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by brg 13y ago
What is the best intro language? Perhaps the hallmarks of an intro language should be to teach a user about variables, function calls, conditionals, and loops. For that I think there is still little better than LOGO or BASIC. But to help
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by brg 13y ago
I too was a blue badge during that time, but I think there were three changes that happened when Gates slowly faded out of the company. The company lost focus on Windows desktop applications, the culture pivoted towards business strategy i
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by brg 13y ago
For any ChemE out there, is ammonium hydroxide a stable chemical compound? Or does it revert quickly to an inert form in the presence of air, water, and light? The question arises from analogy with chlorine. To remove chlorine from tap wa
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by brg 13y ago
This is completely opposite of my experience in the industry. Stephen Sinofsky is famous for sending people bug reports with the line of code that was causing the windows bug. My presentations to Harry Shum were the highlights of my time i
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by brg 13y ago
I have a data point which supports the thesis, at least in the torso and tail. I have a published two books within the last 16 months. For the first one, published in early 2012, the Kindle sales were usually 2x to 3x that of the print sa
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by brg 13y ago
I read slashdot from 1998 to about 2005, but I never once encountered MICROS~1. I wish I would have, I would have used it so often.
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After the whistle: Revealers of government secrets shared(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by brg 13y ago|0 comments
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by brg 13y ago
The problem, as I see it, is that despite the company's best efforts, many backers simply don't understand the risks involved in backing a project. I think Kickstarter has done more than enough, but my prediction is that failure
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by brg 13y ago
I disagree. There is an asymmetric relationship between philosophy and mathematics that belies the lack of influence and low import of the former. Science, mathematics, and even art can all continue at no diminished pace without input from
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by brg 13y ago
It is actually a very common practice. Usually one family member will compose the plate, but everyone will share it. It is amazing that the corporation did not take the simple route of removing the single serving limit instead of the route
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The Uncanny Valley of a Functional Organization(stratechery.com)
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by brg 13y ago
Looks to me that likely candidates are population size and age of the country. Having only 35 million people spread across one of the largest countries in the world makes it difficult to spawn consumer and retail conglomerates. Nintendo an
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by brg 13y ago
This is extremely interesting to me. It completely conflicts with the Microsoft Employee Agreement. While Microsoft has some tolerance for moonlighting (conditioned on many things such as managerial approval), if the processes are not fol
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by brg 13y ago
Gladwell is very clear that the corporation Korean Air had terrible pilots an terrible piloting procedures, not that Koreans were terrible pilots. He is very clear that Korean Air admitted this, and worked throughout the nineties to change
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by brg 13y ago
It was evident well before then. A permanent US Navy was created to protect trade routes from Barbary pirates. The Barbary threat led directly to the creation of the United States Navy in March 1794 [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia
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by brg 13y ago
Ask your friends who were able to land jobs to refer you. The fastest and simplest way through the hiring gamut is to network. Networking means approaching friends, colleagues, former employers, and others. It doesn't mean begging o
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by brg 13y ago
In my estimation, the award was not given in a fit of Obama euphoria as much as it was awarded in celebration of the removal of George Bush. I have heard it claimed that the committee's choice of Carter and Gore as recipients were more
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by brg 13y ago
It seems like a corollary to the Streisand effect. The US pressured Ecuador to not grant Snowden asylum, which in turn prevented Snowden from escaping to a powerless country and living in relative obscurity. Now to remain free he must ask
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by brg 13y ago
Netbank was somewhat successful until it diversified too quickly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBank
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by brg 13y ago
The bottle can be tipped to its side, and the bug can hop over the lid.
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by brg 13y ago
The validity of your statement pivots on the domain in which you are applying GA. I do not think your three conditions cover the the following case. In a previous life, we applied GA to finding defects in design and implementation. The ge
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by brg 13y ago
Dry eye was the cause of the worst pain in my life. The air in my hotel was extremely arid, and my eyelid stuck to my eye while I was asleep. When I awoke, I rubbed my eyes and tore my cornea. At first, it felt like I had sleep in my eyes
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by brg 13y ago
In no way is GPA the only dimension on which we evaluate candidates. The discussion arose when we asked if it was useful at all. And I agree with my colleague, it is indeed useful in predicting self control and persistance. I do however a
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by brg 13y ago
My experience agrees with yours, the college hires who made me the most excited were those who had side projects and summer start ups. You're breakdown of GPA is interesting and reasonable. It would be interesting to see if it correlates w
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by brg 13y ago
It depends on the position and level one is hiring at, really. For a senior engineer or manager we want a leader, someone who both has vision and can get things done in an organization. For a junior engineer we need only someone who can e
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by brg 13y ago
After hiring committee one day, we digressed into a discussion of the value of a high GPA from university. One of my colleagues made the point that the value of an individual with a high GPA from a four year degree is that you know the per
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by brg 13y ago
I'm curious as to the basis of your statement. I believe the opposite to be true. Gene theory, the general theory, anti-biotics, the structure of DNA, the function of neurons, and the transistor all came from specialists. Is it not the r
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by brg 13y ago
One reason for the current benign inflation may be that there is no alternative currency with which to trade for US derived goods. Neither the rmb, euro, ruble nor even Canadian dollar are valid mediums of exchange within the US. Meanwhile
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by brg 14y ago
If Ebert had died before Siskel, your comment would probably not be questioned. Ebert has a reputation now that did not exist throughout nearly the entirety of his career. His reputation was resurrected with his public battle with cancer
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by brg 14y ago
One very good change to this policy was mentioned in the article, "Despite the passage in late 2012 of a new state ballot initiative that prevents California from ever again giving out life sentences to anyone whose "third strike" is not a

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