell 16y ago
Another approach is to create a BASIC to X translator, where X is some language with a future. I did a Pascal to C translator a long time ago and it was not a huge task, certainly less than a full blown language implementation. I would pi
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by russell 16y ago
I am partial to von Neumann's definition, not rapture of the nerds. A reasonable definition of a singularity is a (technological) the effects of which nearly no one can predict. Examples, agriculture, the industrial revolution, the automo
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by russell 16y ago
Such devices are already possible because the scale needed is mm not nano. For example the devices to do angioplasties are pretty big because blood vessels are pretty big. There is also a lot of commercial and research work being done on
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by russell 16y ago
If you are working in a slow to develop language like Java or C++, it often helps to use Python, Ruby, or the like to get a quick proof of concept that finds the gotchas and lets users poke holes in the implementation. The total implementa
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by russell 16y ago
Half a century ago, literacy tests and trick questions were widely used to keep blacks from voting. That's why it's illegal to do so now.
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Closing in on the inflaton, mother of the universe(newscientist.com)
1 points by russell 16y ago|0 comments
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by russell 16y ago
I disagree, but it may depend on where you live. In Silicon Valley, working on your own for 5 years on cutting edge technology, even if you fail, gives you a distinct edge in the job market over someone who spent 5 years working on an obso
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What is the Next Bubble?(antipope.org)
1 points by russell 16y ago|0 comments
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by russell 16y ago
Form my limited understanding, it's simpler than it appears. It's a wire routing problem. Each neuron "knows" where it is going based on the proximity of its fellows, just as other cells know to become a liver based on who their neighbors
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by russell 16y ago
If you follow a long transmission line you will see several pylon designs depending on terrain, river crossings, highways, and the like. Pylon design is a well understood engineering problem with lots of software to over-engineer the desig
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by russell 16y ago
Blaise Pascal: I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. (There are several variants on WikiQuotes,)

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