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by russell 14y ago
Originally a downvote meant that the comment was impolite, stupid humor, or way off topic. If it was incorrect or you disagreed, you were expected to say why. I personally dont like driveby downvotes.
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by russell 14y ago
No, he learned it from Paul Allen.
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by russell 14y ago
I have aging eyes and find it harder to focus on white on black, also screen glare is more noticeable against a black background. It may be that because white on black is unnatural our eyes/brains have to do more work to interpret what the
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Boeing CTS-100 (also won NASA grant)(boeing.com)
2 points by russell 14y ago|0 comments
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by russell 14y ago
In the spirit of the original article and its comments: My wife is imperative. I wont be able to talk to her anymore.
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by russell 14y ago
Entry is also limited by multi-billion dollar spectrum auctions. Evenid. Google couldnt win with their $pi B bid.
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by russell 14y ago
And Al Gore invented the internet. Seriously, he sponsored the legislation that set up and funded the internet as a separate entity from NSFNET and (D)ARPANET. More government meddling that benefited no-one.
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by russell 14y ago
From the WSJ: "Gordon Crovitz is a media and information industry advisor and executive, including former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, executive vice president of Dow Jones and president of its Consumer Media Group." Not exactly a
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by russell 14y ago
Good stuff. Way back in the day I decided to become a software developer instead of getting my PhD in economics. Economics didnt make any sense to me. It was all philosophy and religion. As an undergraduate, I read only one article that
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by russell 14y ago
+/- expansion/contraction seems like a good idea to me too. It would be a good way for me to hide the occasional off topic argument between a couple of individuals and to find the grand.. parent of a comment.
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by russell 14y ago
IBM came up with a ranking system at about the same time that was similar to PageRank, so it seems that even PageRank was obvious.
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by russell 14y ago
Sorry, I'm a much less famous Russell (Salsbury that is). The only connection between us is that I did play Spacewar on a PDP-1.
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by russell 14y ago
We need to be reminded that once we did great things. I worked at MIT Instrumentation Lab on a compiler for the guidance software for the moon missions. My contribution was insignificant, but I am still proud to have been part of it. My o
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by russell 14y ago
Now we know why no one is afraid of the North Korean nuclear program.
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by russell 14y ago
Businesses can be evil. Crushing your competition via patents is evil. Damaging others way out of proportion to your own gain is evil. Buying elections with a flood of money is evil. The Libor scandal is evil because it screwed millions
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by russell 14y ago
"The inspiration was the cell." That's news to me, although I dont claim to be an OO historian. The original OO language was Simula which was devised to do discrete event simulations. Its direct antecedent was work done on Monte Carlo sim
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by russell 14y ago
I actually have a problem with Amazon's shipping. I live in a small town. Often FedEx shipments are dropped off at the USPS, so a two day delivery turns into three or more days. The worst was 5 days. UPS OTOH often delivers the next day
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An Online Encyclopedia that Writes Itself(technologyreview.com)
1 points by russell 14y ago|0 comments
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by russell 14y ago
Tevatron is jumping the gun on CERN which is announcing its results on July 4th. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/02/higgs-discovery-cer... It appears that the CERN results will also be tentative.
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by russell 14y ago
I imagine it can retract its landing gear. It was probably left down for the test; one less thing to fail.
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by russell 14y ago
I hate articles that are nothing more than links to the real article. The real thing: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/eff-files-legal-m... EFF press release: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/internet-archive-sues-sto...
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by russell 14y ago
Well I got 16 out of 21. It appears that I am not so good at fighting, killing or dying.
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FBI: Hundreds Of Thousands May Lose Internet In July (huffingtonpost.com)
5 points by russell 15y ago|2 comments
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by russell 15y ago
I'm curious about the economics of self-publishing. What does it cost for an editor to edit a 300-400 page novel written by a decent author? How about cover art? Marketing is an entirely different animal. I dont think you do book tours for
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by russell 15y ago
I would posit that the secret sauce is the integration of Google maps and street views. The driverless car isnt just reacting to its sensor inputs, it has a pretty good idea of what is coming up including potential problems.
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by russell 15y ago
Census information doesnt show small aggregates, although I think the cutoff is less than 15.
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by russell 15y ago
Perhaps: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
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by russell 15y ago
In the ray tracing example I mentioned above, FPGAs got a 10x improvement. Going to silicon got another 10x.
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by russell 15y ago
An interesting piece of hardware that I have seen was used in ray tracing where high speed reduced precision FP was used to find polygons that were not visible, those where the low precision hid a change and those that were otherwise visibl
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by russell 15y ago
When I was 35 and quit my job to start a start-up, my mother told me not to to do that because I was too old to get another job. Three decades later I'm doing fine.

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