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How SoftBank’s costly bet on the ‘internet of things’ backfired at Arm(ft.com)
60 points by hacman 5y ago|86 comments
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by hacman 8y ago
Landau's problems are pretty simple in their statement. I believe that Goldbach's conjecture is the oldest, dating to 1742. So I wouldn't exactly call it approachable in the sense of easy to solve, but the statement is quite
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About the psycopg2 name(postgresql.org)
1 points by hacman 9y ago|0 comments
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Equifax CEO to Congress: Not Sure We Are Encrypting Data(wsj.com)
3 points by hacman 9y ago|0 comments
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Unicorns aren't so beloved anymore(bloombergview.com)
5 points by hacman 11y ago|0 comments
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Silicon Valley Should Join the War on Terrorism by John McCain(bloombergview.com)
13 points by hacman 11y ago|13 comments
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SciPy 2014 conference videos(pyvideo.org)
73 points by hacman 12y ago|0 comments
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by hacman 13y ago
I have heard Stroustrup speak and he mentioned multiple times how important it is to maintain compatibility with all existing code in between language versions. Say what you want about C++, but I think they have the right approach. If you a
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by hacman 13y ago
Actually, under the GPL, Red Hat is only obligated to make sources available to its customers. What they have done is make the sources available to everyone on the Internet for free [1]. So CentOS would have to pay for RHEL were it not for
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by hacman 13y ago
You must also add the condition that your scalars are real numbers. There are many finite dimensional vector spaces that are nothing like Euclidean space: any finite extension of a finite field, for example. This comes from Galois theory, b
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Companies that pay software engineers the most(go.bloomberg.com)
1 points by hacman 13y ago|0 comments
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Hard to crack: The government's encryption conundrum(newyorker.com)
1 points by hacman 13y ago|0 comments
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by hacman 14y ago
I just became aware of the CalTech course. I will likely check it out, although I will stay with the Stanford course for the time being.
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by hacman 14y ago
I'm going through the Coursera machine learning class right now and I have to say that the professor glosses over several details and often makes comments like "if you're not familiar with calculus..." and "if you're not familiar with stati
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by hacman 15y ago
It is basically correct. They had ongoing revenue from sales, but also had ongoing costs related to the producing those sales, in addition to overhead from salaries, facilities, etc. What you would need to look at is their profits, becaus
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by hacman 15y ago
If you were to offer an self-hosted version that I could install in my own datacenter, that'd be of serious interest to me (my company). Allowing anyone else to hosting the sort of documents that end up in latex (very sensitive research pap