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hardwear
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About hardwear
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…