killerswan

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by killerswan 13y ago
It is indeed interesting, but IIRC most of the funding for satellite launches (R&D for III-V semiconductors) came from intelligence, not NASA. So, um, thank you, NSA! :P
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by killerswan 13y ago
Probably: our relatives ate them all! There's basically no corner of our planet, from the hottest volcanic ocean vent to the coldest ice at the poles, to the highest clouds in the air, where our relatives don't live. Of course, i
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by killerswan 13y ago
Iff you were rich and white protestant. My grandma remembered the Great Depression as a time when life improved.
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by killerswan 13y ago
I vividly remember reading that several years ago when it was first put online someplace. o_O
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by killerswan 13y ago
"without the JVM" ... "Once the JVM compiler is up" Does not compute! :P
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by killerswan 13y ago
Am I the only one pained that none of the favicon, the "KNOOP" title, the links on the right, or the article's hyperlinks matched #FF4A00, or even eachother, even before I saw it? :D :D
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by killerswan 14y ago
A similar thing was done at Iowa State when I was there.
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by killerswan 14y ago
Seems like app.net is worth another look... https://join.app.net/
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by killerswan 14y ago
Anyone hated by lots of murderous psycho control-freak business owners is probably doing some good in the world.
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by killerswan 14y ago
Also: get an SSL certificate.
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by killerswan 15y ago
This is the organization which thinks hyperlinks from other websites can be a copyright and/or terms of use violation, too. Right?
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by killerswan 15y ago
That is not what I said. I think you will agree that working on the right things is more important than just volume of work.
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by killerswan 15y ago
No, he asked a question, and I simply shared an anecdote. Do you have a link to proof for 80%? ("Obviousness" is not just a problem for patent examiners, I see.) Some facts: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/Reexamination_Information...
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by killerswan 15y ago
Accomplishment is nice, but there's a lot more to it than simply working hours. A consistent thing: long hours without consideration of whether you could do even better with a change in process are always a mistake . If you're doing the w
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by killerswan 15y ago
I haven't seen statistics, but I know of many that have passed a reexam or two with flying colors.
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by killerswan 15y ago
There have been corporations who suppressed evidence that their drugs didn't work right. I'd describe that as publication bias, too, if not simply fraud...
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by killerswan 15y ago
Trademark disputes with hyper-litigious competitors would not be fun...
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by killerswan 15y ago
How was something written in the book a spoiler when you're reading the pages in order?
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by killerswan 15y ago
Many of the extinctions we see today are erasing genetic sequences that will take far more than another 4 billion years to develop again the natural way. I suspect that the cost incurred by changes in the weather itself is irrelevant compar
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by killerswan 15y ago
Reminds me of Sony... Perhaps they had this someplace: #define rand(x) 4
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by killerswan 15y ago
Sounds like Apple is doing a ton of things right, actually. Even tried to hire the guy!
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by killerswan 15y ago
All I know is that I wouldn't hesitate to buy a Hilux if I needed a truck.
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by killerswan 15y ago
The whole show is mean and unnecessary. That's why we love it.
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by killerswan 15y ago
Call this "Ruby Links" and make it less a temporary clone, more a permanent and vital resource.
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by killerswan 15y ago
I talked some folks into using JSON output for a tool, and am now in the midst of fixing both ends so that the output is valid JSON, instead of a newline delimited file with JSON on each line.......
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by killerswan 15y ago
I'm also used to seeing Do you want to do this? [n]:
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by killerswan 15y ago
This may vindicate what I've been saying for years: "we don't need to mine asteroids, there's more of whatever you want in some corner of Nebraska!"
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by killerswan 15y ago
Most of the interesting GUIs today are web sites, which he uses... Anyways, I think icons are overrated, and the text hyperlink rules the universe.
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by killerswan 15y ago
There isn't even a comparison on the graph between Erlang and Python versions!
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by killerswan 15y ago
And it is important to remember that all functions in JavaScript can (and some say "should") be defined this way. var c = 2; var f = function (x) { return (2 * x); }; var g = function (h, x) { return h(x); };

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