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by tfigment 12y ago
As harsh as this sounds, I agree. My brother is my personal example. He had 4-5 chances at rehabilitation. First it was small stuff like pawning my mom's jewelry then it was breaking and entering to the neighbors or my dad's tr
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by tfigment 12y ago
My experience as we use SSDs for our embedded solutions and sometimes have very frequent writes is that when it goes the whole partition is pretty much hosed. I'm not sure what exactly fails but it seems like the file system index or
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by tfigment 12y ago
SCADA systems basically is the area you are interested in. Real-time industrial equipment monitoring (and control). Typically these are thick clients but people are clamoring for mobile and thin-client access to real-time data as well as
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by tfigment 12y ago
I work in an industrial space similar to GEs space and we generate high volumes of data from our machines in a distributed network. The data is really valuable in operating and optimizing our systems as well as doing reliability analysis.
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by tfigment 13y ago
I'm a manager of a small team and 2x wouldn't bother me too much as long as it was completed well enough that I didn't feel the need to rewrite it before it goes to production. Small things caught during code reviews don&#x27
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by tfigment 13y ago
I wasn't voting but to me they are orthogonal questions unless you frame it in specific way. Also to me that is not what the article was about. It was about defining immutable structures. Julia is a client language and data must be l
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by tfigment 13y ago
Indeed. This is not a good thing for consumers. Comcast is way too big as it is and does not need to dominate the market any more than it already does. My former company was the market leader and acquired the #2 player and gov't even
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by tfigment 13y ago
I thought they have already been doing this in Australia[1] to some degree. I suppose they are not independent trucks but then I'm not sure what the new advantages are if a person is still involved. With the Powertrain, they can spli
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by tfigment 13y ago
I was just going to post this but forgot to login and here was your post. The hard part is the initial adoption when most cars are still manually driven and the good stuff comes when none of it is manually driven. How we get there will be
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by tfigment 13y ago
I only have 63 points and I can vote (but rarely do). Actually I can only upvote. I think 500 is for downvote rights.
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by tfigment 13y ago
My experience with R is about 2 years old but your comments are spot on. I selected R initially because it had the only good autoregressive-moving-average (ARMA) calculation that was good and also fast that was requested by my users to do
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by tfigment 13y ago
I have Virgin and agree with the points here. Basically roaming on the $35/mo plan is non-existent but I have never had an issue with my phone not working in the areas I live and visit (unless there was a tower down). Sprint's 4
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by tfigment 13y ago
Just flew through SJC 2 weeks ago and pretty sure the USB plugs in seats don't work anymore. At least last 3 times I've had to use the dedicated charging station rather than the seat but at least that was there. Actually not sur
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by tfigment 13y ago
Interesting. I had clockres on my machine but never bothered to learn what it does. I've used that in code that I wanted a better timer but ended up using QueryPerformanceCounter/Frequency and rolling my own timer class but that
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by tfigment 13y ago
I think you are right about it being R&D cost. I'm sure its more than a webcam even at scale but I think that both probably have their pros and cons. How do the cams work the morning after a snowstorm when everything is white vs the r
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by tfigment 13y ago
While in principle I agree that hard graders are better, I think any professor that can engage the class and have them learn the content is still the gold standard regardless of the final grade given. My Physics 101 course was taught by a b
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by tfigment 13y ago
Basically this alone may have significantly change the course of several European nations for the next decade because of policy made on the that paper. NPR's Planet Money team just released a podcast [1] that goes into the basics of that.
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by tfigment 14y ago
I suspect that even if they allowed submitting code then it will probably not be mandated which language be used and we will likely get something like obfuscated javascript or Brainfuck or god forbid obfuscated Brainfuck (if that is not red
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by tfigment 14y ago
Can someone explain why having 3 kids and a wife should change any decision here? Is it somehow more acceptable to layoff someone that is single?
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by tfigment 14y ago
Mr. Broder's reply in the other thread was "I cannot account for the discrepancy, nor for a later stretch in Connecticut where I recall driving about 45 m.p.h., but it may be the result of the car being delivered with 19-inch wheels and all
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by tfigment 14y ago
Agreed pretty cool effects. Star Wars shifts the page slightly during the effect on both Chrome and Firefox on Windows. Also no love for IE or my Nook webkit browser but did fine on my Android ICS phone.
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by tfigment 14y ago
Swamp/Evaporative coolers are popular in western US. We had one in Colorado and worked extremely well and was cheap to operate. Not very good wine country though.
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by tfigment 14y ago
I'm of multiple minds of this. My personal relation to this is my brother was a punk in his teenage years. He stole from friends, neighbors, and even my mom's engagement ring and hocked it all to by drugs and alcohol. My dad was and stil
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by tfigment 14y ago
There is no such thing as a typical company and this a data center not an office park to my knowledge. Having said that a typical small office maybe 100 kW or so. Most medium sized office buildings we would be familiar with I would say a
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by tfigment 14y ago
That was almost a blast from my past. They were using a lot of the tools I used at a previous company. That company's UI code base was 3 MM SLOC or so and we used perforce and silk though we didn't use any build accelerators as I had the
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by tfigment 14y ago
I did something far less sophisticated many years ago for my undergraduate degree. Basically a Navier-Stokes solver using finite-differencing techniques to model gas particulates in an enclosed area. This was to support a larger framework
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by tfigment 14y ago
iPod Touch was 3.1.2 (about 2 years old) which I will readily admit is rather old but I have reasons for sticking to it on that device. I don't believe 5+ is available for my hardware. Now I don't really expect it to work but it would be
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by tfigment 14y ago
I logged into the sampler site and toyed around with it in the different browsers (IE 9, Firefox 15, Chrome ??) on Windows 7 with only input boxes behaving in different ways. Escape key could be used in IE to cancel input but not in others.