spitfire

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by spitfire 11y ago
The odds for a VC are better than the lottery. They get free options giving to them by every startup - "Call us when you have traction". It's time we started charging them for those options.
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by spitfire 11y ago
It was twenty years ago? Don't feel so bad his Aston Martin was really a Jaguar XJS[1] in a frock. [1] First released in 1975.
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by spitfire 11y ago
Kalispell was beautiful from the day I spent there.
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by spitfire 11y ago
Renaissance technology.
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by spitfire 11y ago
That's going to be an interesting conversation. "Mr.Mehta when was your business started?" "2003". "And when was the domain in question registered." ".... uh, 1999". "Are you sure you want t
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by spitfire 11y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Victoria, B.C. Remote: Yes, onsite: Within Canada Fulltime: No. I'm a developer focusing on quantitative methods. I have: - Built security/surveillence system involving tricky sensing and placement pro
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by spitfire 11y ago
So you found work sample tests were an effective predictor? This matches industrial research.
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by spitfire 11y ago
Industrial psychology has been over this ground many times. Prove they are generally smart, do a work sample test representing the work they'd actually be doing, for a kicker test their integrity. You'll have > 50% wins. http:
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by spitfire 11y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks. AS/400 had some really cool technology built into it.
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by spitfire 11y ago
Sounds somewhat similar to the IBM AS/400 (renamed many times). Applications were shipped as byte code and translated to the local machine architecture. The translated byte code was appended to the application, a but like NeXT fat bina
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by spitfire 11y ago
If your business has a website, it is now a "tech" company. It's a brave new world.
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by spitfire 11y ago
I would have loved the new Safari mute features on that page.... How dare you pollute my ears with garbage without a mute option.
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by spitfire 11y ago
Except for this.... "We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no tu
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by spitfire 11y ago
Because many of the skills necessary to make a space shuttle are the same skills necessary to make non-space shuttles.
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by spitfire 11y ago
Have a look at Quantrix. It's a spreadsheet that separates data from formulas and reporting. Database access is built in. It a hidden gem of many finance departments.
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by spitfire 11y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Victoria, B.C. Remote: Yes, onsite: Within Canada Fulltime: No. I'm a developer focusing on quantitative methods. I have: - Built security/surveillence system involving tricky sensing and placement p
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by spitfire 11y ago
This is cool! It's like the perfect nerd fantasy in concentrate form. Cool! PS: I'm usually a cynic.
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by spitfire 11y ago
I'm still confused as to what Mozilla actually does. At one point they(or the company that spawned them) built a web browser that they sold. Then they were the non-profit offshoot of that keeping an open source browser alive. But now t
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by spitfire 11y ago
Cost and modularity. Even the cheapest baseband chip will add a significant cost to a phone. If they can get rid of the physical baseband processor they get a major cost savings. As for why user a hypervisor vs a user mode or kernel driver:
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by spitfire 11y ago
This isn't a bad idea. Even for people with a CS degree. Usually in a CS degree there are a number of optional upper level courses you can take. You need to take some number to graduate, but can't take all of them unless you delay
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by spitfire 11y ago
They used to. No one bought them.
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by spitfire 11y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Victoria, B.C. Remote: Yes, onsite: Within Canada Fulltime: No. I'm a developer focusing on quantitative methods. I have: - Built security/surveillence system involving tricky sensing and placement problems
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by spitfire 11y ago
There's more than just SA at work here. There's still speed and altitude limits in force via ITAR (arms trafficking regulations) that GPS manufacturers are not allowed to report GPS data. I think it something like 512 m/s and
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by spitfire 11y ago
It was a stack machine. No user visible registers. One of the neat things about stack machines is that you can quietly add registers to a machine in the background without having to recompile code. I think this would have been a huge advant
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by spitfire 11y ago
Where's Knuth? Surely you want to focus on the timeless concepts, they'll never let you down.
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by spitfire 11y ago
USM, a Swiss modular furniture company built a modular building platform back in the late 60's. It was based on the same idea as their furniture - a scaffolding+panel design. Unfortunately it didn't take off then, only a few build
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by spitfire 12y ago
You can also fly an Aeronca Chief backwards. Ask me how I know. Fun fact, when landing with two people you can open both doors simultaneously as air brakes. Stops real fast.
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by spitfire 12y ago
Apple's routers are based on VxWorks. So if you trust VxWorks' networking, then you can trust Apples routers. Personally I trust VxWorks over some patchwork router of the week by the usual vendors. It's used in many safety cr
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by spitfire 12y ago
With PGM you just look at the graph to see how each node is weighted. That is one of the advantages of PGM, it tells you why it thinks something. Combining this with domain experts is a killer advantage of PGM. For the soundbite: PGM's
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by spitfire 12y ago
Read Mandelbrot's book, it's an excellent gateway drug into that type of thinking. > There has been some work on figuring out how to use Fractal Geometry to analyze financial time series data but it's still in its infancy.

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