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by jamieb 14y ago
FTA: "Well, hopefully we almost always want the asymptotically optimal algorithm to solve our problem. You might have noticed that the above code is selection sort - an algorithm with best/worse/average time complexity of O(n^2)." "Sadly, w
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by jamieb 14y ago
The difference is that if I choose to fly on a different airline I dont go to jail . However, even if I continue to pay my monthly bill, as required by the contract, but I unlock my phone so I can use it in Europe, I am guilty of a felony.
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by jamieb 14y ago
"But that has been failing to happen for the two centuries since the Industrial Revolution began. And people have been fearing machine-induced joblessness since the beginning." What has actually happened is that as labor was replaced or red
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by jamieb 14y ago
Awesome, but one exploit makes it less fun: Smart players who are trapped by a foe are dropping their own bombs so that the foe doesn't get the kill. I blocked a player in an alley. Right before he died he dropped his own bomb. I got no poi
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by jamieb 14y ago
FTA: "If it was written in C++, it would be threaded code" Uh, why?
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by jamieb 14y ago
A soup-to-nuts software development and production environment based on a predicate database supported by automated theorem proving with ranged domains capable of reasoning about optimization. Why: streams of ASCII characters are no way to
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by jamieb 14y ago
I have worked at three startups where I joined at <10 employees. Best result was stock-options worth less than the price. Worst was they owed me a paycheck. I had fun, and we had a good chance of making it big with all of them. I like t
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by jamieb 14y ago
More US Citizens have been killed by the Federal Government than by any other organized group. The military has been involved with strike breaking [1]. The military was used to suppress the southern states from seceding from the union. [2]
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by jamieb 14y ago
60 mpg hummer. Turbine + capacitor: http://www.fastcompany.com/60868/motorhead-messiah
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by jamieb 14y ago
This isn't journalism. This is a flamewar. Its not even a very good flamewar. No popcorn for me.
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by jamieb 14y ago
http://linux.die.net/man/2/cacheflush There are other CPU architectures than the Nehalem. The Nehalem's IO hub connects to the caches, not to memory, via the QPI. I/O sees the data as the caches see it. Most architectures, historically, h
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by jamieb 14y ago
Get a passport card and stick it in your wallet, next to your drivers license. http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppt_card/ppt_card_3926.html
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by jamieb 14y ago
This person found something that they didn't know they didn't know and were so happy they blogged about it. Regardless of what I may personally think about the merits of the code before or after, it makes me happy that there is another huma
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by jamieb 14y ago
Introvert programmer here. I find the opposite to be true. In an office situation, I'm much less likely to intrude on someone I need to communicate with, and they are much less likely to intrude on me. In an open environment, I get to overh
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by jamieb 14y ago
Here's a commercial, realtime raytracing tool. Runs happily on a dual-core macbook pro. No custom card needed. Yes, it runs better on a $20,000 64-thread Tigerton, but it will run usably on a laptop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUiLBmio
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by jamieb 14y ago
"The only thing your IDE actually needs to get from the Maven POM is to understand where your source code is, what you depend on and where it is, and how to run your tests." And how does it get that from ant? That seems such a small thing.
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by jamieb 14y ago
One is reproducible. One isn't. YMMV.
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by jamieb 14y ago
"These abstractions apply to tools and frameworks as well, particularly tools that must scale in their power and sophistication along with projects, like build tools. By hard-won lesson, composable build tools scale (in time, complexity, an
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by jamieb 14y ago
That's my favorite. "Maven is taking too long. It must be shit. I'll write my own!" Question: Maven is taking too long and downloading plugins and dependencies everytime. What should I do? Answer: 1. Its shit! Write my own! 2. Well, that se
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by jamieb 14y ago
"Because eventually your project is probably going to need it." If it has it, someone is going to think they need it. A year later you have 10,000 lines of Ant and nobody to maintain it. Building code is not hard. Discipline is hard.
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by jamieb 14y ago
Other great impossibilities: sequencing a human genome in 15 years. Cost of first human genome: $2.7b Cost 20 years later: $250. I think 2029 might be pushing it, but neither would I be surprised. Strong AI is always "20 years away". One da
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by jamieb 14y ago
My dad went to a NHS hospital with chest pains, was misdiagnosed, and died in the "recovery room" of a heart attack. Afterwards, he didn't fill out a patient survey.
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by jamieb 14y ago
So your argument is, "We cannot afford justice, so injustice is justified."
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by jamieb 14y ago
Called it. Front page HN today: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ny-congressman-i...
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by jamieb 14y ago
I think you should read what that case was about (and that the US won and on appeal). If I go on TV and make threats, then sure, the prosecution would have to meet that standard. If I meet you in dark alley with what you believe to be a g
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by jamieb 14y ago
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Some people argue that this means : "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security
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by jamieb 14y ago
Did you perhaps miss this: "Obama told lawmakers that he wanted them to swiftly pass a assault-weapon ban and limit magazines to 10 bullets." http://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2013/01/16/what-obama... "If reprap-like machines with st
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by jamieb 14y ago
"We're not saying its going to happen to you, but these other three businesses have burned to the ground. If you give us 10%, we can make sure it doesn't happen to you." At no point in this sentence did I say "If you do not pay us 10% we wi
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by jamieb 14y ago
I think it'll look like this: http://www.assaultweb.net/Forums/showthread.php?t=142405 "AR-15 30rd Magazine Dowloadable CAD Files" Edit: Maybe I've been reading too much Charles Stross: "Mind you, not everything that comes out of a rapid
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by jamieb 14y ago
"If by guns we are talking about those used to kill people..." Though the second amendment is strictly about protecting this latter use.

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