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by fr0sty 16y ago
The Economist publishes these articles for the same reason it ran an obituary on Martin Tytell[1]. It makes an interesting read, informs people about something they otherwise would never encounter and helps to broaden, however slightly peo
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by fr0sty 16y ago
> Don't take advice on your high-performance, flat tappet camshaft break-in from the Economist... But do take heed of their admonition to understand precisely what you are putting into your vintage engines. I frequent a vintage motorcy
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by fr0sty 16y ago
presuming, of course that you can do so without penalty, yes. But there are very few source of credit which will let you get away with deferring payments penalty-free.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
> Most of all, more than once, git has completely eaten work... Can you provide any specifics about this? My understanding (and experience) is that git makes it rather difficult to actually lose work. It may be easy to misplace, but n
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by fr0sty 16y ago
You skipped the Zero-th step: Step 0: pay your minimum on all debts. That prevents your principle amounts from increasing
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by fr0sty 16y ago
It's called Aldi and they have over 1,000 stores in the US. They have build a half cozen in my area in the past few years so I figure they cannot be doing that poorly... As someone else mentioned: They also make you pay a $.25 deposit to u
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by fr0sty 16y ago
I'm suprised that effects were very widespread and evenly distributed. The only people I have ever known to talk about their salary/wage seem to be union members (or other blue-collar professions). Electricians, teachers, machinists, eleva
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by fr0sty 16y ago
There is a massive overvaluing of 'degrees' throughout Africa. You are promoted not based on skill or ability but by 'highest level of education acheived'. The degree does not necessarily even need to apply to the work you are doing and e
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by fr0sty 16y ago
My team of 5 switched to git this year. Hust yesterday (I'm not making this up) one of my team members thanked me for pushing the change. Develoment for us has gone much more quickly now than before and we have had very few issues. One thin
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Spreading the change over 40 years ran the risk of having a new pope reversing the decision. Sweden tried to do it this way and failed.[1] I would also suspect that vanity played some role. If you start the slow transition you don't get a
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Other interesting date facts: February 30th actually happened. In Sweden in 1712: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_30 Friday followed Friday. In Alaska in 1867: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line#Histori...
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Yes, but shredding your books instead of donating them just to spite a reseller seems like sour grapes regardless of the justification. I agree that there is a temptation to wonder 'what if' about some young starry-eyed dreamer who may stum
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by fr0sty 16y ago
I would guess you are overestimating the memory footprint of your applications (unless you are planning on running Eclipse/Firefox/etc.) on the box. USB2.0 will push 480Mb/sec which is probably sufficient for streaming content. My wireless
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by fr0sty 16y ago
I use sawfish. It is very lightweight, configurable, supports plenty of keyboard shortcuts and generally stays out of my way. I have keyboard shortcuts for most simple operations (change workspace, change window, send to back, etc.) and us
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by fr0sty 16y ago
It is the popular imagination conflates them... 1. High-Frequency trading, by definition, done by algorithms. 2. We hear rumors or storyies of Algorithms gone wild. 3. This report blames and 'Algorithmic Trade' as the cause. People are temp
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by fr0sty 16y ago
An additional problem with an FSA (you can only get an HSA if you have a high-deductable policy) is that the list of acceptable expeditures is limited and the funds expire every year. I would love to have some tax-free healthcare money to s
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by fr0sty 16y ago
The title of this post (and the WSJ article) is potentially misleading. The 'Algorithm Trade' referenced was a Mutual Fund company executing a very large sell order in E-mini Futures. The sell order was executed through a trading algorithm
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by fr0sty 16y ago
This is one of the worst 'features' I have been fighting recently (along with most of the other beefs around here). I am trying to find an appliance review for a stove prone to breaking so I search: "Brand Model 1234 broken control panel"
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by fr0sty 16y ago
I found this article quite interesting... http://www.slate.com/id/2250793/pagenum/all It covers the history of tuning systems and how many different definitions there are of 'in tune'.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
If the core assumption is: 'each area of life is dominated by only a few major schools of thought, and these schools of thought tend to favor the elites' why should disregarding the research produced by the such elites be an issue?
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by fr0sty 16y ago
as a homeschool/unschool parent, yes. As a classroom teacher with liability concerns, not so much.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
This is just as unfair a characterization of home-schoolers as the GP.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
> children don't have the experience and exposure to make optimal decisions. The argument here is, I believe: "What is the best way to get children experience and exposure? A. Experience and exposure B. Lectures about A.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'. Do you ask every non-awkward person you meet whether they were home-schooled? Do you ask every awkward person you meet whether they were home-schooled? Do you keep a running count? Sounds like sampl
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Should have said Px size (given that we're talking bitmapped fonts)... I work on Linux(Redhat) with bitmapped fonts. ClearType screenshots (from my memory at least) have all still been fuzzy around the edges (at least for my taste).
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by fr0sty 16y ago
What pt size do people use for their Anti-Aliased programming fonts? I currently use a 10pt bitmapped font and everytime I try a font that is 'smoothed' it ends up looking like out of focus dreck at that size. I'm curious whether I'm odd f
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by fr0sty 16y ago
But the speed of RAM is still at least one order of magnitude faster than the SSD so there is still an advantage even with a faster fixed disk.
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Having lots of memory can serve as a poor-man's SSD. At least on a Linux system files are read from the disk and left in memory until that memory is needed for something else. This can increase responsiveness by reducing the need to go to
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by fr0sty 16y ago
Sparing that, why not use fseek() and do a binary search to get to where you wanted to go? Even better, save the prior offset somewhere and jump there immediately on T+1?
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by fr0sty 16y ago
> Typical members of an age group are by definition not immature relative to the average member of their age group. I think the argument is: "what happens to the average of a distribution when you throw out one tail?"

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