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Ice on Fire: the Next Fossil Fuel(newscientist.com)
1 points by russell 17y ago|0 comments
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by russell 17y ago
Cray 1S? Isn't that about the power of today's desk top? The Cray could do 160 to 250 MFLOPS depending on the problem (Wikipedia). That seems pretty slow. I answered my own question http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=94721 .
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by russell 17y ago
No, you are doomed to flipping hamburgers. ;-) Actually, you may have a better chance of success. A successful business needs a bunch of other skills other than engineering like fund raising, marketing, sales, contacts. One thing you mus
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by russell 17y ago
Ooh, my head hurts. Too many options, but this article is a good place to see the variety post-relational databases. It's also good to see that innovation is alive an well in the database arena. I think that it is also good that all the
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by russell 17y ago
Apple lied. A hormone imbalance is not the same as a liver transplant. It's the kind of information that can materially affect the price of a stock. The SEC will probably take an interest. EDIT: It was certainly a lie by omission. Apple
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by russell 17y ago
What you want is a database that supports the equivalent of a multiple column key. You can fake it by concatenating your key with a time stamp. Tokyo cabinet supports this with its btree+ store. You can select a range like thiskey-000000
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by russell 17y ago
I use a mixture. If it's a Java method, I use test-after, by which I mean after the method is written, some times after the core of the class. Most of the time I am not working from specs, so I find TDD interrupts the design/implementatio
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by russell 17y ago
Hey, they called. (I knew the suspense was killing you guys. :) They are good people. I love them.
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by russell 17y ago
Actually my degree is in economics. When I got it, the arguments were in terms of "utiles" instead of dollars. A utile would encompass quality, but was such a nebulous concept that it was of very little practical use. So when I said "rat
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by russell 17y ago
I admit curiosity too. Sometimes it's obvious. One-liners dont fare too well, alas. Other times it's a poorly reasoned argument. That's usually apparent when someone below points out the errors of my ways. I think down modding because
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by russell 17y ago
HN remembered. I wonder if my kids will. :-) (Actually we never paid that much attention to greeting card holidays. So if they dont call, it's my fault in raising them to be all around skeptics.)
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by russell 17y ago
I came to the same conclusion. I downvote only if the comment is offensive. If it is wrong or I disagree (and I care) I add my own comment. Downvoting by itself adds nothing to the discussion. I think the current system works remarkably
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by russell 17y ago
The fundamental problem with economics is physics envy. Its nickname is the dismal science. The goal of economics has been the predictive power of the natural sciences. Well it aint going to happen. First, it is very difficult to run re
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by russell 17y ago
I am going to argue with you sideways. :-) I dont think Hello Health is an argument for HSA's so much as a streamlined reimbursement system with some kind or reasonable accountability for costs. The current structure optimizes for assembly
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by russell 17y ago
The literary legend is Ray Bradbury, who seems to have become an appealing old eccentric.
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by russell 17y ago
http://handykeys.com is the web site. The video needs to be redone with better enunciation and a presentation volume as if speaking to room not a pillow mate. I am somewhat hard of hearing in one ear and it took me three tries to get the
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by russell 17y ago
An interesting tidbit that I picked up: one-third of VC investments succeed beyond their expectations, one-third do OK (zombies from the VC's perspective), and, one-third fail. I had thought, from what I had previously read, that 10% were
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by russell 17y ago
There is a third option. Work for a company with interesting projects and good people (probably not your local government or a financial institution). Do some reputation building by contributing to OSS, blogging, and outside mentoring. Al
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by russell 17y ago
Cory says that the mainstream publishers: book publishers, movie studios, record labels, and their allies/dupes like the Authors Guilds are acting against their own interests by resisting their own interests by making deals with Apple, Goog
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Nine extraordinary clouds(newscientist.com)
12 points by russell 17y ago|1 comments
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by russell 17y ago
Apologies. I missed the byline. The writer may be restrained, but the editors/headline writers need a whack on the sides of their heads.
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by russell 17y ago
It sure is. I find that writing about a dilemma solidifies the pros and cons. It's much better to spend a couple of hours at the keyboard, even a day, than to go charging off in the wrong direction. The real problem with going in the wron
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by russell 17y ago
It suggests that instead of displaying "0 comments", you invite the user to be the first to comment. It's one more of those little tips that in the aggregate raise a blog or website above the pack. The article is well written and worth a l
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by russell 17y ago
Nate Silver has a nice discussion of Benford's Law as it applies to the Iranian election. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/karroubis-unlucky-7s.... His conclusion is that the data might show irregularities or that it might just be a
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by russell 17y ago
To give the Economist their due, the real title is "Not Forgotten" and they make no claims about billion year data storage, "Theoretical studies suggest that the system should retain information for a long time." Has the OP been spending t
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by russell 17y ago
Being the altruistic guy that I am, I read the article for you. :-) (Not to mention that I was wondering my self.) My take on LLVM is that it is a low level interpreter, near to the actual hardware. Parrot probably is itself, but the big
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by russell 17y ago
I found this site devoted to buildings made from containers. http://www.isbu-info.org/
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by russell 17y ago
He is confusing giving a name to a piece of work with enveloping it with official theater and VP awareness. Anything above bug 1304 needs a name so you can communicate with others about it. Perhaps he is recommending a practice of making
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by russell 17y ago
Now that we have established the it is not Tim Oreilly who is ruining America. :-) Ebert is longing for the days when there were only 12 VHF TV channels, monopolized by NBC, ABC, and CBS, and patrolled by the FCC. Those were the days whe
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by russell 17y ago
Same for me. I dont mind at all a Goodies pulldown menu that advertises new or popular extensions, which might be good for the average user, but I dont like having some intern's project foisted on me it got "oohs" at the office.

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