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hardwear

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About hardwear

First programming was in school with teletype paper.

First (and last) programming job was in FORTRAN, a summer college job.

Favorite language as a hobbyist, FORTH.

I work for a large generic pharmaceutical manufacturer, finding usually minor errors in handwritten documentation.

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    Comment #4401525

    do you have a link to the thread?

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    Comment #4400410

    "Don't be evil, Google. Even when the other kids on the playground are."

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    Comment #4400315

    The origin of money is inherently unknowable. It happens before the start of the historical record, and archaeological evidence will not have much to say, and anthropological studi…

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    Comment #4400278

    no, it is a computer simulation of knitted clothing, as for a video game.

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    Comment #4360631

    NY Times has a good article on this. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/11/garden/robots-that-build-b...

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    Comment #4341127

    advertisement for divorce attorney

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    Comment #4340992

    The original source http://fundamentalphysicsprize.org/

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    Comment #4293686

    It is a joke.

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    Comment #4293600

    Pigs are actually similar to humans in many ways. “What we've discovered,” says Lee, “uh, what we've concluded, you know, is basically that the machine that would fit a pig's teat …

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    Comment #4288947

    It seems odd that the patent system does not take into account whether an invention could be nearly as profitable as a trade secret or on the other hand, could not possibly be kept…

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    Comment #4288916

    Imagine a manufacturing process, and a transformative invention that makes the product 10 or 100 times cheaper to make than any method that does not use the invention. The inventio…

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    Comment #4288710

    For (1), Use a "mark as deleted" option, with extremely strict permissions on viewing deleted data, to protect privacy.

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    Comment #4243672

    Counting calories can not be a long term solution for obesity. A workable solution must be based on easier to implement facts such as the more sweets one eats, the more one craves …

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    Comment #4243639

    www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html?#spdy

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    Comment #4160857

    >the gap between the average annual temperatures She is probably using the percent difference, where an absolute zero scale should be used.

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    Comment #4160541

    It is a very old saying from when "prove" meant what "test" means now. Exception is meant in the sense of exceptional, unusual. "The unusual event tests the heuristic."

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    Comment #4120941

    However, for a few evolutionarily novel problems, evolution equipped us with general intelligence so that our ancestors could reason in order to solve them. These evolutionarily no…