jleader

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by jleader 16y ago
I'm curious; what do you call people who are willing to pay for lists of potential domain names they could buy, if they're not "domainers"?
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by jleader 16y ago
Actually, having worked with Perl during the Perl 4 to Perl 5 transition, I'd argue that it was almost as large as the C to C++ transition, though not as big as the Perl 5 to Perl 6 transition. Perl 5 dramatically expanded the options for
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by jleader 16y ago
I think api was substituting "Management consultants" for "Scrum consultants". I don't think api was criticizing management in general.
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by jleader 16y ago
I don't know enough about certificate revocation lists (CRLs) to be sure, but isn't it possible for individual browser users to import them? In that case, couldn't the EFF or similar organizations take matters into their own hands, and rele
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by jleader 16y ago
I only skimmed the paper pointed to by the blog post, but one quote jumped out at me: "Hence, in an era where disk reads caused wild variation in transaction length, allowing nondeterministic reordering was the only viable option." In other
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by jleader 16y ago
It may depend on the sort of jobs you're applying for, and there may be cultural differences. For the area I'm familiar with, high-tech non-defense jobs in the US, I'd say leave the old grades off. I've heard that in some other countries,
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by jleader 16y ago
Over the years I've used C++, C, Java, Perl, a little Mathematica (for analysing algorithms and trying to come up with better approximations to replace expensive numeric algorithms), sh, small amounts of x86 assembly, and even Modula-2 (lon
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by jleader 16y ago
Maybe I'm overlooking something, but in what way does Oracle's suit against Google (or the article) prove that "game theory isn't fully true"?
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by jleader 16y ago
"The end of stuff" seems rather hyperbolic. More like "the consolidation of gadgets I don't actually use that often". The Swiss Army Knife analogy is telling: how much have sales of Swiss Army Knives affected sales of woodworking tools, ki
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Another perspective on Yahoo(blog.unitedheroes.net)
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by jleader 16y ago
Recruiting is part of HR; at fast-growing companies, it's a pretty big part. Wouldn't it make sense to hire some recruiters who are able to distinguish at least roughly between good hackers and bad ones?
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by jleader 16y ago
So how unhappy are the wireless companies?
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by jleader 16y ago
I found the article interesting, but I thought it was somewhat overly argumentative. In particular, the claim that immigrants take walks and Americans don't struck me as an implausible over-generalization. I liked his points about the rig
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by jleader 16y ago
I had the impression that a large part of Sharpie's market (for their "Sharpie" permanent markers, at least) is marking physical things (writing your name on your coffee cup, for example). I don't see that market going away for a while, at
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by jleader 16y ago
Note that the pilot program described in the article included fairly intensive support by a team of social workers. I think Gladwell mentioned one caseworker for every 10 clients?
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by jleader 16y ago
Wait, you're taking the example of SF, where you say many homeless people prefer the streets to a shelter, and extrapolating that to conclude that "a large fraction of the relevant population" would prefer the streets to an apartment?
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by jleader 16y ago
My impression is that Chemcor hadn't been completely shelved after its invention, just that it hadn't found any hugely profitable uses. I'm reasonably sure I've seen the brand name before. http://www.corning.com/gorillaglass/gorilla_timel
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by jleader 16y ago
I'd always heard it as "a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged; a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.'
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by jleader 16y ago
One interesting possible side-effect of a post like this is that it points out the extent to which Perl is or can be used for more than something extremely simple. I suspect there may be lots of programmers who've used Perl, or seen it used
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by jleader 16y ago
For some reason, it tickles me that on the left side where Google lists the various types of searches, it usually defaults to "Everything", but then under that there's a link labeled "more".
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by jleader 16y ago
Better (more efficient/effective) manufacturing techniques? Or more efficient/effective marketing techniques? (I had a little trouble there with the adjective "better" applied to Madison Avenue's promotion of cigarettes).
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by jleader 16y ago
Since sales pays so well, won't those "golden handcuffs" make it that much harder to quit your job to do a startup?
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by jleader 16y ago
Is the error in the 3rd parties' code, or in Twitter's @Anywhere API that the 3rd parties are calling? The article isn't clear, though it sounds like the 3rd parties are calling the API with bad data, and the API isn't checking its inputs.
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by jleader 16y ago
I'm intrigued that no one has talked about the meta-aspects of this PR/marketing move by the UFW. How many other unions would have the guts to issue a call for workers to come take their jobs?
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by jleader 16y ago
I didn't see that as the author's mistake, but rather as the point of the article, that a company's culture isn't what they say it is, but what they do differently.
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by jleader 16y ago
This article appears to be an excerpt from a longer book on the subject: Epstein, Edward Jay (1982). "THE DIAMOND INVENTION" The author has a website, http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/prologue.htm with what appears to be the compl
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by jleader 16y ago
There's also an odd reversal near the middle; number of cylinders is roughly correlated w/ displacement, which is roughly correlated w/ weight, which is roughly correlated w/ horsepower, which is roughly... oops, inversely correlated w/ 0-6
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by jleader 17y ago
The "FAQ" link below the description leads to: "Chennai Central is a bandwidth saver plugin that makes your wordpress site support conditional GETs by search engine crawlers , feed readers and more." (followed by more detail about what cond