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by blah32497 13y ago
Why wait?.. you can just get a Nissan Leaf now
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by blah32497 13y ago
Thank you for the clarification. It seems overly generous =) Often code is GPL'd with pricey licenses for commercial applications - which always makes me think twice about investing my time into familiarizing with it. I'm very imp
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by blah32497 13y ago
Oh woah - I'm very happy about the BSD license. This means people can more easily potentially spin up business around this platform. I wonder why they chose it... Does anyone have any insight?
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by blah32497 13y ago
I don't really play a lot of videogames anymore, but I have a lot of trouble empathizing with this. When the gender roles are reversed it seems silly to me. "most every single 'put cursor on dude' game requires me to inh
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by blah32497 13y ago
The debt issues has less to do with blackmail, and more to do with having serious financial strains. They're concerned you'll sell information in exchange for money so that you can pay off your debts. It's the same for drug a
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by blah32497 13y ago
Thank you for the explanation. That's a lot to think about.
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by blah32497 13y ago
Sure.. a garbage collector would mess you up, but garbage collection isn't an intrinsic property of stateless languages. EDIT: Seems I'm wrong http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Memory_Management
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by blah32497 13y ago
"on account of the runtime not being amenable to real-time constraints" What are basing that on? A stateless side-effect free language would be significantly more amenable to real-time constraints b/c you can guarantee run-ti
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by blah32497 13y ago
I'm fairly ignorant of the details of static analysis, but why is it being done on programs written in C? Shouldn't they use languages specially suited for this kind of analysis? I remember learning that stateless programing (ie.
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by blah32497 13y ago
He isn't because he often raises issues which aren't "on the agenda". So he'll make statements for instance about returning to the gold standard, or getting rid of all overseas military bases. These are not only rad
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by blah32497 13y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not just use Google translate? (or some equivalent) If you don't know any English and you were to auto-translate your question. I think the vast majority of the time you'd get the answer you&
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by blah32497 13y ago
"I don't care if Bell Labs didn't cash out" Yeah, well that's nice that you don't care - but Apple's shareholders do. The point is that this kind of R&D doesn't pay-off. Companies have tried it in
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by blah32497 13y ago
"100 failures for every 1 success" There aren't a lot of examples of big tech companies dumping money into R&D - with no end goal in mind - and then cashing out big time. Even companies that that have gotten useful discov
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by blah32497 13y ago
Sorry if I came off as bitter. I'm a couple of years out of college and honest I felt that the CS department was pretty self entitled and misguided. "CS degrees teach you algorithms" Yeah it does. And it doesn't feel lik
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by blah32497 13y ago
I think it's important to hit the ground running using the best tools available. "Students should learn what those components do from scratch" Yeah, they will eventually. When they take a compilers class, they'll underst
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by blah32497 13y ago
In the election of my local representative there are only two realistic contenders - both from the 2 main parties. No one else has the resources to send out all the junk mail and recruit all the college kids to harass people. And the funny
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by blah32497 13y ago
"CS is a hard science" Hahaha. As someone who did a degree in physics, computer "science" is a joke when it comes to math. They took one of the easiest field of mathematics and rolled it in to a half-assed degree. Sure y
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by blah32497 13y ago
I'm so glad you replied! I've heard versions of what you've said hundreds of times and honestly, you academics are missing the point! Yes, the particular tool you learn will become obsolete, but debugging between Eclipse, gdb
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by blah32497 13y ago
I never knew this was a problem in EE, but I know for a fact it's a huge issue in CS. They don't want to teach any "tools" b/c CS professors find teaching people how to be good developers as beneath them. They hon
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by blah32497 13y ago
reminded me of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverpoint Given they say "Each pen will be sold with a notebook made of "stone paper"" I suspect, just like silverpoint, it doesn't work, or d
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by blah32497 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_compiler I don't have a lot of experience with it. I've used Cilk Plus a few times.
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by blah32497 13y ago
arguably reddit has also "decayed" quite a bit The quality of the conversation has gotten worse and worse, things are targeted towards the lowest common denominator. You need to go to specific subreddits or really dig around in th
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by blah32497 13y ago
Why would you want to 3D print a car part when you can just make one with a CNC machine? CNC machines are cheaper, more precise, and are already established. The advantage of 3D printing comes with making very complex shapes. As far as I kn
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by blah32497 13y ago
The Chinese use Baidu, the Japanese use Yahoo, the Russians use Yandex etc.
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by blah32497 13y ago
"then you should never offer stock based compensation" unfortunately most of your funding will be from VC companies, and it's unlikely they will give you money under a profit sharing arrangement b/c it does follow their
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by blah32497 13y ago
You're being tricked. The saving are artificial. They clearly normally overcharge for two day shipping. Just because it says it costs 15 bucks to send the widget, doesn't mean they pay $15 when you ship it with Prime. Most peopl
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by blah32497 13y ago
"by increasing the frequency of orders via Amazon, it gives them more power to negotiate better shipping rates, negotiate better bulk rates on products, and expand their distribution network" I'm skeptical that that is happen
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by blah32497 13y ago
How do you pronounce it...?
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by blah32497 13y ago
Membership plans are anticompetitive b/c they effectively lock you in to one retailer thereby decrease competition. You're effectively paying for the shipping ahead of time with the membership, so going to NewEgg or TigerDirect me
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by blah32497 13y ago
"whose merchant partners typically take a week to get stuff to me" Which is a week faster than Amazon's normal shipping rate. I think Amazon has purposefully made their shipping slower to get more people to sign up for Prime.

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