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by russell 17y ago
I thought Toyota was pretty good until I followed the link in the article to Big Dog. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww Big Dog is truly awesome. It runs, jumps, recovers from slips, climbs over rubble, ...
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Talking paperclip inspires less irksome virtual assistant (newscientist.com)
1 points by russell 17y ago|0 comments
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by russell 17y ago
Minority stockholders are pretty much at the mercy of the majority holder, except for out and out fraud. They dont need the OP's consent. They may ask for his vote, but that is all it is, a per share vote.
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by russell 17y ago
There's more to agile than pair programming. One person can be agile. Things like compressing the requirements and design phases. Do things in small steps to get them in customers' hands. Release often. Iterate.
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by russell 17y ago
Bad advice. Dont burn your bridges. You may need recommendations from your boss or he could sue out of spite. WRT your coworkers, I was thinking of stories of people would get ready for work every day, go sit on a park bench until quitting
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by russell 17y ago
Likewise here. If the company had any prospects of funding, they would be more open. Get your resume out now. There is no harm in working for a while longer, so long as it doesn't interfere with your job search. Also check with you stat
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by russell 17y ago
This is a pretty amazing development. It could eliminate many or most expensive lab tests. It's just the kind of thing to hit back on health costs. My reading is that it works just on proteins, so it doesn't eliminate all tests.
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by russell 17y ago
This is a pretty good matrix to asses where you stand. If you are going to be an expert programmer, a good chunk of level three understanding is necessary. I particularly liked error handling: "Only Codes the Happy Cases." I have not so f
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by russell 17y ago
That's true in the short term, but Dvorak's point is that MS has wasted time and money on diversions that it has not executed well to the determent of Windows and Office. You can also see that the cash cows are in danger because people are
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by russell 17y ago
Offbeat Guides http://www.offbeatguides.com/ delivers customized travel guides for $25. I like print magazines, but I wonder about the economics of dead trees. However a good online personalized aggregation service would be worth the pri
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by russell 17y ago
Some friends and I are going to start an old programmers' home. Rocking chairs on the porch, (real) Unix in the hall closet. We'll save space for you.
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by russell 17y ago
This a very thoughtful discussion of publishing, scientific publishing in particular, and disruptive technologies and why the incumbents fail. His basic premise is that the incumbents are at a local optimum and cannot move off it without s
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by russell 17y ago
"Annoying" is certainly correct. The damned things pop up even when your mouse rolls over them. Now I know who to add to my Roast-in-Hell list.
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Scramjets promise space travel for all (newscientist.com)
1 points by russell 17y ago|0 comments
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by russell 17y ago
Agreed. During turbulence people get injured by flying objects. I dont want to get hit by flying bodies.
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by russell 17y ago
It is available in the US, but it is not cheap. IIRC it's in the range of 20K.
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by russell 17y ago
Dont worry, I'm not.
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Cuil Tries to Rise Again(technologyreview.com)
22 points by russell 17y ago|19 comments
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by russell 17y ago
This should be a constant time operation on most databases, because existing rows are not touched. However, if you have lots of properties that are not indexed or directly queried, I suggest having a single JSON field for them.
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by russell 17y ago
Excellent review. I wish more were of this quality. A colleague of mine uses the Kinesis because of stress and it worked for him. He is a really fast typist. I would guess something in excess of 80 words per minute. He types with it res
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by russell 17y ago
It is short and funny. I just spent a few months diving in the Spring/Hibernate/Struts world wondering if all this cruft necessary. Apparently I am not the only one with these thoughts.
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by russell 17y ago
I would love to know what "concepts" are. It appears that they would complicate C++ for some gain in type safety. I found this http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2009/n290... , but I fear that understanding will take more
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Electric cars: Juiced up and ready to go(newscientist.com)
1 points by russell 17y ago|0 comments
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by russell 17y ago
The Vietnam War killed our spirit for a generation. We had been defeated and were thrown into inner turmoil. Kennedy died and we got a succession of presidents with no vision, no spirit of wonder. NASA went from leadership to mediocrity.
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How Humans Could End War(newscientist.com)
2 points by russell 17y ago|0 comments
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by russell 17y ago
IIRC, and this is secondhand from folks at MIT Instrumentation Lab, it was a simplified version of core memory. Ones were represented by cores and zeroes by the absence of cores, so the memory woudnt need the write cycle after the read to
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by russell 17y ago
I have been the sole developer working on a enterprise web project (jboss/spring/hibernate) with extreme decoupling: 400k LOC and 48K of XML tying it together, rampant OOP and patterns du jour. First problem - too much code. Second proble
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by russell 17y ago
In Silicon Valley a Craigslist ad often gets several hundred replies. Unless I get some kind of personalized reply, I dont bother with programming challenges that involve a significant amount of effort. However, I will reply to interestin
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Dawn of the animals: Solving Darwin's dilemma (newscientist.com)
1 points by russell 17y ago|0 comments
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by russell 17y ago
The unanswered questions at the end are interesting. "This area of thinking started out with the hiring process, and the idea that maybe interviews don’t work at all – there’s a bunch of academic research that implies that, actually. So if

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