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Genetics plays a part. Diabetes in Asians is a different disease; the excess fat in Asian men is stored in the muscles rather than around the belly. 150 generations of eating rice …

Color strikes me as the pets.com of 2011.

Yes. I have seen many projects fail in big companies because management are frightened of programming. The "risk mitigation" is using large teams of people with the right "skillset…

Exactly: There are people who have repeated the same year of experience thirty times in a row ...

> Single founder can get feedback from other sources too: customers, friends, etc. > On the plus side that feedback can be less biased. But the cycle time is so slow. Feedback with…

Co-founders can create a feedback loop between themselves that a single founder cannot. Comparing my "single founder" and "one of two" experiences, when there is another party the …

Wasn't that Sun?

> Imagine if Microsoft had vetted every DOS and Windows app We associate the BSOD with Microsoft software. However, in the majority of cases, the bug is in someone else's code or i…

I have a D630 and I agree; it is a laptop and does all the right laptop things. However: I got my wife a Dell E4300 and had many problems. Other colleagues have got other E series …

I agree, and it's not just the MacBook Pros, it's also the keyboard that comes with the non-laptop Macs. My new Mac Pro came with a keyboard that was comparable with the keyboard o…

I thought that applying for a job at Google was applying for a job in advertising ...

Yes. Just back from holidays and a problem with beer was concerning. Very relieved that it's just the economy.

Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (Jim Gray & Andreas Reuter) isn't just one of the best database textbooks, it is one of the best computer science textbooks. It is a…

Yes, there will be many more cores, but I suspect that the cluster programming model will start applying to smaller and smaller systems. I can imagine a system where each CPU die h…

I think clusters are going to start getting much smaller ...

Yes.

The difference between letting an exception bubble up and seeing a system call fail and aborting is pretty small. Either way, you need a higher level way of dealing with it. One of…

I disagree with both these points: In some cases old, actively maintained code is more reliable. However, I have seen many cases where old, actively maintained code (depending high…

Yes, this is true: A lot of embedded code is poorly tested. Even more is poorly designed and written by poor programmers (like most software.) Some people have to deal with the mac…

> I use this on my mail server and with 200 users > I've yet to ever get a false positive. How do you know? I don't see how you would measure that; if you can figure out it is a fa…

Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Kunth and Patashnik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Mathematics

Sydney is real estate, through and through. London: "You should have been here 150 years ago" is essentially "you should be more aristocratic". I think that signal is strong in Lon…