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by aplusbi 15y ago
Yes, but since Netflix doesn't use Silverlight for the iPhone/iPad it's not like it's going to make a difference one way or another. MS has licensed their DRM, but they will not license it for use with Moonlight. From my understanding, the
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by aplusbi 15y ago
Probably not. Moonlight doesn't have the DRM necessary (and won't - MS has no intention of releasing it on Linux) and Netflix doesn't use Silverlight/MS DRM on phones anyway (AFAIK). From what I understand, on the iPhone/iPad Netflix uses
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Out of curiosity, how did you verify that the emails were actually sent before storing the hash. What would prevent me from storing a hash on your server without sending the email?
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I think that people should be able to negotiate their salaries even if it leads to a large disparity in base salary. Without negotiations, companies risk losing talent. However, I think the way raises are calculated needs to be revised. C
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I don't believe that drblast was trying to make this about a battle of the sexes but was just using gender as an easily identifiable example. The article states that Postgres isn't a meritocracy because the hackers aren't from diverse backg
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Do you have a citation? I checked wikibook's Terms of Use and it didn't say anything about giving up ownership.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
There are several factors that led to this, primarily: 1) written modifications (with signatures) were allowed 2) under Delaware law, conduct or statements could modify a written contract with a signed writing clause Clearly in this case st
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by aplusbi 16y ago
If you assume the goal of an interview is to hire "good" people then you're right. If you assume the goal of an interview is to not hire "bad" people, then I think you're wrong. I think in practice it's almost impossible to determine if so
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by aplusbi 16y ago
What I find especially ironic is that while I completely understood that I could get the x and y values using r cos(t) and r sin(t) and used it a lot when I worked for a video game company, it's only more recently that the idea "clicked".
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Radians are pure numbers (which is why I left them out). That said, I see what you mean now and I agree. sin(1/4 of a circle) makes more sense than sin(1/4 tau) which makes more sense than sin(1/4 360).
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Perhaps you are correct. I don't remember the order in which I learned various concepts but I probably learned about degrees before pi and certainly before trig. Since radians involve irrational numbers I can understand it being more diffi
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by aplusbi 16y ago
It's not simpler, it's identical. 1 "cycle" = 1 tau = 2 pi. And in any case, I think using degrees to teach trig is a terrible idea and only causes more confusion later. sin90 = 1 makes no sense, and the fact that that's my first thought
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by aplusbi 16y ago
It's not about errors but understanding. A lot of math involving trig is abstract enough to be confusing to most people. Tau makes is [slightly] less so. For example, understanding that sin represents the y value of a point on a unit cir
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I think you partially missed the point - it's not that throwing exceptions is slow, is that even having them in your code is [allegedly] slow. According to the article there are two methods used to implement exceptions in C++ - one that has
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I stand corrected. It's hard to tell from the video.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I don't know about that. While that system is clearly easier to use, from what I've heard about echolocation it provides much more detail than that system. If you look at my other post, I linked to a video of a kid who used echolocation.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Here's a teenager who could do the same thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBv79LKfMt4 The video is from when he was 14, he died from cancer at 16.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
>If I deleted my digital copy that I sent to someone, would that be okay? Ethically I believe this to be equivalent to lending a book/cd/whatever to a friend (this has been done, actually, as a protest/stunt. A guy attempted to sell an
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I have occasionally brought my laptop to the library near my office to work. However if I'm at home and want to head out, the nearest coffee shop is 4 blocks away and the nearest library is 20.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I wonder what the statistics would look like if we normalized the data for these things. There are plenty of middle-aged geeks without mortgages, kids, etc and plenty of younger geeks with them.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
The "dating" process only works when both parties are available. If the candidate currently has a job asking them to take time off (or worse, quit without a guaranteed offer) is asking a lot.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I always look at that stuff and I ask about it during interviews, but I still ask general technical questions. Sometimes the candidate's contribution to a project is nothing more than writing the README file.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I interviewed a candidate who had an impressive college project involving compilers on his resume. Almost any question I asked him about it was answered with "I don't know, the other guy did it." Even asking him "What did you work on?"
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by aplusbi 16y ago
This sounds like a great idea but I feel it has a couple of short-comings. Most importantly is that it can be counter to the idea of preferring smart, motivated candidates over candidates that are well versed in certain technologies. Addit
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I posted this in the comments on the blog, but I'm reposting it here for discussion: I've done a lot of interviewing and have been interviewed myself a few times so I think I have a good amount of experience in the process. There are a lot
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Most of the interviews I've been to involved coding. The only one that didn't was my first - but they required a code submission. My reputation/referrals have allowed me to skip parts of the process but never the whole thing (I've skipped
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I think the point is that of the information available on students, math performance is the best indicator for cs performance. Obviously there are outliers (such as yourself). However I don't think there are any reasonably objective statis
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by aplusbi 16y ago
You're going to want better (different, rather) citations if you want to justify your claims. None of those citations give reason to be wary of allowing a male teacher to be alone with a student. What are the statistics on the number of me
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by aplusbi 16y ago
While I agree about the lack of supporting evidence for her claims, nothing in the article suggested to me that she isn't concerned about pedophiles, nor do I think this article was really near a gray area at all. >Of course it's stupid
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I am not trying to take a stance for strong copyright. My stance is that there are (or can be) non-artificial ethical reasons to not commit copyright infringement.

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