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by copper 15y ago
That's true for almost all of the startups (and in one case, a company that just filed for IPO). It wasn't too hard to match this data to LinkedIn for quite a few people I know :) Doesn't this violate some kind of privacy laws, anyway? (Edi
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by copper 15y ago
Speaking from painful experience: my problem with redoing the calculation is that whatever I did tends to stick in memory, with the inevitable result that I do exactly the same mistake again. Check calculations like this are much easier to
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by copper 15y ago
FWIW, with C++, the advantages of linking to tcmalloc make it the default for any code that I write that isn't intended to run as a daemon -- and even there, unless I hit tcmalloc's limit of not releasing memory back, it's still a viable ch
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by copper 15y ago
To offer a contrasting opinion: this is very similar to the kind of whining I used to hear from middle-management about employees who hopped from one job to another during the boom days.
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by copper 15y ago
I thought the author was trying to get at the old Babbage quote on confusion of ideas. FWIW, I use git-svn to handle complex merges in svn because git has a better merge algorithm. While this particular situation doesn't affect that use cas
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by copper 15y ago
If you haven't used this already, youtube-dl -U
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by copper 15y ago
In the off-chance that you've not seen this talk by Tim Sweeney: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1277
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by copper 15y ago
> "the best student I ever taught algorithms to is female." Steve Skiena calling someone his best student is a strong statement - any idea who this is?
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by copper 15y ago
Norway does that too: http://skattelister.no/skatt/profil/liv-johanne-ullmann-3417... Edit: Heh, obviously, this has done the rounds on HN while I was asleep.
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by copper 16y ago
That's how RSU's work, though. AFAIK. grellas is right that there's a difference between restricted stock and restricted stock units (which in practise have a tiny, fractional price of the actual market value).
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by copper 16y ago
> Is there a cultural issue here? There is, but it's probably the same point that's been made over and over in the submission of the WSJ article to HN. FWIW, what Sridhar says in his article is exactly what zwischenzug said too :)
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by copper 16y ago
Here you go: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010... One of the comments on the original paper (the pubmed link that teraflop cites) did point out that it was "just" the trapezoidal rule, FWIW, so the only people o
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by copper 16y ago
To nitpick, the discpline of physics covers everything - or it damn well ought to :) While it seems obvious after reading the article that solving the rendering equation is indeed a promising way to solve the Pioneer anomaly, I'm sure t
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by copper 16y ago
There's also the example is about how one medical researcher apparently rediscovered the trapezoidal rule, and managed to get a lot of citations to his discovery.
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by copper 16y ago
> Of course, other groups will want to confirm these results and a team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which has gathered the data on the probes, is currently studying its own computer model of the thermal budgets. Here's
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by copper 16y ago
> I chose primes near the golden ratio to maximize the appearance of randomness. Anybody know what this appearance of randomness is?
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by copper 16y ago
Duh. missed that one.
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by copper 16y ago
Yes, I remember that one: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-chernobyl-birds-smaller-... Rereading it, it seems that the effects seen on the birds are seen in humans too, but at higher contamination levels.
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by copper 16y ago
As someone who saw the fun Paypal had with the Indian government, I suspect the key word in that above quote is " eligible "
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by copper 16y ago
> JPEG still does not though. You're right in practise (AFAIK, libjpeg still doesn't support this mode), but see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_JPEG
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by copper 16y ago
Dybvig's expository style reminds me very much of K&R, for some reason. Chapters 3 and (in this edition) 12 are probably the most fun to work through to gain an understanding of the language.
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by copper 16y ago
In the industry I work in, Tcl is used extensively as the application language, and it works out well enough in practise (funnily enough, one of the larger players in this space use a dialect of Scheme.) I guess the greatest advantage Tcl h
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by copper 16y ago
Insights on dating habits in Delhi will transfer reasonably well across all the cities (which is probably Ignighter's target audience, anyhow.) What I'd love to see are the statistics behind this quote: > Still, 40 percent of Ignighter’
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by copper 16y ago
The conclusion is the most inspiring part of this: > Real efficiency comes from elegant solutions, not optimized programs. Optimization is always just a few correctness-preserving transformations away
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by copper 16y ago
Um, that's actually how I've always heard it said. How is it pronounced, otherwise?
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by copper 16y ago
Vim is definitely faster at starting up ;) For "." you could say that C+k,C+_/C+y does most of what I want done -- and arguably, the more complex cases might be amenable to using regexp-replace. Regretfully, the only time I ever use hjkl is
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by copper 16y ago
I dunno, I tend to prefer the emacs movement keys over vim. I-search to move around in emacs, in combination with C+A+f/b is (usually) fairly fast - though a fairly good reason for that might be because I know the structure of what I edit.
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by copper 16y ago
You're absolutely right, of course - a webapp in C++ is not something that I'd want to even volunteer to help maintain. I'd just say that it's not the language that rots, but the libraries, and preexisting code. There are still some areas w
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by copper 16y ago
Perhaps as a counterexample, when I'm write some linear algebra code that I expect to perform reasonably well, I greatly prefer using eigen to other BLAS implementations (well, except the MKL, but that's a different matter entirely.)
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by copper 16y ago
A lot of people who have written and maintain large C++ code bases will tell you straight up that they prefer C to C++. Perhaps that's the problem right there. As someone who has written a lot of C++ for quite some time, the most

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