strebler

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by strebler 16y ago
"Ramen profitable" would be the term for that :)
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by strebler 16y ago
Agreed. After reading the first job description, I know almost nothing about the company or the product. I feel the opposite from his rant about that description. The second job description (once you read the full thing) is actually quite r
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by strebler 16y ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11499098 " Mrs Liu said police had informed her they would take her to Mr Liu's prison in the north-eastern province of Liaoning on Saturday so she could give him the news. "
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by strebler 16y ago
Of course I don't want Oracle to win, but is this really an aggressive move? The "kitchen sink" approach could be aggressive, but in a way it feels like the "DA throwing every charge they can at a suspect" hoping something sticks. Also, cl
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by strebler 16y ago
This video has some samples of the Koro language: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/cultur...
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by strebler 16y ago
Can't we just get IBM to make J9 free & open? Last I checked, they supported more OSes than Sun did and the VM was pretty speedy too.
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by strebler 16y ago
That's an interesting question, yet seems somewhat difficult to study. Several studies show that couples in "hostile relationships" do heal slower than "healthy relationships" (fighting affects the immune system). But I haven't been able
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by strebler 16y ago
Perhaps it was tongue-in-cheek, but I'm not sure the "leave your marriage" advice has any backing whatsoever; in fact, it would appear to be quite the opposite effect on one's lifespan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4779267.stm "Those
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by strebler 16y ago
It's never too early to educate your employees about social engineering. My startup is small but has been targeted a few times by people trying to social engineer their way into more information. An employee of one of our direct competitor
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by strebler 16y ago
You're right, it's still active. I just remember it having terrible performance 4-5 years ago and interest in it being less than stellar.
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by strebler 16y ago
Funny related sidenote: the Chinese government was at one point so paranoid about buying processors from western companies that they initiated the creation of their own CPU architecture and began fabrication. They had a fear that outside C
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by strebler 16y ago
Nice project! We put something similar together earlier this year using GSV and Raphael, but this is pretty sweet (too bad it wasn't around 9 months ago :) Although it does feel like SVG/images are still not quite as snappy to drag when co
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by strebler 16y ago
Interesting Chinese test taking fact: in the recent past, the final test in high school in China (University entrance / SAT equivalent) was taken so seriously that children who traveled (from more rural areas) would be given a military esco
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by strebler 16y ago
Great story, but I definitely dislike seeing financial projections with such unnatural jumps - August to September 2010 has a $500K+ jump in monthly revenue, which would appear to be the largest month-to-month increase in revenue (as an abs
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by strebler 16y ago
Yes mean shift would do it nicely, heck most clustering methods should give good results - but I think they will need a paw model of some sort (even if it's just a basic template) to get up to the 98%+ accuracy levels.
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by strebler 16y ago
Yes, there were lots of western toilets in the more populated areas (Shanghai, Xian, Beijing, etc), but less once we got away from the cities. Squat toilets definitely seem more hygenic :)
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by strebler 16y ago
I can't help but disagree with the claim of how much it supposedly "kicks ass" to be a Canadian startup. I founded a Canadian company a few years ago (still going) and am friends with a few of the founders of those other startups listed th
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by strebler 16y ago
This article speaks the truth. I was traveling in China last year and was averse to pooping in the squat toilets there (they're generally quite filthy). In any case, eventually push came to shove and I had to bite the bullet. It was like
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by strebler 16y ago
Agreed, Bing is my vote too...if only they could increase their coverage a bit!
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by strebler 16y ago
That's true, but it seemed like pulling out was the logical conclusion after "breaking local laws". The thing I don't understand is why going from "autoredirect" to "click to redirect" was the crux for renewal. It feels strange that that w
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by strebler 16y ago
It's quite disappointing to see them go from: "we're pulling out" to: "please renew our domain license Mr. Nice Government." I suppose their original threat was a touch naive.
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by strebler 16y ago
a 500K government RFP...ugh..
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by strebler 16y ago
I would say that CUDA is part of their speed problem. My company has been doing GPU programming for years and we often get 100X-300X+ speedup over the CPU, but we do almost all of our GPU work in shaders. CUDA/OpenCL is much nicer to deal
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by strebler 16y ago
I had the same initial reaction to the graph, but she seems to be using the graph to show that reality may be at odds with the enrollment numbers. Data from 1932 does seem quite out of place in an article addressing "recent trends". She go
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by strebler 16y ago
"The greater variance of males on intelligence tests is one of the best-established findings in psychometric literature" And this is supported by a graph from 1932? I'm not saying it isn't true, but surely there is more recent data to supp
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by strebler 16y ago
Any details on this new law? Is it federal, provincial, temporary? A better story is the guy they stopped with a crossbow at the G20: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100624/national/g20_car_w...
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by strebler 16y ago
That's really not true - we've been doing cloud GPU computing for a few years (all in OpenGL shaders and OpenCL) - we run in Windows, Linux, MacOS and on both NVIDIA and ATI.
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by strebler 16y ago
We use GPUs for all of our computer vision and image processing, 10X is definitely a low-ball for what they're doing here - it would be much faster. The important bit is at the end where they say "10% of the time is spent on polygon interse
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by strebler 16y ago
Of course it helps companies - we'll give away the fruits of our labor for nothing! It's beautiful, but really, I think no other profession is as naive as we are.
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by strebler 16y ago
That's definitely not Ikonos imagery, the imagery is aerial. It's also not the sensor distance that contributes to the halo effect for some satellites, it's the capture time. Often, each band is captured one after the other. Some satellite

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