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by asabjorn 13y ago
I thought things like xdg_shell grow up as either extension or in Weston, and then it gets merged into the stable Wayland protocol after it is battle tested and ready. Is this not the case for xdg_shell?
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by asabjorn 13y ago
Have you been able to find the Thomas et al paper that supports this claim? I have been unable to find it, and others seem to have this problem as well: http://www.gdb.me/computing/citations-greg-wilson-cusec.html
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by asabjorn 13y ago
Completely agree. In addition, since he seems to have struggled for a while, I suggest not maximizing income and instead focus on a less stressful 3-4 year plan to get back on his feet. Life is long so there will be plenty of new chances to
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by asabjorn 13y ago
I am assuming that you are doing computers science, and in the current environment focusing on the conceptual contribution and do the minimal amount of engineering is solid advice. I started in physics and there someone could make a great c
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by asabjorn 13y ago
I second this. Looking at the libraries you are using have many positive effects; its due diligence, its relevant and a great way to learn more about the power of your dependencies. Personally I also try to discover best practices on how to
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by asabjorn 13y ago
Identify some great programmers that are solving problems similar to the ones you are working on and mimic them. Ruthlessly. If you fall short then try again and repeat until your solution is at least approximately as good as the best you h
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by asabjorn 13y ago
> if everyone's income & wealth were equalized, we'd soon return to the economic disparity & distribution we see now. This claim is very america-centric and it does not hold if you look to countries with different socia
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by asabjorn 13y ago
Definitely. I am actually really worried about the effect of NSA Surveillance and data collection on industrial espionage. How does a small and growing company know that a big company/interest group that feels threatened by it won&#x27
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by asabjorn 13y ago
They provide an API for integrating credit card readers into Point of Sale Systems (POS) like e.g a grocery store checkout system or a mobile app to take payments when the card is present. Besides user convenience compared to entering the c
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by asabjorn 13y ago
Yes, the family had not paid the insurance. But why does that matter in the context of the blanket claim that private companies can always do at least as good of a job as a government organization with less waste? A city firefighting crew w
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by asabjorn 13y ago
This needs serious backing as evidence seems to show the opposite. For instance, if we pick firefighting as an example what is there evidence that private firefighting is a good idea? In recent history this kind of thinking have led to disa
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by asabjorn 13y ago
Agreed. And it is true 10x developers make complex problems disappear by realizing the code does not have to be written, by skipping intermediate steps, or by embracing the complexity if the problem and not code until the problem is underst
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by asabjorn 13y ago
To back up this argument china should be in five different time zones because the country is so wast, but it is in one time zone and does not seem to suffer from productivity problems.
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by asabjorn 13y ago
I agree that it is still too early to tell if something good will come out of this or not. I am especially curious if Braintree customers will get access to PayPals superior transaction risk assessment technology. That might be huge for p
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by asabjorn 13y ago
A steam-related carrot with lower fees might be a huge incentive. But when we are speculating a gaming company in the business of selling $60-$100 games might be more worried about their ability to differentiate their products from sub-$10
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by asabjorn 13y ago
He did something equivalent to scanning a public bulletin board for information that AT&T put there through what seems like sheer incompetence. There does not seem to be any hacking involved unless you also classify google as an automat
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by asabjorn 13y ago
I agree that the degree should not be the goal. However, I do not think a student should enter a PhD program unless they are mature enough to consider the opportunity cost and make sounds judgements about it. Liking research is not a good e
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by asabjorn 13y ago
Many articles on retiring baby boomers have made the point that most of their assets are tied into their home, and in this case it seems like that was true as well. I wonder what the social and economic implications are of baby boomers need
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by asabjorn 13y ago
As a soon-to-be-graduating CS PhD I agree with the author that a PhD is probably not worth the opportunity cost. I have a standing post-doc offer, but the pay is much lower than what I am offered in industry for skills I gained in my spar
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by asabjorn 13y ago
What worries me the most is that biometrics can be used to authorize payments, and for anyone that has crafty teenage (or younger) kinds this might sounds a bit risky. Getting access to your parents fingerprint is easy while getting access
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by asabjorn 13y ago
A telltale sign of these PhDs is their lack of publications. Another bad sign is no publications at top-tier venues.
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by asabjorn 13y ago
That is a very interesting idea. I am wondering if monetized recommendations can be done algorithmically, which might be the case with their interest graph. However, if not and they are targeting long-tail ads it might be better to follow g
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by asabjorn 13y ago
This seems like a natural move for Pinterest, and due to the nature of its content I think the ads have the potential to be highly relevant to the user. Maybe long-tail products could get an even better channel to reach interested customers
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by asabjorn 13y ago
And now we are starting to see Apple fall behind its competitors on central features, like e.g wi-fi calling. This feature is essential for the phones primary function, calling, in low-coverage areas. All competing mobile OSs already suppo
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by asabjorn 13y ago
From my experience SQLite is great when only one process with no parallelism needs to write to the DB and where no other process will frequently overlap reads with writes. However, for CPU-heavy computations that needs multiple cores to com
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by asabjorn 13y ago
I think a person acting in this way is best classified as a sociopath.
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by asabjorn 13y ago
This is essential. Research needs funding, and professors are working for grants in a manner deceptively similar to contract work. The grant work might not align well with what the community views as novel research so satisfying grant and r
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by asabjorn 13y ago
A solution to this problem happens to be my thesis topic, and yes it is a very difficult problem. We achieve this by a mechanism to randomly test functions in binaries without knowing the function call signature.
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by asabjorn 13y ago
The strategy to partner with MS always seems heavily tilted in MS favor. It probably makes a good business study how this can be avoided for anyone in a similar industrial position. It always baffled me that there was no successful sharehol
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by asabjorn 13y ago
Agreed. If anything the number one trait of a developer is that they solve problems. However, that is not unique to developers and is required of non-technical people as well. What it means to be good at solving problems seems largely conte

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