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Comment Re:Outliers, much? (Score 1) 978

by nikMIT21 on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @10:16AM (#35720102) Attached to: Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax

From Wikipedia: According to a survey given to all NBA teams, the average height of all NBA players is just under 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m), with the average weight being close to 222 pounds (101 kg).

So for a normal, less-muscular person, 6'8" and 227 sounds about right.

Comment Only if it has Google Voice (Score 1) 284

by nikMIT21 on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @03:14PM (#30597958) Attached to: Google Nexus Rumored To Cost $530 Or $180 w/Plan

If Google gives a downloadable Google Voice app, I think a lot of people like me are going to rush to buy this phone. $530 + $50/month for 5GB worth of voice, sms, and web browsing is $1730 over two years. An iPhone is something like $200 + $120/month = $2400 for the same thing.

If they don't have the app, I'll continue my silent protest and stick with my crappy free phone and 2-year verizon contract. :(

Erlang's Creator Speaks About Its History and Prospects 48

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @09:28AM from the still-coy-on-the-meaning dept.

Seal writes "Erlang, originally created at Ericsson in 1986, is a functional programming language which was released as open source around 10 years ago and flourished ever since. In this Q&A, Erlang creator Joe Armstrong talks about its beginnings as a control program for a telephone exchange, its flexibility and its modern day usage in open source programs. 'In the Erlang world we have over twenty years of experience with designing and implementing parallel algorithms. What we lose in sequential processing speed we win back in parallel performance and fault-tolerance,' Armstrong said. He also mentions how multi-core processors pushed the development of Erlang and the advantages of hot swapping."

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