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by z92 14y ago
Brightness published for this comet in the article is in "magnitude" and it's a logarithmic value of total brightness as used in astronomy. Not brightness per unit area.
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by z92 14y ago
"900 million human on earth actively uses facebook", is still an impressive number to boast about.
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by z92 14y ago
I thought is was some new form of SQL, and the article will be claiming how it's better than NoSQL.
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by z92 14y ago
That article was exactly what I was thinking of while reading this post. Thanks that you posted the link.
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by z92 14y ago
Just finished reading it for first time. Clearly pg was wrong. It now reads like one of those classic wrong predictions.
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by z92 14y ago
That explains a lot of things. Thank you.
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by z92 14y ago
B-Tree indexes in JavaScript
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by z92 14y ago
Sure. These are practical things. And practically it can't.
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by z92 14y ago
I wish they published energy storage capacity in KW-hr. Theoretically a car can run for infinite distance once it has been accelerated to its desired speed.
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by z92 14y ago
MySQL had earlier presence because it was the only available solution. PostgreSQL came much later. There was something called postgress95 which crashed on connection.
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by z92 14y ago
"Only virus protection, the ability to play more file types, transcoding and remote access." Which I would rather pay to NOT have included in my version. I had been using microTorrent for what its name implied, for being micro. IIRC, the fi
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by z92 14y ago
Looks like PHP is faster than Perl, Python and Ruby in that chart.
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by z92 14y ago
Instead of just claiming "these are all craps", why isn't someone addressing the things what he is actually said. Point by point. Here are the points he talked about. - Temporary nature of knowledge capital - Low prestige - The foreignizati
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by z92 14y ago
They weren't finishing it because they weren't believing it was up to par. And were rewriting it over and over.
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by z92 14y ago
> There's nothing wrong with not releasing something you don't feel is up to par. Over doing it leads to Duke Nuken Forever like situation.
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by z92 14y ago
> J.C. Penney shares right now are around $22.55, Facebook shares are around $21.75 I find it ok when some online commenter says it [he might be a fifth grader]. But I find it surprising that a leading financial newspaper publishes such
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by z92 14y ago
That would not be good for the general public. But probably will be a good strategy for FB-the-company if stock values go down. That will make it look like a cycle of cashing the over hype.
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by z92 14y ago
He is saying whatever they earned is not "cash".
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by z92 14y ago
As the first part, I think you are confusing between profit and share price. They have to cut expense if they are making net loss or are in cash flow negative. Which is quite different from share price. And as of your second part. Why would
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by z92 14y ago
I remember it was demonstrated that these questions can be easily answered with high margin of accuracy using wolframalpaha and google search.
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by z92 14y ago
But everyone who have bought an iPhone have to buy a new iPhone one every two years, until they decide to switch platform.
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by z92 14y ago
6 - Most people who want to buy an iPhone are waiting for the upcoming iPhone 5. Sales generally diminishes before a big release and crosses all bounds to more than cover the past lag within a month of release.
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by z92 14y ago
Great tips! Didn't know any one of those.
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by z92 14y ago
> They brag about 2 mbps speed (which is pretty good considering India) What is an average good home Internet connection speed in India? And how do most people get connected from home? Cable DSL or wireless?
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by z92 14y ago
I clearly remember closing my G+ account to protect my gmail account. Did a quick google search for the news articles of that time, and these were the first links. Spending a few more minutes would have given even better results. http://ww
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by z92 14y ago
> UPDATE: A YouTube representative got back to us and said: YouTube users with existing Google+ profiles see this option when they comment or upload a video. I am glad that I decided to delete my G+ account when news started to float th
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And The Winner Of The Apps vs. Browsers War Is...(businessinsider.com)
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Microsoft Expected To Post First Ever Quarterly Loss In Its History(cbs19.tv)
117 points by z92 14y ago|86 comments
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by z92 14y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. Didn't notice that. Time to move away from gmail. It's not longer a FUD highlighting some clause saying "they can close your account". Because now they are actively closing user accounts.
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by z92 14y ago
> and honking does no good, because robots do not care if you honk at them. That sounds like a larger problem and even harder to solve. How do you teach a robot to react to honking, like how humans can?

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