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by dockd 14y ago
Are you saying they should be able to derive a little known algorithm by themselves? What do you make of Knuth's quote about how many people implement binary search wrong? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Search#Implementation_is...
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by dockd 15y ago
Maybe you and I are spending 4% more, but your employer is spending a whole lot more. I believe health insurance costs my employer $16,000/year for me.
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by dockd 15y ago
This is much more common than everyone here thinks. I posted a car for sale two years ago. My first two replies were people offering half my price in cash. While I didn't actually check with them, I assume they were dealers (self employe
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by dockd 15y ago
The question is whether the pipe owners or content creators are capable of creating a distribution channel of the same quality (Netflix, iTunes) or less cost (Hulu).
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by dockd 15y ago
Has anyone quit because of the Haters/Trolls? I found it shocking to write something I thought might be useful to get feedback like "you're an idiot who shouldn't have a job". Ouch.
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by dockd 15y ago
There's an entire book devoted to how he came up with the NeXT logo; you get to watch the design evolve. The book was probably published by NeXT itself; good luck finding one. I somewhat regret not "borrowing" the copy I saw lying around
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Intel and Google partner on Android(msnbc.msn.com)
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by dockd 15y ago
Until they see a massive success? Are we defining massive success as finding more investors to give them money or making money? Maybe as an employee the two are equivalent but as an investor you're really hoping for the latter. > and w
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by dockd 15y ago
The original author lists companies that didn't exist prior to the rise of the personal computer (CompUSA? Circuit City?). If you'd taken an employee from 2009 and brought them back to 1970, their job literally wouldn't have existed. How
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by dockd 16y ago
Be in sales. This will have some overlap with your other ways.
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by dockd 16y ago
You might also consider www.opencyclegmap.org. It takes the same OpenStreetMap data but renders things of interest to cyclists.
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by dockd 16y ago
_sooner or later you might end up having to support them_ It seems ironic that this is often cited as a reason not to use an open source project. Isn't the selling point supposed to be that you can support it if you really need to? That sa
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by dockd 16y ago
"I can't stand clutter" That pretty much sums up the article for me. I'd rather hear from someone who switched to a minimal lifestyle than from someone who apparently has always favored it.
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by dockd 16y ago
I think it's very common to require a license for any job that involves touching other people: barber, massage therapist, cosmetologist. In Oregon, you need a food handler's permit to work in a restaurant. I wouldn't call that a barrier to
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by dockd 16y ago
There had been talk of "convergence" for years, where the digital camera, digital music player, digital phone, PDA, etc. would be combined into one device. However, that's not exactly an earthshaking prediction. I mean, really, did anyone
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by dockd 16y ago
It seems like another major use for Excel is its ability to allow people type text in tables. That's using a big hammer for a rather small nail. This fails in Word--it tries to make the table fit onto a printed page--about 6" across. It d
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by dockd 16y ago
"but not too much, plants mostly" is a reference to the advice given on how to eat in The Omnivore's Dilemma.
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by dockd 16y ago
I just did this recently to work around a bug (enhancement?) in a vendor's API. By some coincidence, I'd looked at "Programming Pearls" and tried this exercise and got it wrong. My mistake was moving the left/right (beginning/end, whatever
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by dockd 17y ago
One of the products they specifically listed was software. <Insert irony here.>
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by dockd 17y ago
In college, you are punished for using others source. After college, you are rewarded. Perhaps there is a better way to teach than giving an entire class the exact same assignment. I wonder if you might find the same results in the basic m
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by dockd 17y ago
Yes but when the quality is roughly the same, square footage rules. Look at houses in the same neighborhood (better: same street) with zillow.com. You'll notice that square footage directly relates to price.
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by dockd 17y ago
I think a better comparison is to have a wide range of prices for a single varietal. For example, a white is going to taste different than a red. Does one of them taste better? High-end reds cost more than high-end whites. That could be
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by dockd 17y ago
I had the same question and re-read the end over again looking for the answer. I didn't find it. The whole premise of the book was rewards (including praise) undermines our intrinsic motivation. Compare it to a book on global warming: he
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by dockd 18y ago
Why must the shareholder get stuck holding the bag? It's not like they get special inside knowledge or treatment. We're punishing the people who bought Citi's story instead of the ones who ran it into the ground?