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by dspeyer 15y ago
For one thing, wrongful firing and wrongful failure-to-hire lawsuits are common and painful. No one wants to give the employment trolls more ammunition.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Entitled or not, it's clear that organizations have many reasons to want to keep secrets.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
You're getting a little mixed up. People with red badges (like the author) are contractors. The article is about people with yellow badges, who receive far fewer perquisites and are kept separate from the general googler population. W
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by dspeyer 16y ago
The part about scheduling 20 years in advance is the one bit that didn't seem well thought out. We don't know this stuff in advance. We can't even predict earthquakes. Anything that changes the earth's effective radius changes the rotati
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Doesn't seem to be a problem and Niagara (2.5GW) or Snoqualmie (54MW). Both are still popular with tourists (obviously, Snoqualmie is not on Niagara's scale in either power or tourism, but I include it because I imagine there are a lot of
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by dspeyer 16y ago
What about hydro on natural waterfalls? No space lost. No dam-failure risk. I don't think every rainy mountain is fully tapped. True, they aren't everywhere. Maybe some of the power-intensive industry can move to them.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
The problem with "tell me about your projects" is that it doesn't distinguish good programmers from bad. It isn't even gaming. A programmer who makes a negative net contribution to a large project may sincerely feel he is responsible for
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by dspeyer 16y ago
What about candidates who are currently working (for a competitor)? Taking a day off to interview is bad enough.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
I wonder if people would be less upset if it were called Gingerbread-tablet, and described as a temporary closed fork to meet manufacturing deadlines. That's really what it is, but giving it the Honeycomb name makes it look like the future
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by dspeyer 16y ago
So a "set of ethical principles" are "spiritual-type" even if constructed in pure reductionism.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Journalist are probably even less inclined to be caught doing that.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
The academic literature has been citing sources for far longer than the web's been around.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Note python. The beginning of the article was all Lisp demolishing C and Fortran. Then he saw that Python could stand up to it. Most of the flexibility, nicer syntax and better libraries. Lisp has stood still for the past 25 years. Is it
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by dspeyer 16y ago
So make that "being a top 1% employer", which includes pay, perquisites, environment, culture, the interest of the work itself.... Harder to measure than pay, but so is being a top 1% programmer. This can be a good reason to talk about pay
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by dspeyer 16y ago
This is Plutonium Oxide. IIRC, metallic plutonium is a lot more dangerous. Also almost impossible to come by in an oxygen atmosphere. Kind of like Aluminum.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
So the moral is: don't read/watch the mainstream press at all.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
You have access until the session times out, then you'll need to make the attack again. Granted, you can do a lot of damage before the timeout, but it's not quite as "game over" as if you got the password of a one-key system.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Stirrups first appeared in India around 500BCE. They were widespread by 500CE. The mongols were 1200CE. You may be thinking of the Huns. Incidentally, it is remarkable that it took 1000 years for the stirrup to spread across eurasia. I
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by dspeyer 16y ago
The mongols were around 1200CE. The road from Rome to China was around 200BCE. The rise of iron was around 2000BCE. All a long time ago, but an even longer time in between them.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
80/20 doesn't really apply here. The whole point of search is to handle the obscure stuff.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
If you commute 6 miles a way, 2 ways a workday, 20 workdays a month for 12 monthes a year on 278.04 gallons of gas, you're getting 10.35 mpg. This is not good mileage. I suppose it's more likely that your daily commute is a small fraction
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Or if what you do at work qualifies as "real research".
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by dspeyer 16y ago
US$16500/y transporation costs? What are you doing, buying a new car every year? Also, "Companies pay professionals more based on their abilities and their age as opposed to their actual years of experience"? Who would want to work for a
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Being able to pay isn't a very good barrier. Being broke doesn't mean having no meaningful content, and most attackers who can make serious MitM attacks can pay. CAs are supposed to have real barriers (and I think most of them do). In thi
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Damage? What are you talking about? The routers don't literally catch fire. It disrupts services while the attack is active. A sit in is the correct metaphor.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Bring together a core group of serious-minded but underemployed academics—who already have adopted a life of poverty ... instead of preparing students to leave the institution, we encouraged some of them to stay, joining us in work and ref
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Maybe because it protects data with replication and sharding? But hopefully doesn't provide copies of your data to your enemies by accident.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
The design goal here is that you can get factorials by calling a function, but decide how to compute them (cached or not, with the ability to add new algorithms) by changing state. A dubious goal, but not completely insane. In python, it w
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by dspeyer 16y ago
I think an ethicist has to be recruited from the existing engineering ranks to have the internal prestige needed to be effective.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
This is very C# specific. In C++, you can return a const reference. In javascript, Array is a class (and you can add functions to the prototype, but probably shouldn't).

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