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by army 12y ago
"46% of them had failed within 18 months. In other words, most recruiting practices are about as effective as a coin toss." I guess I'm not quite clear what this is claiming - you could read it as saying that tossing a coin w
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by army 12y ago
The additional rules are normally from valid considerations, e.g.: * Whether its ok to stop temporarily depends on how busy the road is. * The parking spots are on a major road that has a lot of traffic from commuters - you need the extra l
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by army 12y ago
Some of those issues are just a lack of common sense. Of course no stopping implies no parking. Reminds me of an episode of Parking Wars where people were trying to argue that they didn't know what "No Standing" meant so it
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by army 12y ago
The general points against people trying to establish a rigid hierarchy of languages make a lot of sense - people make a lot of dumb generalizations about programming languages. I think the article makes a lot of bad claims and arguments th
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by army 12y ago
"It is possible to eat healthier at each chain. You can ... order from the “Skinnys” menu at Potbelly, which has sandwiches with fewer than 400 calories." Or you could skip the chips, cookie or drink, or order the regular size (no
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by army 12y ago
I think its a bit harsh to call the papers "filler", but the reality is that most papers (in CS, anyway) are incremental work on important but well-studied problems or work on problems that are fairly narrow or not universally con
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by army 12y ago
I think people are reading more into this than there is. Reviewing papers is a highly subjective, high variance process, and very few papers get universally positive reviews. From the point of view of an author, if you get a paper rejected
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by army 12y ago
I have a coworker who sometimes vertically aligns code. It's frustrating having to edit his code because I have to choose between just making my changes and ruining his vertical alignment, or having to spend time realigning things. I
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by army 12y ago
I think you're wasting your time trying to convince people who don't want to see what's right in front of their nose. It's not remotely plausible that events in Crimea and Donbass could have transpired without a great
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by army 12y ago
You do realise that Putin openly admitted that Russian troops were involved in the Crimea takeover? The "bought their uniforms in a store" explanation of the little green men wasn't remotely believable even at the time for m
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by army 12y ago
That doesn't seem that esoteric to me: in general the problem is that repr() can result in execution of arbitrary code, and that there's no way to cleanly and reliably terminate arbitrary code. This includes Python code: it'
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by army 12y ago
I've heard people say before that usually when an article's headline is a "provocative" question, the answer is no. That seems to hold true here.
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by army 12y ago
I think it's important to consider that people interpreting benchmarks need to be skeptical and aware of the scope of the results: a lot of problems are as much from people overgeneralising results as from bad experimental methodology.
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by army 12y ago
Go's threading model is M:N threading. N is the fixed number of kernel threads, M is the variable number of application threads.
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by army 12y ago
I think there's also another point, which is that the endpoint isn't to churn out CS students to be good workers that plug immediate needs in industry: it's to produce graduates are going to have the tools to do things better
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by army 12y ago
That's like saying that ever programmer in industry should spend 5-10 hours a week keeping up with the latest CS research on top of the work they put into their continuing education. It's just not reasonable to expect academics t
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by army 12y ago
It's back up now.
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by army 12y ago
Jif seems to have superseded this Swift (the secure web one): http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jif/
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by army 12y ago
There were actually two (released at approximately the same time): http://swift-lang.org . Apparently the name isn't terribly original.
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by army 12y ago
If you want mathematics to be it's own little walled garden free from ambiguity, that's fine. But don't you think it's kind of important that people be able to translate between problems in the messy non-mathematical un
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by army 12y ago
Even if you have to show your work, a lot of students will just blindly try a few canned approaches until they get something that looks about right. Actually understanding what you're doing is definitely more efficient, but a lot of p
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by army 12y ago
That completely ignores the fact that people don't know what they don't know, or tend to erroneously assume that something they don't know about isn't relevant.
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by army 12y ago
And entrepreneurs should look very carefully at the human rights records of any countries they move to, including Singapore, regardless of how clean the streets are.
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by army 12y ago
Singapore already has an (unjustified) superiority complex about Australia, articles like this don't help. I don't mean to diminish what Singapore has accomplished over the last fifty or sixty years - it could have turned out ver
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by army 12y ago
I don't think the cable companies have much of a side. I think a large part of the problem is complacency about improving service on the cable companies' side rather than active malfeasance: they simply don't have to work ve
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by army 12y ago
Right, and the problem is that their version of best effort doesn't involve trying very hard at all, since they have minimal competition in most local markets.
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by army 12y ago
Really? China's regular court system has even less transparency and integrity than the Guantanamo courts, let alone the regular U.S. court system. I'd have more chance of a fair trial at Guantanamo than in any court in China if th
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by army 12y ago
Right, I think people forget that Java essentially aimed to be a vastly simplified version of C++ with garbage collection and memory safety. This was something a lot of people were crying out for at the time. There were some bad decisions
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by army 12y ago
The danger with the "speed doesn't matter" attitude is that you end up with a 10x slowdown due to language choice, and then another 10x slowdown due to inefficient implementation, and you end up with a 100x slowdown, which mi
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by army 12y ago
I'm a native English speaker and I can guarantee you that I'd never knowingly say or write "an hotel".

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