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by bcoates 11y ago
Anecdote: I've been described by a recruiter as "a culture fit" (definite article and all), and not in reference to any particular job or company. This dude knew roughly nothing about me except how I looked and my generic Cal
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by bcoates 11y ago
Headline doesn't match article: Saltz's beef is with the US spending too much on the very sick, which is getting in the way of truly universal health care coverage for the generally healthy. He wants the US government to use its m
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by bcoates 11y ago
Wow. That's bad. I did not know that, thanks.
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by bcoates 11y ago
This is a little bit overblown--the security failings are unfortunate but not surprising and realistically it's on a separate physical port for a reason. Have an administrative VLAN for your physical box control plane and maintain phys
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by bcoates 11y ago
As a former bookkeeper, I should mention that this is technically bookkeeping, not accounting, which vaguely corresponds to the difference between computation and programming. That said, this is very dangerous knowledge; once bookkeeping ma
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by bcoates 11y ago
This is exactly the letter-based version of the "Dissociated Press" Markov-chain algorithm, right? I'd suspect some of the perceived quality at higher orders (particularly for the source-code example) is just coming from the
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by bcoates 11y ago
This is unsuitable for real-world applications, where you will, inevitably, need at least a little mutable shared state. Async handles this reasonably well at a decent performance cost; shared-memory threads (near-certain catastrophic failu
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by bcoates 11y ago
There's a tradition where behavior economists first come up with an esoteric model of rationality that would require people to do things that defeat their self interest, then perform experiments to see if subjects do them or not. This
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by bcoates 11y ago
OKCupid is weird; in actual human interaction the questions are more important than the answers so having the computer do that part is backwards.
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by bcoates 11y ago
I'm wondering if they're misremembering from TNG, Tasha Yar died in the first season but kept popping up through the rest of the series?
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by bcoates 11y ago
This already exists, http://www.microsoftstore.com/
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by bcoates 11y ago
Is 'Osama was an unarmed civilian' even under dispute? I thought that was the official story.
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by bcoates 11y ago
V. I. Arnold uses 17 words: "The determinant of a matrix is an (oriented) volume of the parallelepiped whose edges are its columns." http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~munsteg/arnold.html
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by bcoates 11y ago
The government is selectively barring these people from lawful work. It is selectively looking the other way on labor and housing law violations as a subsidy to their employers and landlords. This is New York we're talking about, not s
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by bcoates 11y ago
The claim that every culture only picks a handful of animal species to be considered edible, and this is part of some sort of psychological defense mechanism, is BS too. Counter-example: China, or any society that has access to a diverse hu
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by bcoates 11y ago
Are slide-rule-and-wheel style mechanical flight computers still in use? they've got to be in the ballpark.
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by bcoates 11y ago
||googleapis.com for a more beautiful web. Nothing of value is lost.
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by bcoates 11y ago
Serious question: why else would you go?
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by bcoates 11y ago
What's backfiring? There's two levels here: at the first level, you don't want to sweat anyone (capable or otherwise) about coming to work late because it indicates fundamentally messed up priorities: you aren't paying t
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by bcoates 11y ago
As a user, I'm totally fine with that. PC game distribution was so braindead that third parties (Steam, etc.) could strong-arm their way into un-bundling. Having chosen a payment and download system I'm not inclined to let game pu
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by bcoates 11y ago
Economically, that doesn't matter at all. Wages are set "at the margin" by the most competitive players[1] and everyone is just living in their world. Ignorance on the part of employers (and employees) might cause them to be
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by bcoates 11y ago
I don't get it: this doesn't seem like the sort of perennial advertisement-as-trend-story that PG's complaining about at all. Wired writing about new tech products isn't creepy PR infringing on journalism, it's why
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by bcoates 11y ago
"I also think that there is a direct connection between events like the Flash Crash and things like Nasdaq's mishandling of the Facebook IPO, which, again, had real costs in terms of time and money. Both emerge, I would argue, fro
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by bcoates 11y ago
Why damp them? is there any reason to believe that these anomalies actually matter? The article doesn't seem to establish that the flash crash mattered at all in the sense of having any impact, positive or negative, on anyone not invol
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by bcoates 11y ago
I think you're vastly underestimating the diversity of tasks to be mastered. Everything is a hard problem if you want to do it well enough, and the current economy consists of a vast number of distinct kinds things made sloppily.
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by bcoates 11y ago
'grep' isn't a case of disemvowelment (there's an e!), it's just a weird mnemonic that's outlived its referent.
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by bcoates 11y ago
Sounds great. It would certainly beggar-thy-neighbor the deadweight over to companies that that give you the same check every two weeks no matter how little you deliver.
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by bcoates 12y ago
In that there are a lot of people who claim, in one sense or another, to be both Christian and Muslim, and it's not particularly weirder than any other faith claim?
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by bcoates 12y ago
Almost every popular programing environment provides an incredibly unsound shared-memory multithreading library in the distribution, which winds up being heavily used by every other library--even sometimes built-in ones. Javascript in both
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by bcoates 12y ago
> Most posters here don't seem to get it. Most replies appear to be the idea that DevOps means you fire your Ops people and the Developers do Ops previous job and their own Development job as well. Exactly, you have to fire the deve

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