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by gfody 10y ago
"you need to know this shit" is something I say often to developers displaying complete ignorance of SQL. I think if you're an embedded systems programmer or an games developer focusing on the rendering pipeline or something
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by gfody 10y ago
California, sounds weird to me.
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by gfody 10y ago
I don't think anyone would argue that parents shouldn't be able to send their kids to top universities. However, despite top universities accepting significant quantities of low-income and minority students, those students remain
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by gfody 10y ago
It's plain to see who's abusing the program thanks to the mandatory transparency. http://h1bdata.info look at Google & Microsoft - can you really hire software engineers in New York and San Francisco for 90-130k? T
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by gfody 10y ago
you realize a PhD isn't something you're just awarded for showing up for 4 years? depending on the circumstances, how much a dick your adviser is, w/e.. at some point any sane reasonable person not trying to dedicate their li
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by gfody 10y ago
Technically the sub select is a semi join which could be optimized differently than left join (and could give different results). If bar.id had a unique constraint though the queries should generate identical plans.
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by gfody 10y ago
Maybe I'm miscalibrated on what's considered "pop sci" - but anything sensationalizing those EEG experiments or debunking "free will" shouldn't count IMO. That garbage nobody should be reading.
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by gfody 10y ago
I read theory-of-mind pop sci constantly, I'd say Penrose has the vitalist perspective and Kurzweil has the physicalist perspective. Hofstadter is a lovely read too (physicalist).
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by gfody 10y ago
We should figure out intelligence before speculating on super-intelligence. I think Kurzweil and Hofstadter have a compelling model in 'How to Create a Mind' and 'Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinkin
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by gfody 10y ago
Anathem plays with this as well
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by gfody 10y ago
Well yeah, but we don't literally hate him, we just hate that he's using invasive ads right?
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by gfody 10y ago
clicking all the advertisers links seems like an awfully nice thing to do for them, assuming they're paid per click
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by gfody 10y ago
They say it silently clicks all the ads in the background - doesn't that just help them? They want clicks right? Obviously the customer wants legitimate leads but the advertiser the guy we hate doesn't care if the clicks are legit
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by gfody 10y ago
The reality is that windowing functions are well supported by all major RDBMSs (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Vertica, and to an extent Postgres and Volt - sqlite and MySQL are not serious contenders in this space). As for readability I think it
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by gfody 10y ago
https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs/blame/master/RE...
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by gfody 10y ago
They also say shame on you if you're using XML, so I suspect some adolescent. Ain't no shame in using XML kiddo
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by gfody 10y ago
If I'm not mistaken it's actually Volvo's technology
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by gfody 10y ago
The shady places will just trim everything after the + anyways
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by gfody 10y ago
I'm sure if some small percentage of your employees aren't literally killing themselves from stress then you're not upholding your fiduciary duty to the shareholders.
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by gfody 10y ago
You speak as though all low-level optimization is alignment, unrolling, pairing, etc.. These are basically micro optimizations that yield negligible gains unless applied over a large code base. That Pluto output is just a wall of code becau
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by gfody 10y ago
It's totally ridiculous - I spent several years coding almost exclusively in x86 assembly and the prospect that a compiler could best a human at optimizing a specific function is ignorant. The only exception I can think of so-called &#
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by gfody 10y ago
The right way to have composability in a RDBMS is with things like parameterized views or table-valued functions. This would fall under embracing the RDBMS, leveraging its modern capabilities.
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by gfody 10y ago
Seriously though, considering how deeply every other aspect of this project was deliberated (presumably, given the cost involved) - how they could possibly end up going with Javascript is bizarre. You'd think there would be a preferenc
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by gfody 10y ago
What else do you call this sort of thing? e.g.: http://abcnews.com.co
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by gfody 10y ago
Related, running something like decrypt hugefile.dat | encode outfile.dat will usually result in powershell using up all your system ram and crashing.
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by gfody 10y ago
ddos attacks are script kiddy bullshit. I bet whatever kids behind it are absolutely loving the attention. Completely sensationalized stupidity to say our entire infrastructure could be "taken out" in such a way and wild speculati
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by gfody 10y ago
Militarized? You were as affected as I was which is not at all, don't you wonder if this is just mass media trying to incite bullshit?
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by gfody 10y ago
Friday's massive ddos attack barely registered on my day-to-day, the only annoyance was that Github was slightly slower than usual. It has been amusing though to see all the hundreds of news articles trying desperately to sensationaliz
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by gfody 10y ago
This looks so similar to Lightbot that I wonder if it's the same game just with updated graphics and characters and stuff.. and of course all the swift code
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by gfody 10y ago
Seems like a great application of AMD's Fiji GPU w/onboard flash: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10518/amd-announces-radeon-pro...

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