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by adharmad 13y ago
Nice comeback by facebook. Instead of defending facebook against the claims in the paper (facebook is not dying! - a very hard-to-defend position) they turned it around and used the same techniques used in the paper to show that Princeton i
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by adharmad 13y ago
You don't say! Especially given all his experiments on radios, chemistry and other gadgets. I have little doubts that he would have been a prankster computer hacker if he were in school today.
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by adharmad 13y ago
Seconded. The book is great! A small nitpick though is that it does not go into as much detail into the making of the iPod, iPhone and iPad products as much as the earlier Apple products (Apple, Macintosh etc.). Would have loved to read mor
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by adharmad 13y ago
I wonder whether organizations today are really so dumb that they need some education before making public knee-jerk reactions. Regardless of the rights or wrongs of the case, (and most of the readers don't understand or care) Yale wou
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by adharmad 13y ago
It is not just young gullible kids but even experienced folks. Note the oncoming glut in the Phd market. If people who work towards doctorates in highly specialized fields cannot forsee the supply-demand mechanics then younger people surely
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by adharmad 13y ago
The non-converging sum you have mentioned is also called Ramanujan Summation.
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by adharmad 13y ago
Yahoo's problems go deeper than that. Throwing a few million dollars at some acquisitions or talented execs may be a right step, but it is a far cry from fixing the engineering and work culture. That will take sometime, and I hope that
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by adharmad 13y ago
Shouldn't it be possible/feasible to form Python 2.7 and backport bugs/performance improvements from the 3.x branch? I am surprised that someone like Redhat has not done this yet. The Python community will not like it, but if
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by adharmad 13y ago
Its not meaningless, just misdirected. Perhaps directing their angst at their own government which instituted these regulations would be a good start...
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by adharmad 13y ago
Yes both unfair and unjustified. By your principle, force is the only way to interact between humans without regard to any individual rights. Why not extrapolate this in today's world? Surely even wars can be justified by this principl
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by adharmad 13y ago
I think cam_l meant libertarian.
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by adharmad 13y ago
That entire conversation is just surreal!
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by adharmad 13y ago
Google's response does seem a bit heavy-handed. Under less public circumstances, maybe a strong warning would have sufficed. However, the public nature in which RG got caught forced their hand. Google could not afford to be seen as con
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by adharmad 13y ago
RG's techniques were not honest and were costing other sites that were using legitimate techniques and playing by the rules their ranking in Google's search results (and maybe even revenue).
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by adharmad 13y ago
Care to elaborate? RG clearly broke the rules and forced google's hand here. Google has to protect the integrity of their search results against such gaming, else a day might come when all of Google's search results are due to bla
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by adharmad 13y ago
One of my favorite Perl books, albeit a bit lesser-known is "Higher Order Perl" by Mark Jason Dominus.
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by adharmad 13y ago
Can you please expand a bit on "Python for multithreaded things"? My understanding was that Python interpreter has a GIL, which limits the concurrency and performance.
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by adharmad 13y ago
Agree with you - they don't give a s t about people. But a major difference is that with Amazon (or any company) you have a choice - don't shop with them, don't work for them, convince others to do the same, document their b
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by adharmad 13y ago
any.do has this: an android/iphone app, a chrome plugin, and a chrome app.
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by adharmad 13y ago
You have a point - getting to where Amazon is now is hard. That should make us appreciate the perseverance, acumen and sheer willpower of Bezos. And I am not even mentioning the tremendous risks he took. So yes, duplicating Amazon is not ea
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by adharmad 13y ago
You will fit right in /r/politics.
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by adharmad 13y ago
You can make excuses for anyone and everyone in any situation :) But then if the assumption is that no one can learn unless taught, then our ancestors should never have made any progress and inventions....since, who was there to teach them?
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by adharmad 13y ago
Union intransigence has led to situations where management is constrained by not being able to fire bad workers and reward good ones reducing competitiveness and ultimately leading to inefficiencies and bad products.
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by adharmad 13y ago
So why not create a charity, with everyone paying 10 cents (or more!) and donate it to Amazon workers? Or to anyone else who has entered into a voluntary agreement, who someone else thinks is wronged?
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by adharmad 13y ago
They should neither be blamed, nor praised, and nor should be Amazon.
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by adharmad 13y ago
But what is stopping someone from opening competing operations to Amazon, compete with Amazon in the marketplace, provide more choice to workers, thus driving their salaries up? What is stopping the workers from learning some useful skill a
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by adharmad 13y ago
And such conditions are created by coercive and socialist governments, not companies like Amazon.
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by adharmad 13y ago
You should read ESR's blog on fast food strikers: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5034
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by adharmad 13y ago
That is incorrect. By holding a gun, that person has initiated force against you. Initiation of force is a proactive action that requires volition on part of the perpetrator. Amazon is not initiating force against anyone. If they provide hi
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by adharmad 13y ago
Thanks! I meant the vim colorscheme.

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