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361.
Meritocracy is just another way to put you down(bloomberg.com)
4 points by cjg 10y ago|0 comments
362.
The Hacker's Manifesto (1986)(usc.edu)
248 points by cjg 10y ago|146 comments
363.
Kanji word blocks(spaceandgames.com)
2 points by cjg 10y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 10y ago
Be prepared to put substantial effort into the interview process. You are looking at approximately 40 hours of your time. Once you are in, you sign one contract and create a very detailed personal profile (another time sink) and that's
365.
The many flaws of Dual_EC_DRBG(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
1 points by cjg 10y ago|0 comments
366.
by cjg 10y ago
Some of the many reasons: 1) inertia - that's how it's always done; 2) it's easier to make your good employees work harder than it is to recruit more of those difficult to recruit developers; 3) they would rather you work mor
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Profiling Rust applications on Linux(llogiq.github.io)
2 points by cjg 10y ago|0 comments
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Disruptor: High performance alternative to bounded queues (2011) [pdf](lmax-exchange.github.io)
99 points by cjg 10y ago|27 comments
369.
by cjg 11y ago
You are missing something: the seller can see the program that evaluates the solution.
370.
by cjg 11y ago
I think his point was that the closed iPhone created the smart phone market.
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£26m fine blamed on new IT system(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by cjg 11y ago|0 comments
372.
by cjg 11y ago
Since then Rust 1.2 had a big focus on performance: http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/08/06/Rust-1.2.html
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What happens when stars collide(alphr.com)
1 points by cjg 11y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 11y ago
The text says "at over 38 million merchants worldwide" which seems to imply that it isn't limited to the US in the sense in which you want to change the title.
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by cjg 11y ago
That explanation that "things are always moving - through time" is exactly correct. You need to think of the full four dimensional spacetime. It is that spacetime which is curved rather than just space. The crucial concept is Newt
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by cjg 11y ago
> While the concept of chess being “solved” is still considered rather remote (there are at least 1043 board positions to account for) What does this 1043 refer to?
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All Your Favorite Songs Are the Same Song (2013)(priceonomics.com)
2 points by cjg 11y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 11y ago
I don't really understand these kinds of initiatives that say they will use "blockchain technology", but seem to imply that they won't use the bitcoin blockchain. It's the amount of computing power that keeps a bloc
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Humans are not unitary individuals but superorganisms(bbc.com)
197 points by cjg 11y ago|81 comments
380.
Why people still use old technology(bbc.com)
2 points by cjg 11y ago|0 comments
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Growing evidence for dark matter(economist.com)
1 points by cjg 11y ago|1 comments
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by cjg 11y ago
You said: "And who wants to hire a 45 year old junior web developer?" That smacks of pure ageism to me. Just recast it to a racial context to see: "And who wants to hire a black junior web developer?"
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Oliver Sacks’s Twins and Prime Numbers (2012)(pepijnvanerp.nl)
22 points by cjg 11y ago|4 comments
384.
by cjg 11y ago
I liked your anecdote. It led to this more detailed analysis of the twins abilities to detect primes: http://www.pepijnvanerp.nl/articles/oliver-sackss-twins-and-...
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The British Nationality Act as a logic program (1986) [pdf](opim.wharton.upenn.edu)
29 points by cjg 11y ago|1 comments
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The British Nationality Act as a logic program (1986) [pdf](opim.wharton.upenn.edu)
2 points by cjg 11y ago|1 comments
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by cjg 11y ago
I get Marina Bay as a background and I'm not in Asia.
388.
Human-powered cranes(lowtechmagazine.com)
62 points by cjg 11y ago|9 comments
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Flowers in the Atacama desert(nypost.com)
1 points by cjg 11y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 11y ago
But why would the price go up if they have no intrinsic value? The original question was where does that intrinsic value come from.

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