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by jcrites 14y ago
> I think most of the verbal stuff in IQ tests wouldn't relate that much Most software engineering jobs involve communicating with people. Customers, other engineers, other teams, leaders, etc. I would hazard to say that most effective
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by jcrites 15y ago
Even beyond that: it's desirable for a machine to be able to compute arbitrarily large data sets. If the data set can't efficiently fit in memory, the machine should still make progress, just more slowly, using disk. It is not desirable for
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by jcrites 15y ago
What are some examples of shortcuts you recommend?
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by jcrites 15y ago
What does this mean about fonts like Helvetica? Are they typically protected by design patents? If not, could someone take a bitmap screenshot of Helvetica, product a font from it, and distribute that font?
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by jcrites 15y ago
He did not say that the drop in the price of PCs was representative. He (successfully, I think) provided an example showing that a gain to productivity benefited everyone, not just the holders of investments. What is an example of an indust
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by jcrites 15y ago
Well said. I agree that a person more genuinely seeking to be left alone would leave at least a short message stating their departure, if not explaining. Since that is the norm (in basically all human society, hacker and otherwise), deviati
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by jcrites 15y ago
Indeed. The price to keep the information is peanuts. Take Amazon S3 (at its highest price point, <= 1 TiB): http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ ($0.125 per GB) * (1 terabyte) = 128 U.S. dollars per month. I'm surprised Google doesn't w
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by jcrites 15y ago
I don't think he's implying that consumption is a bad thing inherently. I think an underlying assumption of the article is that the author has greater aspirations which he feels he is not be pursuing effectively. It's about focus and goals
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by jcrites 15y ago
Has them work on fake products?
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by jcrites 15y ago
Exactly. The air was once dangerous as well. Now there is negligible risk to travel almost anywhere in the world within 24 hours.
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by jcrites 15y ago
Is there a way to send private messages on HN? I wasn't able to figure that out. I might be interested to acquire the domain from you. I may be happy to keep it online without advertising as a public resource, depending on the total traffic
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by jcrites 15y ago
Here is a concrete example. A few days ago I visited Google and, rather tentatively, typed in the word "ring". I was expecting to get garbage pages about wedding rings, or something like that. As its #1 result, Google sent me where I had wa
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by jcrites 15y ago
I'd like to share some products and techniques which have helped me deal with daily intense computer use: I learned to type Dvorak and did so for months. It got to match my Qwerty, about 100 WPM. I didn't find that it provided much advantag
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by jcrites 15y ago
Pure opinion, like this, with no explanation or justification, adds nothing to the discussion. I have explained why I believe it helps small and large business equally. If you'd like to have a discussion, I invite to explain why you think w
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by jcrites 15y ago
Here's the definition used by SOPA: > (a) Definition- For purposes of this section, a foreign Internet site or portion thereof is a `foreign infringing site' if-- > (1) the Internet site or portion thereof is a U.S.-directed site an
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by jcrites 15y ago
I think the idea is that US sites are already subject to US jurisdiction. Lawsuits can be brought against them already. There is no need for something like SOPA because a restraining order issued by a court can already take a US website dow
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by jcrites 15y ago
The DMCA provides that if you send a counter-claim, the content will be put back up. > To say that "big guys" and "little guys" are on equal footing with takedowns is to be willfully ignorant of reality. I'm not saying it's perfect, and
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by jcrites 15y ago
I think Google and other web companies are opposed because it will create potentially significant administration burden for them. That is probably not the only reason, but I suspect it is sufficient reason for most opposition.
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by jcrites 15y ago
I agree. I found it unusual that so many people are claiming it's not true, but without citing any facts. Upon some brief research (Wikipedia), it seems that Cotton's claims are true : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#C
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by jcrites 15y ago
I think the problem is the natural psychological reaction people have to price discrimination. For example, what if you could watch a movie online the day it's released, but it costs $50 per view? People would be upset about that, even thou
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by jcrites 15y ago
> Alexis never said why anyone should object to the bill. Exactly. Alexis was making an emotional appeal. "It scares me, it concerns me". Why? I'm most of the way through the debate and I didn't hear any arguments against Cotton's point
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by jcrites 15y ago
It didn't seem to me that Alexis was outclassed by Cotton -- it seemed simply that Cotton was making points which Alexis didn't even attempt to oppose. Cotton said "this only applies to foreign sites which are wholesale devoted to copyright
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by jcrites 15y ago
> I know that for my own usage, Scala's benefits only really became evident once I understood implicits; before that, it was simply a slightly better Java. With implicits, it's a tool that makes Java look like COBOL I would be intereste
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by jcrites 15y ago
> Requiring machine-to-machine communication to do heavy parsing is a bad idea. Why? Machine-to-machine communication is for machines, after all, isn't it? What you call "heavy parsing" is heavy parsing for humans. It's actually easier
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by jcrites 15y ago
The "SPDY gateway" is in no different a role than the "last mile" ISP. In fact, your SPDY gateway may for all intents and purpose be your ISP; or your ISP may offer an SPDY gateway.
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by jcrites 15y ago
It's terrible writing. How many sentences randomly end with a question mark? > A guy I barely knew but was in charge of the video side of Silverlight? > Fine, I thought maybe I can get a fresh perspective and start something new in
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by jcrites 15y ago
Does this mean that I could download each document out of PACER once, and publish it to a world-readable Amazon S3 bucket? (The type where each user pays their own S3 costs to download from it)
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by jcrites 15y ago
> It's easy to dismiss people "jiggling things around until they work", as lesser, more inefficient or just plain bad programmers. Just remember that you were once like that too. Sure. But you're not ready for much more than an internsh
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by jcrites 15y ago
One thing which surprised me to learn was the fact that the Sun, per cubic meter, generates about as much power as an active compost heap. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Core The Sun is not like a nuclear bomb going off. It's just a big
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by jcrites 15y ago
It sounds like Jeff and Danny have known each other for a couple decades, and have been working actively together on the clock for at least 5 years. It also sounds like Jeff may have had significant involvement in helping to put the team to

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