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by jimfl 17y ago
Which is a space-filling problem, mentioned above as how nature uses hierarchy.
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by jimfl 17y ago
Aside from whatever security weaknesses the specific implementation has, it would be very inconvenient to use this unless it became standardized, as you wouldn't be able to use any browser that didn't have the plugin (like on your mobile de
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by jimfl 17y ago
This is especially true in technology companies, where the people skills needed in managers are generally not those possessed by the most high performing leaf nodes (who may tend towards dweebery. You know who you are).
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by jimfl 17y ago
In what way is society hierarchical? Hierarchy is generally a poor way to organize things, unless you happen to need to fill space (which is how nature uses it). If you arrive at hierarchy as a solution to a problem, you have most likely mi
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by jimfl 17y ago
Another good reason you should get rid of things you don't use: They're flammable.
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by jimfl 17y ago
With a Lava Lamp: http://www.lavarnd.org/ Or with alpha-decay: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6745217.html
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by jimfl 17y ago
Indeed. I avoided the term engineer purposely.
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by jimfl 17y ago
"There are programmers and there are hackers." Then there are software developers. Software developers are sometimes called upon to program, sometimes hack. A lot of what a software developer spends time doing is neither, working closely wi
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by jimfl 17y ago
The page uses jsMath to render TeX like expressions. There seems to be a short startup latency, then the expressions are replaced with the formatted versions.
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by jimfl 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Generalization_...
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by jimfl 17y ago
And an even more in-depth analysis [PDF]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0906.2789
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by jimfl 17y ago
Weird. The article is invoking Benford's Law without identifying it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law Here's an article that concludes that the election results do not run afoul of Benford's Law: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/
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by jimfl 17y ago
Having run a science news blog for a few years in the early naughties, I can safely say that most science news is speculative sensationalism, in which embargoed news items are rarely more than press releases from various universities and na
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by jimfl 17y ago
Successtrophe!
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by jimfl 17y ago
I agree. There's something about this story which strains credulity. But we're in the early phases of what seems to be a significant news story, and so in the rush to scoop, careful analysis is rarely job #1.
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by jimfl 17y ago
There are some good ideas in there. I think that people working on "Basecamp-sized" projects will find this handy. Some comments in no particular order: - There's no way to put a note in to say why an item is parked. - Most even medium size
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by jimfl 17y ago
The majority of commercial software shops are probably developing on the MS stack. Smaller shops, startups, small online services are more likely to be on the LAMP stack. My shop is on the MS stack, and we will hire people with solid OO des
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by jimfl 17y ago
Some of those are cool, but I suspect that a clear, concise cv combined with a portfolio would better serve everyone's needs. I've often thought about what a cool developer resume on paper might look like, one that would satisfy HR and uppe
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by jimfl 17y ago
You might try out Lunch 2.0. http://www.seattlelunch20.com/ , or the Seattle DORKBOT scene http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/
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by jimfl 17y ago
I always try to espouse the benefits of triple-rot13 as the cipher in interview questions about security. Key management is a breeze, for example, and it's VERY fast. But it allows everyone to concentrate on how you're managing the secure c
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by jimfl 17y ago
When I am at my desk making something out of bottlecaps, business cards and spent NERF rounds and someone asks me what I'm doing, I tell them "I'm developing software. I'll type it in later."
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by jimfl 17y ago
There's trivial to implement, then there's trivial to implement in our product without breaking everything else. Also, they missed a category: Stupid. As in: I could do that, but it would be Stupid.
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by jimfl 17y ago
If a necktie did for my head (or pects) what heels do for the calves, I'd occasionally wear one.
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by jimfl 17y ago
Java's original sin is checked exceptions.
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by jimfl 17y ago
Yes. If you're asking that question, then Twitter is lost on you. For now. It's like happening upon a pad of post-it notes. You either say "Sweet, I have a use for these," or you say "Hmm," and file it away somewhere. Eventually, you may de
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by jimfl 17y ago
It's what I was going to say. I am intrigued by this, and by the fact that the API documentation is available before the service/product is.
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by jimfl 17y ago
Artificial Intelligence, like controlled nuclear fusion, is always in the future. About 40 years in the future.
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by jimfl 17y ago
It's a good start.
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by jimfl 17y ago
I think I found the problem! According to the debugger, the client is using IE6.
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by jimfl 17y ago
"When you call a virtual method, you never know what might happen." Good OO programmers can be confident enough to not care what happens when you call a virtual method.

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