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by me2i81 13y ago
When I worked for a large multi-national (quite a few years ago) I brought some software engineers working out of one of our UK offices onto our team because of some collaboration initiative. I was surprised not only at how much lower their
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by me2i81 13y ago
Like which ones, in particular? The San Jose condo market looks pretty robust to me. There are a few high end condos that have been sitting on the market for a while, but at around $750/sq ft plus HOA fees, they might just be priced too hig
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by me2i81 13y ago
An 8088 was a 16-bit cpu with an 8-bit bus, so it was slower (and cheaper) but ran exactly the same code.
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by me2i81 14y ago
It was, but still, evenings are almost never warm (i.e. above 70) except for a few days in July/August. That makes it easier to sleep, but I do miss warm summer evenings outside.
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by me2i81 14y ago
I do it as a nervous habit.
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by me2i81 14y ago
I suppose with all this discussion of efficiency of cleansing it might be indelicate to point out that some people enjoy having warm water shot up their ass, and women enjoy the "front wash" feature also.
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by me2i81 14y ago
http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
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by me2i81 14y ago
You can like Celera or hate it, but you can't just pretend that it didn't exist...
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by me2i81 14y ago
Princeton gets on some top 10 lists as well. But the point isn't that there's anything wrong with Harvard or the Ivies in general (you'll surely get a fine CS education at Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Penn, maybe even Yale)
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by me2i81 14y ago
Harvard just isn't top tier in either computer science or electrical engineering, or any tech-heavy engineering field you can think of, really. This article manages to spew a bunch of nonsense about incubators while ignoring that fact. What
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by me2i81 14y ago
If I recall correctly, those green phosphors were long persistence, so they could have a lower refresh rate. Amber and white phosphors came along later when it didn't matter anymore because logic got faster. Some of the first terminals I us
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by me2i81 14y ago
There's a newer book (2011), "The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management" by Richard Jones, Antony Hoskins and Eliot Moss. I haven't read the new one, but it seems to cover a lot of the recent activity around Ja
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by me2i81 14y ago
That's the case for all government securities, marketable or non-marketable.
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British Government Pulls Down the Shutters(crookedtimber.org)
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by me2i81 15y ago
Back in the day, pretty much all Forth implementations were standalone operating systems, or at least capable of being run stand-alone. This was one of its great virtues--you could port it to new hardware in an afternoon. Just write disk bl
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by me2i81 15y ago
Right, and there are various startups in and out of Silicon Valley working on humanitarian projects. The funding model is quite different, based mostly on grants. That kind of funding is even more fickle than VC money, and nobody expects to
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by me2i81 15y ago
Erik Demaine's lectures are plenty dense, and you don't have to pay $30K to watch them. Khan breaks things up into short pieces in a way that is not practical for a university lecturer, because you couldn't ask everyone to show up for 10 mi
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by me2i81 15y ago
Okasaki called them that because he was implementing data structures in pure functional languages, so in that context it was reasonable. But in imperative languages, you're right, calling them "purely functional" is meaningless.
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by me2i81 16y ago
Scheme http://teach-scheme.org/
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by me2i81 16y ago
Degree mills are illegal in some countries and some U.S. states. In some states it's illegal to use a degree from a diploma mill to gain employment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mills_in_
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by me2i81 16y ago
The thing about languages that require GOTOs is that there is often no inherent meaning in the label, such as in a control structure that we'd take for granted these days, and back in the day you were often limited by token size (in one ass
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by me2i81 16y ago
troff is kind of long in the tooth these days as its niche has been mostly taken over by TeX/LaTeX. The only place I ever see nroff/troff used nowadays is Unix manpages. Old Bell Labs guys probably still use troff. Just keep in mind that yo
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by me2i81 16y ago
The Apple II connected to a color TV set via an RF interface. When you were programming it it was usually fuzzy white-with-colored-fringes on black. Sharp green-on-black is from older terminals. The green phosphors were slower to decay, so
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by me2i81 16y ago
Your massive bill would be smaller if you were able to buy into a community-rated health plan.
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by me2i81 16y ago
You don't really have to squint very hard at all. Unless you have more than 10 or so employees it's almost impossible to get a group health plan. Young people don't worry about this as much as perhaps they should, but once you get to the ag
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by me2i81 16y ago
Nothing attracts top-notch engineering talent like the lure of working in the call center.
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by me2i81 16y ago
Almost everyone I've met from the Netherlands is fluent in English, and has a better grasp of English grammar than many Americans. I wonder why their result is so much better than the Japanese. There could be many reasons for this, includin
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by me2i81 16y ago
What I find tiresome are entire books dedicated to a diet that can be described in a few pages. In Ferriss's book, this diet described in a few pages, with the usual self-help testimonials to fill it out to a whole chapter. He put out the s
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by me2i81 16y ago
Well there's that stupid beard that Spock wears, for one.
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by me2i81 16y ago
When the corporate tax rate is low, people have a large incentive to create corporations to shelter their income. This already happens now quite a bit given corporate deductions and the low tax rates on dividends, but if you got rid of corp

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