vital_sol

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by vital_sol 7y ago
I wonder how are they going to fuel up self-driving trucks? You can not drive 2100 miles on a single tank of fuel.
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by vital_sol 8y ago
Well, Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin is so far behind that they haven't launched anything to the Low Earth Orbit yet, and as far as I know they don't have plans to launch to LEO for the next few years. So wrg to reusable launch vehic
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by vital_sol 13y ago
Except for saving human lives in emergency situations. I doubt the self-flying plane would land in the Hudson river and saved all the passengers.
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by vital_sol 13y ago
I had similar experience at salesforce.com. Now I call it "failure to on-board." Partially my fault, partially theirs.
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by vital_sol 14y ago
Actually, this is exactly how transactions in Oracle work. The difference is - one db server (Oracle) vs. distributed system (Google)
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by vital_sol 14y ago
Infinite scrolling is what I hate most about Facebook UI.
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by vital_sol 14y ago
Oh yeah, I remember all those Morning Stand-Up Comedy Meetings at Salesforce.
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by vital_sol 14y ago
It would be very helpful if the article would mention, 114% of what exactly is the household debt. 114% of annual income, perhaps? Anyway, it looks like we are looking at few more years of decreasing consumption, to get to the year 2000 lev
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by vital_sol 14y ago
Cool!
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by vital_sol 14y ago
There is a novel by famous Russian writer, Pelevin. It is called Prince of Gosplan (Принц Госплана), written in 1991. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86_... Protagonist works for the huge gov bureaucracy in Soviet
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by vital_sol 15y ago
Ok, so let's say SOPA is implemented and my Internet provider is blocking some sites through their DNS server. Who would stop me from using another DNS server (located perhaps in Russia or China) that is not blocking those websites? This is
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by vital_sol 15y ago
Good point. I learned to dance tango in similar situation. And I never danced anything in my life before that. I'm approaching the magic 42 number of my age.
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by vital_sol 15y ago
I've been a Netflix customer for over 5 years. To me, Netflix is a company that does DVDs-by-mail well, and also trying to grow online streaming. Online streaming as it is right now is a baby. It grows fast as every healthy baby does, but i
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by vital_sol 15y ago
Social Security and Medicare are different from Medicaid and military budget, because they have different funding. Social Security and Medicare are funded by payroll taxes. Medicaid and military budget funded from Federal income tax. If you
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by vital_sol 16y ago
I've been a Netflix customer since 2005. Last time I tried to use their "streaming service," it demanded that I use IE instead of Firefox to watch a movie. I never tried it ever since. Yet I'm still renting DVDs from them.
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by vital_sol 18y ago
My friend was let go from Goog ~ 3 weeks ago. Was classified as "underperforming," put on PIP, worked his ass off while on PIP, and then fired without any severance. He was with Goog for 3 years, not a new hire.
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by vital_sol 18y ago
The biggest economy in the world is European Union, not US (as measured by GDP.)
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by vital_sol 18y ago
Here at salesforce.com (the company that does cloud computing/saas for businesses,) we have the data loader tool that customers can use to download all of their data locally as often as they wish. Also, there is an API so people can write t
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by vital_sol 19y ago
If Perl is ok, you can try these: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Bayes&mode=all