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by deong 13y ago
I'm not sure it is. With C++, you can just start to work. There's no one saying "C++-11 is completely different and not at all compatible with the previous version, so you'll need to port all your existing code. Oh, and
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by deong 13y ago
I disagree. Before I went back to academia, I had both job titles at various times. The whole point of having someone in one of these "architect" roles is that they're supposed to be there to exercise judgment they have demon
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by deong 13y ago
Like abolishing slavery? Seriously, you're excluding the possibility of any legitimate government taking action in the public interest.
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by deong 13y ago
I agree that "one is too many" is unreasonable, if by "one" we mean "one person's house was violated". If we mean "one person's house was violated and AirBnB did nothing about it", then, no,
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by deong 13y ago
If AirBnB would like to formally institute a policy of "haha, WTF were you thinking letting us send people from the internet to stay in your house?", then they should be wholly unsurprised when numerous government bodies shut down
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by deong 13y ago
I still don't think that's actually the question that was being asked. It's not, "why do you think your spelling was preferred?" but rather "given that the complaint is how inflexible the senior tech was on the
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by deong 13y ago
It doesn't appear that random guys on the internet are having much trouble stealing blockchain-based currency. I'm not sure why you think the NSA couldn't do it too.
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by deong 13y ago
It affects each person differently though. Personally, I don't notice it at all. It is a bit harder to get up in the morning if it's still pitch-dark outside, but otherwise, I have no SAD-type effects. Others can barely function w
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by deong 13y ago
Yeah, I'm in Iceland. There would be four months a year where I got 90 minutes of sleep a night, and another four where I'd have to convince my boss that a three hour workday was fine.
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by deong 13y ago
Oh, I agree with you. The Grantland thing from a bit ago is I think a better example than this Newsweek piece though. Here there's arguably a legitimate public interest served by knowing where this huge and valuable thing comes from. W
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by deong 13y ago
That isn't, strictly speaking, true. It's certainly his right to refuse to comment, appear on camera, accept interviews, etc., but it's also Newsweek's right to say what they want about his life and his work. As long as
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by deong 13y ago
I imagine it depends a lot on the field. I'm in computer science, and while a few academic research programs need lots of programmers, mostly there aren't a lot of things that a relatively untrained tech can do. We need PhD studen
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by deong 13y ago
The problem facing universities is that if they slow the rate of new PhD students and postdocs, they will quite simply have to shutter the labs. The entire system is built on the backs of very cheap research labor. That superstar researcher
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by deong 13y ago
One reason that may not happen is that unless something drastic happens, supply for faculty positions will continue to outpace demand by a couple of orders of magnitude. The average professional baseball player spends his life in the minor
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by deong 13y ago
How does this case sound any different than, say, Bernie Madoff? On the face of it, it sounds like a much more blatant fraud than Dennis Kozlowski, the former Tyco CEO who served about 8 years in prison, or Bernie Ebbers (what is it with gu
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by deong 13y ago
No, but a consistent policy of ideology over pragmatics probably is reason enough to say that a project "sucks". The saying goes, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." GNOME as a whole has precisely the
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by deong 13y ago
I wouldn't put my system logs into either of those.
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by deong 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're making a point more subtle than I'm reading, but when most people in the systemd debate say "dependencies are bad", they mean that having loads of things depend on the init system is bad. The
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by deong 13y ago
True, I presume to tell employers that they are responsible for following the law. I think you're exaggerating the complexity of the legal system to attempt to support a point that doesn't warrant support. In the article, Horowitz
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by deong 13y ago
The problem with this assumption is that one doesn't have to be aware of how their own brains work in order for them to work. The fact that people seem to be universally bad at assessing probabilities means only that however their brai
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by deong 13y ago
The "arbitrary" I was referring to was from the article -- a direct quote from Horowitz. I'm saying that if knowing things like the legal requirements for running a company isn't expected to be part of your job, then you
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by deong 13y ago
I'm not sure that conclusion is warranted. Here's what we know: 1. Loads of companies were doing it. 2. When this company wanted to do it, their counsel said it was illegal, so they didn't. Given those facts, we can't sa
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by deong 13y ago
You can't patent "compliance with the law", and you can't pass a law that requires licensing of a patent to be in compliance. So no, the "process" of being legally allowed to sell items in a country is not and
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by deong 13y ago
Sure, you can , but it's not politically acceptable by either side of the political spectrum.
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by deong 13y ago
I'm not necessarily arguing with you, but the Wikipedia page was obviously written long after the Yugoslav wars. Hindsight is always 20/20 -- after any major event, we can go back and pick out the causes, but that doesn't mea
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by deong 13y ago
And if you play blackjack as well as possible, they kick you out.
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by deong 13y ago
> Or perhaps the people investing in the Icelandic banks were not investing? Was this some sort of special investment where you get a better rate than the regional banks without any sort of risk? Yes, in fact, that's pretty much it.
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by deong 13y ago
> Get mad at the stupid laws, not at the people taking advantage of them. Indignant rage is plentiful enough for both. Bash (metaphorically) the hell out of any and all entities you can find who make everything awful.
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by deong 13y ago
A colleague of mine is working on simulating the banking system according to the real Basel regulatory framework rules. http://www.iiim.is/2012/10/threadneedle/
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by deong 13y ago
I switched to the TEK about three months ago after maybe six or seven years with the Kinesis (although without the foot pedals). Here's what I would say so far. 1. The TEK feels better in terms of physical key presses. Both use the sam

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