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by dagss 10y ago
However everything the company does is seen in terms of investment... you invest in machinery and employees so that you can get more back than what you put in. When you loan from VCs, you can't tell them "you only get back what
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by dagss 10y ago
When the company purchases equipment for use by you-as-employee, and you use that equipment for your own company spare time, how is that fair? A pencil is so cheap and undetectable that it makes a poor example, but if you stole my paint and
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by dagss 10y ago
What I heard is phones are often sold off by burglars to organized crime who do know how to exploit the phone to its full potential (and not get tracked, and properly wipe it and resell it after properly copying off the data/login cr
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by dagss 10y ago
Careful, authentication / authorization have specific definitions in software development which are at odds with what you say. A username/password together would be authentication.
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by dagss 10y ago
Thieves sell the phone on to people who know how to exploit what is on your phone to try to get access to your accounts and money.
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by dagss 10y ago
But but...that is what communism is about too, just with a different set of rights. Making "rights" some abstract thing means you end up saying nothing at all.
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by dagss 10y ago
Are you saying that Matlab is "a lot less effort" than Julia or NumPy? (Assuming cases where these alternatives have the functionality in toolbox of course)
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by dagss 10y ago
The explanation is simply that people are happy to get a 10x speedup even if 100x is possible in theory. Python + NumPy has a large mindshare, and can be 10x from Fortran/Julia even if you use NumPy vectorization. And often loops are s
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by dagss 10y ago
So who cleans the toilets in the USA? Old american men?
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by dagss 10y ago
How do you know? You are just making an assertion. It is not a law of nature. If you will forgive some hyperbole: After the industrial revolution, you no longer needed peoples' hands, just their brains. Now we will no longer need peopl
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by dagss 10y ago
And "breeding".
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by dagss 10y ago
I think you should be able to get pretty far by just writing Python code that uses the API; using requests that should be as readable as anything else? Which brings me to: I just use Python snippets if I want to test a REST API quickly. Wha
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by dagss 10y ago
It seems like you are ready to declare "second line of defense" as a silly thing in principe? Sometimes adding a second line of defense at 90% efficiency is cheaper than increasing the first line from 90% to 99%.
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by dagss 10y ago
Exactly -- "if they are". Are they? How can you, as a manager, know? How can you make 100% sure that every developer to ever work on the code always does the right thing? Then consider the downside and cost of filtering the input,
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by dagss 10y ago
What about the assertion regarding how much of the profits are taxed in the US?
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by dagss 10y ago
Algorithms to handle what you talk about efficiently is one of the primary reason these libraries even exist. OF COURSE they access memory in the right order; that is their job. But it is not really about right vs wrong order, but using an
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by dagss 10y ago
NumPy certainly does not have anything like "Fortran kernels". Elementwise arithmetic is coded in C (and not very fast...). Linear algebra uses the BLAS and LAPACK interfaces, of these only LAPACK is usually written in Fortran the
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by dagss 10y ago
Yes, scientists programming skills (as averaged over population) suck. Factor 1: Programming not credited in itself or reviewed in publishing process. Factor 2: Often little education in or focus on programming, relative to wall clock time
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by dagss 10y ago
NumPy is about one order of magnitude slower in very many situations. Cython is in some ways a reimplementation of Fortran in places -- I mean, you can consider it a better alternative but have to use features that are not in Python. Person
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by dagss 10y ago
One of the main BLAS implementations (where lots of numerical computation spends 99% of its time) is OpenBLAs, hand-crafted assembly per CPU. Main competitor is Intel MKL, closed source. Even if you could interpret that code, your JIT-ing i
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by dagss 10y ago
It definitely is daunting; in particular because Cython isn't so much a goal as itself as a tool that developers are motivated to work on it because they use it in some other project they care about (e.g., lxml, Sage, ...). So it'
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by dagss 10y ago
First, sorry for being a bit heavy on the hyperbole and saying "0%"; that is almost guaranteed to be wrong as a statement and also let me say I don't know Julia very well at all. I want to clarify that when I say "0% web
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by dagss 10y ago
Former Cython developer here. To get some perspective to this, consider the alternatives for a scientific programmer: MATLAB, R, FORTRAN, Mathematica, or if you're hip, Julia -- all specifically made for scientific programming with 0%
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by dagss 10y ago
You write like your political view is a force of nature. Surely what the government's job is is what the people decide it is through democratic processes?
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by dagss 10y ago
Interesting...so do you use the vector subset designed for CPUs or the wavefront subset designed for GPUs?
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by dagss 10y ago
A lot of self-employed consultant/freelance programmers charge that or more, and are booked for months (on the same project..)
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by dagss 10y ago
You say "and it's actually worse because the high "minimum salaries" makes it almost impossible for them to get a job." --- is that from another source or this article?
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by dagss 10y ago
That is not what the article says -- it is criticizing Denmark for being as bad as or almost as bad as the US (i.e. NOT worse). This about sums it up: "Social mobility in Denmark and the U.S. seem to be remarkably similar when looking
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by dagss 10y ago
So what are you saying happened -- somebody went in with machinery and created the cracks in the road, then go and pretend it is warming? Others have pointed out that avg(Alaska, Summer) != avg(World, All Year)
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by dagss 10y ago
This is referring to who becomes candidate og Republican or Democratic parties. I am sure anyone can become presidential candidate in just the same way in the US - but not representing those parties.

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