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by ajarmst 11y ago
I'd argue rather it's copyright law that is "inherently litigious", and that mechanism wasn't selected by Stallman. It was selected by those who began entailing it to source code, in contrast to the earlier ecosyst
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by ajarmst 11y ago
It sounds like you only have a sample set of developers at one company, perhaps being evaluated through the lens of some personal bitterness. It's possible that you may be simply experiencing a case of an organization that uses bad me
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Ask HN: Good Articles for CompEng Technical Communications Course?
2 points by ajarmst 11y ago|0 comments
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by ajarmst 12y ago
I used the MTS system at the University of Alberta as an Engineering undergraduate in the 1980s. At the beginning of the year, you were budgeted a certain number of CPU seconds which you couldn't exceed. We were VERY careful about no
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Bruce Schneier has often made the observation that air travel is much safer now, but not because of any of the "Security Theatre" antics of the TSA. Because of two facts: passengers know they should fight back, and cockpits are n
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Some members of the userbase even commit sins like generalizing from a few cases to the entire population or even make assumptions about unattested facts like, say, the educational qualifications of hypothetical people who haven't even
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by ajarmst 12y ago
For some values of "ADHD", whose existence, diagnostic criteria, prevalence and proper management are still wildly controversial.
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Doesn't appear to mention Lamport Timestamps ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps ) (Yes, THAT Lamport), which are one of the most elegant mechanisms to deal with the some of the discussed problems.
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Mimivirus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimivirus ), a virus which is actually twice the size of these nanobacteria has already prompted some debate about the relationship of viruses to the kingdoms of "life"
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by ajarmst 12y ago
The brain is an absurdly complex, adaptive system that is the product of millions of years of evolution. We're not even really sure where personality and the "me" part of the self come from, other than that they seem to have
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Exactly. When I saw the title of the post, my immediate thought was that the answer was simple: "because sundials were invented in the Northern Hemisphere." (Or at least they spread primarily from and in the north).
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by ajarmst 12y ago
"the people have spoken...most of it was complete gibberish" Linus has emitted the most elegant description of the Internet that I've ever seen.
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by ajarmst 12y ago
(1) It's not silent. The entire event was prompted by a crash and apparent shutdown corruption. (2) It's not "occasional". It's one exceptional event reported by one user.
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Actually, "important data". Claiming that a data storage service shouldn't be used for important data is claiming that it shouldn't be used.
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by ajarmst 12y ago
The author reports that he experienced a failure of the app prior to noting the issue (and implies that it may have been due to an improper shutdown). It's a reasonable hypothesis that this failure corrupted the local cache in a way t
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by ajarmst 12y ago
My friends like reading about every meal I eat on twitter! They'll LOVE the opportunity to see blurry things just like the blurry things I can see if I take my glasses off!
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by ajarmst 12y ago
One user experiences data corruption. Discovers that only one piece of data from entire store was not saved to cloud. Is nevertheless able to recover the corrupted data and resave to store and cloud. I'm not entirely sure this is su
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Oh, god. Not again. Stopped reading at "More Object-Oriented".
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Not necessarily. We do not need to know the mechanism of an illness to test the efficacy of a treatment. In fact, identifying an efficacious treatment is frequently a key step in developing a model of the underlying illness. There are a n
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by ajarmst 12y ago
The problem is that we've never had an adequate theory of what depression is, and the evidence seems to be that it is far more complex and situational than any one-pill-fixes-all approach could ever attack. The author is correct, but
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by ajarmst 12y ago
I know that as recently as about five years ago, Google recruiters were contacting people being helpful in the C++ chatroom on Freenode.
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by ajarmst 12y ago
I continue to be amazed at people buying into the ESR-authored consensual hallucination about his role and importance. His primary creative contribution to the community has been a fictional mythology starring himself.
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by ajarmst 12y ago
This article seems pretty imbalanced. Modifying your natural endocrine levels (and the decline of testosterone with age in men is natural) can have significant unanticipated long-term effects (witness the problem with estrogen replacement t
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Layoff Underway at IBM(spectrum.ieee.org)
274 points by ajarmst 12y ago|186 comments
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by ajarmst 12y ago
And another: http://serialmentor.com/blog/2014/12/27/post-publication-rev...
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Relevant rebuttal: http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2015/01/14/knauff-and-nejasmi...
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Knauff and Nejasmic recommend banning LaTeX(lemire.me)
4 points by ajarmst 12y ago|0 comments
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by ajarmst 12y ago
Another important point is that I doubt that the LaTeX users were permitted to use personal libraries of macros and styles. Typing a manuscript in raw LaTeX is simply something most LaTeX users never do---I have a directory of style files
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by ajarmst 12y ago
"For example, LaTeX users in our study attained better performance in the typesetting of mathematical equations, and it is not surprising that LaTeX users are typically in disciplines where mathematical formulas are frequent (e.g., mat
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by ajarmst 12y ago
I only read the abstract, but it seems to imply that they believed that the end result from using Word and the end result from using LaTeX were the same. That is, they were two techniques to achieve the same goal. But LaTeX users don&#x27

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