chubbard

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by chubbard 13y ago
When he says "He wrote FAT on an airplane" he means with pencil and paper since FAT is so old that there were no laptops to do that on. Which maybe he figured out all of the specs, but he didn't put code down and debug it.
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by chubbard 13y ago
So the author doesn't believe in homework or at least admits he thinks its pointless, and so does his son. My my my I wonder where a smart little boy learned that from?
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by chubbard 13y ago
Well if we ruin this economy we can just create a new one. :-) And I think that's what people will do. If this society offers you nothing then just start your own (see the New Delhi slums as an example). That's what Mennonites, Quakers,
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by chubbard 13y ago
"Gentlemen start your bitchin!1!!1!!"
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by chubbard 13y ago
There it is. I wondered how far I'd have to read before we had a Java hate comment. Never fails.
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by chubbard 14y ago
Entertainment is one thing, diplomacy is completely another.
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by chubbard 14y ago
Ah yes Dennis Rodman is such a reliable source of information. He has to suck up to low life dictators. He's broke as shit! At this point Rodman is hoping to be anyone's lapdog just for rent money. There are people in prison camps for t
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by chubbard 14y ago
I get the feeling the author of that piece didn't quite understand what the "subsidy" represented, hence why the author didn't explain it very well. If I can sum up what you said these bigger banks get better credit ratings because rating
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by chubbard 14y ago
So I thought this article was pretty opaque. They didn't really discuss the subsidy enough. They just said there was a subsidy that allowed the banks to borrow money at a reduced rate. Who is giving them this preferential treatment? How
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by chubbard 14y ago
tl;df. I guess the point was that he couldn't assimilate into civilian life and the military didn't help him after an otherwise glorious end to a career he can't talk about. There you go now you don't have to read the wall of text. This s
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by chubbard 14y ago
This method is also referred to as Mayan Multiplication which isn't necessarily exclusive to Japan or a technique the Japanese invented. It's not Mayan either, but just a neat technique to make multiplying numbers easier. Although it migh
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by chubbard 14y ago
"intimacy - a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group." Therefore, you can't experience intimacy by yourself. It requires at least another person.
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by chubbard 14y ago
But an article about antique dimensional analysis is just not on the same level in difficultly or interest as how someone observed a natural phenomenon and explained it with empirical evidence.
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by chubbard 14y ago
"...Sun (light) traverses 2,202 yojanas in half a nimisha" Yes, but how did he measure it?
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by chubbard 14y ago
That was a touching story, and I'm sorry to hear about your father's death. My best friend's father was an alcoholic. I watched as my best friend struggled trying to build a relationship with him. I don't think he ever had any of the tou
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by chubbard 14y ago
Normally titles like this are just insipid articles of link bait, but I agree this is a handy feature. Thanks!
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by chubbard 14y ago
There is a big difference between interpreted rhino vs. compile rhino. The Rhino wikipedia page claims compiling to byte code "... produced the best performance, often beating the C implementation of JavaScript run with just-in-time". How
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by chubbard 14y ago
Roughly performance tests have shown: Java Performance (ms) * 1.6 = Compiled Rhino Performance (ms). So Rhino is about 60% slower than comparable Java code if you compile it to byte code on average.
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by chubbard 14y ago
Rhino has pretty good performance. It's about 1.6x Java's performance which made it pretty darn fast for most scripting languages built on the JVM. I would expect this new project will follow the ScriptEngine API so you could swap out a R
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by chubbard 14y ago
Why not become a contractor and you are in control of how much you work because you really work for yourself? You might not control when you are on a project, but work hard for 3-4 months build up income, then when its done take some time
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by chubbard 14y ago
So if the Chinese are just replacing people with robots why can't America, or really any nation, do that now? Or why didn't they do that sooner? If we want to bring back manufacturing why not start with robots? It might not bring back th
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by chubbard 14y ago
Mexico is pwned, send in the drones.
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by chubbard 14y ago
The Federal government would be insane to legalize drugs at the federal level even if they wanted to do that. Better to try a test out and see how it goes before doing it across the US. But, with this last election we are going to see if
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by chubbard 14y ago
Everyone's comfort level of accepting new technology is graded on a spectrum. 3D printing is probably at the beginning of the early adopters/innovator stage. The people in this stage have to invision what jobs 3D printing can be applied t
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by chubbard 14y ago
But that can be said for any basis of any tool or technology. Your use of CNC matching creates a dependency on that tool, and it's advantages and disadvantages. You've locked yourself into that tool if you don't want to change the way you
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by chubbard 14y ago
Every point he makes is absolutely correct, and I think comparing them to computers as a rising technology is apples to oranges. For one computers made most of its improvements exponentially because the number of transistors doubled every
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by chubbard 14y ago
Man this article has created all sorts of strange discussions. I've watched in on G+, Facebook and now here, and eventually they get soooo derailed talking about odd ball stuff not really related. I guess this means Mr. Christensen is ont
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by chubbard 14y ago
Prior to the introduction of the Federal reserve system which would be 1913. And prior to 1913 boom-bust cycles were more common and quite harsh. I think that's what he's referring to. As to 50% fluctuations I can't say if that's true or
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by chubbard 14y ago
Yes he addresses this. If all you do is make things more efficient then you have no where for the displaced to go. That's why transformative innovation is needed and is currently missing. Transformative innovation needs a longer time to
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by chubbard 14y ago
But, doesn't our current system have negative externalities that distort behavior? Or is this just some academic test that is impossible to ever really attain?

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