Radim

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901.
by Radim 15y ago
I think you're confusing "rights" and "freedom to persue". Capitalism is about free trade and voluntary exchange (of whatever); "right to profit" and "right to salary" sound both horrible and rather anti-capitalistic.
902.
by Radim 15y ago
Hungary is a backwater, and absolutely NOT representative of the EU, probably not even of the old eastern bloc. Unfortunately, it is. For example, the median salary in the Czech republic (the western-most "eastern Europe" country,
903.
by Radim 15y ago
I believe paganel is referring exactly to the "sub-optimal decision" part, in the explanation (not the questions themselves). And yes, this quiz seems a load of underspecified cargo-cult horsecrap. I surely hope the original research was of
904.
by Radim 15y ago
Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Throughout this thread I've seen derogatory comments about "overseas" talent, which is to be avoided like plague. Are the developers in USA really 10x more effective than in Asia/poorer parts of Europe, to warr
905.
by Radim 15y ago
You are correct; PhD is a degree where you are expected to demonstrate original research. See http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ for a visual guide to academic degrees :)
906.
by Radim 15y ago
No need to guess -- the answer to that question is "no". Universities started awarding PhD degrees at the (end of) the 19th century. If PhDs were a necessity for scientific breakthroughs, then there couldn't have been any scientific breakth
907.
by Radim 15y ago
Excellent, then our posts complement each other :) And sorry, I didn't mean to nitpick and your links are certainly useful; god knows what "years in the industry" means anyway.
908.
by Radim 15y ago
The guy says he's worked in the industry for years; presumably he knows about REST and ping. I read his plea in exactly the opposite way -- instead of learning more of (or about) these tools, he's after fundamentals. In my opinion, the "fun
909.
by Radim 15y ago
Didn't you just concede and repeat what the post said? Or I fail to see the argument.
910.
by Radim 15y ago
Sure, but that's not what this article is about ("5 min setup, for the masses").
911.
by Radim 15y ago
that's for the crawl sample, not the entire 4TB index, right? how much data was that?
912.
by Radim 15y ago
I doubt such companies would put their data "in the cloud". And if they don't, the cost of supporting this "straightforward" Hadoop infrastructure, both in terms of hardware, engineering and support, is so massive that the little elbow grea
913.
by Radim 15y ago
Ah, good old karma whoring times on StackOverflow, with inane questions that make people feel warm and fuzzy (and press the plus).
914.
by Radim 15y ago
He has a white paper (understandably vague) on the site: http://www.simmachines.com/resources/whitePaper.pdf It does sound interesting. These metric-space based methods usually make poor use of caches at all levels (random access). So whi
915.
Quake unbanned in Germany (C64 Rambo still on the list though)(esreality.com)
2 points by Radim 15y ago|0 comments
916.
by Radim 15y ago
In related news, a script called "spark: ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell" has over 1,200 watchers and 79 forks on github at the moment. Scipy is a monumental and long-running effort of creating a scientific library for Python. It's an incredibly advan
917.
by Radim 15y ago
I didn't see any mentions of banning "poets and historians" in the article (though I just skimmed to be fair). What I saw was China cutting public funding for some majors. If someone wants to be a poet, or a historian, or anything else, mor
918.
by Radim 15y ago
I was referring only to the "buy ticket and go" part, that is free travelling, which was made possible by Schengen. To work you indeed used to need a visa (some EU countries still need that even today btw), you are right there. The rest of
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Gamburtsev "ghost mountains" mystery solved(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by Radim 15y ago|0 comments
920.
Kissinger on China and Go(usgo.org)
1 points by Radim 15y ago|0 comments
921.
by Radim 15y ago
SKILLS AJAX C C++ Cocoa Touch C/Objective-C CSS/CSS3-5 HTML/HTML5 iOS SDK JavaScript PHP5 MongoDB/MySQL/SQL/PostgreSQL Java Ruby on Rails Xcode/Interface Builder XML A s
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Self-Made Man - No Such Thing(forbes.com)
3 points by Radim 15y ago|0 comments
923.
by Radim 15y ago
A different take on the same topic: Greg Egan, Crystal Nights: http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/
924.
by Radim 15y ago
There are decimal dots missing in the confusion matrix numbers (i.e., 190440 should read 19044.0, in case anyone else was wondering why the numbers don't add up). If anything, the article convinced me not to use Mahout. So, the author dec
925.
by Radim 15y ago
Certainly not. You are correct in that there is a logical and chronological continuation, but the EEC was an economic entity, as it's name suggests, and was meant to promote economic cooperation and integration. EU nowadays, on the other ha
926.
by Radim 15y ago
What you are describing is the Schengen Agreement, which predates the EU by quite a few years (1985 vs 1993). Sadly, out of the few positive things that people associate EU with, even fewer are really to EU's credit.
927.
by Radim 15y ago
Indeed, and where would gaming be without the late night pizzas?! I therefore nominate Mark Angela, the CEO of Pizza Express, as the gaming giant of the century.
928.
by Radim 15y ago
Sure, growth can occur arithmetically, but there is no possibility of exponential or even geometric growth. nitpick: "exponential" and "geometric" refer to the same quality (there are minor mathematical differences, irrelevant in th
929.
by Radim 15y ago
Re. your eloquent bracket: the "true number of bits", as in "the most compact description of any given state of a system", is in general uncomputable (see Kolmogorov complexity), for any sufficiently powerful language of description. If you
930.
by Radim 15y ago
Your "legends" have (had) no need to apply for jobs, so your point seems off-topic. More importantly, I found your comment unnecessarily offensive. The post you're replying to was fairly amicable and argued to the point, imo.

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