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by decode 17y ago
Interesting musings, but unfortunately for the author, they're not related to reality. Not only is there no such thing as a "no obnoxious rich people paradox," but the English language has had a special term to describe just one subset of t
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by decode 17y ago
The US Department of Justice has puts out reports on recidivism rates. Some information from the last report: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/rpr94.htm Those most likely to be rearrested within 3 years of release from prison commit
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by decode 17y ago
I'm seeing about 1 million hashes per second on a single core. So, you can do about 10^11 hashes per second on 30,000 cores. At that rate, it will only take you 10^48 years to cover the keyspace. You won't even cover a fraction of a perce
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by decode 17y ago
This isn't actually correct, is it? Assuming an average 6-letter word length, there are about 10^67 valid combinations that your iterate_all() can go through: (((2^6) * 1000) ^ 12) * (94 ^ 5) = 3.5 * 10^67 Since this is much larger than th
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by decode 17y ago
Lawrence Lessig also talks about that case in this great TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strang...
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by decode 17y ago
"I think it is a replicated result among students of gifted students that they GAIN ground intellectually during the summer school vacation" The way you phrase that makes it sound like there are studies that show this. Do you know of any,
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by decode 17y ago
Just think of what you'd have at Adobe in the US: 4 more paid leave days and 3 more public holidays. :) I'm not sure what their sick leave policy is, though.
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by decode 17y ago
You can also watch his presentation from RailsConf 2006. Wackiness and coolness are included. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7470881644241559852&...
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by decode 17y ago
So the joke is that the physicists have the hubris to think that French Literature isn't hard, right? It would be an incredible feat for anyone to learn French in a year (well enough to critique its great literature) and also become expert
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by decode 17y ago
If you're an IEEE member, you can get it here: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1423... It's interesting, though, that the author makes it seem like this paper is the only research on the efficacy of TDD. Even a cur
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by decode 17y ago
Did they change the audio from the originally posted video? I just watched it and I didn't hear him claim to have developed anything he was showing.
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by decode 17y ago
I thought this was interesting: "She found selecting, moving and orientating the photos very intuitive using natural gestures. She took a little guidance to get a handle on photo resizing but by the time she’d played for 15 minutes she had
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by decode 17y ago
I always thought the long-term blood glucose levels were the reason that runners traditionally have a spaghetti dinner the night before a big race. Am I confused, or is there just bad science behind this practice?
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by decode 17y ago
I can't figure out if you're saying your expectations were confirmed or undermined. I don't know much about nutrition, but I was under the impression that noodles, rice, and beans are all high in starch, which the body turns into significan
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by decode 17y ago
Of course, that depends on what you eat when you eat out. If you eat a bunch of noodles, rice, or potatoes, the starches will give you a solid boost of blood glucose over a number of hours.
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by decode 17y ago
This seems like a good trait to have, no matter what job you're doing. Whether you're a manager, a construction worker, or a software developer, criticism should be seen as a chance for learning and improving, not a personal affront to you
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by decode 17y ago
I thought the same thing. It's probably because the rankings come from Alexa and Google Trends: the former is useless, and the second is unrelated to number of users.
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by decode 17y ago
It seems like what you're really saying is, "There are a whole bunch of options out there for blogs, but WordPress is the best for almost everyone." I would agree with that statement, and I suspect that's why it's been so successful.
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by decode 17y ago
I've always assumed that most people don't get every tweet SMS'd to them. So most of the time, a tweet isn't sent to anybody, it's just returned when people request the tweets that are relevant to them.
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by decode 17y ago
You can download a PDF of the full paper that is referenced here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1354849 Click "Download" at the top and then click the SSRN link. Doesn't require registration.
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by decode 17y ago
While the user interface is very different, the functionality is fairly similar to what digg Videos has been for a long time. http://digg.com/videos/
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by decode 17y ago
I'm not in the Ruby community, but here's what I've gathered: There was a talk at the Golden Gate Ruby Conference called "CouchDB + Ruby: Perform Like a Pr0n Star", which featured an extended porn-industry metaphor and what some have descri
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by decode 17y ago
I'm not sure this essay has much value. There are some fairly obvious observations, like "learning takes work", "not everyone is good for every career", "learn from your mistakes", and "programming involves typing". That's fine, but not p
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by decode 17y ago
I've been using this setup, except with XCache instead of APC. Does anyone know enough about the differences between the two to say if this is better or worse?
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by decode 17y ago
On average, the attacker will have to search half of the hash space to find a given password. So, your 40,000 searches is way too small as long as you require more than 2 character passwords. If you assume lowercase + uppercase + numbers
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by decode 17y ago
It's the US only. It's from a report by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, based on surveys of American employers: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
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by decode 17y ago
Can anyone find historical data on this number? It seems like it's the "employment-population ratio" in the report. The closest thing I can find is the "civilian labor force participation rate", here: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2
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by decode 17y ago
Here's an interview with an unnamed Amazon employee about it: http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/166384.asp Basically, an employee in France (possibly due to a language barrier) flipped the "adult" bit on a bunch of stuff he should
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by decode 17y ago
phpbb used to do this, but I don't think it does anymore. The problem is that some users have ISPs that transparently route their web access through rotating HTTP proxies, all with different IP addresses. So, each click has the potential
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by decode 17y ago
I think it's a key insight that we can incrementally improve the law, but a credit-card bucket system must be fully implemented before anyone uses it. We can and do use this feature of the US legal system on a near daily basis to make mean

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