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by silentOpen 18y ago
Even palladium is expensive! The price of palladium is a major factor in hydrogen fuel cell costs.
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by silentOpen 18y ago
But the API is HTTP and the news stories are syndicated across a hundred different sites. How do you limit the crawlers under this scheme? It seems like any serious attempt to limit crawling will require major software redeployment, coopera
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by silentOpen 18y ago
Except for the fact that transmission/distribution costs are almost zero and 'news' is a broadly consumed information resource. It doesn't matter that there would have been usage costs in the past -- they would be silly now.
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by silentOpen 18y ago
Look, if we don't give them these powers now, we could risk a cyber-Katrina. Do you want that? You know how bad Katrina was? Well, the internet is very complex, connects everything, and is critical infrastructure -- just imagine how bad it
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by silentOpen 18y ago
What a sad commentary on the state of our "intellectual property" laws. The USA needs to make some major IP reforms if it doesn't want to get trounced in the tech sector.
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by silentOpen 18y ago
The app is like VNC for your iPhone with an added virtual iPhone "frame" on the host machine. It's a cool idea that seems like it has a lot more utility than just prototyping. If you didn't have the iPhone frame on the host, it would be gre
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by silentOpen 18y ago
How big is the codebase for twitter? Are you limited by devs or production resources? You can also swap in Java components when you need to so, depending on the architecture, you may only need a small Scala team. Java devs are everywhere. Y
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by silentOpen 18y ago
"Macros Considered Harmful" "Macros: They're for Nazis" "Macros are for Dirty Hippies" "Macros are Just Like Goto" Solid, rational arguments against macro use. Very readable/understandable outline. Interesting topic. I wish slideshare looke
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by silentOpen 18y ago
I hope they have a licensing deal with TicketStumbler.
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by silentOpen 18y ago
This link is just someone complaining about Xerox product quality and support. Who cares?
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by silentOpen 18y ago
For those of us without Windows, what's special about the download? Anything?
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by silentOpen 18y ago
It doesn't look like an April fool's joke. Google News knows of 4 sources for this announcement and Ian Duncan is a real UW-Madison neuroscientist. Having said that, none of the articles about this cite the actual paper and no article by Ia
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by silentOpen 18y ago
Interesting if not slightly fluffy article. Unfortunately, the author decided to use calories as a unit of energy in one of the examples to compare gasoline energy content and human energy consumption. While the numbers are correct, the use
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by silentOpen 18y ago
While the title of the post seems to indicate a prediction for change in the default relationship semantics, the author does suggest that Facebook will probably maintain both models.
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by silentOpen 18y ago
Java still has javac. I suppose an IDE could hide this from you. Of course, Java also has lots of static analysis tools written for it so many errors are caught way before compilation.
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by silentOpen 18y ago
I don't think the parent cares how AT&T was broken up. Why not break up financial institutions through the judiciary? Oh, because the anti-trust laws are crippled...
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by silentOpen 18y ago
Can you explain in simple words what value they add to documents, please? Is it the format conversion? The embeddability? I don't understand the market.
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by silentOpen 18y ago
How do you get test driven design to find global maxima? Or at least obscure but large local maxima? It seems that if you start with "blah design" and iterate, you'll get the best "blah design" possible. Thoughts?
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by silentOpen 18y ago
I think it's much more common to talk about idempotence in programming w.r.t. state and state transitions. With immutable data, this approaches the mathematical definition: (= (remove-el set 1) (remove-el (remove-el set 1) 1)) With
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by silentOpen 18y ago
The policy on which the MIT faculty voted allows opt-out provided the author(s) provide a reason. The new policy is a great step for MIT and the research community as a whole but still requires MIT to stand up to journals who demand exclusi
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by silentOpen 18y ago
I understand the problem in the article but the solution doesn't necessarily seem to be better hardware (though, that would help). From what is described, it sounds like the problem is with the poor block provisioning algorithms that the dr
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by silentOpen 18y ago
Perhaps using sub-addressing and the '+' or '-' character like GMail or qmail.
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by silentOpen 18y ago
The irony is that these "bonuses" aren't meritocratic like your good teacher/bad teacher scenario. These are retention bonuses contractually agreed to by AIG and their employees. Last year, back when AIG knew things were hitting the fan, th