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by larsberg 16y ago
"The biggest problem with backups is" Missing option is impact on the computer while I'm using it. All of the transparent services (especially Time Machine) that I have experience with are abysmally bad at turning themselves off when the ma
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by larsberg 16y ago
Hulu reps have been quoted before saying it's because of licensing restrictions related to the content on other devices than PCs. Having played around with it (I hacked together a gnash+ffmpeg port that's just sufficient to run Hulu on my o
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by larsberg 16y ago
Not sure, but there have certainly been CEOs fired for not making earnings.
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Predict the next Facebook privacy debacle
2 points by larsberg 16y ago|0 comments
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by larsberg 16y ago
From talking to the mathy-side CS faculty in my department (UofC), the crackpots all think they've solved it. Genuinely, honestly, and completely. These faculty complain about getting e-mail spam and sometimes even visits and phone calls ou
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by larsberg 16y ago
You could probably make some money on a "proof validation service" where you charge all of the crackpots who think they've solved P!=NP to validate their proof. Or, if you just happen to find an error, send that back. But the service is f
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by larsberg 16y ago
And it's all simulated. Last I heard, placing orders affects the market, especially if you're working with more than a toy account.
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by larsberg 16y ago
iPad, not iPod. It's the bathroom problem. Want to go to the bathroom, but I'm in a shared office space -- do I put it in a bag and bring the bag? Carry it with and place it on top of the urinal (ick...)? Leave it in a drawer in an unlockin
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Kensington Security Slot(en.wikipedia.org)
26 points by larsberg 16y ago|19 comments
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by larsberg 16y ago
At least as of ~four years ago or so, this is how the compiler construction course was taught at IU, according to one of my co-Ph.D. students who went there. He loved the course and its debuggable-at-each-step architecture.
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by larsberg 16y ago
I agree that renting is incredibly popular, but I worry about Chegg's success. I see more and more students (I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science) just "obtain" a PDF of the book and skip buying new/used or trying a rental service. The o
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by larsberg 16y ago
Sorry, but unfortunately I can't. The authors are permitted to put it online (where scholar.google and CiteSeerX usually immediately find them) but in this case they don't appear to have done so.
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by larsberg 16y ago
Poorly designed was a harsh choice of words. A better way of putting it would be "not yet optimized for single program execution processor counts > 6 or so." The allocation wall ( http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1639949.1640116 )
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by larsberg 16y ago
My advice is to find the bottleneck first. Watch performance counters. How do your cache hit and miss rates vary at the levels at different CPU counts? For example, poorly designed GCs don't scale well on multiple processors. You could very
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by larsberg 16y ago
Even better, the stock ticker was pronounced "misfit" internally, back in the dark ages when I worked there :-)
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by larsberg 16y ago
I'd recommend staying with it. If you're young (i.e. straight out of undergrad), it'll seem like the ~5 years you have left is a long time. As somebody who spent some time working and then came back, though, it's just a short hop. The Ph.D.
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by larsberg 16y ago
I've been using an iPad in an academic setting as well. Just one note on your notes --- I talked to the GoodReader folks a little while ago, and they're about to add annotations.
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by larsberg 16y ago
We apologize for the fault in the Wifi Data Collection. Those responsible have been sacked.
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by larsberg 16y ago
No. Fat-fingering is a real problem on the iPad. Small screen + big fingertips => large minimum size for any hitbox => bad for getting lots of code on the screen
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by larsberg 16y ago
"One of the things they teach you in American college is that industry is to be looked down upon." This statement is not at all true in engineering schools. At least when I went to school (Northwestern, '00), there were huge numbers of indu
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by larsberg 16y ago
Is everyone quoting the same "person with knowledge of the inquiry"? Or are they quoting others who are writing up about this person? I'd laugh quite a bit if this whole chain of antitrust articles turns out to have been generated from a ba
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by larsberg 16y ago
Isn't this the same industry that screamed bloody murder when MSFT decided to produce a free anti-virus for Windows 7?
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by larsberg 16y ago
Hopefully this means Apple and AdMob will finally have to send me a 1099 for my iPhone app payments. I'm really sick of gathering the numbers by hand, reporting them as individual income, and then praying I don't get audited and have to pro
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by larsberg 16y ago
Don't get caught up in the competencies. Levels are all about scope. And the odd ones require a jump in mgmt chain signoff, so start working with your lead on them early because they ain't getting them for you at the last minute.
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by larsberg 16y ago
These linked ones are the education ones. They are completely different in content from the ones used in in the product team roles.
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by larsberg 17y ago
At Microsoft, managers went through training to develop what he called "The Twinge." It's a technique called Precision Questioning & Answering: http://www.vervago.com/program_services.html Absolutely fantastic. I can't recommend it en
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by larsberg 17y ago
The biggest challenge I had with hiring people who were job hoppers is they didn't have the sort of mentored growth you see in people who spent several years working to grow themselves. Basically, they were doing the same 10-100k line of co
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by larsberg 17y ago
I can relate as well. Though, everything works fine if you follow the mind-numbing labyrinth of steps (with pictures!) on their website. It's just as soon as you think the tool chain will be reasonably smart or tolerant of doing things out
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by larsberg 17y ago
I wish this topic had a Like button!
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by larsberg 17y ago
"If your CPU power dropped by 75% for an hour every day, how long would it take you to notice?" As long as the hour was one when I was using it, I would immediately notice. But then, I usually only work on dual and quad-core boxes and our o

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