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It is indeed interesting, but IIRC most of the funding for satellite launches (R&D for III-V semiconductors) came from intelligence, not NASA.

So, um, thank you, NSA! :P

Probably: our relatives ate them all! There's basically no corner of our planet, from the hottest volcanic ocean vent to the coldest ice at the poles, to the highest clouds in the air, where our relatives don't live.

Of course, it has taken us about 1/4 the lifetime of the entire universe to get this far, so YMMV. :D

Iff you were rich and white protestant.

My grandma remembered the Great Depression as a time when life improved.

I vividly remember reading that several years ago when it was first put online someplace. o_O

"without the JVM" ... "Once the JVM compiler is up"

Does not compute! :P

Am I the only one pained that none of the favicon, the "KNOOP" title, the links on the right, or the article's hyperlinks matched #FF4A00, or even eachother, even before I saw it? :D :D

A similar thing was done at Iowa State when I was there.

Seems like app.net is worth another look... https://join.app.net/

Anyone hated by lots of murderous psycho control-freak business owners is probably doing some good in the world.

Also: get an SSL certificate.

This is the organization which thinks hyperlinks from other websites can be a copyright and/or terms of use violation, too. Right?

That is not what I said. I think you will agree that working on the right things is more important than just volume of work.

No, he asked a question, and I simply shared an anecdote. Do you have a link to proof for 80%?

("Obviousness" is not just a problem for patent examiners, I see.)

Some facts: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/Reexamination_Information...

Ex parte re-exams result in 66% with claims changed and 11% with all claims canceled. Inter partes re-exams result in 43% with claims changed and 44% with all claims cancelled. Not bad.

Accomplishment is nice, but there's a lot more to it than simply working hours. A consistent thing: long hours without consideration of whether you could do even better with a change in process are always a mistake.

If you're doing the work in a situation where adding staff or changing commitments really will not help you, by all means, continue to work, and find whatever tricks you need to stay focused in that time.

Edison had a whole company helping him do his work, and I bet the best of piano players have a cleaning lady, a chauffeur, and a specialist in tuning pianos all helping them to spend more time mentally preparing (including via sleep) and with hands on keys.

I haven't seen statistics, but I know of many that have passed a reexam or two with flying colors.

There have been corporations who suppressed evidence that their drugs didn't work right. I'd describe that as publication bias, too, if not simply fraud...

Trademark disputes with hyper-litigious competitors would not be fun...

How was something written in the book a spoiler when you're reading the pages in order?

Many of the extinctions we see today are erasing genetic sequences that will take far more than another 4 billion years to develop again the natural way.

I suspect that the cost incurred by changes in the weather itself is irrelevant compared to these losses.

Reminds me of Sony... Perhaps they had this someplace: #define rand(x) 4

Sounds like Apple is doing a ton of things right, actually. Even tried to hire the guy!

All I know is that I wouldn't hesitate to buy a Hilux if I needed a truck.

The whole show is mean and unnecessary. That's why we love it.

Call this "Ruby Links" and make it less a temporary clone, more a permanent and vital resource.

I talked some folks into using JSON output for a tool, and am now in the midst of fixing both ends so that the output is valid JSON, instead of a newline delimited file with JSON on each line.......

I'm also used to seeing Do you want to do this? [n]:

This may vindicate what I've been saying for years: "we don't need to mine asteroids, there's more of whatever you want in some corner of Nebraska!"

Most of the interesting GUIs today are web sites, which he uses...

Anyways, I think icons are overrated, and the text hyperlink rules the universe.

There isn't even a comparison on the graph between Erlang and Python versions!

And it is important to remember that all functions in JavaScript can (and some say "should") be defined this way.

    var c = 2;
    var f = function (x) { return (2 * x); };
    var g = function (h, x) { return h(x); };