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   by api 16y ago

   The best way to do multi-threaded programming is to find some way to make your task data-parallel or divide it up into work units using a technique like MapReduce and then divide it into separate processes or separate worker threads that ru
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   by api 16y ago

   http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JunkyardCoding http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubeGoldbergMachine I've seen that before. NIH can be pathological, but so can anti-NIH.
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   by api 16y ago

   "What these hyperventilating "visionaries" overlooked is that the market pays for value added." THIS. Best quote in the article, and sums up the problem with a lot of trendy recent business BS.
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   by api 16y ago

   Sure, if you include all the big government subsidized, supported, and protected telcos like Verizon, Comcast, etc. IMHO any state-protected monopoly or oligopoly or any large recipient of state subsidies is not a "private" company.
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   by api 16y ago

   Anyone know of a good book on mathematics as a language ? What I mean is a book that spends most of its time simply introducing the notation and the concepts that it refers to rather than dealing excessively with the mechanics of doing mat
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   by api 16y ago

   Well, I don't work for Google but I know I would switch to Bing if this happened. Bing actually isn't that bad anyway. It's a legitimate competitor on pure technical merit.
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   by api 16y ago

   This sort of proves the point of the documentary film "The Corporation." Even if the owners, managers, shareholders, etc. of a corporation don't want to do slimy things, the system imposes a fiduciary responsibility on them to be slimy if
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   by api 16y ago

   Makes me wonder how today will be remembered... "An unemployed hipster tweeting from his iPhone outside a shuttered financial firm. New York, New York, April 2010. Reproduction from JPEG. Photo by Jack Smith. Holographic Storage Division, L
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   by api 16y ago

   It's pro-intellectual, but it's also a bit stuffy and introverted. If you like the quiet life, lots of academic options, and very tame social gatherings then Boston is for you. If you like excitement, extraverted social culture, and lots of
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    by api 16y ago

    "Tradition is the enemy of progress."
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    by api 16y ago

    For us, there's a music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4
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    by api 16y ago

    I don't know, but Boston is C++. Its mixture of hacker culture, hyper-IQ academia, and classical puritan social values is sort of like implementing closures with template metaprogramming and special #ifdefs everywhere for compiler backward
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    by api 16y ago

    [0] is awesome, thanks. I encounter a lot of stop energy, and unfortunately sometimes it works on me. I need to just ignore it.
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    by api 16y ago

    I agree... like an economic bubble, I don't think it's possible to ever "call the top" except in retrospect. But it does worry me. I don't think human beings like to think about it because it bruises our collective ego to think that there m
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    by api 16y ago

    But without continuously increasing GDP we will have deflation and will not meet our national goal of... hey wait a minute... don't our national goals look a lot like standardized tests? Maybe we were invaded by aliens a long time ago, and
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    by api 16y ago

    I don't think that's typical. You're dealing with an outlier there, and a case of blatant flat-out corruption. Most union members do not make anything like that.
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    by api 16y ago

    I agree that journals do not have the quality control they claim to have. I was responding to the larger idea that academia is somehow unique in having such a quality distribution.
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    by api 16y ago

    You fail in academia too, but the floor is different. With a startup, you cease to exist or drop off into an abandonware project. In academia, failure means you get lackluster appointments, little grant money, etc. You kind of stagnate. I'v
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    by api 16y ago

    I've experienced this a little bit too. The richer you are, the bigger the loopholes get. When you get really rich, you can do offshore accounting and all kinds of big-ticket tax-dodging that results in you paying less taxes as a percentage
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    by api 16y ago

    Correlation != causation. http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/piratesarecool.jpg I think per capita scientific achievement has declined, but I think it's because we did all the easy stuff already. We are starting to hit a wall where n
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    by api 16y ago

    Even though there's a lot of NYC bashing on this thread, you might like New York. You might try Chicago, Toronto (if you wanna go Canuck), or DC too. You can live car-free in all those places and they're less introverted. If you moved to Bo
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    by api 16y ago

    Nit pick: actually, capitalism would be about succeeding without a government teat to suck on. :)
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    by api 16y ago

    Since the Rupertster took over WSJ, hippie whacking seems to have even eclipsed good business and financial reporting over there.
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    by api 16y ago

    That's funny. If you took a look at startups, you'd find that 99% of them are me-too crap. Badly designed websites for Yet Another Social Networking Gimmick, bad mobile apps, outlandish bad business ideas, etc. 1% of them ever truly go anyw
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    by api 16y ago

    Lasers were thought to be a laboratory curiosity when they were invented. On the other hand, you have a ton of academics who are convinced that the "semantic web" is the next big thing. Part of the problem with science is that it's an activ
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    by api 16y ago

    #3 made me LOL Is there an exchange for senators? Do they have ticker symbols? I forgot about liability caps. Those are huge.
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    by api 16y ago

    America already totally forgot about that. All I read now is people blaming overpaid union workers (what few there are of those) for our government financial woes. Lobbyists? Bailouts? Corrupt contractors? Endless wars to make the world saf
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    by api 16y ago

    America subsidizes its rich tremendously. I have absolutely no problem with the genuinely self-made rich. I have a big problem with billionaire welfare queens. Direct subsidies: - In 2008-2009, America bailed out its financial class to the
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    by api 16y ago

    Which "Atlas" are you referring to? If you mean that the American people are tired of supporting a billionaire welfare class, then yeah, maybe.
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    by api 16y ago

    Point taken... and you have to take anything like what I wrote (or what anyone else in any of this thread writes) with some degree of salt. All human experiences are small samples, and cities are big places. But my personal experience in Lo