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by arebop 17y ago
Isn't your rebuttal obliquely preempted by "Trying to satisfy the typecase without using an else clause would then point up the need to handle all the other possible implementations of IntSet"? More explicitly, I'm thinking that the comment
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by arebop 17y ago
If it's difficult to find a good job* straight out of uni, then graduates must work hard at /finding a job/ rather than at something society values (e.g., engineering). If we're imagining better worlds, I think it would be better to have a
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by arebop 17y ago
The transcript is available from http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transc... for those who are interested in more.
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by arebop 17y ago
NT 3.51 was released in May 1995 [1]. Netware 4 was released in 1993. Netware 4's big feature was NDS, a scalable directory service with an LDAP interface. Windows got that feature in 2000. Meanwhile Novell released IntranetWare with TCP/IP
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by arebop 17y ago
I was at Truman for undergrad and WUSTL for MS. I think Truman's undergrad curriculum is fine and the profs care about teaching more than anything else. I'm glad I took courses in philosophy, art history, literature, anthropology and so on;
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by arebop 17y ago
SharePoint is essentially an HTML + JScript + MSIE-DOM interface to a network file share full of MSOffice documents. It's a modular ASP.NET application with some modules that help you use the Web to emulate the shared folder setup your IT m
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by arebop 17y ago
The hiring committees don't meet every week, so it can take a while to hear back after each interview. They're very courteous and they like to collect data about their own performance, so you should expect to hear back from them either way.
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by arebop 17y ago
An interesting ICFP video ( http://www.vimeo.com/6615365 ) I watched yesterday* about proofs, code, and teaching introductory classes seems relevant. *linked from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=862686
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by arebop 17y ago
In my experience working in IT, the cost of MSIE6 is implicit and invisible and there's even some fear about security and legal problems related to free software. These companies are still targeting MSIE6 first and sometimes only in complet
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by arebop 17y ago
presumably details on why Leopard ASLR "adds no real security" are discussed in http://www.matasano.com/log/986/what-weve-since-learned-abou... , which will eventually be reachable again?
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by arebop 17y ago
Broader definitions than yours are in common use. You might find this classic paper: http://www.is.pku.edu.cn/~qzy/plan/lits/FundamentalConceptOf... and this updated survey: http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/OnUnderstanding.A4.pdf interes
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by arebop 17y ago
Some statistical analysis of university suicides can be found in Is Suicide at MIT a Poisson Process ( http://philip.greenspun.com/research/suicide-at-mit.pdf ).
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by arebop 17y ago
It is relatively easy to measure the outcome of studying for the bar or going to French club. Clear benefits seem like a good explanation for society's willingness to ascribe high value to these activities, compared to activities with less
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by arebop 17y ago
I think compilers exist largely to relieve humans of the tedium and difficulty of dealing with the target language. Accordingly, I'm more likely to look for a better compiler or a more flexible metaprogramming language or approach than to s
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by arebop 17y ago
I think the idea is that taste can be developed. A musician probably will like the sound best from a monitor, but someone who doesn't pay as much attention to sound has a less nuanced appreciation and taste. Cheaper speakers are often biase
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by arebop 17y ago
Not all viruses cause mutations, but some do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrovirus
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by arebop 17y ago
I use http://seleniumhq.org/ . The docs are a bit rough, but I'm reasonably happy with the framework. The core functionality is implemented in JavaScript, and I use it on my continuous integration server to test web UIs on Firefox, Safari,
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by arebop 17y ago
somewhat cheaper ($110/ft^2) [ http://www.cusatocottages.com/buildingyourcottage.php ] and more beautiful: http://www.katrinacottagehousing.org/original.html , http://www.cusatocottages.com/photogallery.php
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by arebop 17y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/184...
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by arebop 17y ago
This seems to be a sort of afterthought from his "On Carving Your Initials" speech: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/06/12/Convocatio...
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by arebop 17y ago
For one thing, there are lots of C# programs that can run on Mono outside of Windows, even if some parts of .NET are not yet implemented.
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by arebop 17y ago
This is an instance of the subset-sum problem. It's NP-Complete. If there were a polynomial-time way to incrementally update the solution, then you'd have a polynomial-time way to solve any instance. So finding an easy way to solve this pro
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by arebop 17y ago
According to the article, Ozzie objects to the way that Wave has sprung almost-fully-formed from Google rather than evolving slowly by the codification of observations about successful implementations. The headline is a claim about what Wav
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by arebop 17y ago
No, it's mostly about what founders can learn about startups from reddit's experience.
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by arebop 17y ago
Does it mean "fast" or "efficient" or something else? Both those words are shorter and more widely understood.
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by arebop 17y ago
Maybe you could find a way to make time, perhaps by starting with a shorter initial phone screen. Interactive dialog has much better predictive power compared to resume+coverletter in my experience.
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by arebop 17y ago
Many people have thought about it, but I haven't heard of any solid implementations other than possibly the RoR client-side validation plugin mentioned by roryokane [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=635997 ]. A recent article in CACM de
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by arebop 17y ago
Global data is bad; only the memoization code needs to access the cache; why expose the cache more broadly than that? More explicitly, one problem with overexposure is namespace collisions.
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by arebop 17y ago
Is FB more like the NYT or the ATT telephone network? I think it's a stretch to claim that FB is "saying" the things that users post on walls. Perhaps a better offline metaphor would be a mall tossing out someone for wearing an objectionabl
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by arebop 17y ago
I've used it for maybe six hour intervals with no noticeable problems.

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