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by toddh 16y ago
The US constitution was based on the idea of balancing factions. What Madison could not have known when designing his version of a Republic was how modern mass high speed communication would turn his plan into the exact opposite of what he
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> Uh, yeah. Is that really surprising? Why yes it is. Twitter went out of their way to say how much they supported developers and considered them key to their success. That wouldn't seem to include making Titan off limits.
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What do you consider architecture astronaut nonsense?
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by toddh 16y ago
Wasn't low-cost sequencing of human genomes created by the competition generated by an X prize? Maybe we simply aren't harnessing gamification principles properly. Maybe really big games like wars aren't the only way.
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That was my thought too, they both have quite stringent moderation, but that doesn't solve the increasing the quality of participation, unless of course it's decline is what drove some people away.
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Don't apply to SaaS today. What about tomorrow?
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"But I wouldn't call this unfair...precise timing just happens to be one thing computers are better at than we humans. It's not like I think Watson should try buzzing in more erratically just to give homo sapiens a chance." Wouldn't it be
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by toddh 16y ago
The longer the question the longer Watson has to generate an answer. Isn't that an important advantage?
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by toddh 16y ago
My experience is it can work well if you give complete responsibility over to the remote group, regardless of location, it doesn't matter if they are a building away or 8 time zones away.
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No doubt, I just wanted to point out that C++ does support concurrency and in some use cases can even be superior.
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by toddh 16y ago
I've built quite a few actor systems in C++ for real-time platforms. You use a threading library like pthreads, which works fine in C++, use thread safe libraries, create an Actor object with a queue that encapsulates a thread, and then hav
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by toddh 16y ago
Encouraging immoral corporate behaviour is really where you want to go?
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by toddh 16y ago
Corporations get numerous specific legal benefits enforced by the power of the state. Nobody is required to organize as a corporation, so the benefits must be worth the cost. Corporations pay taxes because they get benefits nobody else gets
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by toddh 16y ago
In social network terms Robert plays the combined roles of the connector and maven. In his connector aspect he is a liaison that connects different groups together. From Tipping Point connectors "link us up with the world ... people with a
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by toddh 16y ago
That's probably why it made such a good movie. Hard to imagine how boring the real-life version would be.
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by toddh 16y ago
I understood you just fine. Good job!
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Agencies won't be around much longer in any case. Disintermediation strikes again.
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by toddh 16y ago
gmail and business domain, but mostly gmail now. The reason is to prevent DDOS attacks. If you have a DDOS attack on a provider that can't handle it they'll turn off your email, which is unpleasant. I figure Google can handle it. Even thoug
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by toddh 16y ago
Humans suck at reasoning about black swan events, thus the ROI can't compare to more obvious and immediate needs. So blame our brains.
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by toddh 16y ago
When you break up your application up as a set of tasks, which GAE pretty much requires, it's hard to execute them in any sort of order. Your program is not executing sequentially so there aren't any while loops and if-then statements to ma
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by toddh 16y ago
What kind of content was put in the CDN?
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by toddh 16y ago
So it comes down to: 1) nobody will agree on a bytecode, 2) bytecode is less flexible than source so it would limit what you can do in the future. It would take versioning and versioning doesn't work. (2) only seems compelling in light of (
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by toddh 16y ago
Space colonization. It's the big item on the advanced civilization checklist that we haven't even got a good start on yet. If you want more information, use your AI guided self-driving spaceships to wardrive around and slurp it all up.
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by toddh 16y ago
Becoming a well rounded human being has definitely become underrated. College isn't just for votech. It's where you learn all the civilization stuff that locates you in the human family.
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The man who single handedly stopped a Wall Street coup to overthrow FDR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
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The title was a quote, so it was not wrong, what he disagreed with was the interpretation.
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If you had read the post you would have known Sid was actually asking for feedback on his paper so he could make it better.
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by toddh 16y ago
I guess I'll have to ask Sid to add some cartoons next time to liven it up a little.
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by toddh 16y ago
Maybe just ask the question you want to ask? Modern stacks can handle hundreds of thousands of connections these days, so this concern may be outdated. Then you could have a conversation about if there's enough CPU, is there enough RAM to h
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by toddh 16y ago
I'm still not completely clear on how filtering on such easily lookup up tactical sort of information will be an indictor or not if they will deliver software. This is like recipe stuff when cooking. I would be frustrated because you obviou

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