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by hvs 10y ago
Managers don't win MVP awards.
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by hvs 10y ago
So, "companies think that security is unnecessary" is a sign that the security industry is working?
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by hvs 10y ago
I would say this is true of a lot of non-technical, popular non-fiction. I would consider "The Art of Electronics" [1] one of the greatest pieces of non-fiction in the English language, but that sucker's dense. [1] https:&#x
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by hvs 10y ago
That's what I was thinking as I read this. It's still amazing that the brain could have that much neural plasticity, but I think if you simply removed 90% of someone else's brain you would see much different results (likely
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by hvs 10y ago
I bought plans for the Simplicity clock a while back but have yet to pull out my scroll saw and dig in. It's a lot of fine detail work and slight mistakes can cause the gears to lock up. But definitely one of the cooler projects for a
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by hvs 10y ago
Don't get cute. Code golf is for competitions, not production code. Even if something takes 10 lines that you can do in 1, if 10 lines is clearer, do it that way (you'll thank yourself in 6 months when you have to figure out what
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by hvs 10y ago
To prevent them from building a powerful supercomputer. No, seriously.
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by hvs 10y ago
A similar (smaller) study was done back in 2003 with Crohn's disease. The results were similar. http://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v32/n1s/full/1703945a.html A more recent, better controlled stu
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by hvs 10y ago
I was an early adopter of F# (1.0) and promoted it pretty heavily in my previous job. We used it for some of our prediction code. I've since left and move to the Linux world, but have become more involved with using OCaml. Both are gre
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by hvs 10y ago
Companies that make life saving drugs aren't usually short on money.
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by hvs 10y ago
What is Reason? Besides an nigh unsearchable name for a technology? EDIT: Well, I found it. Doesn't change the fact that it is a pretty bad name for a project: http://facebook.github.io/reason/
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by hvs 10y ago
Any popular language that is going through a standardization process can teach us a lot. As opposed to languages that have "benevolent dictators" (Ruby, Python, etc), languages like Common Lisp, Scheme, C++ have all gone through s
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by hvs 10y ago
I agree. Anyone who thinks that dynamic linking makes things easier to update never lived through the DLL-hell of Windows where installing one new product would break a completely unrelated one because it "upgraded" a library.
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by hvs 10y ago
It looks like from my App Store Updates, it is a "Command Line Tools (OS X 10.11) for Xcode - Version 7.3" update.
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by hvs 10y ago
Unfortunately, there's a segment of society that will extrapolate the high-profile failure of one woman to reaffirm their misguided belief that her gender was part of the reason for her failure.
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by hvs 10y ago
There's a lot to unpack there. Who's doing the silencing? Can the comedian not get gigs because enough people are offended by them? What is meant by "silencing"? Is it just complaining or are they actively preventing tha
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by hvs 10y ago
Why do people steal things?
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Malcolm Gladwell got us wrong(salon.com)
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by hvs 11y ago
This is exactly the sort of argument made against Italians, Irish, and numerous others that have come to the U.S. It's pretty gross.
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by hvs 11y ago
Profit?
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by hvs 11y ago
I own a number of old(er) systems programming manuals, JCL books, and even a couple of COBOL handbooks from a few years ago when I was playing around with hercules [1]. I had a ton of fun (from a hacker perspective). I recommend playing aro
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by hvs 11y ago
Probably a lifetime of living in low-oxygen conditions has caused their lungs to compensate. That, and I would assume some effects on their brains.
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by hvs 11y ago
Yes, if people were reducible to a specific set of data points and the world worked on perfect knowledge and optimally efficiently, that would be true.
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by hvs 11y ago
They don't have to be more competent if they are cheaper. Assuming that companies always hire the "best" for the job is naive.
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by hvs 11y ago
saying a 40 year-old language that is one of the most widely used "seems unsustainable to me" seems weird.
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by hvs 11y ago
C++ is definitely a language you need to spend some time with before you can visually parse it quickly. C++11 also allows you to trim down the verbosity with things like "auto".
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by hvs 11y ago
The article was a bit misleading, but that is not what it is about at all.
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by hvs 11y ago
There is nothing "inevitable" about the process of history. Governments can and have limited the ability of companies to secure data in the past and they will do it again, given the chance.
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by hvs 11y ago
What, given the actions of the federal government over the past 15 years, would cause you to think that this speculation isn't completely spot on?
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by hvs 11y ago
There's a book that was published about 13 years ago by the man leading the program to rebuild the difference engine for London's Science Museum called, "The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First

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