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by chubbard 17y ago
Wasn't this supposed to be done in Wave? ;-)
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by chubbard 17y ago
The (google.com) ending is a little misleading since it's just someone's hosted site on sites.google.com. It's not google's opinion, but it would be a lot funnier if it was.
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by chubbard 17y ago
Seriously?! I get modded down for asking a serious question? WTF? And, the response I get is basically "well you weren't paying attention. Anyone with half a brain knew this." Really? Just the hummer joke alone should garner something.
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by chubbard 17y ago
Here's what I don't understand about the nobody's neutral point. Sure nobody's absolutely neutral (just like nobody's is absolutely truthful). It's all relative, but who's more neutral seems to be what they have to gain. Who benefits mor
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by chubbard 17y ago
Starting out is always tough. Your experience has been somewhat unlucky and somewhat true. Recruiters your age are going to have a high turn over. Lots of people get out of school and go into high tech recruiting. There's no barrier to
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by chubbard 17y ago
I've been getting a fairly steady flow of recruiters emails for the last 3 months looking for people. Even a few .Net jobs, and the recruiters know I'm not a .Net person. Since my last job search I've started helping the recruiters connec
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by chubbard 17y ago
But as cited in the article Mr. Mann tried to put Climate Research "out of business" as it's put after a 2002 paper didn't agree with him. If YOU heard about the smoothing over of MWP data only months ago doesn't make it very current. The
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by chubbard 17y ago
Why is this occurring now? If this type of behavior was going on then it sounds like there were a number of scientists that could have spoken out about this long ago? Especially when the "hockey stick" paper came out if it was questionabl
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by chubbard 17y ago
But, just as you point out they can't sue them accepting their apology doesn't guarantee they won't see Juku 2.0 again in a month or two. They got basically a stay of execution on this, but they don't have MS saying we won't be in the mark
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by chubbard 17y ago
So I found this article very much with the way I see banks and financial systems. Being that I never worked on financial IT system this was just my hunch. But, hearing accounts of what was going on it sounded like people were making decis
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by chubbard 17y ago
Agreed. Lots of things I couldn't quite connect to what they were saying? Particularly be a source of data section. But, this was a good topic.
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by chubbard 17y ago
Well that's a whole another ball of wax, or the other size of the sword depending on how you look at it. There are a good number of cases that people are convicted on faulty forensic science many of them not nearly as egregious as the one
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by chubbard 17y ago
Well his sentiment isn't off. Substitute any one of the documentary forensic shows on TV for CSI and you'll see how deep forensic science has become over the last 20 years. I agree it's really hard to cheat with the level of skill forensic
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by chubbard 17y ago
soooo Seesmic got a lot of money from Microsoft to port their next version to windows first using silverlight.
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by chubbard 17y ago
This is just another example of how cheating spreads rapidly. If lots of people are cheating then you'll eventually have to cheat to stay in the game. Not that SEO is all cheating, but really that people are using SEO techniques to push up
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by chubbard 17y ago
"The point isn't that there's something wrong with using the no-argument constructor for Random." This point was never mentioned in your original post. Instead ran off and started talking about seeding issues which was completely not relate
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by chubbard 17y ago
"Create the double snuggie." Turn the snuggie up to 11!
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by chubbard 17y ago
OMG and we can call it Video Professor...oh wait a minute...How about we just scam people for money? Brilliant!
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by chubbard 17y ago
Yep. I too think TC isn't the most truthful media outlet. TC has a lot of power as a media outlet, and there have been a couple of incidents where I think they are abusing that power. This is just another case of that happening. Justifie
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by chubbard 17y ago
I thought Becker was phoning this one in. I was much more persuaded by Krugman's argument over Beckers. Becker's didn't even get to the freaking point until the last two paragraphs. Then he basically said. "Uh cut taxes. Especially cor
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by chubbard 17y ago
Reread the docs! The API hasn't changed from 1.4 to 1.6. nextInt(x)'s is used to generate numbers from [0,x) Maybe in 1.6 they started using a better seeding source for randomness since they added System.nanoTime(). But, your original
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by chubbard 17y ago
For one bit entropy go with: new Random().nextBoolean() Never mind gjm11's response unless your doing things with crypto and such where same seed problem matters. Java's Random api is quite nice, but people screw it up by not understanding
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by chubbard 17y ago
But, gjm11, seeding has nothing to do with topic we were discussing which was trying to random generate a number between [0,x). So your objection still exists even in the bugs because all examples were using the no-arg constructor (Math.ra
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by chubbard 17y ago
> So my view is that he's being overly biased towards theoretical purity above practicality, a tendency that has led many an academic astray. Not so fast. He contrasts working systems in practice compared to the pure relational technol
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by chubbard 17y ago
I think this is a very poignant essay given the place in history we are at. In 1991 this essay looked like sour grapes over forgotten history, but I'm more interested in what lessons we can learn from previous system. It's interesting to
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by chubbard 17y ago
> Oh, blow me. Michael Jackson was an incredible musician. Before you get your due remember all of Michael Jackson's best selling hits were produced by Quincy Jones who is very much a fan of those musical masters that came before. And,
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by chubbard 17y ago
Almost everything we buy works this way. Every good you purchase is marked up in price from what the seller paid for it. The true value you receive is always less than what the seller receives. So trading money for goods or services you
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by chubbard 17y ago
I don't know why the web isn't more friendly to sub domains. We keep wasting domain names. Reusing domains and using sub domains is an elegant solution. I hate going to web sites that dump every product they own on one page, along with su
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by chubbard 17y ago
Anyone know of a developer API you could use to take advantage of this offer? Ala gspace possibly?
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by chubbard 17y ago
There's Object Graph Navigation Language (OGNL), and OMG Object Query Language used by most OODB manufacturers. And Db4o uses SODA query language. Then MongoDB has a form of query language with JSON syntax. http://www.opensymphony.com/ogn

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