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by likpok 17y ago
It depends on the group. When I interviewed there recently, one of my interviewers was there in exactly this capacity (taking research into products).
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by likpok 17y ago
e-songs sell much higher volume. Therefore, e-books must cost more to cover the fixed costs (someone else posted a breakdown of book-costs in an earlier thread). Edit: http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2010/01/31/why-my-books-are-no-...
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by likpok 17y ago
I highly doubt Microsoft will switch to cash purchases. That way, they need to transition into a more paypal-like system, with more regulation. With points, no currency is actually changing hands. With money, it becomes more complicated.
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by likpok 17y ago
Which is different (entirely) from what the article was saying. It listed off several things which current languages do. What (someone) up the chain was saying was exactly that. Lisp is interesting because of those things that it alone does
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by likpok 17y ago
You are misunderstanding his point. Lisp used to be awesome because it implemented feature X. That is, show people feature X in Lisp, and they would be impressed because nothing else did X . Now, everything does X. Showing someone Lisp doi
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by likpok 17y ago
I would have agreed with you until about a year ago, when AMD got it's act in gear and starting releasing better linux drivers. Admittedly, I used only one (and never used an nVidia), but the experience was fine (excepting the growing pains
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by likpok 17y ago
Unfortunately, there isn't a good vim frontend. IIRC Viper mode and Vile mode both do strange things.
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by likpok 17y ago
They install the various crap on machines because it 1) gives them revenue 2) allows them to differentiate They probably will not stop doing this, as it's not like Microsoft is forcing them to.
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by likpok 17y ago
Admittedly, the MPAA doesn't (yet) have the second option. Maybe it's the better of the two?
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by likpok 17y ago
The AK is more reliable because it is less accurate. The tolerances on the various mechanical parts are higher, but as a result they are looser.
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by likpok 17y ago
Kayak/Bing Travel wasn't Microsoft, IIRC. They acquired another company who copied the look and feel of Kayak.
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by likpok 17y ago
There is another reason to label something wontfix: If it falls too low on the priorities. If you know that you do not have sufficient time to do everything, and that you have issues that are far more important, you might as well just mark
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by likpok 17y ago
Fish is zsh, but with reasonable defaults and worse customization. If you want to build/find a good zshrc, zsh is a good choice. Otherwise, fish is probably a better choice.
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by likpok 17y ago
More specifically, this appears to allow for more general model-checking, as most programming languages do not explicitly work on transitions (some declarative languages can be exceptions).
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by likpok 17y ago
Strictly speaking, if you make more than that you are better off hiring someone to clean for you. Realistically, if an hour of free time is worth $25 (and to many people it seems that it is), you should go for it.
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by likpok 17y ago
A few points about exercise: Some of the point I have heard is to change the metabolism, so that while you are doing other things, you are burning more calories. The other issue is that simply eating less will cause you to lose muscle, not
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by likpok 17y ago
Atom is x86. So it should work with Atom. That it doesn't is a sign that they are (probably) deliberately checking.
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by likpok 17y ago
You guys assume a lot about Randall. Jew-hat? Seriously? Why not a generic black hat? The second explanation has the benefit in that "blackhats" are generally considered bad guys (descending from the old Hollywood western tradition of bad
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by likpok 17y ago
Marmaduke Explained has the benefit that Marmaduke is worse. It lacks the basic fundamentals of a joke in many cases. For what it's worth, XKCD does not have this. It may or may not be funny, but it is not awful.
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by likpok 17y ago
Exponential growth is unsustainable. In a universe where the infinite does not exist (either big or small), we are strictly bounded by things. At some point Moore's law will show it's true colors (a logistic curve) and taper off.
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by likpok 17y ago
To respond to both: It is probably a good idea to watch what you eat. There appear to be two factions who agree on this. They disagree on how you should do this. One (China study) claims you should avoid animal-derived products (I think. Ha
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by likpok 17y ago
If you know that alfredo is equal parts butter, cream and parmesan, you will use it more sparingly. In general, if you know what goes into food (e.g. oil, butter etc), you realize how many calories (e.g. food) is in it. Also, (generally) it
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by likpok 17y ago
Weren't Das Keyboard just a spraypainted and heavily marked up version of another keyboard? I remember someone (on HN?) saying this.
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by likpok 17y ago
IIRC, search is expensive. It takes a lot of capital to get the indices and user-data which makes you competitive. Yahoo wanted to make money off of their (numerous) other properties as opposed to running down the rabbit hole of search.
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by likpok 17y ago
You can decompile the Eve source code. Python is not in fact the best language for obfuscating what you do. IIRC the EVE people do what every game developer does, and stupidly assumes that the client follows the rules. Furthermore, all of t
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by likpok 17y ago
Launching a kernel is easy. Making people want to use it is hard, as most apps people want are boring to write and/or trapped in the poor design decisions of the past (e.g. POSIX).
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by likpok 17y ago
Strictly speaking this is not a turing machine, but a finitely bounded automata, which is obviously equivalent to a DFA.
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by likpok 17y ago
It works based on the diamagnetism of water. Water has a very small response to magnetic fields. As a result, if you apply a large enough field, you can exert a significant force. The scaling problems are that this requires massive magnetic
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by likpok 17y ago
There are ways the body can burn though extra calories. You can become restless and agitated; it can activate brown fat; etc.
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by likpok 17y ago
It is possible to eat less but gain weight. No. Unless you cut energy expenditure as well, the energy has to come from somewhere. If you are consuming 1500 Kcal and using 2000 Kcal, you will loose weight. Thermodynamics is not out to get yo

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