spitfire

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811.
by spitfire 14y ago
You've never met the guy then.
812.
by spitfire 14y ago
A modern jet is just a turbine driving a large fan inside a duct. An electric jet would work by removing the turbine and having an electric motor in place. Or possibly around the edges. This sort of design is called a ducted fan, It'd be mo
813.
by spitfire 14y ago
The incredible machine redux. Awesome. (TIM was angry birds for the early 90's)
814.
by spitfire 14y ago
The lesson here is to fork a copy of the tarnsap codebase. Then hire a good designer/marketer to make a corporate-safe image for tarsnap-enterprise. Pictures of people in business attire smiling at spreadsheets and stuff. Price it 100x curr
815.
by spitfire 14y ago
... it's an SGI Workstation. "Good choice sir! Do you have a support contract with us?" SGI's were such cool machines I might actually talk to that person and explain what they are and why you can't help.
816.
by spitfire 14y ago
distributed 100,000 frames. So the clicks metric comes to real life?
817.
by spitfire 14y ago
Isn't this was friendster and orkut were for? I remember one of those two, at first, was all about dating your friends friends.
818.
by spitfire 14y ago
Fraggles. The conversation over WHICH muppet various tech-celebs might be would be more entertaining than weather they actually are muppets. This is a conversation that needs to be had.
819.
by spitfire 14y ago
"automated scoring" and "social network activity". That sounds like a fantastic way to find scads of mediocre developers. Development isn't about language, it's about comprehension.
820.
by spitfire 14y ago
Yes. Easily. Show that this non-sql database will drive profit or lower costs for the business. Done.
821.
by spitfire 14y ago
It isn't your communication skills. There's no natural filter or limiting in online forums. People who would normally be reigned in socially, or simply excluded from conversations have nothing stopping them from spiralling conversations out
822.
by spitfire 14y ago
I love that he has PR man hovering nearby at all times. So authentic.
823.
by spitfire 14y ago
Ada actually has the sane memory management by default compared to both C++ and Java. Pointers are, by default verboten. Pointer arithmetic will generate a compiler warning. People should genuinely look into this stuff more rather than just
824.
by spitfire 14y ago
The future "Haswell" chips are going to have support for transactional memory. No news on these guys though. Give it time. In a few years these things will be getting up to speed in features/RAS and such.
825.
by spitfire 14y ago
There's another in memory mysql replacement whose name escapes me right now. How are they doing? Ycombinator seems to have backed a few of these next-gen databases. It will be interesting to see who wins. EDIT: Rethinkdb. But it looks liked
826.
by spitfire 14y ago
> What really genius-level things has Fog Creek done? Made himself independently wealthy. Repeatedly (IE: Not luck). Not that I disagree with you. But that is worthy of respect in itself. Also, there is an art to the very difficult task
827.
by spitfire 14y ago
Whatever it is, it's worse. The new one requires a power cable. The point of the express was that it's entirely self contained. You could throw it in your bag and take it with you on trips. Now you can't. So it's just a crippled airport ext
828.
by spitfire 14y ago
Try finding a review for any printer. or a car. or most cell phones. It's all link bait tar-pit SEO sites. This is what the article is talking about and he's absolutely right. However, this does bring in an opportunity for someone to displa
829.
by spitfire 14y ago
Give Mathematica a shot. If you can read mathematics you can read Mathematica.
830.
by spitfire 14y ago
Two birds, one stone. I think that's what they call in the industry "Experienced". Keep that up.
831.
by spitfire 14y ago
They're optimizing for their business value and resources (programmers) available. It might not impress their programmer friends, but it'll impress their accountant.
832.
by spitfire 14y ago
If this is for real it has major implications in the aviation industry. Icing is a major safety factor and grounds/diverts flights regularly. If you can get rid of the heavy, expensive anti-ice systems on aircraft with just a coating you'll
833.
by spitfire 14y ago
Why can't he be both? A visionary lunatic.
834.
by spitfire 14y ago
You can't determine if an experiment works or not if it isn't rigorous.
835.
by spitfire 14y ago
So you're a perl programmer then?
836.
by spitfire 14y ago
Do not want this. This will be abused by less experienced developers.
837.
by spitfire 14y ago
TODO and project management apps for small business. Unfortunately their success has gone to their heads.
838.
by spitfire 14y ago
I think that's the point. The idea that you need a different database for OLTP vs OLAP, vs whatever is a technological one. Not a conceptual one. Operationally, if you had the freedom you'd ideally like to have just one database that can ha
839.
by spitfire 14y ago
I haven't read the full paper yet. But this sounds like a winner to me. It's actually not a database, but a transaction scheduling system sitting in front of the databases. Hopefully these sort of ideas make it into Postgres for scalability
840.
by spitfire 14y ago
What is bone? ddg search doesn't find anything easily.

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