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Recession Over By July?(positiveeconomicnews.com)
1 points by gne1963 18y ago|0 comments
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by gne1963 18y ago
I'd have to agree with the thrust of the article. Although it does not clearly state it, adsense is probably flat because of signficantly increased competition in the pay per click market.
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by gne1963 18y ago
I am a huge fan of Jim Collins and "Good to Great". The "stop doing list" is a great discipline to instill in any organization.
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In Brazil, Automobile Production Up 92% in January(mast-economy.blogspot.com)
1 points by gne1963 18y ago|0 comments
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by gne1963 18y ago
Nice article... as Amish become more and more an urban people, farming can no longer be their only livelihood. As time rolls on it is interesting to observe which locales adopt new technologies, sometimes out of necessity.
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Contraction Also Slowing in Non-Manufacturing Segment(mast-economy.blogspot.com)
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If GDP was down 3.6%, then Walmart is now growing by 26.1%(goodnewseconomist.com)
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by gne1963 18y ago
ieatpaste, can you give us some evidence to support your claim that retail is still shrinking? These are some of the largest retailers in the US and they are now reporting GROWTH in revenues... that does not equate to shrinking...
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by gne1963 18y ago
What would happen if she stopped paying on the HELOC for now until her personal business conditions improve. It is in second position, certainly would not help her credit score, but might offer some short term relief without worry of losing
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by gne1963 18y ago
I never left my Blackberry... when I first saw my buddy finally whip out his BB after struggling for 5 mins to find a location on a map... a knew i'd keep mine... Then I meet my best friend for lunch to weeks in a row. Both days, he's havi
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Retail Growth Already Skyrocketing in 2009(mast-economy.blogspot.com)
2 points by gne1963 18y ago|2 comments
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by gne1963 18y ago
But the more I think about it, I'd have to give Dijkstra's shortest path routing algorithm my highest marks... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm it probably was used to route this message to all you who are reading this
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by gne1963 18y ago
russell... I would perhaps nominate bubble sort above quicksort...for us old timers, it was easy to understand, code, and install in our programs where ever we need a sort... bubble sort I would argue first brought sorting to our discipline
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by gne1963 18y ago
Yes me too. I still believe that the godfather is Knuth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth think But as you highlight Sedgewick to me was more readable and applicable to the code I was writing in the early 90s.
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by gne1963 18y ago
The point in polygon problem for arbitrary polygons I believe was first solved by Robert Sedgewick and published in his awesome algorithms book... it is discussed here... http://bit.ly/i1u1 In most computer applications today we assume we
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by gne1963 18y ago
>I'd guess that the actual uncertainty >in the total is more a function of the >uncertainty in the numbers than it is in >the sampling. totally agree. As with any indicator there is quite a bit of uncertainty. And as you
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by gne1963 18y ago
Thanks! So what if I did another 100 random sample resulting a "better" (lower) std dev? At what level of std dev could one assume a normal distribution out to 1000? gne
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by gne1963 18y ago
So here is the methodology: 1. Hit http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2008/full_... 2. Randomly pick a company from the list... for instance: Pick Paychex Systems... company 921 on Fortunes list...On their career site the
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by gne1963 18y ago
So here is the methodology: 1. Hit the site above. 2. Randomly pick a company from the list... for instance: 3. Pick Paychex Systems... company 921 on Fortunes list... 4. On their site they list 137 job openings... 5. Add that to the total.
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by gne1963 18y ago
You can see my confusion is somewhat born out by hitting this link... it is labeled 500 when actually it lists the top 1000... http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2008/full_...
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by gne1963 18y ago
Thanks, nice catch and that post needs to be changed... momentarily... The universe was truely from the Fortune 1000 from the list publish online... not the top 500 only...
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by gne1963 18y ago
The samples were taken from a random selection of 100 of the top 1000 firms. The real question is how to make that selection of 100 firms so that statistically the sample size is a representative sampling. The goal is not to determine whe
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Estimate: Top US Firms Have Over 700,000 Job Openings(mast-economy.blogspot.com)
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Regional Banks on TARP Funding: "No Thanks"(mast-economy.blogspot.com)
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by gne1963 18y ago
Totally agree with the conclusions: "The science paradigm has not been part of the mainstream perception of computer science. But soon it will be." GNE, BS in Computer Science
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1974 and 2008, Graphs That Lie (Or do they?)(mast-economy.blogspot.com)
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The Good News Economist: No Credit Crunch (For Most Banks)(mast-economy.blogspot.com)
1 points by gne1963 18y ago|0 comments