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Where's Bin Laden? New theory, Google Earth offer clues | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com(blogs.zdnet.com)
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AMD, Intel x86 patent fight likely to be long and messy(arstechnica.com)
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Google Docs suffers serious security lapse(theregister.co.uk)
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
An excellent recent book is Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp. http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ The approach is what you might guess from the title, so it addresses both the fun of Lisp and the building of practical applications (inc
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
Execution is most of what goes in to bringing a product to market successfully. It takes a lot more than a good idea to succeed; secretive dreamers abound, but the vast majority of them never ship. This is old news: Don't worry about peopl
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
That's some righteous hacking... backing out the vendor from the packet checksum & header... :-)
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
Yes, but you have to be honest about the amount of information contained in the conspiracy. In the limit, the server could send the entire file as part of the preprocessing step. The compressed version would then be "yeah, that one". That
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Nokia to Sell Phones With Skype Software(wired.com)
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Don’t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker. | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com(blogs.zdnet.com)
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Three hospital worm infection dubbed 'substantive failure'(theregister.co.uk)
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Police pursue crime suspect by Wii avatar(reghardware.co.uk)
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." Alan Perlis, "Epigrams in Programming" (#101) http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
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Sun will Rock in 2009(theregister.co.uk)
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
In the meantime, strike small blows here and there against bad patents by helping examine them: "Help the USPTO find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications. Become a community reviewer and improve th
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
I went straight to graduate school, heeding advice that it would be difficult to give up the comfort of a real salary for a grad student stipend if I went and worked first. I observed in grad school that the students who had done that knew
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Apple threatens Palm chomp • The Register(theregister.co.uk)
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Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books(nybooks.com)
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
"The mere possibility of being interrupted deters hackers from starting hard projects. This is why they tend to work late at night, and why it's next to impossible to write great software in a cubicle (except late at night)." From, you gues
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
"Help the USPTO find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications. Become a community reviewer and improve the quality of patents." http://www.peertopatent.org/
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
Read Robert D. Austin's book Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations ( http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/mmpo.html ) for an absolutely devastating analysis of this problem.
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
Teachers have been complaining that students today aren't what they used to be at least since Plato -- probably even longer...
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
Douglas Adams wrote "A scientist must be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
BS = B_llSh_t MS = More of the Same PhD = Piled Higher and Deeper
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
Ah, yes.... The collectivists controlled the Presidency, the Senate, and the House of Representatives and used their power to regulate the credit derivatives market out of existence. How much better things would have been if the Chairman
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Patent Suit Targets 22 Software Companies(news.digitaltrends.com)
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
Resonates with advice from David Patterson and Richard Hamming: http://www.cra.org/Activities/workshops/academic.careers/200... (see pages 22, 33, and 34).
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programming (#101) http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Juvenal (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes ) This is a lovely idea, but suffers from a severe bootstrapping problem. How should the firm choose the technical person to hir
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
I've always been fond of Salt Spring Dollars ( http://www.saltspringdollars.com/ ).
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by jeeringmole 18y ago
The words "web" and "start-up" could both be dropped: many companies at many stages in many spaces have fallen under this spell.

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