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by jcbeard 10y ago
Probably the most important bit of the entire article, which you can probably get from many self help career books (applies to all, not just programmers): "Ask others to explain why they do things, but don't just accept dogmatic r
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by jcbeard 10y ago
I'm holding out for the longer range version.....really cool car though. Test drove one.
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by jcbeard 10y ago
So why not something like Iron Dome? I mean, even a basic old school phalanx system could "shotgun" a drone out of the sky. I'm guessing a generic RF jamming system likely would work well too here. So then there's the ha
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Ok, so from the command line....you might try sips: $> sips --resampleHeightWidth <height in pixels> <width in pixels> Sips works for most raster image formats. Guess I need to update and re-post my OS X utility help page. Th
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by jcbeard 10y ago
So there I was. In the Army now. As a young adult I loved watching Stripes...the real US Army is nothing like that. In Stripes Bill Murray just got orders. In real life, you get orders and a commander's intent. When it came my turn to
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by jcbeard 10y ago
This article is a reminder to me that people are bloody critical of things that they don't really understand. Many products are killed, many research ideas never take off even if they're proven to work well. Ideas/products ar
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Ask HN: How Hackers Can Help South Louisiana Flood Victims
2 points by jcbeard 10y ago|0 comments
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by jcbeard 10y ago
WAIT, my Model M blasts Slayer at every keystroke. Doesn't yours? It also has Metallica's Kill 'Em All pre-loaded in ROM. I heard if you achieve a fast enough rate it'll go straight to Seek & Destroy :). Seriously th
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Melding Hyperscale and HPC to Reach Exascale(nextplatform.com)
3 points by jcbeard 10y ago|0 comments
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HPE Expands HPC Reach with SGI Buy(nextplatform.com)
4 points by jcbeard 10y ago|0 comments
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by jcbeard 10y ago
morphology I'm not so sure. looking at the evolution of keywords seems to suggest that the morphology is there. phonology, I'd have agreed with you a few years ago after I finished a minor in slavic linquistics, but now after seei
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by jcbeard 10y ago
How about all computer languages? They're largely subject to grammar constraints (e.g. LR, etc.), but they're quite subject to creolization and almost all the widely used ones are derived from english, nerd slang, slang tech terms
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by jcbeard 10y ago
The invasion of Iraq was stupid. It was likely illegal, based on false pretenses, and well....shouldn't have happened. The invasions initial execution was beautiful (first few days). The US Military performed splendidly. The follow thr
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by jcbeard 10y ago
They're unfortunately becoming common in the upper regions of Texas. At least I can verify Austin, TX has had quite a few. Thankfully pesticides take care of these not so little critters.
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Access to healthcare through ACA may actually improve Americans’ health(arstechnica.com)
2 points by jcbeard 10y ago|0 comments
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Exactly, most science fiction representations fail on the engineering test. That' snot to say that some future change in our understanding of physics might not change what is in fact possible. One reason I love scifi is that the author
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Old school: x86 task state segments(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jcbeard 10y ago|0 comments
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Wow, did nobody watch Star Trek TNG? I learned about them when I was about 10 watching the Relics episode ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Ge... , or amazon prime: https://www.amazon
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Nanotech Grand Challenge and Federal Vision for Future Computing(hpcwire.com)
2 points by jcbeard 10y ago|0 comments
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Exactly, the question is...how to pay for the daycare. My son went to daycare. When I went to grad school, it was half my salary. Literally half. Thankfully I had the US GI Bill, otherwise I'd have been hosed. Dealing with the churn in
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The weaker sex(economist.com)
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by jcbeard 10y ago
No, sometimes people do fail. People get jealous, they get mad, they sometimes do silly things. We put processes in place to prevent those malfunctions from negatively impacting our organizations. Unfortunately, even perfect processes can f
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Deep Learning Chip Upstart Takes GPUs to Task(nextplatform.com)
5 points by jcbeard 10y ago|0 comments
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The Magic Bureaucrat and His Riverside Miracle(99percentinvisible.org)
80 points by jcbeard 10y ago|26 comments
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Hi, I didn't intend on this getting posted quite yet. But, looks like somebody liked it...even before I've added more new features. The main project page is http://raftlib.io . If you're interested there are a few
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Umm, send this to peer review. Here's the link to Góes actual paper( http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp16160.pdf ) published as an IMF working report which doesn't even have the
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by jcbeard 10y ago
If in C++, LLVM + Flex/Bison still the most productive for me. I've tried lots of other compiler compilers, but they're still the best once you learn them. If anybody is bored, I put together a simple word count example a lon
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by jcbeard 10y ago
This article is mostly poo with a few bits of goodness sprinkled in to detract from the stench. Now, directly to your comment, I usually evaluate on the ability to get things done. Often that means libraries. Linking to C/C++ libraries
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Bad management, oversight, and architecting returns bad code. Often team leads know better, but are driven by deadlines and the lack of a skilled workforce (with little time to train them) to produce a product. Of course this leads to turn-
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Changing the Exascale Efficiency Narrative at Memory Start Point(nextplatform.com)
4 points by jcbeard 10y ago|0 comments

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