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by Jabbles 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction Google doesn't necessarily want the richest companies/developers to attend. Nor are they interested in extracting the maximum amount of money (though of course they could do a few charity auctio
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by Jabbles 14y ago
At what voltage?
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by Jabbles 14y ago
I advise you to read the actual paper rather than this mechanically-recovered article (which doesn't link to it). http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/pdfs/A...
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by Jabbles 14y ago
This has come up before. Although this paper is considerably better presented than the previous one, the conclusions are still the same - the author is biased and the evidence is weak. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055227 http://n
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by Jabbles 14y ago
No, VP8 is not necessarily "free", there are numerous companies that may wish to sue the users of VP8 over patent infringement. Qualcomm, Broadcom, Samsung etc. (Why would you want a free alternative when you're the only few companies that
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by Jabbles 14y ago
May I recommend https://js-quasis-libraries-and-repl.googlecode.com/svn/trun... as a good read. It examines a system that can safely escape content based on its context, and forms the basis of one of the template packages of Go.
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by Jabbles 14y ago
I'm not an expert in databases, but a boolean that can take 3 values smells wrong to me. Is this regarded as best-practice?
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by Jabbles 14y ago
How big a slice of toast do you need to use all this peanut butter?
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Couldn't you just apply the same techniques to generate 1024 pixels in less than the filesize it takes to generate a video? If he's having trouble explaining it to people, it's because he's not wording it correctly. And if he's wording it c
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by Jabbles 14y ago
The top search result (for me) is http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/24995-security-two-fact... which appears to have been merged with a thread to create http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/35674-two-step-authenti... If you check Go
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Can you really claim that it's a "one-liner" just because you can format it so that it has no newlines? You can do the same thing with C, but I wouldn't let anyone do it in my codebase. Perhaps the F# community feels differently?
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by Jabbles 14y ago
at Google, where hundred-hour weeks are de rigueur Really? Maybe for execs, but that's not the impression I have from people I know there. Anyone care to comment on Google's work/life balance?
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by Jabbles 14y ago
A well-worded email claiming to contain a PDF CV of an ambitious graduate could easily be opened by a CTO. Or "Check out my blog... (I specialise in Javascript so please turn NoScript off.)" The possibilities of social engineering are scary
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by Jabbles 14y ago
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/CHANGELOG.m... This is just a patch release - bug fixes, etc.
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by Jabbles 14y ago
patio11 has good advice on this: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Oh. That does seem likely to cause resentment.
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Well where are the details about the nursery? Is it just for her? If it's available for all employees you could rewrite the headline: Mayer builds Nursery for employees' children to compensate (in advance!) for loss of remote working.
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by Jabbles 14y ago
I said orbit.
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by Jabbles 14y ago
That's unfair! The algorithm is in the function "escape", not the function "fractal". escape's function signature is much simpler: int escape(std::complex<double> c, int iter_max, const std::function<std::complex<doubl
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by Jabbles 14y ago
It would probably throw up enough dust into orbit to prevent anything landing for the next 1000 years :(
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by Jabbles 14y ago
for legal reasons Oh come off it. You mean illegal reasons. You know you do. If you believe people should be free to buy any kind of drug they wish then say so, I don't think HN would view it as too radical a view. But your post sounds
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by Jabbles 14y ago
So what Google hardware was he referring to when he said it had been a complete failure? Their in-house servers? I suppose they haven't sold any of them...
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by Jabbles 14y ago
certainly all their hardware has been a complete failure in the marketplace Nexus 7 sale estimates are 4.6 million. Fine, so they haven't ousted Apple yet, but it's by no means a "complete failure". I like mine :) That seems to be the onl
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Interesting, but I hope he's read all those books and isn't just listing any he's found...
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Have they removed any features?
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by Jabbles 14y ago
I'd like to see someone buy their way onto http://www.thegatesnotes.com/books Although I don't always agree with Bill on whether a book is worth reading or not, it's a reasonable indicator that I'll find it interesting and intellectually
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Anyone who's studied information theory would destroy that puzzle though. In the same way that someone with a physics degree would perform way above average on a "count the stars" question. Or someone whose dissertation was on computational
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by Jabbles 14y ago
That sounds interesting. Do you have a paper on that?
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by Jabbles 14y ago
I think some pretty basic clustering algorithms would reveal this self-serving subset of participants in SR. The fake vendors and fake buyers would have to interact with the real ones (and positively, with real drugs) in order to go unnotic
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by Jabbles 14y ago
It may be harsh to sum up this article in a single word, but I recognise this as "burnout". It's not uncommon, and it affects people in different ways, but is usually accompanied by a (sudden?) drop in ambition.

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