al_biglan

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by al_biglan 5y ago
No. No. No. Dates are to Integers as Date+Time is to Floating Point. You (we) -want- to compare them, but you need something akin to a language level specification for these. Otherwise, it is all what you are trying to do/what probl
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Tobii Dynavox brings Eye Tracking interface to iPads(techcrunch.com)
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by al_biglan 5y ago
Ah recruiters. Several years ago I recall the story of one of the creators of a programming language who was asked how many years of experience they had with the language and the response "all of them" was perfect. I can't
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by al_biglan 10y ago
caveat: I'm in the storage/file system industry. Everyone in the industry is looking at this. There is a great graph out there by one drive manufacturer that overlays $/GB for different HDDs and SSD technologies. For example
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by al_biglan 10y ago
Looks great... just needs 10GbE instead of 1Gb. Add an SFP port and a RJ45 if all you got is a 1Gb or want to try your hand at getting 10GBASE-T working.
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by al_biglan 10y ago
This seems a perfect candidate to test with some well known test games. Fischer's 17 ... Be6, for example in the Game of the Century Or 15 ...Nf2 (again Fischer and Byrne) http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?g
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by al_biglan 10y ago
Indeed. Almost as many characters as in the google.com page source.
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by al_biglan 10y ago
I think part of this is due to selecting "50 areas" to divide the country into. They mention that in the article and even say "it has a math basis" but don't explain why. If they chose 60 (for example) some of the
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by al_biglan 10y ago
The market forces around laptops would seem to be a ripe area for serious academic study. I honestly can't find a laptop I _want_ to buy only ones I weigh silly trade-offs. (to be fair: my biggest complaint is around the lack of keybo
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by al_biglan 10y ago
I was going to say something along these lines (tho more of a "cautionary tale" than absolute "no company can") Having worked for Nokia when they absolutely dominated the supply chain for their phones, this indeed gets
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by al_biglan 10y ago
I may not understand the impact of this, but this sounds like "there is a limit to Google-scale solutions and we have hit it"? I know this is a gross over-simplification, but I'd appreciate if someone might offer more depth
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by al_biglan 10y ago
True, and we are getting cleaner production methods. The early production was incredibly inefficient and produced way more pollution than now. I can say _that_ with some certainty, but I can't say that they produced x% of the current
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by al_biglan 10y ago
"preindustrial" being tagged at 1900 seems more than a bit off. Steel boomed in the 1880's (starting in 1850's with Bessemer). I would think a better data set would be to look back to 1850 or better 1800 to be sure to c
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by al_biglan 10y ago
This is a great way to teach math. Model something that is interesting but only needs to rely on some basic principles (geometry, series and limits in this case). Best quote of the piece: "Britney found it interesting to realise that
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by al_biglan 10y ago
This. One other thing I might suggest is some sort of variable cost model where every person gets 1 unit of water per day for free and then consumption above that scales up. Most people will consume more than the bare minimum to survive (l
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by al_biglan 10y ago
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by al_biglan 10y ago
Was going to reply along the same lines. Much better is asking questions like "Why did you choose this shade of blue?" Which leads to improved understanding from both parties: The color may be more important than the original sel
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by al_biglan 10y ago
Agreed this is arbitrary. Why not divide into 2*pi units and divide from there. Been a long time since I touched orbital stuff, but maybe add a "normalization" that factors in the Kepler area carved out by an object in orbit aro
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by al_biglan 11y ago
Interesting, but Tesla is both just getting started and "feeling the space" in the auto industry. They have taken pride in taking a different approach to traditional car companies and I imagine some of the wording around the Exte
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by al_biglan 11y ago
This. Tho I may complain about companies (Capcom, etc.) who would try to extract "more money that they are worth" it would indeed be lovely to see them offer a reasonably priced arcade bundle with some of their games. Sadly tho,
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by al_biglan 11y ago
I work for the company that provided the storage for this. Our product is not a collection of commodity components but instead something very much more like an "appliance" that provides the performance at scale that NOAA needs.
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by al_biglan 11y ago
Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear. I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company ca
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by al_biglan 11y ago
A huge amen to this... The universe needs 4 size formats (11, 13, 15 and 17 inch) 3 screen resolutions (1920x1200, 2560x1600, 3840x2400 (17inch only) all 16:10) 2 keyboard options on 15 and 17 inch models (with or without keypad) 4 RAM opti
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by al_biglan 11y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Will also add: If LEO does get polluted, there are options to put (more expensive) satellites into MEO. At this point, it becomes an economic argument to "clean" or "push upwards"
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by al_biglan 13y ago
Along the same lines: 1) Govt asks: Have you ever committed a crime? and waits for your response 2) Then asks: Have you ever jaywalked/gone faster than posted speed/etc? (any other "common" crime) If you answered "
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by al_biglan 13y ago
We threw out a firewall appliance that had the admin page only able to run in IE6 (I think it did an explicit check for browser verion) Didn't replace it till we got tired of the P4/XP/IE6 box in the corner. We are tiny (<10ppl) and I
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by al_biglan 14y ago
They also said the data was taken "in the past 2 weeks". Assuming that Blue Toad's data changes daily or so, getting a 98% match to their "current" data seems reasonable. If the data changes "real time" then it might be impossible to find
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by al_biglan 14y ago
This is the same argument aimed at Microsoft in the 90's. next big tech company will get the same thing in 20 years. Meh.
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by al_biglan 14y ago
Black bar?
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by al_biglan 15y ago
"agile vs. Agile" you mix the cases in this :-) I wasn't "there" in 2001, but it seems to me that Agile (the proper noun) is nothing more or less than : We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do

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