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by russell 14y ago
I tend to agree wit the article author. I dislike the decades long trend towards low contrast icons, especially on keyboards and electronics. I regularly stay at a hotel where the alarm clocks have a bright blue face with black lettering.
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Dark matter rival boosted by dwarf galaxies (newscientist.com)
2 points by russell 14y ago|0 comments
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by russell 14y ago
Well now, did I just drop in from an alternate universe? Sure America has lots of problems, some of which we are fixing, some not, and some are being ignored, but I dont feel like I am in the cesspool of the world. It sounds like you made
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by russell 14y ago
There has also been a large drop in violent crime and teen pregnancies at about the same time which followed the peak and subsequent decline in lea in gasoline. The crime decline lagged the lead decline by 20 years mol, which would be the
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by russell 14y ago
I think you can do that now. Pay by credit card and it prints out a label. The current system converts the address into some sort of coded tracking information, so I dont think the article is proposing anything that doesnt exist in some f
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by russell 14y ago
Post Offices in small towns were often located in other businesses, like a Starbucks in a supermarket, although they may have all been closed by now as a cost cutting move.
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by russell 14y ago
IIRC, trapping the neutrons in water or some similar compound is how the power is extracted from a D-T reaction. However, my ignorance exceeds my curiosity.
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by russell 14y ago
No. The freelancer was Jim Normile in between stints at Apple.
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by russell 14y ago
Stopped traffic. A couple of decades ago, the only road from Silicon Valley to Skyline in the hills was blocked by construction equipment repairing a washout. My wife got out and walked up the line to see what was going on. She started t
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by russell 14y ago
If it's outside our observable universe, would it ever get here? Maybe our universe get nibbled around the edges but still survives.
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by russell 14y ago
#1 Software patents should be for no more than 5 years. Perhaps that should be true of all trivial inventions. Drug companies, for example, tweak best sellers coming off patent protection by adding another compatible compound and getting a
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by russell 14y ago
My son had a required CS course at UC Berkeley taught by a professor who didnt want to deal with undergraduates. To discourage them he graded his exams more or less as follows: 5 points for getting an answer completely correct, no errors a
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by russell 14y ago
Nah. A few minutes outside San Luis Obispo, it's nothing but cows. I live in Cambria, 40 minutes north of SLO. I used to be able to look out my living room window and watch the cows until they turned the East-West ranch into a park. And
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by russell 14y ago
"But surely if we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the internet." If I recall correctly, it wasnt Iceland that sent a man to the moon. Oh well, at least they are protecting their women.
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by russell 14y ago
The real lesson is that the money isnt there until the check clears. Selling your house and moving on a promise is risky. Even trying to raise money is a huge drain.
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by russell 14y ago
I wrote a production COBOL program in 1967. I swore that I would never write another one. So far I've managed to avoid it.
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by russell 14y ago
It's certainly easier to say than than the "Information Superhighway". (For you youngsters, that was the metaphor that got the Internet funded. ;-)
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Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship(antipope.org)
1 points by russell 14y ago|0 comments
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by russell 14y ago
He is the 'bridge' person you speak of. He was only 30 but had about 15 years of professional software development experience. He spent 3 years at a startup developing highly parallel algorithms in C and implementing them in FPGAs resulti
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by russell 14y ago
A few years ago I did some pro bono work(not intentionally :-) for a couple of startups with domain experience but no software development experience. They had offshored their work to groups in India. The delivered products were marginall
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by russell 14y ago
I agree with minicole that "female" activities like pedicures are off-putting even insulting. I am watching my girlfriend, who is an accomplished artist, move into web development. She has a whole different set of values and weighting of
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by russell 14y ago
This describes my son's experience at Google exactly. He is a computer engineer with strong software and chip level design experience. He sought and was offered a hardware design job at Google. When he got there he was given a job writin
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by russell 14y ago
You youngsters dont realize what it was like to have one day turnaround. Yeah, one day to find a syntax error. Mailing in your coding sheets was only marginally slower than sticking them in your out basket and getting them back a day or t
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by russell 14y ago
You obviously havent been to a live symphony performance. The only person that I know of who had the audacity to attempt such a thing was Charles Ives.
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by russell 14y ago
I would but I havent been invited to do so.
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by russell 14y ago
I can accept that his reasoning was flawed.
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by russell 14y ago
When my son was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley he used to put a copyright notice on all his homework because the University has a similar policy. The policy was legal because students has to agree in order to gain admission. The Prince Ge
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by russell 14y ago
I was on the cusp of 30 when men were wearing platform shoes and turned 30 with the entrance of disco. I will admit that I was not fashion conscious; my girlfriend would call me fashion unconscious. Those of us in software were into hikin
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by russell 14y ago
A very long and interesting article. The drift of it is that online courses are cheap but they dont deliver the value of the class room experience, esp. in higher education. There was some discussion on whether college is expensive becaus
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Apple patent turns every stranger into an ATM(newscientist.com)
1 points by russell 14y ago|1 comments

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