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by jcbeard 10y ago
Ignorant article. It's all over the place, and unfortunately has no supporting data for the headline. The most backed-up line is: "Academics are more likely to cite papers that are already well-cited." Well, yes, this is true
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After the very old "war on boys in education" post. Read up on the issue. It's quite scary for me since the latest research suggests (and correlates roughly with my observations from my son's schooling) that the problem
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Examining the Educational Gender Gap in US [pdf](watson.brown.edu)
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Used this for awhile on my old iPad when my main laptop was broken. iSSH, a wireless keyboard + cloud virtual machine and you can pretty much do anything you need for dev work as long as you have a cellular or wifi connection.
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You know, some small cities in Europe (thinking of Germany) shut down for "quiet time" after lunch. Guess what happens? Nothing bad, life goes on. You know what would happen in America, we couldn't buy stuff for an hour or tw
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by jcbeard 10y ago
And ~30% of women probably run faster than I can. I also know a frog that can hop higher than me. There was once this dude I tried to out bench-press...didn't work out. You know what....who cares.
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What's amazing to me is that people who bill themselves as "protectors of our liberty" have the audacity to blatantly subvert the democratic process that they claim to hold dear. Changing the voting rules to remove the abilit
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Being a manager is tough. It takes people skills, and multi-dimensional thinking. Anybody that says "lets get rid of management" has clearly had bad management and perhaps should go into it themselves. I see this a lot in the tech
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by jcbeard 10y ago
I have a friend that does on a daily basis. Reminds me of the protein shakes I used to drink when I was an undergrad. These things are fads. A new one will come out in a few months, the new "future food." I'll stick with heal
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Yet another reason to fund bigger and badder supercomputers :). No self interest here, none whatsoever.
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<not a lawyer/> but, any reason that trump couldn't be charged with 18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(7): "threat to obtain or reveal confidential info" Seems if he was a normal pleb and openly put an ad in craigslist to ask for a
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Will be very interesting to see if the UK economy can actually recover at all with all of the acquisitions. There's a fire sale of sorts at the moment on UK's most valuable companies. The promises of the current prime minister to
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Umm, so twitter is a private company. Yeah, they can censor whoever they like. Can the NYT censor if they want? YES! Should they, likely not b/c of backlash from people like us. What we have to realize, is that unless there is a non-pr
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by jcbeard 10y ago
>C is still #1, but big data is the real winner Give me a break. Big data is a wonderful buzz word that means everything and nothing. It also has no relevance to the language. You can write awesome big data apps in C or Java or WingDings
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Google Fosters Another OpenStack Kubernetes Mashup(nextplatform.com)
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Yup, as someone who works with him...I can indeed confirm that he does in fact work for ARM Ltd. :)
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Have you ever used multiple compilers? Try compiling the same thing written in C or C++ with: clang, then gcc, then icc and see how -Werror treats you within any remotely interesting code. It's hard to predict what one compiler feels i
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by jcbeard 10y ago
good memories...the family that gets dysentery together stays together, or dies (at least on oregon trail)
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Working two jobs is the symptom of not making enough money to survive on. My mom (a teacher) worked multiple jobs (and yes, single parent household). She had friends when I was growing up and we had neighbors who had multiple jobs with both
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by jcbeard 10y ago
You know, as a parent I'd heard many things about "Common Core" from the media, other parents, and even family members. When my son got to kindergarten I was a bit worried about overbearing tests and the lack of a tried and t
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by jcbeard 10y ago
Guess we can't have the cake and eat it too. Or perhaps if we do we need to go for a triathlon. Seriously though, I wonder how much of this is correlated with our sitting problem, back problems, knee problems that result from a sedenta
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Legalities aside, there is a long tradition of giving out "fake" money to foreigners that can only be used in exchange for certain goods and services. In turn, local shopkeepers can use the certificates to exchange at some fixed r
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The US Army typically rotates positions every 2-3 years, sounds basically the same. The Civilian world is actually catching up to this concept, "externing" is the new buzzword. If you've learned how to thrive in a bureaucrati
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by jcbeard 10y ago
I can definitely comment here. I was also in the same boat a few years ago. I was a US Army Officer for 5 years, and now I'm a senior research engineer. First, here are my observations after getting "into" the tech industry:
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Triple Play Exascale(nextplatform.com)
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Inside Japan’s Future Exascale Monster ARM Supercomputer(nextplatform.com)
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Fujitsu Picks 64-bit ARM for Japan's Monster 1,000-PFLOPS SC(theregister.co.uk)
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Nuclear Powered Aircraft(xenophilius.wordpress.com)
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The subtle power of high performance computing(siliconrepublic.com)
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NAG Optimized Libraries for Cavium ThunderX Show Excellent Scaling(insidehpc.com)
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