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by arebop 16y ago
Take your not-so-much-of-a-troll company and allow them to hire not only researcher-employees, but also researcher-independent-contractors. Are they more trollish now? If not, what if some of their researchers band together to lower their i
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by arebop 16y ago
> Of the references you list, only the PageRank one has anything to do with the search algorithm. ... > There are more than 200 other signals used to determine relevance, and PageRank is only one of them ( http://www.google.com/corp
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by arebop 16y ago
Google isn't completely secretive. They just aren't completely open. Google's technical approach to recommendations is described in [ http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/ ] and if you want more recent and detailed info you can find it at [
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by arebop 16y ago
careful: does that mean your ISP can prohibit you from running servers?
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by arebop 16y ago
The San Francisco Police link to http://www.crimemapping.com/map/ca/sanfrancisco from their page at http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=1618 which has some discussion of their data policies.
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by arebop 16y ago
The real world is a varied place, and monster.com is not a uniform sample in my experience. One thing you'll find in the real world is corporate IT programming. This slice is well-represented on monster. You'll probably not have a shot at t
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by arebop 16y ago
What politician wants to be "anti-marriage?" So, it's politically infeasible to discontinue marriage (or more specifically the government's involvement in marriage). Reforming marriage laws to apply equally regardless of sexual orientation
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by arebop 16y ago
Relational databases are no longer fashionable, but they are backed by some great theory and they remain very important in commercial practice. Read http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/ for a quick introduction, but use http://www.postgresql
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by arebop 16y ago
The impression I got from this talk: http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/ycombinato... is that he became a businessman reluctantly.
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by arebop 16y ago
to try this add watexy@appspot.com to your wave.
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by arebop 16y ago
I have the same impression and I do think that if only Toyotas had frequent and widespread problems with breaking systems, you'd hear stories about "Toyota break failures" rather than "Car break failures." I tested my impression with data:
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by arebop 16y ago
I was your age in the late nineties, so I got that kind of job by volunteering to build web sites for my high school (sophomore year) and local government. That led to me giving the city's web hosting company configuration instructions, whi
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by arebop 17y ago
Java's not a very big language, so yes to that. The android libraries aren't dependent on a large subset of the famously huge Java library space, so no to that. I think you're right that many more programmers are immediately available for A
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by arebop 17y ago
I was under the impression that Wall Street typically develops and hosts in-house, regarding both algorithms and operations as competitive advantages. Is that incorrect, or is there some other reason to obfuscate?
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by arebop 17y ago
I think we're not very close. This discussion is about a 162 dpi display, so quadrupling that to 648 or quadrupling on two dimensions gets us to 2592 dpi. That's the right ballpark [1], but only on iPhone-sized devices. The iPad is 132 dpi
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by arebop 17y ago
When there's only one repo, there's no ambiguity about the content represented by a revision number. Revnums are perfectly adequate for the many situations in which frequent coordination with a central repository is completely feasible. Git
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by arebop 17y ago
Could you please elaborate on how the use of hashcodes rather than counting numbers for identification on an atomic repository botches history tracking, diffing, or merging?
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by arebop 17y ago
AspectJ ( http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/ ) is IMO a pretty good implementation. I've used it recently for an Android application. Gregor Kiczales ( http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~gregor/ ) used it for a conference tutorial I attended a few years ag
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by arebop 17y ago
I'm new at AUCTeX but so far, so good. I'm using TeX Live via MacPorts but I guess AUCTeX and XeTeX would get along fine.
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by arebop 17y ago
http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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by arebop 17y ago
I would like to mention that the Memoir class ( http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ ) pulls together many useful LaTeX packages and comes with a terrific manual. When I discovered it, I had no knowledge of LaTeX bey
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by arebop 17y ago
Zoning codes in much of the US do indeed prohibit mixed uses and urban densities and prioritize automotive infrastructure over human-scale street design. The cost for obtaining the necessary adjustments and exemptions by the usual permittin
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by arebop 17y ago
I'm looking forward to buzz supporting [1] atom:source [2] so that it's possible at least in principle to automatically ignore buzz duplications of the twitter/reader/whatever streams to which I also subscribe. That and salmon can help redu
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by arebop 17y ago
Besides the examples James Clark gives here (e.g., the likes relation on users and items, associating public keys with email addresses [1]), Google gives some examples at their webfinger page [2]: your office hours, your profile page, etc.
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by arebop 17y ago
See also an alternative implementation in the LTU discussion http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1331#comment-15165 . Also, for those who missed it, Guy Steele's older post about why tail calls are important: http://projectfortress.sun.co
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by arebop 17y ago
I had a similar experience in my first year after college working for BigCo IT. I'm somewhat surprised that you went through this at a tech company, so I guess "big" is an important factor. Initially I thought that as with my high school pr
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by arebop 17y ago
GHC, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, is implemented in Haskell.
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by arebop 17y ago
> Why should a changed climate result in worse droughts in places that are susceptible to drought? "Theoretical and climate model studies suggest that, in a climate that is warming due to increasing greenhouse gases, a greater increase
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by arebop 17y ago
awi didn't claim that catastrophe is unavoidable. In fact, the implication is that catastrophic consequences of anthropogenic climate change can be mitigated by international cooperation. Some actual IPCC reports are available from [1] and
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by arebop 17y ago
It is a poor comparison, because the services provided by the state of Idaho and the city of San Francisco are so different. The author should have compared the sum of budgets of all cities in Idaho, or better yet found cities that are indi

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