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by mjn 13y ago
> If it is commercial, be it closed source or not, an end user's recourse is to sue the supplier (or something similar). Are there examples of doing this successfully? As far as I can tell, software manufacturers have largely been s
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by mjn 13y ago
I wonder if there are high-profile areas that don't follow that model currently? Given that we're on HN, startups are another example that comes to mind, with the entire VC industry based around trying to hit those rare 100x (or
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by mjn 13y ago
Many VPS type things have ended up on blacklists; they're increasingly seen as just another version of consumer-level dynamic IP space, like dialup or cablemodem IP ranges. Amazon's solution has been to provide an outgoing email-r
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by mjn 13y ago
I'm not sure how generalizable it is, but Denmark has a fairly strong split between the "proper" universities, which are all state-funded and tuition-free, and private "academies", which may be for-profit or nonprof
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by mjn 13y ago
It's one issue, but I think you could overcome NIMBY opposition if the money were there. Even traditionally transit-averse LA (finally) managed to overcome the NIMBYs who had blocked the purple line in the 1990s, and is building it now
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It's certainly not a solution , more of a coping process. If the EU has a bunch of bureaucracy, having a project managed by someone who knows how to navigate bureaucracy streamlines things. Alternatives are opting out of EU projects e
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by mjn 13y ago
> Though I guess the first year of a PhD often plays this role... In the U.S., the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships sort of do that for a bit longer (3 years). You do have to write a short proposal, but like with YC, there's not ne
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by mjn 13y ago
There's definitely overhead, and simply choosing not to get into that game is a legitimate choice (often a good one, if other funding is available). How it's managed can make the experience differ greatly though. One of the consor
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That's one area that really , really varies, and is completely unstandardized across Europe (while the funding mechanisms and degrees are becoming more standardized, which is a tricky divergence). Germany has more of a traditional mod
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Although it has its own set of problems (some pretty large), this is one somewhat nice aspect of the EU scientific funding system. It has ulterior motives, but many of them are "meta" motives rather than specific ones like oil-san
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I'm not greatly familiar with Rust (and have never written it), and I think I was able to follow. If I'm reading correctly, there are certain traits that objects get automatically if the compiler finds they qualify, which in my mi
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Good article I hadn't run across before; thanks for linking it. One interesting side story is the odd Symbolics foray into animation and video through the Symbolics Graphics Division, which afaict was reasonably successful for a few ye
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by mjn 13y ago
> Although I don't check my spam folder for false positives, so who knows? I've started doing this occasionally, and while false positives are rare, they do happen and are sometimes pretty important! It's useful that it te
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by mjn 13y ago
Some previous-gen versions of these have fallen into the price range that an individual could plausibly buy. For example, here's a used 152-core, 608GB RAM version for AU$10k: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SGI-ALTIX-4700
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by mjn 13y ago
As an asm tutorial / case study, I found this neat. In terms of a conclusion, I found it potentially neat, but found myself wondering: cool, but how much of a win is all this special-cased effort, versus some kind of off-the-shelf cons
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by mjn 13y ago
I think that's true within a field, yeah. But outside the really top conferences, stuff as famous as SIGGRAPH, my experience has been that publisher affiliation is given significant heuristic weight, especially when people slightly o
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by mjn 13y ago
Replying to self (too late to edit): One other reason it developed this way, I think, is because of the strong industry participation. Industry researchers often are willing to write a short conference paper: Usenix, SIGGRAPH, etc. But they
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by mjn 13y ago
I can see that narrative with Springer, but the IEEE is a nonprofit, the main professional society for large areas of computer & electrical engineering. It's not necessarily the best-run nonprofit, but they aren't trying to pu
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by mjn 13y ago
My read on it is that the traditional approach in CS was: 1. Non-peer-reviewed "workshops" or "symposia". Place for position papers, work-in-progress, etc. Typically screened only for basic suitability for the event. In
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HCI and graphics are other examples: a SIGCHI proceedings paper carries way more weight than a paper in one the HCI journals. And a SIGGRAPH proceedings paper is better than than a paper in something like Journal of Computer Graphics Techn
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Sokal's paper was carefully hand-written, so a somewhat different situation. His goal was to show that if you used scientific jargon in a highly metaphorical way that flattered the ideological views of the editors but was pretty hilari
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by mjn 13y ago
If I'm dreaming, the ideal outcome of this would be that Springer and IEEE decide to actually apply some kind of scrutiny to the conferences whose proceedings they publish under their names. It's a pretty poorly kept secret that,
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, doing a bit of spot-testing it looks like even though São Paulo is only about 15% further from Copenhagen than Los Angeles is (10500 km vs. 9000 km), the latency from here is 40-100% worse (300-400ms to São Paulo, vs. 200-220ms to LA)
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Although I'm not sure whether I'll stay in it, I haven't found CS academia as bad as the stories about Big Science academia. At least, if you look for a job outside the top-20 "R1" schools, which are more focused on
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by mjn 13y ago
Re: the first paragraph, I think that's often true comparing people in their 20s vs 40s, but many people in their 50s and 60s (especially in engineering) have considerably more financial freedom than those in their 20s. They have somew
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And the JS promise library in turn collided with the name of Q, the array-processing language, which itself collided with the name of another programming language named Q ( http://q-lang.sourceforge.net ). If you're naming a
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by mjn 13y ago
If you need only a subset of full SQL, e.g. just joins, counting/aggregation, and date manipulation (as in several of these examples), I've found it fairly easy to work with a mixture of the standard Unix join(1) [found on nearly
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For a simple case I could write a C wrapper that just drops privileges, but it'd be nice to have a more versatile CLI tool. Doing that in the general case, e.g. letting me specify options like "no network, no writing files except
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by mjn 13y ago
> tl;dr Things you should never do: rewrite the code from scratch. Considering vim itself is a from-scratch 'vi' clone, that's interesting advice. :) But in any case, I see this as more of a fork than a rewrite. It's
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I think the other factors in play are the dominant ones in the Unix/Plan9 issue, though. The original "upstream" of Unix was Research Unix, the stuff the Bell Labs researchers were working on. V1 came out in 1971. But V7, rel

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