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by chengiz 13y ago
Ok I'll bite. Why is "creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it" a subset of mathematics ?
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by chengiz 13y ago
> "As an exercise, prove that" for the most difficult step No, no, that just gets you questions when someone attempts it. The most difficult step is prefixed by "Obviously", "Clearly", or words to that effec
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by chengiz 13y ago
I am very happy with Netvibes. It has a widget interface as well as a sidebar (google reader like) interface - I use the latter. It works very well, in fact the interface is better than google reader which had a lot of unnecessary whitespac
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by chengiz 13y ago
This is in conspiracy theory territory. You really think there's no difference between sending strike teams to kill (a) the number one wanted war criminal responsible for the second biggest attack on your soil into a country where you
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by chengiz 14y ago
That's because it is a pipe dream for many (most?) companies, there's just not enough talent. And "good attitude + bad work" is the far shorter end of the stick. And isnt it part of a manager's job to handle the "bad attitude + good work" e
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by chengiz 14y ago
Yeah exactly. Anyone screenshot the apology?
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by chengiz 14y ago
> Furthermore there is no great advantage in parallelizing linear algebra With all due respect, that is a ludicrous statement to make! Most nontrivial parallel scientific computing applications use parallel linear algebra of some sort.
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by chengiz 14y ago
I see a light grey triangle on firefox 13.0.1 in both examples. Have no idea what they're talking about.
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by chengiz 14y ago
How does it force you to handle errors? Cant you choose to ignore the return value?
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by chengiz 14y ago
Circa 1999, I wrote a simple reminder script - which I still use - that brings a popup on the desktop, in like 3 lines of Tcl/Tk using the wish shell. I shed a tear at how easy it was compared to anything else at the time. I am not even sur
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by chengiz 14y ago
So whatever happened to Wildseed?
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by chengiz 14y ago
You can also login with your profile name, which I didnt know until very recently when I mistakenly dropped the @domain.com and was initially surprised to find it worked.