jamesmcn

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by jamesmcn 11y ago
Given that the Voyager probes are pushing the absolute edge of humanity's reach into the cosmos, I'd love to see NASA publish the hardware specs and open up a competition to find the best possible solution. With open specs, a simu
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by jamesmcn 13y ago
Definitely going to check this out!
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
The day this happened was the day I stopped contributing to Quora. I did not delete all my contributions, but almost did.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Hang on a moment, there's something about this use case that I don't really get. Is it ever possible to send a murderer to the right address? I mean, shouldn't we be throwing a UserIsAMurderer exception and take some other kind of action?
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I like to use the MDN re-introduction to JavaScript as a starting point: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/A_re-int...
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I learned about Google a decade ago when "worse than satan himself" brought up either Bill Gates or Microsoft. I worked at Microsoft at the time. Everyone I knew thought it was hilarious, and it spread through the company like wildfire. Wit
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I'm not sure I agree completely with either of you. Instead, I prefer to not attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity. Or too many people deploying features willy-nilly.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
The parabolic sinks that started popping up all over Seattle around a decade ago are great. If I owned my own place, I'd rip out all the existing sinks and put in parabolic sinks.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I think it is easy to see the Sprawl books as being technology-oriented with cyberpunk window dressing. If that is your perspective going in to Blue Ant , then I can see how you might be disappointed. The Blue Ant series makes it clear
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
No, I got the point. And Osama was quite effective at terrorism. Though I think most of the credit goes to the US government and media. I don't believe it was an inside job, rather that similar motivations created similar outcomes: radicali
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Walter Jon Williams' The Green Leopard Plague , which is also part of an anthology of the same name. The anthology includes several other stories that build up the world that GLP takes place in. Some interesting ideas about identity and
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Using war to cure terror is like using cyanide to cure a headache. Osama bin Laden would have killed more Americans by investing in Ford and GM+. And after the bailout, he would have made a profit too! + I'm not picking on Ford or GM here,
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Looks great. Light UI, responsive, low prices.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
and also vi > emacs But seriously. Comments are useful. Don't over use them, don't under use them. If you are being dogmatic about your comments, you are probably doing it wrong. Autodoc comments can be nice, when done properly.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Any of a number of different wireless transmitters plugged into fiber. There are laser transceivers for use in open air, but they don't work particularly well in rain or fog. So not great for Seattle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-spac
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I'd like to meet someone who thinks you are an extremist zealot. Wait, no I don't. I really don't.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
(psst: might want to have your sarcasm detector recalibrated, it appears to be giving erroneous readings)
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
If you haven't committed a crime how could you possibly need privacy, comrade?
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
> Sure, though the same can be said for drug cartels too. Perhaps. Nils Gilman argues that increasing the risk of a transaction increases the reward, and backs it up with drug-war data. http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/may/03/deviant-
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Bounties might reasonably be paid for help closing a deal, but only a fool pays for an introduction. Not that there is anything wrong with separating rich fools from their money.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Offering a cash bounty like that seems to demonstrate a profound lack of understanding of how to go about pitching your idea.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
So, what if BMW kicked the BMWCCA a few bills to make a "parody" video of their own?
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Devil's advocate: where do you draw the line? MIT did a Gangnam style video, did they pay Psy for the right to do so? If BMW were to do a Gangnam style video, surely Psy would expect to be paid, right? Why BMW and why not MIT? We are in a l
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Can't tell which is a bigger time sink - the emerging IP debate here, or the hours I lost playing the original C&C back in the '90s.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I occasionally do, but some spam-happy sites will pop up all sorts of crap when you click on their page. So I'm fairly cautious about where I'm willing to click.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
You can manipulate individual atoms with lasers, and 'cool' them down to nearly absolute zero. So I wonder how far we are from being able to grow a single crystal part via laser sintering?
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Looks like we will need to do some dry cleaning.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
The argument against w3schools is simple: Use Primary Sources Wherever Possible. If you want to learn about the history of the Holy Roman Empire then Wikipedia is great. The relevant primary sources are numerous, and many of them are probab
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Most of the customer-facing stuff may be written in Mason, but more and more back-end services are written in Java. And there are a lot of back end services. There was a time when Amazon was mostly C++, but it wasn't very recent.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
This is precisely why I didn't locate my cloud storage company on Fatal Disk Error St.

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