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by kbob 16y ago
I agree that an early exit would be better, but it's hardly a "killer". Assuming a uniform distribution of items searched for, 50% of them will require a full search, and 75% will exit one iteration early. 100% of searches for missing item
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by kbob 16y ago
Aside from the obvious arithmetic error, they are not the same at all. Tax revenues are spent on public works and societal benefits, whereas bank fees are kept by the bank.
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by kbob 16y ago
+1 for credit unions. The difference in fees and policies easily amounts to several hundred dollars per year for us.
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by kbob 16y ago
It needs a column showing how many people reach each level.
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by kbob 16y ago
I bought this book on dead trees a couple of weeks ago. I've been working through it. The first third is a typical intro to Scheme - types, code as data, recursion, call/cc, etc., probably more thorough than most intro books, but also fast
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by kbob 16y ago
When I met Ward, I asked him if he'd ever used a wiki. His immediate facial expression was impossible to transcribe.
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by kbob 16y ago
I found Minilight yesterday. It is both more and less than a ray tracer, being a global illumination renderer. It was created as an exercise to learn new languages. Its creator has implemented it in C, Scheme, Scala, C++, OCaml, Lua, Rub
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by kbob 16y ago
I got a Leatherman for Christmas 2009. Since that time, it's been amazingly convenient to have pliers, a screwdriver, a knife, and a bottle opener wherever I go (in roughly that order). The pliers are especially nice, with strong forged j
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by kbob 16y ago
Exactly. The Nexus One at $599 (I think) was competing against Verizon's Droid at $99 with rebate. A Google WiFi-only tablet would compete against the WiFi-only Xoom at $599 and could be price-competitive.
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by kbob 16y ago
The student can still use it in his portfolio, just not at the original URL.
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by kbob 16y ago
If it's for a class project, how about lending the domain? The student gets full rights for 1 year, then it goes back to its owner. It's not like most class projects produce lasting value either.
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by kbob 16y ago
Google got burned when they tried to sell Nexus phones directly; they couldn't match the carriers' bundled prices. But it might make sense for Google to sell a WiFi-only tablet directly.
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by kbob 16y ago
"For me, traveling to New York City was like an immigrant going back to visit the old country. People there live in a dirty, dangerous environment, bound to the land by some misplaced sense of heritage or tradition, unaware that the key to
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by kbob 16y ago
ASL = Age/Sex/???
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by kbob 16y ago
I bet I'm the only person here who can answer Teco. I found a PDP-11 at college and Teco was what it had, so it's what I started playing with.
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by kbob 16y ago
Serious question. Is John Dvorak a humor writer or just befuddled? I've read his column occasionally for many years, but I've never been able to decide.
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by kbob 16y ago
I agree. Can't stand subdivisions. But if you have kids, a subdivision, with its easy access to schools and parks, becomes more attractive.
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by kbob 16y ago
Your future career may also depend on how well you score in cubeduel.
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by kbob 16y ago
This fragmentation meme doesn't even pass the laugh test. So why does it keep coming up? My best hypothesis is that people who're invested in the iPhone are trying to rationalize their desire to stay on Apple's platform. Is there a better
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by kbob 16y ago
I've never understood how the carriers can differentiate on price, either. Given that any contract with data will cost $1500-2000 over two years, the difference between a free phone and a $399 premium phone is pretty insubstantial. The onl
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by kbob 16y ago
I have no inside knowledge of Intel. But I've always thought it interesting that they use "tick" for their process upgrades and "tock" for new architectures. That appears to corroborate your point, that processes are perceived as more imp
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by kbob 16y ago
Remember IBM? From 1960 through ~1985, IBM was the only answer for enterprise computing. And there really wasn't any other kind of computing then. IBM Research did everything from semiconductor research to databases to virtual machines.
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Rules for Maker Businesses(blog.ponoko.com)
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by kbob 16y ago
What about $780/year for parking in Plano, Texas? I moved away from Plano in the 1990s, but at that time, there wasn't any place in the whole city where you could pay to park.
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by kbob 16y ago
I think this is more about physical packaging than actual new architecture. SGI, among others, was building 1,000 node, cache incoherent, shared memory systems 10 years ago. But those systems occupied a whole room, not a single chip. htt
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by kbob 16y ago
If you eat three meals a day, you've got a good chance of dying a few hours after a meal. What are you arguing?
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by kbob 16y ago
I wrote better-makefiles, a project that appears to be similar in scope. I've used it on half a dozen small to medium projects. Since I'm very familiar with it, I can get a new project up and running in about a minute. https://github.com
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by kbob 16y ago
And visit some waterfalls on the way to/from. There is a whole sequence of waterfalls along the south side of the Columbia. Multnomah, Bridal Veil, and [I forget the others' names]. All that rain's good for powering the scenic wonders.
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by kbob 16y ago
I read the headline as, "How much wine do I need to create a sub-3-hour weekend project?"
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by kbob 16y ago
So. Millionaires save like crazy. They devote their lives to hoarding money (bad connotation unintended), to the exclusion of a lot of other material goods. This sounds like a compulsive behaviour. Should we regard excessive frugality as

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