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by HillRat 12y ago
Oof. Just have them read Numerical Recipes while you're at it. Knuth is great, but it's dense , even when you discount the use of MIX. Definitely take a look at SICP ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text&
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Hotel chains want the right to jam your wi-fi hotspot(boingboing.net)
5 points by HillRat 12y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 12y ago
Well, it's either an indication that the cops are engaging in aggressive profiling, or are remarkably free of pressure to write tickets. Surprisingly, the answer seems to be the latter -- Chief Anderson is an attorney who was legal cou
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by HillRat 12y ago
It's a legal (or pseudo-legal) tic, based on a formal grammatical rule that "people" refers to a large mass (such as the "people of the United States"), and "persons" refers to a finite body of, er, people
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by HillRat 12y ago
Maybe the answer is less evil - I have the person doing the work because I can't afford to automate it yet, or it is not currently possible. This, I think, is basically the situation -- yet the end result looks a lot like the Evil
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by HillRat 12y ago
You know, I just got around to looking at the current FLC wage tiers for my area, and I have to admit I'm shocked -- I knew "prevailing wage" was a joke, but I didn't realize that it meant H-1Bs could come in at $64K a y
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by HillRat 12y ago
Nice piece, but selling to enterprise customers and selling to the government only tangentially overlap. While most of the advice is transportable, the number one rule of selling to any government -- federal, state, or local -- is get on t
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by HillRat 12y ago
You know, I'm going to do the unpopular thing here and defend USPS. For all its inefficiencies, incompetencies, and overall failures, they weren't wrong in what they said or did. If the USPS had to cover costs out of everyone who
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by HillRat 12y ago
Well, there is a doctor shortage, particularly in the general practitioner space, where salaries are much lower than specialist medicine; likewise, while there's not a shortage of lawyers, oversupply has pushed down wages (and push
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by HillRat 12y ago
North Korea has a terrible education system and an entimated 1 in 10,000 people have access to the Internet in North Korea. This is not the kind of environment that fosters elite super hackers. It's also not the kind of environment t
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by HillRat 12y ago
Inflammatory rhetoric during jury argument is already grounds for objection and, in certain cases, appeal even if not objected to. While the courts are obviously having to catch up to the use of new technology -- judges have traditionally n
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by HillRat 12y ago
Those Aldrin Cyclers are kind of a strange beast -- possibly useful in a speculative-fiction kind of way, but take more delta-v than a Hohmann transfer orbit and have a very high relative velocity as they pass Earth and Mars, which makes ge
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by HillRat 12y ago
I'm a bit late in catching up on this, but NeXT really was a commercial failure. It sold a number of its workstations to government agencies (notably CIA) and scientific teams , but in the early '90s exited the h/w business t
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by HillRat 12y ago
Really good point -- I had forgotten Apple's proliferation of incomprehensibly-named Power Macs and how Jobs reduced the line to the bare minimum. And, indeed, part of his strategy was to kill off Apple's actually innovative produ
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by HillRat 12y ago
Fixed-distribution stack ranking is bad for precisely the reason pointed out -- because of differences between team missions, personnel, and capabilities, the values are basically scale-free when compared across an organization. It also mea
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by HillRat 12y ago
It's a bit of a slight of hand that involves independently valuing each part of the company. Nonetheless, that 55% YoY loss in GAAP income doesn't look too good. There's also the fact that the company has $20bn in current and
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by HillRat 12y ago
[Mayer] highlighted various signs of promise. ... Display advertising revenue was down 6 percent, but the number of ads sold had actually increased by 24 percent. Good news, everybody! We're doing more and making less! Yahoo isn&#x27
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by HillRat 12y ago
I'm currently hiring a dev team for a startup, and found myself focusing on the older candidates simply because they asked the right questions about the product, project and existing tech burden. I need someone who's been to war a
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by HillRat 12y ago
To a certain degree, mind-body duality has persisted even in the absence of a belief in a "soul" -- it's just that we think of "body" and "brain" as separate entities, as if the brain is just piloting a me
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by HillRat 12y ago
One statement that stood out to me was Chris Lewicki's dig at NASA's "twenty year old computer" running Curiosity, with Lewicki adding the usual jab about his iPhone having more processing power. The RAD750 is based on a
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by HillRat 12y ago
The author helpfully explains the code by way of un-optimizing it to something readable: http://pastes.archbsd.net/graphitemaster/hashtable_explinati...
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Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns (CC BY-SA Ebook)(scg.unibe.ch)
2 points by HillRat 12y ago|1 comments
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by HillRat 12y ago
Well, Professor Nierstrasz has been doing language research since the early 1980s with a particular focus on object-oriented and concurrent OO paradigms, so he definitely fits your requirements. This should be taken for what it is -- a bree
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by HillRat 12y ago
You can do some interesting things by embedding XSLT and XML into script tags, then wiring them up with MutationObservers -- I just hacked together a quick-and-ugly example of a Knockout-style reactive interface, and it works just fine. The
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by HillRat 12y ago
Well, they aren't an accredited program, so they're pretty much eliding the regulatory aspects. The flip side is, its students are paying private-college prices (and over three times average resident tuition for state schools) f
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Understanding the un-economic Uber(talkingpointsmemo.com)
5 points by HillRat 12y ago|1 comments
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by HillRat 12y ago
I did indeed, thanks. :)
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by HillRat 12y ago
After WW2, the Turks were the largest standing army in NATO, had performed excellently in the Korean War, were a linchpin between Europe and the Near East, and had a longstanding historical antipathy towards Russia. Basically, the Pentagon
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by HillRat 12y ago
My father commanded a heavy weapons company on the Fulda Gap that included M-29s. Despite the fact that the Davy Crockett was very patently a suicide machine, the military did not explain to its soldiers that the warheads' radius of ef
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by HillRat 12y ago
Actually, the number of CS and Engineering degrees as a percentage of all awarded degrees hasn't appreciably changed -- 8.1%, slightly up over the past several years but still significantly below the ~9% average of the 1990s and 1985&#

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