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Microsoft Knows Exactly Where Intel’s Future Is(wired.com)
4 points by viggity 11y ago|0 comments
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by viggity 11y ago
Best math class I took in college was discrete math, it is extremely applicable to computer programming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_mathematics Highlights include Combinatorics, Set Theory, Graph Theory, etc
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by viggity 11y ago
putting them in prison doesn't do anything for the victim, maybe we should just let them go free, amirite? it is about justice. not vengeance. not revenge. justice. if you burn my house to the ground, you go to prison, I sue you and ta
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by viggity 11y ago
I know I have an unpopular opinion, but I'm glad Clayton Lockett had a gruesome execution. He eventually died of a heart attack. He was convicted of rape, sodomy, kidnapping and murder. HE BURIED A 19 YEAR OLD GIRL ALIVE. Fuck him. I h
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by viggity 11y ago
I was suspicious of the speed of sound thing, but this looks to back that assertion up. http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/4730/81783
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by viggity 11y ago
I was suspicious of your answer, but the second answer here: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2175/is-it-possib... seems to show that you're right.
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by viggity 11y ago
If you imagine a pipe filled with marbles and you add a marble to one end, a marble will pop out the other end instantaneously (i.e. the speed of light).
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by viggity 11y ago
and fwiw, costs at amazon will scale linearly with resources. the 1 beefy box with 256GB RAM box costs about as much as 16 boxes with 16GB of RAM each.
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by viggity 11y ago
if you really need indexes, extract the fields from your json and keep them as additional columns in the table. Key value stores have always had problematic indexing on anything that wasn't the key. RDBMS does indexing really well, lea
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by viggity 11y ago
Obviously, however, replacement cost for intangibles is impossible to estimate accurately. Especially if you consider the risk that the "replacement" is a failure or doesn't accurately replace the institutional knowledge, int
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by viggity 11y ago
In general I agree with your sentiment, but not to the extent that you do. 40 people a day die from prescription painkiller overdoses. They are, in fact, addictive. And they can and will kill you if abused. ( http://www.webmd.com&
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by viggity 11y ago
I was surprised with that entry too, however not because of the specifics (UK exit from EU, which I happen to agree with), but rather that it is the only prize with some sort of political outcome. All of the other prizes have some basis in
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by viggity 11y ago
we have diapers on recurring delivery (honest company, not amazon), but they send us an email asking us if we still want them or if we want to delay shipment by a week, two weeks, etc. Seems to work fine. Does Amazon not do the same thing?
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by viggity 11y ago
Couldn't find any super recent numbers, but as of 2012, US companies were sitting on $2.2 Trillion http://fortune.com/2012/06/06/new-study-says-2-trillion-corp...
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by viggity 11y ago
if you're starting with a block of aluminum or a bin of powdered aluminum, then yeah, the tooling for machining the solid block would likely take less energy than the laser used for sintering the powder. However if you take into acco
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by viggity 11y ago
GMOs, nuclear power, space travel, health care... all things that you can create testable hypothesis for. Climate "Science" can create computer models, not real tests and they're always wrong (none predicted the last 15 yea
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by viggity 11y ago
"Education is a human right" No, no it isn't. Internet isn't a human right. Human Rights to not require any transaction or service. Human Rights are inherent in personhood, they are observed and respected not provided fo
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by viggity 11y ago
I've used the filter effects for a lot of really useful applications. I'm always surprised though that sepia is an offered filter. It seems pretty kitsch and not that useful, it is effectively grayscale with an additive color over
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by viggity 11y ago
if the author is reading this, I'd pay $40 for the audio. I'm assuming you recorded each interview so it could be transcribed. I've got 3 kids and audiobooks/podcasts during my commute is the only realistic time I can co
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Realtime emoji use on Twitter(emojitracker.com)
1 points by viggity 11y ago|0 comments
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by viggity 11y ago
what I find sad is how much better Sql Server Management Studio is compared to the competition and yet how completely effin' frustrating it is. If They spent 10% as much effort on SSMS as they do on Visual Studio it would be ridiculous
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by viggity 11y ago
I've worked in R&D for <big ag> for 4 years. We've been crossing different plants for ever and the amount of genetic change introduced by doing that dwarfs using BT to inject a single gene into corn/beans. These are
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by viggity 12y ago
ds = data scientist?
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by viggity 12y ago
care to share your line of business?
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by viggity 12y ago
he told me that the company still hasn’t spent most of its Series B funding yet They raised a $15M Series B that they haven't even burned through, and yet they've raised a $40M Series C and another $95M D round? That is cr
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by viggity 12y ago
Actually, the Establishment clause does not make it clear, and in fact, only prevented the US Congress (not the states) from establishing an official religion. It wasn't until the supreme court Incorporated the establishment clause in
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by viggity 12y ago
You should consider CodeRush from DevExpress. They've always been super serious about performance (they have perf stats on their site). They've had C++ tooling for years, their UI is top notch and their live templates blow R# out
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by viggity 12y ago
I skimmed the page and honestly wasn't getting what this did. So I looked up Thrift since it is supposedly similar, skimmed and still didn't understand. Same goes for Avro. Finally I looked into Protocol Buffers and bam, I pretty
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by viggity 12y ago
it looks like it is open source and all of the data is available for free on their website. You can get a printed copy by donating $15.
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by viggity 12y ago
Very interesting article. I'm from Iowa and I always knew we had a lot of counties (99), but didn't realize there were states with so many more. IIRC, the rationale for making all of our counties roughly the same size is that the

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