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by copper 15y ago
patio11 is indeed the right person to ask that particular question :) If it helps any, here's my absolute favourite justification that HR gave when I asked why they needed my salary history: it was, apparently, needed to figure out where I
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by copper 15y ago
Thanks, that's interesting, and seems more in line with what I figured: a lot easier to reason about, and a much cleverer coder than me to do it properly :) (As an aside, one of the inventors listed on that patent happens to be the person
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by copper 15y ago
Perhaps the most interesting part, to me, was the goal of making geometric algebra operations computationally efficient. While I'm still reading (and enjoying) the original paper, I must confess an inability to see how it's more efficient t
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by copper 15y ago
Or when you're reading/writing a great deal of numerical data in a file.
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by copper 15y ago
Phoenix and Hillsboro probably do the most volume in the US. I wonder what happened to TI's fabs, though. The reason that they are so centralised is that it costs a shockingly /huge/ amount of money to build and run a new fab. It makes all
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by copper 15y ago
Roughly, they used gps signals to synchronize two accurate clocks, one each at the source and the destination. For what it's worth, this part of the first paper is pretty accessible - at least, as to how they did it - it's more difficult to
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by copper 15y ago
And, apart from a stray use of new and delete, this looks almost like valid C99 code to me. Not that that diminishes the achievement any, of course. I'd quibble mildly about his choice of compile flags and make some minor stylistic change
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by copper 15y ago
But they do: my version of Aurora notifies me when there's a new update that's been downloaded, and if I don't click it then, it updates the next time I start firefox.
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by copper 15y ago
That's bad luck - but was there a reason you needed to build your own wm? If you were able to get X and a *dm running, you could just install one of the many prepackaged ones (I go with Xfce, myself), and then edit ~/.xinitrc .
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by copper 15y ago
My favourite bit from the (as always, impressive) changelog: For additional security, security(8) was rewritten in Perl.
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by copper 15y ago
Hm, as a general rule, I'd actually suggest continuing to avoid such packages in general, unless you know that they're what you need: you need to track whether there's been a source code update, whether someone broke the upstream build, w
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by copper 15y ago
fwiw, aur packages with the -(cvs|hg|git|svn) suffix usually track the development, while the date actually refers to when the build was last updated. Installing the package will actually give you today's date as the version tag. I can see
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by copper 15y ago
Well, I believe this particular head is the one I've seen most commonly in books[1], and that was quite a long time ago (I wish I could remember if the original Aku-Aku book had pictures.) [1] http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/M
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by copper 15y ago
I think the fact that they're referred to as Easter Island heads , rather than statues might have had something to do with it :) More seriously, the iconic pictures of the heads are from Rano Raraku (IIRC), and that is just heads and a bit
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by copper 15y ago
Honest question: is a strcmp really the best way there is to test for specific kernel modules?
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by copper 15y ago
Hm, I've seen some really weird unicode-related corruption hitting files shared between guest and host due to (I assume) different line ending convention. Figuring out what was going on was not fun at all.
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by copper 15y ago
When a paper fits into one of the categories arXiv accepts, that's more or less what happens (modulo the cranks who claim to prove Riemann's hypothesis every now and then, but that's a whole different topic :) The difficulty is that some pu
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by copper 15y ago
Perhaps as a counterexample: in my day to day work, I write numerical code. Academic papers are still a better influence as compared to stuff that can be found directly on the web. To be fair, given that a lot more academics are making thei
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by copper 15y ago
IME, working with large groups of developers on a correspondingly large project where quality varies widely over different bits of code was the quickest way to learn to be grateful for such little syntactic annoyances that however helped ca
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by copper 15y ago
Well, would this do? http://graphics.pixar.com/library/ Pixar are very, very good at what they do :)
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by copper 15y ago
Yes, that is the worst-case example for the set in a crit-bit tree.
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by copper 15y ago
Isn't the set supposed to be prefix-free, though?
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by copper 15y ago
In practise, I prefer Kazu Yamamoto's cab over cabal-dev, mostly because it leaves the system libs alone, and has the extremely useful uninstall -r.
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by copper 15y ago
If it seemed that I was trying to apply my experience to you, I apologize - that wasn't my intention. Keeping salary details secret is usually a valuable form of information asymmetry that HR, in general, try their best to maintain (funnily
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by copper 15y ago
Yes, exactly - I only wish someone had explained that to a younger, dumber me back then.
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by copper 15y ago
> I feel I'm often at the higher or top end of my employers range, and despite the fact that I legally COULD, I don't really see any value in discussing my pay with a coworker. Back in the day, I used to work for this place where, you'v
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by copper 15y ago
That sounds very familiar for some reason. I must say, though: I've never heard of anyone who was an employee at the last n or so startups similar to yours who actually made money off their options from an exit - though hopefully a certai
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by copper 15y ago
Anyone know how this affects the ArchLinux packages? kernel.org is still the fastest mirror around for them.
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by copper 15y ago
Well, it works for me (Arch64/OpenJDK), but then I haven't done much more than work partway through the scala tutorials.
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Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language(ithkuil.net)
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