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by emu 10y ago
I'm a happy owner of a Dell UP2715K 27" 5k monitor, which is around 220ppi. At 2x scaling, I find it to be a very pleasant pixel density for working with code; text looks gorgeous. My only complaint is I wish the monitor was a tou
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by emu 10y ago
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W71BTkUbdqE for a lot more details on what Google does.
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by emu 11y ago
Treat this article with skepticism. I think the journalist has badly misjudged the current consensus in the field when they say: "There are still a few die-hards who do not believe in hooperons. They suggest that if an ensemble of mill
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by emu 11y ago
This data doesn't include non-salary compensation (e.g., stock grants). For tech companies, that can be substantial.
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by emu 12y ago
Standard caveat: I don't speak for my employer. Using Bazel (aka. Blaze) every day is one of the things that has made me dread ever leaving Google. Fast, reproducible builds are amazing . Once you have used this tool, it is very hard
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by emu 12y ago
You are confusing two different things: gradual typing, and type inference. Type inference infers a static type for every expression in a program. Hindley-Milner is such a type inference algorithm. Gradual typing allows you to partition you
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by emu 12y ago
The paper reference is: Siek & Taha: Gradual Typing for Functional Languages http://ecee.colorado.edu/~siek/pubs/pubs/2006/siek06:_gradua... (Of course, the "functional languages" bit isn&#
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by emu 12y ago
Why? Even if you can eavesdrop on the NFC communication, how does intercepting the challenge/response help you?
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by emu 12y ago
Sure they do: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2375012?hl=en
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by emu 12y ago
I might have missed it, but I couldn't find any licensing information for most of these data sets, which troubles me. Personally, I'm hesitant to download or work with much of this data for that reason.
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by emu 13y ago
One problem with using an SSN as a identifier is that the number exists for the administration of the Social Security system, so only people who pay into or will receive money from the system are eligible for a number. Not everyone in the U
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by emu 13y ago
If you ask me, the Hangouts actually is a huge improvement over the old Google Talk. I never sign into the old Talk on my gmail account because I find it very very distracting. The presumption of Talk (or other IM clients) is that if I am o
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by emu 14y ago
This study appears to ignore non-wage compensation (e.g. stock grants). I know that for me, as a H1B worker who graduated from a US graduate program and working for one of the large companies named, that stock based compensation is a substa
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by emu 14y ago
This is a problem with the blanket term "Intellectual Property". Intellectual property consists of many things, e.g. copyrights, patents, and trademarks. You can be in favor of some without being in favor of all.
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by emu 14y ago
I mostly wanted some better set and map container implementations (hashtables, binary search trees, tries); the built-in map can't be applied to all types, and is quite limited in how configurable it is. Given that we were going to be using
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by emu 14y ago
Unfortunately, it seems to be lacking many useful data structures. This bites you hard once you hit the limitations of the built-ins.
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by emu 14y ago
I have to agree that the lack of generics is one of the biggest holes in Go. Common container data structures are one example. You can't write, say, a generic binary search tree in Go, unless you wrap all your data in an interface. While po
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by emu 15y ago
It's a little disingenuous for the IE team to "discover" this just now. I'm pretty sure Google has been doing this for years, and it's well-known. (I certainly talked about it as part of a wider discussion about P3P policies with colleagues
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by emu 15y ago
We're off the original topic now, but I've never understood why the US doesn't enact a dividend imputation scheme, which nicely solves the double taxation problem on dividend income by giving the recipient of a dividend a credit for the cor
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by emu 15y ago
Back up your email! Just because your data is in the cloud doesn't mean you shouldn't make a backup. I just run getmail which retrieves mail via Gmail's IMAP interface every now and then. If Gmail went away tomorrow, I wouldn't be _that_ sa
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by emu 15y ago
This article is link-bait, but I'll bite. Simply put, Gmail provides a compelling user experience: * fast and accurate search. This is key, and I don't know of a single desktop email client that even comes close to providing a decent search
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by emu 15y ago
Perhaps we need a humor flag on web pages, Twitter. By setting the humor bit you could remove all ambiguity as to whether you're making a joke or a threat. [this.humor := true]
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by emu 15y ago
I'd also recommend a good game of arXiv vs. snarXiv: http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/ As a non high-energy physicist, it's surprisingly hard! I usually do _worse_ than random chance, sometimes substantially so. The author also has perhaps my
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by emu 15y ago
Well, unfortunately most interesting static analysis problems are undecidable. There can be no "general" solution. What we have in practice are approximations and heuristics; over time we will develop better approximations for the kinds of
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by emu 15y ago
I'll make a deal with you. If you don't put flash or animations in your ads then I won't try to block them. For Verizon and Google: let me remove bloatware from your phones, or I won't buy them. Pity; I was actually going to look into the G
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by emu 15y ago
There's certainly no financial incentive for a Ph.D. graduate to remain in academia. That said, there is no financial incentive to do a Ph.D. in the first place. My understanding is that the opportunity cost (salary you didn't earn while do
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by emu 15y ago
CS isn't a field where a postdoc is a mandatory step on the way to a professorship (unlike, say, physics). Postdocs in CS are not too common, so it's hard to generalize.
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by emu 15y ago
Since this is a copy of an email sent to CS students at Stanford, I'm not sure it's intended to be public information. One of the staff members in the CS department emails graduates every year to survey salary data and to ask about how usef
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by emu 15y ago
Install the GNOME 3 packages using apt (gnome-shell and gnome-panel should get you most of what you need) and run them in fallback mode. The GNOME 3 fallback mode is pretty close to the GNOME 2 experience, although it is missing a couple of
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by emu 15y ago
It might not kill SMS itself, but it has a decent chance of killing the need for an SMS plan. If most of your text messages are free anyway, then buying a text plan starts to become a poor idea. I haven't had a text plan on AT&T for man

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