troystribling

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by troystribling 17y ago
I gave up MacPorts after several install failures, notably gtk after about a 1 hour compile, and switched to development in an Ubuntu VM. Have not had a problem since.
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by troystribling 17y ago
Another Phillip K. Dick book turned movie that I enjoyed is 'Impostor' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160399/ . When I first saw it I did not know it was written by Dick but could tell after an hour or so of watching that it was. Theme wise
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by troystribling 17y ago
Hans Rosling has a good TED talk discussing this in the context of the mind set people have concerning industrial and developing nations, http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/let_my_dataset.php . He claims most peoples opinions are from data availa
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by troystribling 17y ago
19. The power of desktop machines is a magnet that will reverse today's "everything onto the Web!" trend. Desktop power will inevitably drag information out of remote servers onto desktops. 20. If a million people use a Web site simultaneo
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ARORA, A Random Or Real Array(arora.ccs.neu.edu)
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by troystribling 17y ago
Microsoft has a 90% market share in PC OSs and 80% market share in business productivity software, see, http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20091111232207_Mi... and http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/060409-forrester-micro...
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by troystribling 17y ago
One company, Microsoft, currently controls how most people use their computers. As mentioned in the RFS the iPad is likely a challenge to this near monopoly. Also, I think more technical use cases where a larger touch device can be a contro
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by troystribling 17y ago
There could be some truth in your hypochondria comparison. Climate concerns developed as good global climate data became available in the 70's and 80's and the range of the data variability became known. It is possible that the fear around
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JSON versus XML: Not as Simple as You Think(metajack.im)
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by troystribling 17y ago
Bill Gates mentioned this in his TED talk http://ufuk.posterous.com/news-alert-bill-gates-is-officiall... . Doesn't he have an affiliation with IV?
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by troystribling 17y ago
His proposed curriculum sounds very similar to the one used by Fairmont High in Verner Vinge's Rainbows End http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End . Fairmont High was actually the current equivalent of a Trade School.
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Economics Improve for First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Plants(nytimes.com)
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by troystribling 17y ago
A recall an indecent a few years ago (sorry no link) where several engineers were detained in an airport for discussing a 'Bill of Materials', usually referred to as a BOM a homophone of bomb. Knowing where to draw the line can be difficult
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by troystribling 17y ago
A better statement would be that political motivations and money affect scientist not science. Science is a procedure for validating theory with observations. The extent to which some claim observations validate their theory is always debat
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Millimeter-scale, energy-harvesting sensor system developed(physorg.com)
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by troystribling 17y ago
Microsoft et. al have very effectively used training and certification as a marketing tool. I guess I do see it as a bad thing because I have to deal with it and this came through in my comment. A decade or two ago these companies did provi
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by troystribling 17y ago
The hold Microsoft, Oracle (Sun) have over enterprise software comes from marketing. An entire generation of programmers has been trained and certified to use and develop with their products and knows of nothing more. These programmers care
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by troystribling 17y ago
It is near Dartmouth. It is possible that it is a spin off of tech developed there.
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by troystribling 17y ago
In your 'sayings' early and late are ambiguous. As far as investing is concerned being right in a prediction means you profited, so the early-late error bar is defined by the time in which you could profit by your prediction. Applying this
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by troystribling 17y ago
From developing for the iPhone the most notable thing I have learned is that the relationship between UI ease of use and UI complexity is very different than for a desktop. A few touches and a swipe on the iPhone becomes a few clicks and a
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by troystribling 17y ago
SGI is still around, http://www.sgi.com/ . They were recently purchased by Rackable who took the SGI name.
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by troystribling 17y ago
I think it more likely that the iMac will spawn a TV. The iMac 27 inch is close.
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by troystribling 17y ago
This is a brief overview of reconfigurable asynchronous logic automata http://phm.cba.mit.edu/papers/09.11.POPL.pdf
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Rethinking artificial intelligence(web.mit.edu)
12 points by troystribling 17y ago|5 comments
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by troystribling 17y ago
The article suggested that the current structure of the telco industry would have to change "the economic basis of your mobile telephony service in 2019 is going to be unrecognizably different from that of 2009". I think there is something
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by troystribling 17y ago
The average human lifespan in the United States has been increasing linearly by about 2 months per year since 1980. In 1990 average life expectancy was 75.5 in 2000 it was 77 and 2010 will be 78.5 http://www94.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=lif
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by troystribling 17y ago
Arguments like this one, trying to make the point of a decline in morality, rigor, intelligence or what ever, tend to use the post WWII world as a point of reference. I recently watched a Noam Chomsky documentary, http://video.google.com/v
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by troystribling 17y ago
When talking about about computation the argument is usually presented as exponential increase in processor computational power (FLOPs/MIPs) per unit cost not processor speed. Even though processor speed peaked recently computational power
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by troystribling 17y ago
disc-only copies are actually limited to 2GB, so available RAM will place a limit on DB size. From Programming Erlang, For massive numbers of entries that you want to be able to access readily, you might be better off using CouchDB, MySQL,
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by troystribling 17y ago
Menasia tables are limited to 4GB on a 32bit OS but can get to 16 exabytes on a 64bit OS, p 294 Programming Erlang, http://books.google.com/books?id=Qr_WuvfTSpEC&pg=PT1&#38...

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