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by andyv 16y ago
"Principles can be expensive things"... You had me confused there.
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by andyv 16y ago
Netflix goes farther than that. People used to accuse them of sometimes shipping from a non-local center in order to let the mail delay slow down the rental cycle, cutting costs by throttling the service. Now, if a movie is not available at
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by andyv 16y ago
Of course, who could forget the puzzle in the "Family Guy" parody of WOF: G. .UCK Y.URSEL. (Phrase)
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by andyv 16y ago
Why, electronically, of course. But (1) the original paper ballots still exist and (2) the machines that do the counting are far fewer and are in a secure location. Fraud at this level can be detected by examining a random sample of ballo
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by andyv 16y ago
I am sooooo glad I don't have to vote electronically. Folks here who flip bits for a living know only too well how easy this is to do. Changing a thousand paper ballots? Hard, time comsuming, messy. Changing a thousand electronic ballot
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by andyv 16y ago
I had to chuckle about this too. Journalism and mathematics just don't work together at all...
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by andyv 16y ago
The converse is true-- you can get your developers to write slow and bloated code by giving them top of the line machines. Fast machines are good for quick builds, but taking the trouble to test the code somewhere else is usually too much.
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by andyv 16y ago
He probably should have compared one assembler program with another, but CRC computation is so simple that the C program probably generates optimal assembly code.