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by marcus 18y ago
The problem is that in any large company, accurate evaluation of an individuals ability/contribution is nearly impossible. Deciding which half of the staff to axe would be better performed by coin toss than by any method a company is likely
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by marcus 18y ago
I prefer this one "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."
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by marcus 18y ago
I always thought of natural language as a lossy compression algorithm for ideas, and as always in every lossy compression, you sacrifice some accuracy for the sake of brevity.
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by marcus 18y ago
Don't ever contact them first!!! you'll be admitting that you are knowingly infringing on their patent, which will put you in an awful position if they decide to pursue litigation. consult a lawyer before you do anything, and have him/her r
95.
by marcus 18y ago
You want to make a company an attractive IPO target, make it profitable!!!
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by marcus 18y ago
Actually it didn't http://klausler.com/cray2.txt it had a command for a square root approximation and a command to iteratively get closer to the real square root. But even if a certain computer did compute a square root (or even an approx
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by marcus 18y ago
Sorry, you're right. Changed the original comment.
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by marcus 18y ago
Yep, but we'll have Y2K38 bug before that because of the original Unix time rep as signed 32bit int http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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by marcus 18y ago
Not exactly its a bit more difficult, leap years occur once every four years unless the year is divisible by 100 and not by 400 so 1900 wasn't a leap year 2000 was one 2100 won't be. Although in most places I saw the code just ignored it as
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by marcus 18y ago
The process the author describes is almost identical to the one I've experienced, despite the fact my area of research is different than his (machine learning), but his analysis of the results drastically differs from mine Its true, 90% of
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Python on Android | damonkohler(damonkohler.com)
3 points by marcus 18y ago|0 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
PG wrote an article a while back called "The Power of the Marginal" http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html the effect of the current crisis will create a multitude of people with marginal time whether because they'll be between jobs or b
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Product Pricing Primer(ericsink.com)
43 points by marcus 18y ago|3 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
The point is that at a certain point writing the code gets easier than writing a spec. Lets say you outsource this site, and you send a spec to the developer the spec looks something like this: 1) These 27 actions should only be used by an
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by marcus 18y ago
If I had a dime for every time a co-worker said it was a problem with the compiler, I would have retired years ago...
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Comfort with meaninglessness the key to good programmers(boingboing.net)
34 points by marcus 18y ago|35 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
If you set the time line filter correctly you'll see it is getting deader by the year. http://www.google.com/views?q=java+dead+view%3Atimeline&...
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by marcus 18y ago
Installing an app on Vista/XP almost always requires administrative privileges even if the only need stems from writing into the C:\program files\ directory. And frankly once you give an application Admin privileges once, it doesn't matter
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by marcus 18y ago
Hmm, combine BaseShield with DropBox and you might have a winner... You should also add a way for developers to bundle their software directly with the BaseShield so they can distribute the bundle as a single package on their website. This
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by marcus 18y ago
Yes that is what PG always says.
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VatorNews - Google's Marissa Mayer on search evolution(vator.tv)
1 points by marcus 18y ago|0 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
The last time I saw that sentiment in a book review it was on a Dilbert book.
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Sounds Like Bach(unc.edu)
28 points by marcus 18y ago|23 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are...
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by marcus 18y ago
True, you still need the headers, what you don't need is a new connection every key stroke. Establishing a new TCP connection is a relatively high cost network item (between all the Acks and Syns you need 3 messages have to go back and fort
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by marcus 18y ago
No that's based on a different acquisition, 2Web Technologies
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by marcus 18y ago
Well that's a stupid way to handle it... keep the socket open... read about Comet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_ (programming)
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by marcus 18y ago
You're forgetting Google didn't develop Google Docs in-house they purchased Writely back in 2006 and that's the codebase Google Docs is built on. Depending on how it was built originally the change might require a massive rewrite...
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by marcus 18y ago
There is a python philosophy that says there should be one and preferably only one obvious way to do things. You can do things in a million different ways, monkey patch everything under the sun but in the end, having just one way to do thin
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by marcus 18y ago
There is a concept I've come to appreciate called "Code Debt", its the technical liabilities you've accumulated through using shortcuts and bad practices, things you've chosen to patch so they work in the short term but will bite your ass i

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