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1021.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
Wow, it's almost as though they're proposing limited Times for copyright, restricted to protections that actually promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.
1022.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
Shorter version: If you want experienced, wildly competent workers, you'll have to pay for them. If you're not willing to pay for the experienced workers, you'll have to train inexperienced workers. Also, the requirements you're listing f
1023.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
I'm somewhat skeptical that this is actually going to be a big / common issue. Introducing vulnerabilities, in such a way that they're both effective and look like an accident when one of your coworkers (or in the case of open source, anyo
1024.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
Neither is a bad choice. I'm partial to Clojure, specifically because it does integrate well with every Java library known to man. Starting out, there's a real Pavlovian benefit in being able to do something cool that "just works", and fi
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by fiatmoney 14y ago
As you scale up your storage, I'd recommend you switch away from RAID-Z to a pool of mirrors (essentially RAID10). It becomes easier to add or upgrade pairs of disks with differing capacities (eg, a pair of 1TB, a pair of 2TB...), and in th
1026.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
I don't understand why you would trust a company whose product roadmap consists of a single cryptic email, with the tools you use to maintain your livelihood.
1027.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
Microsoft's experiment with STM ended up not going so well [1] [2]. Does anyone know how the PyPy implementation differs, and if it might overcome these problems? Is it just laying the groundwork for leveraging hardware transactional memo
1028.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
As long as we're training algorithms to recognize correlates of "high-quality writing" rather than high-quality writing itself, why not use as many predictive features as possible? I'll bet parental income and education level, average home
1029.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
For comparison, you can now get < 35-watt Intel Ivy Bridge processors, with 2 or 4 physical cores. Would not be surprised to see them outperform on a performance / watt or performance / $ basis, especially if you're running OpenCL acce
1030.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
My understanding is that no one finds it hard in a purely technical sense to scale the pure page-serving portion of your website, whether it's PHP, Rails, Lift, etc., because you can always throw up another caching layer or another box to s
1031.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
Clojure, at least, can use most of the Java profiling & debugging tools. Under the hood, the class names shown get a little baroque but it's still recognizably relatable to the source.
1032.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
Ironically, each of these restrictions reduces the space of possible passwords for a brute-force attack, which is already pretty small given the inane 8-characters-exactly requirement.
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by fiatmoney 14y ago
Storm [1] and Spark [2] are two other distributed stream processing libraries in this family. Lots of good work being done in this area; batch-processing a la Hadoop is simply unnecessary for a lot of incredibly useful algorithms. [1] htt
1034.
by fiatmoney 14y ago
Two thoughts: 1) Say what you will about the military-industrial complex, but they do buy a load of physical products. When those are sourced domestically it has a lot of good spillover effects on the rest of the industry (see Steve Blank's
1035.
by fiatmoney 15y ago
I'm wondering why the founders and any other employees can't just be hired away from "their" startup, with a large signing bonus, and no change to the equity structure of their prior company (but, effectively no employees)? Non-competes mi
1036.
by fiatmoney 15y ago
"Object oriented" programming tends to conflate a lot of simultaneous ideas. You can use objects to represent a kind of declaratory style that meshes extremely well with FP, or to represent different implementations of a common interface (
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by fiatmoney 15y ago
You can bet that if AOL had the ability to, eg, dictate the terms of access to particular websites, their business model would start to resemble that of the big media companies. Making sure the internet industry resembles Big Media as litt
1038.
by fiatmoney 15y ago
"Ownership" without either voting rights, or an explicit entitlement to a share of profits, seems like a contradiction in terms.
1039.
by fiatmoney 15y ago
With straight calculators, I don't know if there's a whole lot better for them to get than the 89. For anything more advanced than the built in computer algebra system and BASIC can handle (which goes quite a way, the CAS is really pretty
1040.
by fiatmoney 15y ago
IANAL, but it seems as though an employer asking for a site password (consenting to which would cause you to violate the site's ToS) would be at a minimum guilty of tortious interference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
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by fiatmoney 15y ago
Why not move to an on-demand printing model, I wonder? I can understand not devoting a large amounts of resources towards typesetting and storing new editions, but it does seem (at least from the comments here, and anecdotally elsewhere) t
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by fiatmoney 15y ago
Unfortunately, this isn't really practical. - It requires solidarity by criminal defendants, many of whom will go to jail for a long time absent a plea agreement. It is literally, the prisoner's dilemma. - Absent posting bail, you stay in
1043.
by fiatmoney 15y ago
The point of these questions is often to get you to lie. Oftentimes this is a felony in and of itself (for instance, in federal background investigations), which gives the organization requesting the information leverage over you (and also