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by krupan 15y ago
The arguments in favor of Perl largely favor writability of code over readability. Code needs to be read, and most importantly understood, many more times than it is written, which is the whole reason Perl has fallen out of favor. Elastic
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by krupan 15y ago
My school used blackboard and it was horrible. Instructure ( http://www.instructure.com/ ) is a start-up that is competing with Blackboard. Their product, Canvas, is available as open source and their CEO, Josh Coates, was founder of Mozy
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by krupan 15y ago
They have been moving towards enterprise services since Carly. Mark Hurd bought EDS and Mercury specifically to strengthen HP's enterprise offerings. Mark buying Palm seemed really out of place at the time.
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by krupan 15y ago
"The question is what software do they have to sell?" A few years ago, under Mark Hurd, they bought EDS and Mercury for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Interactive Never heard of their software? Be glad.
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by krupan 15y ago
Fusion-io. We are hiring FPGA and ASIC design and/or verification engineers for both our Salt Lake City and San Jose offices. Verilog, Xilinx, Altera, Systemverilog, UVM. We make the fastest non-volatile storage in the world. Prominent
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by krupan 16y ago
"it works on all Windows systems (32-bit and x64)" They didn't say that the exploit didn't work on Mac or Linux, but one can only assume they tested those and weren't successful?
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by krupan 16y ago
I agree that this was a great little essay. I like your illustration, but I think your point at the end of your comment disagrees a little with the essay, and I have to disagree with you a little as well. A computational model, such as Ma
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by krupan 16y ago
He's getting an 8-figure severance package: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100806-715953.html
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by krupan 16y ago
I found the same for a lot of counties in Eastern states, and then tried counties that I know are small in the west and saw the same thing (only much larger distances between counties there).
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by krupan 16y ago
"Pornography does the world a load of good. In countries that are sexually liberal, and where sex is not as taboo as it is in other countries, the population has less sexual crime. The opposite is true of sexually repressive countries." Cit
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by krupan 16y ago
You can always find cases that are exceptions to the general rule, where someone does something that ends up being very destructive for the vast majority of people who try it but comes out just fine. Especially on the internet. That in no
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by krupan 16y ago
Wow, just read that comment, and suddenly it's a completely different story. Maybe they should have kept it more anonymous and left in important details like that. I left the story thinking the same as the poster you replied to, "wow, tho
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by krupan 16y ago
Slide 30, exploring the, "Piracy Threat," ends, "The sooner three-strikes or similar legislation passes, the less piracy will spread." Is Netflix lobbying for three-strikes legislation?
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by krupan 16y ago
I used to work at HP in the inkjet division, and I just wanted to point out that, down at the individual engineer level of the organization, we all kinda hated the business model too. You could imagine what would happen though if HP decide
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by krupan 16y ago
The only difference between memjet and the other inkjet printers is that the print head doesn't move. It uses ink like all the others, and will probably still have the same razor/razor blade business model. If they ever productize it.
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by krupan 16y ago
Hmm, when I looked up "The Lake Wobegon effect" on Wikipedia, it linked to "Illusory superiority." I'm guessing that's not quite what Google is going for here.
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by krupan 17y ago
HP's recent track record of purchase and lay-off has to be at least as good (bad?) as those three. And actually, having recently worked there and having kept in touch former co-workers, getting laid off from HP with some severance isn't so