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by bbb 15y ago
Case in point: the American tax payer has payed for about 4.5 years of my graduate CS education, which, according to my visa documents, exceeds $200,000 in total cost. I'd like to stay, (re-)pay taxes, and I already had a six-digit job offe
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by bbb 16y ago
Thanks! I am not sure what reports to believe anymore...
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by bbb 16y ago
Where are you getting the milli from? Kyodo reports 8000 micro sievert. So it's an ~5.5x increase from the previous high-water-mark of 1,500 microsievert. http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78063.html
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by bbb 16y ago
Oh, sure, Springer will also let you publish "open access" articles. However, the publishing fee goes up from a few hundred dollars to a couple of thousand. Now find me a prof that will actually sacrifice his precious grant dollars for that
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by bbb 16y ago
Not to forget that IEEE/ACM also take a big cut out of every conference budget. In fact, the cut is significant enough that budgets are fudged (frequently at that, I suspect). This drives up attendance fees, which are of course reimbursed f
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U.S. Inquiry Finds Toyota Electronics Not at Fault(nytimes.com)
3 points by bbb 16y ago|1 comments
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by bbb 16y ago
2. Hot war breaks out (precipitated by the DPRK or the South or the US), the North loses fairly quickly, there are catastrophic civilian casualties in the South and the North and perhaps elsewhere (e.g. the North launches a nuke or chemica
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by bbb 16y ago
> I can only conclude that many scientists are not confident at all with their theories, or they are purportedly cheating. That's really not an insightful conclusion. I think it's rather a question of pride and effort: the code probably
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CloudCmp: Comparing public cloud providers [pdf](conferences.sigcomm.org)
1 points by bbb 16y ago|0 comments
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by bbb 16y ago
Besides being a door-opener for research jobs, pursuing a PhD is also a great chance for personal growth. You will be challenged on many, many levels and thus likely develop skills that you never knew you were lacking in the first place. In
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by bbb 16y ago
The '=' vs. '==' example actually nicely demonstrates the limits of automatic bug hunting. The variable 'rig' is NULL when it is being dereferenced, thus the program will segfault regardless of '=' or '==' being used. The "fix-it" tip is hi
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Hello, Lua. (Apple opens door to interpreters on iOS devices)(appleoutsider.com)
170 points by bbb 16y ago|49 comments
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by bbb 16y ago
So according to their lawyers you can view their RSS feed as long as you haven't purchased the viewer? No, you, the consumer, are not making commercial use of the NYTimes.com newsfeed. The company producing the Pulse reader, however, is
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by bbb 16y ago
Not so ironic if you consider that Apple probably has a legal agreement with the NYT company to do so. Just look at how frequently the NYT is featured in Apple commercials and presentations; this doesn't happen just by accident. The problem
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Compilers and Termination Revisited(blog.regehr.org)
11 points by bbb 16y ago|0 comments
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by bbb 16y ago
The bandwidth overage fee for DataPro is a reasonable $10 for each extra gigabyte. Verizon and Sprint charge around $50 per extra gigabyte in overage fees. If you use more than 2 GB per month, you deserve to pay more than the rest of us wh
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by bbb 16y ago
Setting off a massive explosion with the well at the center. Massive enough to move sufficient amount of material towards the well to essentially clamp it shut. Of course, the oil would probably start leaking through the sand/rubble after a
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by bbb 16y ago
Regarding the IANAL aspect you can see here http://tinyurl.com/2bd45en where the #1 act in the world understand the stakes and where the true money is made. Oh, I don't doubt that many artists would welcome your service if it leads to a
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by bbb 16y ago
Bonus: Watch American TV on Hulu and Listen to music on Last.fm / Pandora even if you don't live in the US From a user point of view, I think that's pretty cool. However, are you sure it's legal? I'd think it's greyish at best (but IANAL)
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by bbb 16y ago
[...] said Chad McGimpsey, who moved to Boulder a month ago and is now a regular at the twice-a-month coffee club. Wow, I wish I could recognize trends that quickly. At most two observations, and already a "regular."
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by bbb 16y ago
The Simplest Java IDE That would be notepad.exe. No, I'm not kidding. I learned Java using nothing but notepad.exe and javac on a Win98 box. Syntax highlighting seemed quite magical back then. ;-) (Ok, ok, I know, editor != IDE…)
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by bbb 16y ago
Fully agree. I gave up after four stories that I all disliked. Two were totally out of my area of interest (celebrities and horse racing, huh?), and two were tech stories that didn't cross the "marginal curiosity" threshold. Could work, but
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by bbb 16y ago
In conclusion, given a traversal of an artificial graph with natural statistics, the graph database Neo4j is more optimal than the relational database MySQL. I get what they mean, but "more optimal"? Please... Maximal, minimal, optimal, a
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by bbb 16y ago
(AFAIK Gruber isn't a lawyer, so it's just an uneducated opinion) That's a bit harsh; there's a large difference between an "uneducated opinion" and a "carefully researched assessment by a non-lawyer". Based on your criteria, no journalis
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by bbb 16y ago
I do not perceive a double standard here. Gruber: I’m not offended by their decision to obtain this unit and publish everything they were able to ascertain regarding it. [...] Second, publishing the name, photographs, and personal inform
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by bbb 17y ago
Yeah, doesn't look that bad to me either (but I'm getting an iPad, absolutely no question for me since I'm already heavily invested in Apple tech). What I find a lot more scary is this: http://www.engadget.com/photos/joojoo-unboxing/#28559
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by bbb 17y ago
3) I purchased an EEE PC thinking it would be great, I could use it everywhere, and for anything. Turns out, it's sitting in a drawer because I have no use for a limited PC that's too small and hard to type on to do anything of value. You
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by bbb 17y ago
This is not a "black and white" issue with one true answer. You have to see this in the historic context. One of the reasons why the first German democracy (1918-1933) failed (and gave rise to Hitler) is because the German society was very
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by bbb 17y ago
5. Any type of bit twiddling sucks. Take the time to do it in C and make the extension. I recently had to do something like this and ended up using SWIG to generate the glue code. However, I noticed that my code had to spent considerable
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by bbb 17y ago
"Complete" my key research goals and write a draft of my dissertation.

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