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by angusgr 15y ago
I wish I was experienced enough I'm pretty sure in the video the CEO says they're much more interested in aptitude than experience, after all they hired a college freshman.
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Photography Everywhere - The Instagram Phenomenon(davidsanger.com)
3 points by angusgr 15y ago|0 comments
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by angusgr 15y ago
Apparently some of these jobs can pay quite well: http://shanghaiscrap.com/?p=6448
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by angusgr 15y ago
Going over the comments on the Nokia post again, it seems like the situation is yet more complex, maybe the Guiyu stories are not the majority case that it's been made out to be: http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/3/26/e-waste-recycling-export
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by angusgr 15y ago
Yeah, you might be right. My understanding is the bulk of (at least visible) fumes when soldering are from flux, but there are other fumes present. When you're not temperature controlled then you probably have other things melting and fumin
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by angusgr 15y ago
most e-waste recycling in China is not as clean and neat as this Now I come to think about it, the original blog post shows 3 people working hot air desoldering stations without any visible ventilation, and with only one wearing a thin re
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by angusgr 15y ago
It's a shame that most e-waste recycling in China is not as clean and neat as this. Case in point, the town of Guiyu: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1870162_182214... http://www.viceland.com/int/v14n9/htdocs/ctrl.php# (Do
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by angusgr 15y ago
If you choose to run that script then you're choosing to not vote at all (assuming votes can't be changed, which they can't now.) Which means you can't contribute to the "social confirmation up/down vote pile-on" problem either. So that par
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by angusgr 15y ago
At present, even from the home page, source code is only 2 or 3 clicks. Yes, but it's always at the "bottom" of the interface when you drill down. For instance, all of the content is there to make an interface which allows side-by-side co
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by angusgr 15y ago
I'm not super familiar with Go, but the author's ideal C replacement sounds pretty much like my understanding of Go.
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by angusgr 15y ago
Hmm. I've just put "Unlocking the Clubhouse" on my list of books to read, because this post is making me rethink one of my long-held assumptions about computer programming ability. I've long held the opinion that computer programming is som
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by angusgr 15y ago
These are all good points. I must confess, when I first looked at some shootout problem code a few years ago I remember being in violent disagreement about how some of the solutions were implemented (ie thinking "If I were solving this prob
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by angusgr 15y ago
While one specific benchmark may not sway your decision on which programming language to use for your own projects, it should certainly be a factor when designing a large web application for hundreds of thousands of users. Sure, but the b
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by angusgr 15y ago
Most (all?) large systems developed using Erlang make heavy use of C for low-level code, leaving Erlang to manage the parts which tend to be complex in other languages, like controlling systems spread across several machines and implementi
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by angusgr 15y ago
You're entirely correct on both counts. In fact, all 3 of those reasons given on that page are good ones. However, this was still posted under the title "Which programming language is the fastest?" - so I think it's worth exploring in exact
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Impressed By Slow Code(prog21.dadgum.com)
68 points by angusgr 15y ago|7 comments
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by angusgr 15y ago
Today, I might come up with a better algorithm, but back then, all I could find was a brute-force approach. The most complex puzzle I had seen at the time was taking hours to run. I bet that you could come up with a better algorithm now,
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by angusgr 15y ago
Yes! Also, even when you do care about performance, general performance isn't ever the same as specific performance. You have to optimise to your use case , not some arbitrary general use case like "render a Mandelbrot set" or "calculate p
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by angusgr 15y ago
As the page says, "No. Which programming language implementations have the fastest benchmark programs?" Which begs the question - aside from macho bragging rights, exactly what good is this kind of information? Assume I did have a specific
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by angusgr 15y ago
I think they mean "not voting but still being able to see how people voted on that particular comment"
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by angusgr 15y ago
AGPS is GPS satellites assisted by cell towers, and is in the iPhone 3G onwards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS The original iPhone had no GPS and always used cell tower triangulation. This varied a lot - I remember in Manhatta
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by angusgr 15y ago
For instance imagine you're a police informant or undercover cop: a technically savvy mob would be silly not to hoover up the location data of everyone in their org, Sure, but if they have root or physical access to the phone (which they
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by angusgr 15y ago
If it comes out that Apple is sending this data back to Cupertino OK, that opinion didn't last long. Seems like they are sending it back, but at the same time it's well known about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2466979
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by angusgr 15y ago
I actually think my honest opinion on this fiasco is "someone can derive a user's movements from this database, but how big a deal is it really?" I still think this should be fixed, Apple should explain it and release an update that pares i
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by angusgr 15y ago
To quote from my original comment: Apple probably didn't set out to track users ... That doesn't mean the data won't be enough to track movements in urbanised areas. Whether this is really a scandal, I don't know. But it certainly seems
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by angusgr 15y ago
Has anyone looked at the coordinates in the Wifilocation table? For cell towers, iOS has access to coordinates from the tower's signal itself. For Wifi, the best approximation would be the GPS location of the device. Unless it associates Wi
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by angusgr 15y ago
Sure, the article is a reasonable refutation to that part of the O'Reilly claim, and that is an important fact to clarify. The article goes further though, and claims it's "not 'recording your moves'" and is just a "general place at a gener
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by angusgr 15y ago
The conclusion about a "general place at a general time" seems entirely true when you're on a highway, moving quickly and hopping infrequently to large distant cell towers. No wifi points anywhere close. Just like the chosen example. I bet
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by angusgr 15y ago
Take a look at rk05.js. It makes a background AJAX request for a URL with the 2Mb hard disk image, then loads it into a plain javascript array and emulates the hard disk accesses to it.
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by angusgr 15y ago
It'd be extra awesome if it also emulated a front panel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pdp-11-70-panel.jpg

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