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by helmut_hed 13y ago
I just started working at a place where size_t is being cast to "int" all over the code, with similar reasoning. Thanks for the ammunition.
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by helmut_hed 13y ago
Are tax liens different from other kinds? It's my impression that if e.g. a lender repossesses, they sell the house, pocket what you owe plus fees, and have to give you the rest back. It's strange to think it would be different
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by helmut_hed 13y ago
Slide 5. Why can no one spell "Appelbaum"?
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by helmut_hed 13y ago
presumably that was prostoalex's point
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by helmut_hed 13y ago
Caltrain only stops in Atherton on the weekends because they don't want the poor commuters being able to get in or out of Atherton during the week FWIW Atherton was one of the least used stations on the Caltrain line, and the nearby
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by helmut_hed 13y ago
Your edit is itself very interesting :) Did the Cornell affiliation of one of the authors cause you to change your opinion in a positive or a negative way, and why?
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by helmut_hed 13y ago
The Heritage Foundation may be slightly biased on these issues...
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by helmut_hed 13y ago
How ironic that now they are ... promoting "going native" Actually for me this is a sign that they are finally starting to Get It. I agree with your sentiments on the last decade but it seems to be improving now.
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by helmut_hed 13y ago
This is also good evidence for why you should release your data online, so it can be properly vetted Reinhart and Rogoff may reach exactly the opposite conclusion, given the embarrassing publicity. For me this is an illustration of why p
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
This seems highly surprising in a neighborhood that hosts - a few blocks away - the Folsom Street Fair and the even raunchier Up Your Alley. Can we have a link?
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
IMO she did a good job of capturing the Linux vs. proprietary system tensions a technically sophisticated user might experience. I've had (and have) similar problems myself.
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
This. I wonder how much of the controversy comes down to left vs. right brain, East vs. West Coast, liberal arts vs. engineering discipline thinking. Are we just siding with our "team" here?
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
Both of those assertions are semi-true, at least - It looks like he averaged around 54mph between 400 and 460 miles. He also turned down the heat as claimed, but not when he stated - roughly between 250 and 300 miles. I'm willing to chalk
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
No actionable investment advice but a fair bit of policy prescriptions in Lecture 2 that are IMO worth a read.
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
No revenue accrues from hardware that's already been shipped :)
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
It's nice that things have gone in the direction of XML and JSON lately, and many people devise formats that build upon those. I was thinking more of arbitrary text formats. Even if it's XML or JSON though, the existing parsers only handl
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
This is my cue to mention Spirit http://boost-spirit.com/home/
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
New file formats of all kinds are invented every day, often with some proprietary tool attached. Writing your own parser allows you to add value and/or interoperate with the proprietary system. Even in the cases where an open source parse
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
LWN has great coverage on the modularity issue, from the time period when Clang was just getting started: http://lwn.net/Articles/301135/
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
This appears to be at least one of the source emails: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-01/msg00572.html
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
It may be an awful attitude, but it coincides remarkably well with mine. And he's not an asshole - just a bit morbid, perhaps. I think we spend a lot of time and mental energy suppressing the fact of our own eventual decline and death, lea
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
Bear in mind that the person making the comments you quoted is not actually John Carmack, who I will agree is a "guru". Carmack's own comments later indicate that the style represented in Doom 3 is an intermediate point in his personal evo
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
Another perspective worth reading is that of the mutual fund company that originally pushed for a special board committee to investigate Black's compensation and other off-the-books financial arrangements with Hollinger. That committee (of
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
I nearly stopped reading after this phrase: Conrad Black, one of the most consequential public intellectuals and businessmen of our era This guy is a CEO who raided his own company's coffers, to the vast enrichment of himself and the impo
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
"Textual analysis" also sounds like the sort of thing that could be profitably outsourced. I understand that in the medical world, reviewing medical images may now be done by qualified technicians in lower-wage countries.
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
The classic trap ... is that they're not considered for jobs because they don't have experience, and can't get experience because they can't get the jobs This has always been a problem and IMO the solution in previous generations was that
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
There's a great deal of value in popularizing, mass producing, and otherwise making technology accessible to the general public. And it's real work, too - it's just not the strictly technical stuff we all love, but solving other problems l
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
Just out of curiosity (having used Tcl shell EDA tools myself) could you Swig stub versions of the proprietary commands and test your scripts standalone?
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
I'm curious to know, for the "Ongoing Medical Conditions" case, whether they verified if you could actually get insured in the first place on the plans they recommended. This seems to be the biggest issue with private insurance - they don'

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