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by lgessler 11y ago
You're assuming that the 11% is coming from roles that are so hard to hire for it becomes more economical to look overseas for the talent--is that true? In other words, I think it's just worth pointing out that Intel's a huge
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by lgessler 11y ago
Props to whoever's responsible for itemized permissions requests on install/update--stories like these probably wouldn't exist without it.
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Bit twiddling hacks (2005)(graphics.stanford.edu)
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by lgessler 11y ago
The author didn't say this, but I definitely associate "non-trivial" with the more mathematically inclined among my friends and acquaintances.
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by lgessler 11y ago
To a Thai speaker, "/Mai" and "\Mai" sound as different as English "sit" and "seat", although much of the world would insist that the two in English sound nearly the same, just as English speaker
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by lgessler 11y ago
See also UVa's Spring 2014 OS course, which was taught in Rust: http://rust-class.org/
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by lgessler 11y ago
Never expected to be trading Hindi aphorisms on Hacker News of all places. Here's one of my favorites from a book full of them I leafed through one time: दो-एक गाँव में भोज हुआ और कुत्ते की जान हड़बड़ी में ही चली गई। My attempt at a tr
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by lgessler 11y ago
Perhaps the poster meant cultural North India, which (in my experience) is only contrasted with cultural South India, which is comprised of the states in which Dravidian languages are spoken by a majority, namely: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karn
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by lgessler 11y ago
The "Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow" is actually bad linguistics--for pointers, see Mark Liberman's post on Language Log ( http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003286.h...
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by lgessler 11y ago
This is a very misleading headline. As one commenter on the /r/linguistics discussion[1] notes, >"Although the findings remain purely correlational, and not based on any experimental evidence", they use 10% of the wor