NotOscarWilde

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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
A slightly off-topic comment, but being an early-stage PhD in theoretical CS with my thesis topic on approximation algorithms for scheduling, I would like to know whether there are some theoretical problems related to these VM schedulers us
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
What you describe is verbal sleight of hand. With one hand, one pretends the word "narcissist" has only the precise meaning of the paper, and with the other hand one does not shy away from using that word outside its context, so t
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Indeed, but it is critical to me (and I think I'm not the only one in academia for which it is so) that it uses the arXiv funding model -- donations to be sustainable -- and not the Github/Authorea model, where you pay for each pr
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Hypothetically, if no more evidence for or against this claim surfaces, we probably should give him the presumption of innocence on this point -- and since "avoiding the proper channels" is likely illegal, we have to assume that h
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
>I then ask if, hypothetically, there was a drug developed which produces intense happiness for one hour but had no side effects, caused no long term damage and was totally benign, would it be morally acceptable for a person to take tha
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> I have a laptop from mid-2009 that's still good ... was my portable machine until late 2013. I don't think this should count as a counterexample. You have switched laptops in 2013, and while there could be many valid reason
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
It seemed to me the post was tiptoeing around the reason of the dismissal, and the author even alludes to the story behind it with: > Seemingly everyone’s got stories of being stuck under shit managers, or dealing the fallout from thin
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> I applied for a job at Fog Creek Software in 2012 where I was accepted for an internship Does this mean you applied for a position but you were offered an internship instead?
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
A graph G is isomorphic to H if they are the same up to permuting the vertices. If you have a graph 1 -- 2 -- 3 (a path on 3 vertices, with 2 edges), it's structurally the same as 3 -- 1 -- 2, only the labels of the vertices are differ
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
I think it could also be related to Czech Republic being the #1 country in terms of beer consumption per capita [1]. It's definitely a national drink there. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_b
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
My roommate likes to say the following, which I strongly agree with: "Several years ago, when Diaspora hit the big news channels, we hackers should have picked up the slack, joined en masse, building a decent early adopter user base wh
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
Agreed. My biggest regret is that it is so expensive to build an ergodox, even if you want to do the soldering yourself. Otherwise, I'd build a few for my keyboard-conscious friends. To put my claim into perspective, the cheapest way t
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
I agree, although my biggest criticism of the trio of Bernstein's articles is that they are all so vague; I have many questions that I'd like to see answered, and neither this series of posts nor the linked news posts by The Guard
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> Project Managers have to close issues that they don't actually plan to tackle, which is a very difficult exercise in honesty and transparency I understand honesty, but I don't see how closing bugs makes it more transparent
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
But even with the comma there's still the intepretation of SiriusXM being a religion, right? (ESL speaker here; that's how I might interpret it.)
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
* > computers will never be able to do X* I like your point; it compliments itself nicely with my previous one. Soon enough, computers may be able to do many things very well -- however, hackers are not catching up to corporations. What
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
I loved The Diamond Age as well, although I remember mostly bits and pieces now: * cult sex scenes * a forced-participation theater that humiliates you using Occulus Rift-technology * the Kill Bill-esque ending * ... and, most of all, the i
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> I'm forced to use OS X at work. I'm using Linux at work (or school -- PhD student here) and having only a non-root user account is a big pain for me. Package managers are unavailable, direct hardware access as well (I can&#
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> Alternatives include: Frankly, I do not believe those are viable alternatives. Suppose I put food in front of a hungry man. Formally, his options are eat or don't eat, but it's clear that they are not equal from his point o
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
>Netflix exists because of illegal sharing. And even though Netflix is pretty awesome, look at what all the established companies are doing to try to screw with Netflix. And let us not forget that Netflix is still unavailable in many c
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> In academia, if you're any good, you're a threat to other good people. You try to be nice to each other, but when it's you and a few dozen of your closest colleagues in pursuit of the one or two tenure-track openings in
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> And no, the jobs you are thinking of are certainly not just as unavailable. It really depends on what you can see yourself doing. My closest compsci friends are all employed by either big companies working on their backend or by &quo
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> I'm now an independent software developer. I already had a side project that was doing pretty well Is it bringing enough money for you to pay half of your family's bills? Forgive me for being so direct, but "independen
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> For academe, there is no reward, save the "academic points." I disagree. First of all, there is a rather high place in the societal ladder. A university professor is still somebody who induces awe, plus the job has this &qu
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> Do you really think that they would go ahead and implement a such system without rigorous testing of effectiveness? I am sure that they tested it extensively with users, AND with bots, and decided that it is better than the current sy
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> When I asked why this rule was in place, it became apparent that the only real reason was an irrational dislike of statistics. Can you reference those claims? If I ever repeat this claim, I would prefer to be able to link to the admi
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
The way I understand the agreement, if you accept it you are bound to use JAMS as the arbitration company -- you may have choice of a specific arbiter inside that company but you have to use that company. Is my understanding correct?
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
Being a PhD CS student, I find it professionally disappointing that this technology arises mainly for graphic artists where the translation from ink to content is basically dot per dot. Or dot per vector, but in this case already arcs have
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
> [1] Quote translation found in [2] from Alexander Grothendieck, Récoltes et Semailles, 1986, English translation by Roy Lisker, www.grothendieck-circle.org, chapter 2. Did Roy Lisker translate the book in its entirety or just partial
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by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
Mark Karpeles programmed the website xkcd1446.org: https://github.com/MagicalTux/xkcd1446

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