strebler

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by strebler 16y ago
You just perfectly summarized my feelings on the matter; that "Singularity mentality" is kind of creepy.
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by strebler 16y ago
Let's just hope this update doesn't have any security vulnerabilities, unlike the last time they did this: http://cagematch.dvorak.org/index.php?topic=7280.0
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by strebler 16y ago
It reminds me of China, where they have armed guards at train stations "randomly" questioning anyone they "think" might not have the necessary documents to be moving to (living in) that particular city.
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by strebler 16y ago
Agreed - other than coverage and update frequency, they're very similar results. I think I actually prefer Bing overall.
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by strebler 16y ago
Low iron can definitely cause a lot of the fatigue symptoms he's describing...but if the doctors missed that, it's scary.
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by strebler 16y ago
Look at what the cat dragged in - a syntax for closures in Java.
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by strebler 16y ago
Google docs has been doing that for me for a few months, I found that if I close the main docs screen after opening a document (in a new window), it usually fixes the problem.
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by strebler 16y ago
I guess the real question is: does your tech support actually talk to the people who sign the cheques? If so, this could work. In my experience, it hasn't been at all the case at all. The people who sign the cheques often speak a very dif
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by strebler 16y ago
That closely echoes what I've seen locally; one business plan competition has had the the majority of winners (for the past 5 years that I've tracked it) not even bother to start a company, they just go get consulting jobs. The contest does
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by strebler 16y ago
Interesting, Google.hk (the source for unfiltered Chinese search results) is still accessible...even after all of that Google/China hullabaloo
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by strebler 16y ago
In a database, yes, a single table with two indexes would efficiently look up followings/followers. But in Cassandra there is no support for secondary indexes, so the follower/following data needs to be in separate column families. Then, t
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by strebler 16y ago
Just to note, article's main point (that C surpassed Java) also happened previously in 2004-2005 as well, at least according to this Tiobe graph from Wikipedia (cum grano salis): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Tiobe_index.pn
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by strebler 16y ago
Apprently this is the paper: http://projects.will.madstones.com/thesis/papers/Malewicz%20... But it's just 1 page, a bit of a letdown...
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by strebler 16y ago
That's a great post, and yes, I was certainly working under the assumption that a nuclear explosion would have a distinct spectroscopic signature when compared to the emissions of our Sun. Is that false? If we can (eventually) detect the o
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by strebler 16y ago
If they win, I say we investigate (en masse) as to whether or not their datacenters are compatible with both pitchforks and fire.
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by strebler 16y ago
Actually, it's not quite that simple in Canada. Corporate contributions to political parties have been effectively cut off by the current Prime Minister (Harper), you can only do personal donations and only up to $1100 per person. Harper ha
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by strebler 16y ago
It's nice, but I want a way to get the old look back...
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by strebler 16y ago
I would like to see some sources for the "more than 100 years of oil left" claim. If it's at all based on 'public reserve levels' declared by oil producing countries, those are basically totally fabricated. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fina
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by strebler 16y ago
I would say the thousands of nuclear detonations we've done (global weapons tests) have probably sent a fair number of powerful signals. No information per se (other than "we like 'splosions"), but those are likely unmistakable indicators.
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by strebler 16y ago
Google's page loading times seem kind of flaky. One of our sites' loading times has jumped between 1.5 and 10 seconds and back four times since they started graphing it. But I have a cron job that tracks the loading times of random pages o
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by strebler 16y ago
Even if they sue, it's Canada. You can only get actual damages (which you also have to prove), lawsuits in Canada aren't lotteries (like in the US).
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by strebler 16y ago
Powerpoint is not the disease, it's the symptom.
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by strebler 16y ago
When I was a more naive manager (and employer), I would have agreed with Suster's arguments. But the startup world is simply not a "stable" place, for either party. There's always a tradeoff; my most stable/non-hopping friends work for the
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by strebler 16y ago
I agree. I've written bad code but I've seen other folks do much worse, like check in code that was never even run once (could not run properly, regardless of input). Ugh. Besides, how does one even objectively measure the "badness" of co
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by strebler 16y ago
"I can code in a crowded bar" Bars aren't for coding, put down the computer.
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by strebler 16y ago
Facebook, it's the new ICQ. Only a matter of time...
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by strebler 16y ago
Ooh, that's not true, I've crashed OSX a fair number of times. Why, just 2 days ago the keyboard on my MB randomly stopped working. I couldn't type a thing (until rebooting). Both my MB and MBP will occasionally have the mouse not show u
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by strebler 17y ago
I don't like juggling multiple Google accounts either. At my company several of us use the webmaster tools - but that can only be linked to one google account. So whenever any of us checks it, there's a lot of signing out & signing in
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by strebler 17y ago
I wouldn't say so much "making their own" as they are cloning & tweaking the 2 CANDUs we sold 'em a few decades ago. And yes, CANDU reactors can operate on thorium fuel cycles (lucky for them).
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by strebler 17y ago
Yeah, it's technically a "theoretically bulletproof t-shirt" until they get around to that testing bit.

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