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by stox 12y ago
Open offices are awesome during a crisis. On the other hand, they really suck when you need to focus on a problem. They work well for young start-ups, as crises tend to be quite frequent, but as a company matures, I think they become more o
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by stox 12y ago
Some interesting history here in a discussion of 3DFX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MghYhf-GhU
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by stox 12y ago
My commendations on how you guys handled this and how well you notified the user base of the change.
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by stox 12y ago
The whole point of an "education" is to learn how to learn. Some master that without coursework. More power to them. These days, a college degree has become more a certificate in training of specific domains of knowledge. If you c
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by stox 12y ago
Did any Intel processors have HCF? I thought that was a Motorola thing.
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by stox 12y ago
Also, that these fine locations in the NYC area: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/0/edit?mid=zxNGGEaFaiHs....
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by stox 12y ago
If you live in the NYC are, come to the H.O.P.E. convention, there will be plenty for sale.
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by stox 12y ago
If you want to see the van, I believe it is at Fermilab for this week.
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by stox 12y ago
My favorite particle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oops-Leon
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by stox 12y ago
This man completely corrupted my childhood. Thanks! I am a better man for it.
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by stox 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center Earlier in May, LeMessurier met for an inquiry on another job where he mentioned the use of welded joints in the Citicorp building, only to find a potentially fatal flaw i
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by stox 13y ago
Best wishes, and I hope you are a roaring success!
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by stox 13y ago
They bought into Olympus, that investment seems to be paying off.
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by stox 13y ago
Coincidentally, the one person I knew who made the list lasted for around 400 days. Interestingly enough, another person I knew, who was just short of the list, lasted for 7 years before turning himself in.
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by stox 13y ago
If you play your stereo loud enough to be heard on the next block, appending _nomap to it will not stop the police from coming to visit you.
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by stox 13y ago
Or better yet, demonstrate that you have done the most basic research into what the real job entails rather than a vague paragraph submitted to you by HR. You know, something silly, like spending 5 minutes on the phone with the manager bein
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by stox 13y ago
Welcome to the Police State. Avoid contact with the Police at all costs, otherwise you are going to have a bad time. Justice means nothing, quotas mean everything.
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by stox 13y ago
I'll take working ceiling fans over non-working air conditioning any day.
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by stox 13y ago
A dipole is not directional? The radiation pattern of a resonant dipole consists of toroidal lobes normal the to axis of the dipole with nulls at the axis of the dipole. Source: I do NEC simulations of my antennas for amateur radio.
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by stox 13y ago
I never thought I would see the day. Best wishes Ian, no matter what path you take.
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by stox 13y ago
We've all known this was coming for years, actually, it is amazing it has taken this long.
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by stox 13y ago
Disagreements with Cogent? Well, I never....
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by stox 13y ago
Python is #1, I never thought I would live to see the day.
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by stox 13y ago
Let us not forget another great 70's flick, 3 Days of the Condor.
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by stox 13y ago
I always preferred Murry Hill to Holmdel. I found the architecture more interesting, and the copper roof to provide continuity in the history of the Labs.
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by stox 13y ago
Ahh, the good old days.
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by stox 13y ago
Any good idea you have today can be made into a bad idea later. See Alfred Nobel.
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by stox 13y ago
Glad to see someone beat me to this comment. Emacs would have had a startup time measured in minutes were it not for this.
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by stox 13y ago
Go is simply the follow-on to Limbo which was developed at Bell Labs.
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by stox 13y ago
Yes, it will change everything...back to what it once was. You will be billed by CPU time, I/O time, network consumption, etc. Just like we did on the old Mainframes. Hopefully, this will provide the feedback loop necessary to reward e

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