copper

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by copper 16y ago
LinkedIn, are you listening? :) They already do the first two steps, and going from there to (c) may already be possible with their profile API. From that onto the last two steps is a short step.
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by copper 16y ago
He's had experience with many managers, mind you - and if a fair number of those were from India, it would justify his bias. In my experience, his third point (on them trying harder, and thus being more willing to treat ethical boundaries i
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by copper 16y ago
The human body is conductive, so the masking tape acts as an insulator. I'm wondering at exactly what shape the antenna inside the phone is, if it can be affected that easily. If you've ever played around with short-wave radio (I suppose pe
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"The core problem is we're great nerds who are pathetic at marketing"(jsoftware.com)
4 points by copper 16y ago|0 comments
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by copper 16y ago
It isn't much better without ClearType, either. Inconsolata looks a /lot/ better on linux, so it could be something wrong with the font hinting.
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by copper 16y ago
For CP, GECODE is C++, which makes it very easy to bundle /if/ you're writing in that language. SWI-Prolog can be used embedded - but I haven't any experience with the results.
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by copper 16y ago
Well, there /is/ the BOFH :) http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/
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by copper 16y ago
I think the authors point was that you shouldn't have to learn these things the hard way :)
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by copper 17y ago
Yes, there was. I've been at a small startup in Bangalore for some time now, and the rents I've had to pay for an office have seen huge differences over the last couple of years.
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by copper 17y ago
> I think a language which manages to hide the complexity of monads without removing them Hm, I'm not sure this is possible: a great part of the "complexity" of monads is because it's a similar (and fairly simple!) structure that applie
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by copper 17y ago
Books do advertise, though in a much more tasteful manner: What would you call the one-page blurbs that contain a listing of other books by the author, and maybe even teaser chapters of other books that trade paperbacks contain?
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by copper 17y ago
Your point is spot-on. > A better analogy would be an argument about exposing call/cc in scheme. Is call/cc good language design? There are arguments on both sides. Haskell does continuations differently than Scheme. Which is "better"?
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by copper 17y ago
Compressed sensing and matrix completion are almost the same (take that with a large set of caveats, but the basic L1 recovery process is the same.) Tech media fail, anyway.
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by copper 17y ago
PLT already has ephemerons too: http://docs.plt-scheme.org/reference/ephemerons.html
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by copper 17y ago
Postini did, but they were bought out by google :)
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by copper 17y ago
They've removed the goat teleportation from this version :'(
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by copper 17y ago
> Engineering respect is an inverse log scale What is the inverse log scale? 1/log(x) or exp(x)?
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by copper 17y ago
Clojure dates from 2007 according to wikipedia, and reddit did the switch way before that (this post was in 2005.) Makes me feel positively ancient.
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by copper 17y ago
There is nothing wrong with C-like C++ code. Nothing at all. On the other hand, recognising that C and C++ treat 'unsigned' differently, and that certain C code may be wrong C++ code... A C/C++ coder who does not recognise that C+
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by copper 17y ago
Absolutely - I think the original article implicitly assumes that it's a successful product that is being acquired. After all, why would anyone buy a company with an unsuccessful product? (but then, there are a lot of good reasons to do so.
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Acquisitions: cull the managers(edn.com)
19 points by copper 17y ago|3 comments
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by copper 19y ago
Violates his own guidelines? Orwell adds to his list of rules ....(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.