fununclebob

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by fununclebob 12y ago
> Mimicking their structure, the researchers say, could lead to stronger and lighter composite materials. News like this makes me weep for all the data that has been lost forever to us with the mass extinction of smaller lifeforms over t
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by fununclebob 12y ago
Flipkart recently moved away from the Amazon warehousing model to an online marketplace model and I've heard nothing but complaints from customers regarding the switch. Even their own presence in the marketplace is unable to keep up th
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by fununclebob 12y ago
The second law is an empirical statement. This entanglement based approach is an attempt to understand the underlying physical mechanism that controls the spread of entropy. If this picture is right, the next question is what is the physica
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by fununclebob 13y ago
This is what I see as soon as the page opens: http://i.imgur.com/XQlQfXl.jpg?1 Note that it's hard to read the white text in the foreground.
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by fununclebob 13y ago
I love the idea! I wish there were more paid equivalents of "free" webservices/apps so that users knew the exact transaction cost of signing on. As your data on these websites/apps grows over the years and lock-in sets in, it becomes all th
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by fununclebob 13y ago
Do you mind sharing the complete list of poems that you read daily?
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by fununclebob 15y ago
Something relevant: Symbian has had a microkernel architecture for most of it's life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian For a brief shining moment, it was open source. It's legacy is very interesting, worth a read to see just how far t
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by fununclebob 15y ago
Jesus Christ, at least warn us about the NSFW! I barely had time to close it after seeing the title.