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No. No. No. Dates are to Integers as Date+Time is to Floating Point. You (we) -want- to compare them, but you need something akin to a language level specification for these. Other…

Ah recruiters. Several years ago I recall the story of one of the creators of a programming language who was asked how many years of experience they had with the language and the r…

caveat: I'm in the storage/file system industry. Everyone in the industry is looking at this. There is a great graph out there by one drive manufacturer that overlays $/GB for diff…

Looks great... just needs 10GbE instead of 1Gb. Add an SFP port and a RJ45 if all you got is a 1Gb or want to try your hand at getting 10GBASE-T working.

This seems a perfect candidate to test with some well known test games. Fischer's 17 ... Be6, for example in the Game of the Century Or 15 ...Nf2 (again Fischer and Byrne) http://w…

Indeed. Almost as many characters as in the google.com page source.

I think part of this is due to selecting "50 areas" to divide the country into. They mention that in the article and even say "it has a math basis" but don't explain why. If they c…

The market forces around laptops would seem to be a ripe area for serious academic study. I honestly can't find a laptop I _want_ to buy only ones I weigh silly trade-offs. (to be …

I was going to say something along these lines (tho more of a "cautionary tale" than absolute "no company can") Having worked for Nokia when they absolutely dominated the supply ch…

I may not understand the impact of this, but this sounds like "there is a limit to Google-scale solutions and we have hit it"? I know this is a gross over-simplification, but I'd a…

True, and we are getting cleaner production methods. The early production was incredibly inefficient and produced way more pollution than now. I can say _that_ with some certainty,…

"preindustrial" being tagged at 1900 seems more than a bit off. Steel boomed in the 1880's (starting in 1850's with Bessemer). I would think a better data set would be to look back…

This is a great way to teach math. Model something that is interesting but only needs to rely on some basic principles (geometry, series and limits in this case). Best quote of the…

This. One other thing I might suggest is some sort of variable cost model where every person gets 1 unit of water per day for free and then consumption above that scales up. Most p…

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Was going to reply along the same lines. Much better is asking questions like "Why did you choose this shade of blue?" Which leads to improved understanding from both parties: The …

Agreed this is arbitrary. Why not divide into 2*pi units and divide from there. Been a long time since I touched orbital stuff, but maybe add a "normalization" that factors in the …

Interesting, but Tesla is both just getting started and "feeling the space" in the auto industry. They have taken pride in taking a different approach to traditional car companies …

This. Tho I may complain about companies (Capcom, etc.) who would try to extract "more money that they are worth" it would indeed be lovely to see them offer a reasonably priced ar…

I work for the company that provided the storage for this. Our product is not a collection of commodity components but instead something very much more like an "appliance" that pro…

Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear. I get that in a normal company, …

A huge amen to this... The universe needs 4 size formats (11, 13, 15 and 17 inch) 3 screen resolutions (1920x1200, 2560x1600, 3840x2400 (17inch only) all 16:10) 2 keyboard options …

Came here to say the same thing. Will also add: If LEO does get polluted, there are options to put (more expensive) satellites into MEO. At this point, it becomes an economic argum…

Along the same lines: 1) Govt asks: Have you ever committed a crime? and waits for your response 2) Then asks: Have you ever jaywalked/gone faster than posted speed/etc? (any other…