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by arebop 18y ago
I think Xichekolas had in mind adversarial techniques such as the one described in http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/mdmspe.pdf . That paper assumes O(1) pivot selection.
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by arebop 18y ago
OK, but on the other hand, when has their tech ever been the best in some category? I can think of some interesting things they've done in MSR and even a couple of decent products they've made, but on the whole Microsoft's success in busine
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by arebop 18y ago
Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor is a classic you should probably read. Burton Malkiel's Random Walk Down Wall Street was also interesting. I hear that Hull's Options Futures and Other Derivatives is a good intro to the more mathe
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by arebop 18y ago
I recently flew Southwest and sat in an exit row. The flight attendant came by to give her spiel, and the 100 pound young woman sitting next to me expressed doubt that she could lift 50 pounds. I think it took about 5 minutes of pleading(!)
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by arebop 18y ago
I've heard that U.S. universities have similar "black books." It's too bad they don't publish their data, because that would be an interesting way to compare the performance of high schools.
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by arebop 18y ago
Those Enterprise intranet apps are very often dependent on IE6 bugs. Yes, some admins are also concerned about ease of SMS or WUS deployment, or central control over preferences such as proxy settings and the home page, but bug-compatibilit
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by arebop 18y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/reesoo.html is a very good short survey of the OO paradigm.
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by arebop 18y ago
Microsoft is pushing (relatively) fresh ideas into the mainstream, but in my experience the overwhelming majority of .NET programmers aren't interested in new things that don't come from Redmond. caustic said it more generally: C# has some
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by arebop 18y ago
It obviously is true that there is confusion about the project's goals, but the confusion is not a simple matter of Stallman's passion coloring his perception. Even today, vestiges of an ambition and commitment far beyond delivering machine
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by arebop 18y ago
"Galenson’s idea that creativity can be divided into these types --- conceptual and experimental --- has a number of important implications. For example, we sometimes think of late bloomers as late starters. They don’t realize they’re good
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by arebop 18y ago
I try to write lapidary code, but sometimes it includes arbitrary personal choices. Also, there are times when I can't find a way to avoid combining ideas that I'd like to express separately: maybe I'm doing a performance optimization, or m
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by arebop 18y ago
RE: restrictions on who is able to become a member: "Membership Qualifications You must satisfy one of the qualifications below: 1. Bachelor's Degree (in any subject area); or 2. Equivalent Level of Education; or 3. Two years full-time empl
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by arebop 18y ago
"the lack of ActiveX support will create problems in the enterprise and there are other usability issues that will occur (such as the password entry and popup problems our reader experienced)." So Enterprises that invested in IE application
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by arebop 18y ago
I was disappointed that it doesn't seem to offer support for user scripting a la greasemonkey. It seems like add-ons might be intentionally discouraged: 'The problem with revamping existing browsers to accommodate this concept is that they
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by arebop 18y ago
At my Fortune 500 company, permission to use Firefox is only granted to programmers who can convincingly argue that they need it for compatibility testing on Internet-facing applications. It's IE6 for everything else. The reason is that Fir
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by arebop 18y ago
Right: by "helps" I meant to suggest that grad school restores the humility lost by immersion in a lackluster workforce. Anyway, it certainly had that effect on me. I guess I was in the right graduate program, because I think nearly all of
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by arebop 18y ago
Part-time grad school helps with that.
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by arebop 18y ago
Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures ( http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm ) is a very readable dissertation on Web architecture. It is the definitive source on REST. Architectu