throwaway_exer

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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
Not sure what's wrong with selling Ubuntu disks. Initially, Stallman made a living selling GNU tapes, and pre-Internet, linux was often installed by a "friend" who made the stack of 40 floppies and charged a few bucks to cove
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
> Citation needed (especially that they do it for everyone). 1. We know that they can. If you were designing a mass survaillance system, you would store all incoming information into unique bins now, then later select on the bins of inte
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
1) For those who haven't followed the Chipotle crisis, apparently they were doing more ingredient prep in-store instead of at regional kitchen centers. That meant quality and cleanliness standards were not uniform. They say they have c
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
In the Craigslist/Newmark case, what one of the State Attorneys said was, "We don't care about a benefit. We'll just keep prosecuting until all of the sites are shut down." Newmark made the same case as the parent c
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
I think you're right. The wording about "no yaw damper" would have been clearer as "failed yaw damper" - I guess that's what was meant.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
I have a commercial rating. The HN title is wrong. What this is saying: 1) If you don't have a yaw damper, then you'll have a rough ride 2) because the autopilot will induce oscillation (dutch roll) after loss of GPS
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
Actually, bsder is correct. The reason BART was never extended from Millbrae to San Jose was that the intermediate towns, mainly Atherton, refused. Today, meaning right now, Atherton's city attorney is engaged in a battle with High Spe
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
1) opens them up to more patent infringement lawsuits 2) FCC prefers SDN radios be blackboxes 3) costs more money to document and support
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
I read the complete article, and I'm kind of skeptical of the conclusions. Having travelled in Asia, for example, they have the skill and parts to repair eyeglasses and cut lenses to old frames. (In fact, I get my glasses repaired in M
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
ts is very useful for timestamping unbuffered output to do simple profiling on production systems.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
I always thought Mars was red and dusty. That image looks more like Earth than not!
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
No, they only try cases they can win.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
The original CAP paper was intended as a high-level discussion item for students. Brewer has since emphasized that it is more of an academic approach than applicable to real-world distributed databases. Other computer scientists have either
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
> I don't get it. 1) The purpose of HN posts on Lisp is to fellate pg, nothing more. 2) One of the big reasons Lisp has failed commercially is that expert programmers create their own personal libraries, which cannot be taken to the
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
> I find it unlikely that without a free/open software ecosystem like linux or bsd In Taiwan and China, it's common to use Linux in university and to work on Open Source projects (see OpenWebmail and Linux Virtual Server projec
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
> The government is like a parent watching a child I think it's great that you've lived in a bubble all your life. But you should make a conscious decision whether to remain in that bubble, or find out the truth about the world
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
> believe global warming is human caused Why am I expected to believe something when you don't include a link to actual data? The reason most intelligent, scientific people that I talk to are skeptical is that scientists have done s
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
Your recollection is a little rusty. It's: 1. aviate (physically fly the plane, or more fundamentally, fly the wing) 2. navigate (know where you're going/situational awareness) 3. communicate (tell whoever needs to know)
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
> the three dimensional world of aircraft. No, that's not how it works. En route airways are 3d, but approaches are 2d and landings are 1d. Large US airports are already at capacity, and above capacity in poor visibility conditions
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
As a long-time rider, the VTA infrastructure is excellent, and the route coverage is good. It even has wifi. In the short-term, if buses left and arrived on time, that would be a helpful improvement. Longer-term, ride analysis from Clipper
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
Cassandra is not a solid solution. After problems with a node, often the management tools cause additional problems. I suggest anybody follow the cassandra-users list for a while before committing to it.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
This article made me feel uneasy since knowing the names of several particles doesn't mean we understand them. And superconducting would change our world, yet it's still early days for both the science and engineering of efficient
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
HN sentiment is that startups are only worthwhile if you're a founder.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
> Oh no! I need to buy a $5 piece of hardware to run this Java code? What kind of nonsense is that? 4 GB per program absolutely destroys VM consolidation. I love the look on managers' faces when they ask for a 1 GB VM and I ask them
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
I read the link. As a working DBA, it's breathless drivel. Unless you're an academic trying to get a grant or tenure, of course.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
The IRS will say that you "owe" quarterly, but there's no penalty for not doing so.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
The Yahoo board hired an incompetent business executive in Meyer, so the outcome was pre-ordained. (Not putting ads on Tumblr was a fatal revenue mistake.) The only thing that improved under Meyer was that Yahoo mail is a fairly good produc
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
K&R used short variable names, and C programmers are proud not be programming in Java, which encourages longer names. I personally think the variable name length should match the scope size, bu then I'm reasonable like that.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
I worked for a well-known startup in downtown Berkeley once. They talked everyday about moving to SF because of the difficulty in hiring people. Also, one employee was paying $8,000/month for a rental house downtown. Fremont has been I
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
If payroll taxes are shifted to the driver, then their take-home pay would go down.

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