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by dws 11y ago
It's less than humorous. Once bogus data declaring you dead works its way into the system, credit cards get shut off, accounts get closed, and you're liable to have serious problems with your bank.
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by dws 11y ago
Lauren's credibility predates Google.
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by dws 12y ago
If you're competing in FIRST Robotics, yes.
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by dws 13y ago
And with those numbers gone, there's more room to mislead.
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by dws 14y ago
Interesting historically (particularly that the U.S. Secretary of War bowed to a British request to have the Red Cross charge), but the parallels between holding a grudge for the perception of being treated poorly coming out of combat, and
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by dws 14y ago
Yahoo! released Axis (with this very dumb mistake) at 5pm PST, and by 9pm PST their public key is posted, with a "I report this but have yet to hear back" note. How, exactly, is this responsible disclosure?
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by dws 14y ago
And a smack upside the head now could be what propels them to up their game.
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by dws 14y ago
You also have to consider the break in flow. A boot time of a minute, at the wrong time, can cost the mental context of the interrupted developers to get dumped on the floor. That costs a lot more than a minute to recover from.
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by dws 14y ago
A useful generalization is that tech business are divided into people who talk for a living, and people who think for a living. One side of that divide seems to have a lot of trouble understanding the legitimate needs of the other. The head
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by dws 15y ago
By 2029, and increasing number of humans will fail the Turing Test.
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by dws 15y ago
Whether the Kinect is a game changer or a distraction remains to be seen. A well-coded bot can do quite well already in autonomous mode, even when there's contention for a goal (in this case, the 3 point hoop).
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by dws 15y ago
Friends can find you more easily using your real name? Try that if you have a very common name. There are over 80 pages of G+ results to sort through if you have mine, and I have it easy. Friends with common Chinese or Indian names have it
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by dws 16y ago
You could as easily say that it's a poignant accusation of the misdirection of educators.
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by dws 16y ago
There's some pretty good legal analysis and discussion in the Groklaw comment threads, once you sort out who to follow. Groklaw is an interesting model in how to manage community discussions. Having an explicit "Off Topic" section on each p
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by dws 16y ago
And he wrote one of the first JIT code generators for Smalltalk-80 while at ParcPlace.
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by dws 16y ago
For 'blow your mind' trivia points, who filmed the demo?
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by dws 16y ago
They took out the outlets after a laptop user pulled the plug on their cooler. Overkill, perhaps, but there was some fairly rude behavior there for a while, including people bringing in starbucks cups and camping for the wifi.
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by dws 16y ago
The key is to put things down where you'll think to look for them when you want to pick them up again. The same principle works when deciding how to structure code.
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by dws 16y ago
The interview with Udell theorizes a bit on why Khan's approach works. Key bits: he approaches subjects conversationally; he doesn't appear in the videos, which reduces distraction; most of his video segments last 10 minutes, which is at ab
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by dws 16y ago
It's a style of building that was very popular doing the boom in Silicon Valley during the 80's and early 90's. Construction crews would pour the walls into molds, let them dry, and then literally tilt them up and put a roof on them. It was
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by dws 16y ago
The title is a bit misleading. The author mentions in passing that he took an at-home ground school course and passed the FAA written exam before flying. Studying to pass that test, and studying to retain some knowledge that can be useful w
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by dws 16y ago
Reid was no coding slouch. He won the 1982 Grace Murray Hopper award for Scribe. http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=5356574&srt=all&#3...
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by dws 16y ago
An employment agreement is often an opening bid in a negotiation, but developers think of it as a "sign or no deal" thing and thereby miss an opportunity to ask for reasonable changes. I've routinely struck out parts of employment agreement
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by dws 16y ago
Collocated: A wall, some blue tape, sticky notes, index cards, and flip chart paper. Distributed: Pivotal Tracker, IM, and "it depends" depending on what you mean by collaborative. Could be Google docs.
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by dws 16y ago
The first 25 minutes of Adam's talk apply amazingly well to becoming a great programmer. (The Q&A after 25 minutes is fun, too.)
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by dws 16y ago
Great takeaway quote: "Don't be the person who only has a hammer."
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by dws 16y ago
This is actually a two-part talk. At the 50 minute mark, there's a case study on optimizing a heavily-threaded Java app. It's partially about throwing heaps of RAM and cores at the problem (using the Azul platform), but it's also a general
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by dws 16y ago
"... according to a report issued Monday by attorneys hired by the district."
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by dws 16y ago
This should have been tagged [NSFW], to avoid problems for those of us who work in restrictive environments.
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by dws 16y ago
It's a 1" thick table top, not the thicker butcher block you often see used in kitchens.

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