dschobel

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by dschobel 17y ago
What does fairness have to do with capital markets?
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by dschobel 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=796014 shhhh!
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by dschobel 17y ago
The ultimate answer to which, of course, is "I read it on Wikipedia". Also acceptable, telling your child to "just google it".
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by dschobel 17y ago
As viraptor said, it's always safe to just use the most restrictive type. Type inference is quite useless if you just infer everything to be an Object :) And beside, in cases of ambiguity, you can mandate the use of the verbose form. I wa
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by dschobel 17y ago
Also a great way to distinguish good programmers from bad. If they can't explain a phenomenon beyond "when I do <x> it works/breaks/quacks like a duck" and are satisfied with that level of understanding, that's a massive red-flag. T
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by dschobel 17y ago
Nice to see the language maintainers finally taking the weed-whacker to the syntax. The collection literals are nice too, but why couldn't they infer the type from the following? Map<String, Integer> map = {"key" : 1}; to mak
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by dschobel 17y ago
Funny story (and by funny I mean terrifying). My graduate advisor did some consulting for one of the major airplane manufacturers. He said looking at their systems code put him off flying for six months.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I'm really exited about the new concurrency libraries, things like Parallel LINQ and the Task Parallel Library. To think that you can write code such as: void Render(Scene scene, Color[,] rgb) { Parallel.For(0, screenHeight, y =
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by dschobel 17y ago
Go to the next HN meetup. Last time there were a few local startups looking for people. Off the top of my head: http://www.windycitizen.com/ http://www.craftedfun.com/
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by dschobel 17y ago
I also wonder if there's any way to build some lightweight features on top of these job postings (sort by location, skills, etc) without it becoming YAJS (yet another job site).
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by dschobel 17y ago
The scientists' job is specifically to do science and be impartial to the results. How can that possibly be a controversial statement?
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by dschobel 17y ago
What behavior are you referring to? I've never heard any allegations of cooking data or data hiding by any respected evolutionary biologist.
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by dschobel 17y ago
If the scientists can no longer behave objectively then they've already lost everything.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think most honest people found themselves in the situation as you. I'm starting to think it's a good thing that American society by and large is ignorant of science issues. Any time you incentivize scientific research with fame and fortun
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by dschobel 17y ago
I don't think that's right. They've made the app-store a central part of all iphone advertising campaigns.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I would view this as a technical challenge to survive a domain name change because as you pointed out, the trademark aspect is pretty clear cut and Jobs isn't going to intercede. Talk to some SEO gurus because I'm certain there's a best pra
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by dschobel 17y ago
You're absolutely right, the article above is referencing a different phenomenon. My mistake.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Do you have any reason to believe they'll stop recommending your application after the name change? Just make a big landing page 'iPodRip is now known as iRip'. That way you can keep all of the search engine juice you accumulated with the f
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by dschobel 17y ago
If you only you could expand that into a book or expensive program... darn it all.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Building up muscle tissue also helps you burn calories faster when not working out. Cool little details I learned at the gym. This is a very common myth. To their surprise, the researchers found that none of the groups, including the ath
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by dschobel 17y ago
I believe the more cliché 'group think' reaction would have been to up-vote your Microsoft bashing.
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by dschobel 17y ago
...another engine with completely separate codebase is a good thing for the market. You've just made an enemy out of every web-dev on HN :)
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by dschobel 17y ago
A privacy policy probably doesn't have much standing but if the privacy clauses were terms of the contract which both parties agreed to then any purchasing company would still have to abide by them.
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by dschobel 17y ago
We're talking about methodology though. Something which is very meaningful in an engineering context but, and this is purely my opinion here, significantly less so in the business world. There is, for example, a best way to build a bridge.
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by dschobel 17y ago
That was it, thanks for the clarification. I still can't believe they're maintaining two distinct HTML renderers...
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by dschobel 17y ago
It is starting to get old seeing people extrapolate principles from anecdotes. It's probably just our engineering instincts trying to find the patterns in things. Normative startup advice seems to be about as useful as normative life advice
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by dschobel 17y ago
Nothing but time can kill IE6. Just wait another five years.
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by dschobel 17y ago
If I recall correctly there's some weird incestuous relationship in the HTML rendering in Outlook, Word and IE. I agree it's almost definitely technically infeasible.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Isn't reclaiming the 20-30% market share they lost to Safari/Firefox/Chrome reason enough?
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by dschobel 17y ago
Deferred execution is a pretty big win for a lot of problems.

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