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by watmough 15y ago
For those interested in an interesting take on how money really works, Steve Keen wrote this amazing article: http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2009/01/31/therovingcaval...
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by watmough 15y ago
"People are motivated to get them by a return on their investment, not the happy notion that the world is marginally less bad." I've always understood that as well as restricting other companies from competing with a patent holder, there is
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by watmough 15y ago
Let's take a look at the report: "Gamma Dose Rates in Areas More Than 30 km from Fukushima Daiichi Plant Gamma dose rates reported specifically for the monitoring points in the eastern part of Fukushima prefecture, for distances of more tha
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by watmough 15y ago
Is that even true? A bomb might have 100 pounds of nuclear material, fairly efficiently exploded, releasing a lot of energy. A burning, melting reactor might have 100s of TONS of fuel pellets, which can be aerosolized and distributed to the
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by watmough 15y ago
They've been dumping 100's of tons of water through these reactors since the meltdowns. Isn't there just the tiniest clue, in the massive quantities of 1+ Sv radiation from the water, that some of the materials have been washed out of the r
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by watmough 15y ago
13" MacBook, but have been happy in the past with a 12" G4 PowerBook. Next portable will likely be the 11' MacBook Air, as I'm really impressed with all the reviews evoking the spirit of the 12" PowerBook... but fast.
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by watmough 16y ago
"What the hell's this? A helicopter for ants?" Yeah, part of the back, maybe ECM detail, looks like it should be the front, and it crossed my mind it might be a drone. But yeah, just the back part.
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by watmough 16y ago
If you really think about this, you may recognize the genius of Jim Meddick (of Robotman and Monty fame), in naming a compilation "Primary Crullers".
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by watmough 16y ago
Her job should have been to make Yahoo! not suck. The verdict: - Yahoo! Mail. Still sucks. - Yahoo! Charts (Finance). Still suck. - Delicious. Never sucked. Killed. These are the only parts of Yahoo! I use, and I have mainly migr
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by watmough 16y ago
I'm sure Steve is factually right, and Apple has zero interest in tracking any users. However, they've been stupid and sloppy, and instead of minimizing the footprint and usefulness of the location to base-station cache, they've tagged it w
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by watmough 16y ago
One of the great things about the internet is the ability to play chess against anyone online, through any of the many sites such as Yahoo! games etc. I used to play a bit online, and as well as improving my chess just through more play, th
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by watmough 16y ago
I don't see ailerons, but I do see wing sweep, so are they expecting this to be a steer left/right only type aircraft? What about pitch control? There's going to be quite a pitch down moment with that high mounted engine. And with the small
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by watmough 16y ago
I've worked with programmers who also would have argued with Linus, but there's no way I would have been able to be as direct as Linus has. This definitely struck a chord, though, and I have my own saying for silent retorts: "It's a comput
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by watmough 16y ago
This is the one I like. :D I have interviewed people, but I gave up asking coding questions, since no one could ever do them. And if you keep thumbs-downing people, you don't really get invited to interview any more people. Thanks again!
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by watmough 16y ago
Bug #1, Haha. I deliberately didn't do any polishing. I just C-P the first thing that compiled without warning and ran the embedded test case. Not so sure about nitpick #1. I'll need to pull out K&R... nitpick #2, sure. nitpick #3, is t
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by watmough 16y ago
Some people have a very narrow experience, but within that experience, they can actually be pretty darn good programmers. I worked with a bunch, none of whom ever ventured outside of Visual C++ and SQL, and who would never have even heard o
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by watmough 16y ago
Yeah, it's true, but many of them are able to prosper in large systems where lots of code can be copy-pasted around. Here's my string reverse. Actually, it might be the first damn time I've ever reversed a string in code. Thoughts. #inc
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by watmough 16y ago
Still true today, and highly applicable. The most annoying example of a poorly responsive application I can think of right now is the HULU app on my Roku. It is truly appalling, especially when compared with the much much better Netflix app
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by watmough 16y ago
Will Gnome 3 still be in Ubuntu? I'm unclear on how the changes relating to the desktop will actually change the experience. Congratulations to the Gnome team though! It does look great.
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by watmough 16y ago
In fact, the SUN-1 was 68000-based with a custom MMU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-1 Though, I'd likely agree that UNIX probably wasn't that useful on these 680x0 workstations until the SUN 3/50, 68020 1 Meg RAM.
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by watmough 16y ago
iMac White 20". Oldie but a goodie. However, the LCD is starting to decay somewhat, with lines and smudges internally, and 3 Gigs ram is getting a bit tight.
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by watmough 16y ago
Excellent. Will order!
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by watmough 16y ago
If you look at KSA, UAE production in 2009. They are down 10%+ on 2008. To me, it seems very likely that the diminishing Energy Return on Energy Invested will not support [cheap] oil prices at a level that will allow Western Countries such
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by watmough 16y ago
Why don't you return it? This would be an intolerable problem for me. I don't expect to see any kind of lockups or grey-screen, ever. It just shouldn't be part of owning any computer, especially a mac.
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by watmough 16y ago
Mine is still rocking too. I was just stress-testing it with, ahem, Warcraft...
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by watmough 16y ago
My dad gave up on our ZX81 ever arriving and bought an Acorn Atom from an electronics guy at work. I ended up with a Spectrum, then a BBC, then a Dell 486 and various home-builts an Macs since then.
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by watmough 16y ago
Go work for a big consulting firm, or spin-off. Usually lots of smart female devs.
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by watmough 16y ago
You may not have been shot, but beyond a few 100's of thousands of people being a bit happier, absolutely nothing was accomplished. Nada. Zip. Zero. Last year, 2010, 3 million homes received a note that they were in some stage of foreclosur
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by watmough 16y ago
How much is GeoCities worth now? What about MySpace?
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by watmough 16y ago
Unless you have an unlocked (i)phone, I believe this will probably fail. Sadly. Highly likely to be the case if you are American.

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