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by jleader 15y ago
My point isn't about computational efficiency, but bandwidth efficiency (or alternatively, decoding the full message as early as possible). As I understand it, the Moore's law doubling time for bandwidth is longer than for CPU speed, sugges
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by jleader 15y ago
Why does the described algorithm only decode transmitted blocks when the receiver has decoded all but one of the constituent blocks? For example, if the receiver has received the following 3 blocks: 1. A ^ B ^ C 2. A ^ B 3. B ^ C
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by jleader 15y ago
I think the difference is that sellers opt in to sell through Amazon, and probably sign a contract allowing Amazon to collect and display feedback; Yelp is operating without the seller's explicit consent. So unless the rating site can lock
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by jleader 15y ago
What do you think happens to "good labor laws" in the absence of unions? An unfortunate consequence of our lobbyist-driven system is that the most effective way for people outside the 1% (actually more like the 0.1%) to get any positive att
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by jleader 15y ago
Code is the output; gathering requirements, taking direction, reacting to bug reports, and various other interactions with co-workers are the inputs. If you only look at the outputs, you're not seeing the whole process. How many employers w
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"Lightscrewed": the politics and economics behind LightSquared vs. GPS(forbes.com)
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by jleader 15y ago
The relationship may be public, but the knowledge that I'm job-hunting should not be. In a similar way, the hiring manager knows who I work for now, but expect them not to tell my employer that I'm job hunting.
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by jleader 15y ago
I think people should be aware that this goes on, in the form of hiring managers saying "this candidate worked at X, my buddy/coworker/neighbor worked at X, I wonder what their opinion of this candidate is". I would hope that people who do
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by jleader 15y ago
There are benefits and drawbacks to distributed teams, just as there are to any particular office set-up. I worked on a very productive distributed team for about 5 years, and I've worked from home on more or less solo projects, I've shared
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by jleader 15y ago
I work with a guy with an MBA in statistics and operations management. I don't know if he's "rockstar" programmer, but he writes his own Perl and shell scripts and SQL queries, I've heard he's pretty skilled in SAS programming, and I've wat
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by jleader 15y ago
That's one of the less obvious reasons that secret proceedings, secret rules, and the like are bad. They make it harder to discredit conspiracy theorists. "Well, if they kept the seizure proceedings secret for a year, maybe the seven days o
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by jleader 15y ago
For now... SOPA intends to fix that minor oversight, apparently.
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by jleader 15y ago
The point is that under the First Amendment, the government shouldn't be able to do this for any reason (aside from the usual "fire in a crowded theater" or "disclosing state secrets" kinds of exceptions). Basically, if only "speech critici
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by jleader 15y ago
I think the point isn't specifically about the overhead angle, it's that the existing camera angles don't show some of the players (who may be moving in ways that are relevant to the overall strategy, but their movements aren't sufficiently
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by jleader 15y ago
Isn't this similar to the way phone data is used to estimate traffic speeds on streets and highways? Also, when I saw this: "To make it harder for hackers to get at this information, Path Intelligence scrambles those numbers twice", my firs
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by jleader 15y ago
It makes me smile sadly when one of the problems cited is "Syslog is only one of many logging systems on a Linux machine", and the solution proposed is the addition of another logging system.
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by jleader 15y ago
I was referring to physical dollar bills; how many drug dealers get paid by direct deposit?
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by jleader 15y ago
Ever tried to obtain more than 10,000 of those US dollars? Not exactly "banned", but pretty heavily restricted, from what I understand, for just about that reason.
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by jleader 15y ago
For most people, though, hours of availability can be more or less implicit. If I'm scheduling a phone call with a business person who works in an office, I can assume that their availability will probably be highest sometime around 10AM to
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by jleader 15y ago
Courier was intended to look like a traditional typewriter font. For many decades, most typewriters didn't have a key for 1 (one), you were supposed to use the lower-case l (ell) instead. Teletypes did have a one key, probably because the
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by jleader 15y ago
There's also been a lot of people using his lack of tact to point out how weird he is, and how much they dislike him, which is kind of sad. Sometimes, the worst oppressors are the formerly oppressed, and I think the same may apply to bullyi
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by jleader 15y ago
I wasn't involved at the time, but what I've gathered over the years is that the early history of blogging and rss involved competing standards and personal and technical rivalries. My understanding is that Winer is an ardent self-promoter,
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by jleader 15y ago
>>Perl is on every linux >Linux yes. Not every Unix, not every Windows. Wait, you'll only consider languages that come pre-installed on all Unices and Windows? That's a pretty short list! Or are you complaining that Perl isn't
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by jleader 15y ago
I seriously doubt there are more people maintaining code in Perl 4 than there are starting new projects in Perl 5 or Perl 6. Perl 5 replaced Perl 4 in 1993. I personally know of several companies using Perl 5 when they start new projects; I
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by jleader 15y ago
I think you may be conflating anti-intellectualism and need for structure. The need for structure is probably newer, as people grow up in an increasingly structured society. On the other hand, I think there is an American strain of anti-int
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by jleader 15y ago
Actually, he asked about people who haven't written their own compiler. I believe there's a large middle ground between people who've written their own compiler, and the users you're describing.
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by jleader 15y ago
My father liked to remind me that neckties, jewelery, and any sort of loose or dangling clothing are very bad ideas around rotating machinery!
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by jleader 15y ago
To give credit where credit is due, Perl got the comma operator from C. A quick glance at their manuals suggests that neither BCPL ( http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/bcpl.html ) nor B ( http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/kbman.html ) had
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by jleader 15y ago
Any company selling to a group of people has to understand the needs of their customers. Many companies do this by hiring people called "marketers", who specialize in studying the needs of other groups of people. An alternative is to create
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by jleader 15y ago
Isn't a monopoly when you sell a product no one else is able to (natural monopoly) or allowed to (legislated monopoly) sell? What's preventing people from using other search engines? Microsoft's monopoly was based on exclusive contracts wit

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