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by brg 17y ago
Thank you for that link, but it goes to prove the point. The article mentions that in debugging time, the difference is 25:1. In terms of hours, that is a bug getting identified in one hour versus 3 working days. The difference is stagger
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by brg 17y ago
In reality humans are not so different from each other in terms of production and skill... Perhaps you simply don't have experience, but this is certainly not true. There are clear deviations from the norm. Once you start your own busin
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by brg 17y ago
Steven Sinofsky needs to be named the next CEO of MS soon. Not only because Sinofsky is a key reason for the success of Windows, but also because he is tech orientated. Every tech company which has abandoned tech oriented management has st
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by brg 17y ago
Hulu's streaming video is provided by flash. Web based applications which need video interaction, such as Rosetta Stone online, are flashed based. And flash based games, as you mentioned, are a significant use of flash outside of ads. For
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by brg 17y ago
I think the main take-away is that this will be a PR hit to Google, especially internationally. No matter how strong the firewall Google puts up between surveillance and intrusion diagnostics, there will be people questioning it.
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by brg 17y ago
One important use of flash video is in ads. Many users feel these ads are too intrusive, but the industry demands them and they have near universal adoption. Penny-arcade had a strict policy against such ads, but when 99% of ads requests
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‘Don’t Be Evil,’ Meet ‘Spy on Everyone’: How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google(wired.com)
41 points by brg 17y ago|25 comments
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by brg 17y ago
They really should go back to "Information at your fingertips."
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Apple's iPhone Takes a Hit(pcworld.com)
1 points by brg 17y ago|0 comments
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by brg 17y ago
Why the strong reaction against advertisements? Are they such a terribly efficient means of mind control that no collection of individuals banning together should be allowed to sponsor them? If so, then why allow any advertisement at all?
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Everything You Need to Know about Microsoft Azure(gigaom.com)
2 points by brg 17y ago|0 comments
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by brg 17y ago
Does anyone have information on the rise of global literacy throughout the 19th and 20th centuries? I wonder if the dynamics of these two phenomena are similar.
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Global Internet Usage(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by brg 17y ago|2 comments
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by brg 17y ago
We agree about consumption, and the essay does a very good job of exploring this, but perhaps I was not clear in the point. In academics, I often see students continuously consume books and papers believing that they are doing research. Wh
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by brg 17y ago
You extracted the best point made during the Mixergy interview with Seth Goodin, and I'm glad you are expanding around it. I think however your attempt to separate rumination from production is not valid. Ideas need to start somewhere, but
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For the Love of Culture: Google, copyright, and our future.(tnr.com)
4 points by brg 17y ago|0 comments
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by brg 17y ago
I am speaking from memory, and perhaps should revisit the text to see if these same criticism still hold years out. As part of a series, "Modern Compiler Implementation in..." the C version came across as a poor translation. I would say th
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by brg 17y ago
Near the end the author looks towards the future and writing a small compiler. He mentions "Modern compiler implementation in C," and I was aghast. That was one of the worst textbooks I ever had to suffer through.
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Microsoft's challenge: 90 days to beat Google(mercurynews.com)
10 points by brg 17y ago|10 comments
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by brg 17y ago
After reading the chapter and glossing over Hill's paper, I think I can deny your suspicions. Ted Hill's papers on Bedford's law are from 1995, and this chapter is from 1997. Wolfram's date is incorrect, although the secondary phenomona th
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How to Make Municipal Wi-Fi Work(govtech.com)
1 points by brg 17y ago|0 comments
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by brg 17y ago
On the topic of MapReduce, does anyone have pointers to articles detailing different implementations of the shuffle phase?
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by brg 17y ago
You would be able to help direct capital to those businesses requiring it, thereby maximizing the benefit of investment to society. The stock market is not a lottery.
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by brg 17y ago
Looking over the responses, it is really hard to believe many of the people here have worked in C++. This is basic style for anyone who has ref counted, such as implementing IUknown.
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by brg 17y ago
Supporting backwards compatibility in vtable lookups. This is becoming increasingly important with COM.
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by brg 17y ago
NewsCorp leveraged their equity in MySpace to force them to increase revenue at the cost of quality. Now it seems they are following the same pattern with Hulu. However, I think with Hulu they stand a better chance in the face of competiti
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by brg 17y ago
The first critique of Delong's blog is: pp. 165-6: Change to no longer put "global cooling" in the 1970s and "global warming" today in parallel: The scientists in the 1970s who were worried about global cooling had neither the quantative e
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by brg 17y ago
While the specs are nice, Google needs to get its app store in much better shape.
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by brg 17y ago
Visiting for the first time I was sure to see more high school geometry and first year calculus questions. I am delighted to see a much deeper discussion taking place.
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by brg 17y ago
MathML is coming in webkit. It shouldn't be long before most browsers have support for that spec.

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