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by dwc 14y ago
You have 50 red marbles, 50 blue marbles, and 2 buckets. You must put all the marbles into the buckets but you may distribute them any way you like. I randomly pick a bucket, and then randomly select a marble from that bucket. How, if p
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by dwc 14y ago
The last time I hired I asked two puzzle-type questions during the interviews: a math (statistics) puzzle and a programming puzzle. The math puzzle had a definite correct answer that can be arrived at by anyone remotely qualified for the po
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by dwc 14y ago
Laptop: open lid and resume. Server: RAID startup dwarfs OS startup. Does super fast booting matter much these days? It's just about ceased to matter to me completely.
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by dwc 14y ago
You are right, but IMO you miss the real point. Both Google's search and Apple's iPhone were about delivering a wholly satisfying product/service, and controlling the whole stack was needed to do that for those cases . This is not always t
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by dwc 14y ago
The web site that adds hiragana to the kanji of a link you give: http://www.hiragana.jp/
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by dwc 14y ago
I am just beginning to learn Japanese, and someone passed along a great site that takes a link to a kanji page and it adds kana to it. There's also a Firefox extension (Rikaichan) that provides kana in a tooltip when you mouse over kanji.
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by dwc 14y ago
Well, that's great! Paradoxically, this will make it much more likely that I will sign up.
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by dwc 14y ago
I looked around the site, but I cannot tell if people you invite need to sign up in order to respond. Over the years I've been invited to things using eVite (or whatever), only to be prompted to sign up before I can RSVP. It's a complete de
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by dwc 15y ago
I think issues like this are somewhat problematic. Note the similarities with the wikipedia deletions for lack of notability: many articles on somewhat obscure but historic computer science topics were deleted, some of them the best single
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by dwc 15y ago
> What more could browser makers have done to encourage RSS? Technophiles love it, but the mass market rejected it. I mostly agree, but... Browsers prominently featured RSS for many years, and the world at large ignored it. Heck, I'm on
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by dwc 15y ago
> I don't do it because I'm some corporate shill. I just really love programming. Exactly. Before I ever got a job programming I couldn't leave it alone. I simply had to do it. I enjoy my other interests and spending time with my fami
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by dwc 15y ago
I've always been a reader. Since I (finally) got a Kindle for xmas I've ordered more books and spent more money than normal. Not so much because it's a new toy (that wore off fast enough), but because it really is convenient.
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by dwc 15y ago
While not every product should fit every person, G+ is a social networking platform. As such, it should be accommodate a fairly broad user base. This article and some others I've read all hint a larger issue, that if we're not celeb watcher
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by dwc 15y ago
No, your email is that important to you, but you're trusting it to a company that may lock you out with no recourse or apparent reason. You can do your best to play nice and hope it doesn't happen, but that's just hope. The good news is t
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by dwc 15y ago
I would expect open source projects to have a bias toward languages inside the open source ecosystem. Specifically, languages that are open source themselves, or are historically popular within open source operating systems. I would not exp
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by dwc 15y ago
Is this such a book? Or is it discussing implementation issues? There's a very big difference. I read books and articles talking about approaches and likely pitfalls. Of course I also read things that are advocacy. Some are both.
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by dwc 15y ago
I've had password auth disabled for many years, and it's quite liberating. Only a handful of times in all those years have I wanted to log in and not had a key handy. None of those times it was critical. It's interesting to listen to people
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by dwc 15y ago
This is fine and useful advice, but it's only going to work until the next time FB overhauls their security settings and resets everything to (permissive) defaults. In the name of improving privacy, of course. Too much of that for me, so I
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by dwc 15y ago
There's a sad undercurrent to this, as some redditors respond that they find this depressing. While I understand their plight, I do not understand the sustained pessimism for most of the depressed ones. I went to work right out of high scho
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by dwc 15y ago
I was introduced to sprouts in Piers Anthony's novel Macroscope. This is a nice reminder. I need to play this with my daughter.
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by dwc 15y ago
Celebrating introversion is a reaction to the cultural notion that extroversion is the ideal. It's unfortunate that you (and presumably others) get getting the impression that it's being put forward as better. I don't think the likes of Sus
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by dwc 15y ago
That's an individual response to an organizational problem, and the organizational problem remains. The company has created an environment that is actively hostile to productivity, and you are cleverly finding a way around it. That's great
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by dwc 15y ago
Leave it. I think it has exactly the effect you wanted.
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by dwc 15y ago
Normal people are used to having the luxury of being very open about almost every facet of their lives and not having to worry about it biting them. The privacy paranoids have largely been, well, paranoid. This has been changing over the pa
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by dwc 15y ago
I don't think the big copyright holder view it in terms of rights or public interest. They have a financial interest, and they act to preserve and extend that. That's not surprising. One of the major problems, perhaps the largest problem, i
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by dwc 15y ago
To me RIM was never actually alive. I heard the raves and saw the devices and from the start it seemed like they aimed squarely at a transitional niche and haven't been able to move their company focus away from that. This is not to say tha
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by dwc 15y ago
Ah, memepool, #perl on EFNet, etc. Good times. But you shouldn't tease!
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by dwc 15y ago
Prima donnas exist wherever they can carve out a niche. Anyone working in a specialized field naturally sees the immense benefits to be gained by fully realizing its potential, often out of proportion to the whole enterprise. As a coder, I
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by dwc 15y ago
I really like the visualization aspect. It's a nice design. I do have some nits to pick. When opening the page the only time displayed is my local time, which is the only time I don't need since I already know it. Clicking somewhere shows m
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by dwc 15y ago
I use Vim. Most of the fancy IDE features are one of a) already there if you know where to look, b) available in one or more plugins, or c) not actually as useful as you've been lead to believe. Seriously. My setup is something you can put

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