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by 10ren 16y ago
Does anyone know what CPU/clock speed the kindle 3 has? Can't seem to find it with google. Thanks! I'm interested in the possibility of programming on the unit itself. The low-power consumption makes you less dependent on mains power. EDIT
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by 10ren 16y ago
My old supervisor, an acm fellow, admonished me: stop thinking about the theory! Look at the data! Henri Poincaré said, C'est par la logique qu'on démontre, c'est par l'intuition qu'on invente. (It is by logic that we prove, but by intu
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by 10ren 16y ago
So, friendliness and trust should also be contagious, as the proverbial smile. Co-operating with someone to achieve something worthwhile - whether productively, as in work; or pleasantly, as in play - is a good building block.
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by 10ren 16y ago
Let this be a lesson to you edw519: you make a joke, and both your heroes attack you! Biff! Bam! Actually, I can't imagine a funnier response.
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by 10ren 16y ago
Lionhearted, it has struck me how often you live up to your name; but on that one isolated occasion, you shamed it. I was thinking it would be hard for you to make amends. Removing the submission from HN is an excellent start, but it's stil
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by 10ren 16y ago
This is commentary on industry gossip; not intellectually stimulating; not what good hackers would find interesting: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I'm commenting to educate, and also flagging. Sorry.
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by 10ren 16y ago
Another approach is to prevent these - which is how pg seems to describe his role at HN these days, at least for (3) gaming the system - leaving the field clear for the good stories. The flag link often takes care of (2) link-bait (though
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by 10ren 16y ago
EDIT here because too late to edit my above comment I just want to clarify, to distance myself from the recent genius/tragedy submission: I'm mocking the people who criticize the Diaspora guys for not being perfect. I'm pro release earl
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by 10ren 16y ago
What idiots those Diaspora guys are! All that excellent security consulting, for free! They don't know the first thing about software development! It makes me so mad, I'm going to write up a carefully researched and detailed account of othe
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by 10ren 16y ago
I did a similar thing on my CV/resume (when I still used one): for my interests, I'd just list everything I'd had some genuine interest in (shallow or deep), and added to it over months, so it was about 5-7 lines of words. The purpose of th
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by 10ren 16y ago
Despite the name, rare earths are actually fairly common; they are expensive and seldom mined elsewhere because the processing equipment to separate them from the ore is expensive and because rare earths almost always occur naturally in de
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by 10ren 16y ago
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw,
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by 10ren 16y ago
You have a point about the passage as a whole. And also, yes, clever wordplay intended to amuse the reader is not narcissistic.
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by 10ren 16y ago
I see what you mean now; you can see it as a point of view change (or as a value-system change.) I feel I've been a bit callously analytical, like the "Life goes on, folks" post near the end of A Fire Upon the Deep , but I'm not happy abou
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by 10ren 16y ago
OK, my mistake. I assumed Sun were still great at building processors (and they got killed only because they were disrupted, in the Christensen sense, like Digital were.) I now make a further assumption that the remaining echo $((`wc -w`-6
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by 10ren 16y ago
Great question, thought-provoking answer. Similar to what the article says, I think constraints can engage us more, by making our decisions more meaningful. We have "If we do X, it will overcome that constraint! How cool!", instead of "I gu
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by 10ren 16y ago
BTW: please submit this blog post! It's fascinating, and many on HN would appreciate it. I just checked, and it hasn't been submitted before (or, at least, it accepted the submission - which I quickly deleted.)
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by 10ren 16y ago
Oracle has brilliant opportunities at the moment: they own a great processor (Sparc) that they could closely integrate with their database, application software and even Java... and (finally!) give IBM a run for their money. They have the c
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by 10ren 16y ago
Don't worry, nostalgia or not, the whole thing still looks and feels amazing (IMHO). It's very easy pick apart a movie, and there's very little point in doing so. I think I might try to interpret it in your way. :)
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James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle(eweek.com)
262 points by 10ren 16y ago|112 comments
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by 10ren 16y ago
TIL subaltern. It's true they were familiar, but it was just more colour (including funny lines like "fly casual"), and didn't have any effect (or did it? was there any point where they acted on info conveyed, and we saw the result, or it m
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by 10ren 16y ago
I don't know the details, but integrated software and hardware can give performance benefits not possible with modular architecture. eg. iPhone, consoles vs. PC with comparable CPU/GPU. Of course, a more appropriate comparison is with what
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by 10ren 16y ago
I saw Star Wars on TV recently - god it looks awesome, especially the early desert scene with red sand and gold c3po. Of course, it's probably because they adjusted the colour in later releases (a few times), but still. The added stuff look
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by 10ren 16y ago
It's a great idea - grass-roots investment is very appealing - but unfortunately I think the main thing that angels bring is not money but contacts and experience. This might work with YC-alumni, though they probably they probably don't hav
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by 10ren 16y ago
For your reference, the other examples I gave were: the elimination pun: [He passed maths] by a process of elimination, like a tapeworm the parallel of temper and years: an elderly, crotchety lady of certain temper and uncertain years
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by 10ren 16y ago
Given the title, odd that they don't mention the singularity. Interesting discussion of these habitability factors for Mars http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/planetary/mars.html
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by 10ren 16y ago
Mirah is arguably what he suggests: an attempt to redo java - though with Ruby-like syntax, so it wouldn't be particularly adoptable by the hoards of Java developers http://www.mirah.org/ But the alternative, of re-doing Java using the ex
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by 10ren 16y ago
> solipsistic, narcissistic - such as those quoted in the submission (the elimination pun; the parallel of temper and years.) You omitted the beginning of that line, which was " A clever writer can easily get carried away with himself
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by 10ren 16y ago
I wasn't thinking of anyone wasting time and money, but I see now that attendants might feel that (though these things are often more about networking.) Yes, it's (probably) good promotion for Oracle. I'm thinking also that Oracle feels it
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by 10ren 16y ago
The point I'm making is that Oracle probably measures the quality of its keynote in terms of profit, not in terms of how enjoyable or ethical it was. In these terms, perhaps the keynote was in fact good. An interesting thought experiment, n

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