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by cdavid 16y ago
Actually, having an alpha of value x does NOT mean that 100 * x % are false. It only gives you an indication of the coverage of your experiment, which is useful when compared to other, independent studies. I think most scientists don't unde
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by cdavid 16y ago
How do you define actual connection to the network in case of WiFi ? Why connecting vs "sniffing" would make a difference as far as privacy goes ? I don't understand why you make a difference between opening a letter and sniffing wifi netwo
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by cdavid 16y ago
I really like python, and FWIW, I find the whole python 3 saga a disaster. The small improvements really did not justify breaking backward compatibility.
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by cdavid 16y ago
To say that dynamic typing is dumb is rather misguided. I mean you may not like it, but it is very powerful, and a lot of languages are based on this principle (not just python and ruby). The argument that there are hundreds of bugs because
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by cdavid 16y ago
First, you don't always have the options of using a wired signal (think web access in a coffee shop). As for your example, it is indeed contrived: the criminals are doing something illegal at that moment, so most usual expectations as far a
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by cdavid 16y ago
I am well aware that technically those are the same. My point is that it does not matter because the intent is different.
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by cdavid 16y ago
I don't understand how you can compare wifi usage and radion transmitting. With radio transmitting, you are actually, purposely broadcasting information. With unencrypted WIFI, it is just a technical consequence of using internet, but there
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by cdavid 16y ago
I cannot say for the legal implications, but surely, just because you don't hide something does not mean anyone can do anything from it, if only from an ethical point of view. There are many situations where you would not want everyone to k
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by cdavid 16y ago
I think the standard model also tells you that you cannot do much, no ? The efficient market hypothesis from Fama somewhat boils down to the fact that you cannot beat the market unless you have information that other don't have. Another rea
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by cdavid 16y ago
I have at least the excuse of not being a native speaker, contrary to S. Palin :) Thanks for the correction.
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by cdavid 16y ago
At least P. Norvig things python is an acceptable language, if not LISP. I think the point about being optimized for small teams is a significant one. Also, because LISP appeals mostly to programmers, but it often "repeals" people with expe
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by cdavid 16y ago
I think you could prove almost anything depending on the time period you take. Basically, since 1995, Japanese gdp has been very slow growing. In 2009, the GDP has decreased of 5 %, which is far worse than any other rich country of a signif
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by cdavid 16y ago
There are more significant issues than just losing face. Being at the head of a company is a huge responsibility because you have to deal with your employees welfare. Now, it may sound like anywhere else, but Japanese society takes responsi
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by cdavid 16y ago
I doubt the kernel can use anything that is defined in the glibc...
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by cdavid 16y ago
Nope, nor does it need one. Source comments are weakly correlated with code quality :) Moreoever, you have to be careful about numbers of lines-based statistics for numpy and scipy, because a lot of code is generated or 3rd party libraries
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by cdavid 16y ago
This is weird :) We recently moved to github (where recent is a few days), so I wonder if that's linked Also, numpy is not mainly written in modula-2.
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by cdavid 16y ago
I should have explained what I mean by trivial: I think any competent programmer knows the value of testing. So in that sense saying that you should write tests is like saying you should write good code - it is true, but not very insightful
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by cdavid 16y ago
You have to write code at some point, but you also have to think about what you are doing. Especially in time-constraints environments, there is a big risk doing a lot of code which ends up totally useless because it was not well thought, a
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by cdavid 16y ago
I wonder: what kind of format is easy to automate ? What makes configuration file difficult to "automate" is their multiple format (especially on unix), the fact that it is not easy to reload a configuration (most applications don't even al
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by cdavid 16y ago
That works if you have a boss who is competent and if you don't work in big companies. That's exactly the kind of things which make small companies inherently more efficient, IMO.
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by cdavid 16y ago
The issue is exactly that people like it - everyone prefers a simple number to an hash, even if your name is Linus Torvald. But in DVCS, it is impossible to keep this naming consistent, and the cases where they work and don't may become qui
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by cdavid 16y ago
I don't follow: surely, a sql dump is possible with sqlite, and you could use just that in your VCS ? As for ini file, the format is supported in the python stdlib, which makes it a natural default if you don't need too much. If .ini is not
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by cdavid 16y ago
Agreed, the potential issue of having different people having different configuration sounds a bit dangerous. OTOH, most issues you mention are true whether you use a db or a plain configuration file - they are just more explicit with sqlit
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by cdavid 16y ago
I concur to that. I find Hg branching model messy: there are clones, named branches, bookmarks and anonymous branches. They all have different features in term of how you can share them, etc... Also, I find comparing branches (through log,
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by cdavid 16y ago
When I was a student, I usually took a bus for Nara <-> Tokyo for around 5000 Yen each way - but that was barely tolerable, indeed. Even if the bridge to cross the Osaka bay must add a significant cost to the ticket when coming from
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by cdavid 16y ago
As usual, the US are the outliers, more than Japan :) I think venture financing in most European countries is closer to Japanese levels than US ones. One particularity in Japan, I don't know if that matters that much: working for a big comp
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by cdavid 16y ago
If there are still room for me, there will be at least one guy from Kyoto, so not that far :) I think someone else already booked in is from Kansai as well.
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by cdavid 16y ago
Unfortunately, it is very easy to see the cost of the new SSD, not so in term of manpower. I would not be surprised if many companies will choose the "more enginering" part because the bureaucracy has made this kind of tradeoff impossible t
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by cdavid 16y ago
But what if they don't trust you until you can do things that they ask ? The difficult situation is people who do not trust you and ask you to do their own way until they do - not realizing that doing it their way is exactly what prevents
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by cdavid 16y ago
Numpy does have a lot of C code compared to most python packages, but I don't think that's the right way to look at it. If numpy was only about something being in C instead of python, it would not be that interesting. But numpy brings you a

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