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by munin 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that this attitude of "I'm the adult, you're the child" is why IT people are disliked by almost everyone. no matter how justified you might think it is, or indeed, it might be, you will not make any friends with people who s
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by munin 15y ago
you're getting lucky. as I understand it, the GIL just protects certain pieces of interpreter state. you still need to lock to get correct behavior from your code. the presence of the GIL doesn't remove the need to lock your data structures
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by munin 15y ago
and also in Europe: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/05/science/la-sci-scien...
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by munin 15y ago
good question, terrible person
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University Suspects Fraud by a Researcher Who Studied Red Wine(nytimes.com)
5 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
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by munin 15y ago
UPS uses this in the direction software their delivery vans use. minimization of left turns means the vans get everywhere faster and more packages are delivered in a given day.
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by munin 15y ago
isn't zynga hugely profitable? doesn't amazon have a reputation for treating their people like garbage? business doesn't need to be sustainable. it just needs to be a short sprint to your cash exit. if you find yourself sitting at your desk
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Using Taxi Drivers as Traffic Rhythm Sensors(research.microsoft.com)
1 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
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by munin 15y ago
> What's not to like? you need to patch your kernel to use it. this isn't something that openssl alone can push.
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by munin 15y ago
I mean, everyone made fun of groupon and zynga, and ... is this a clever ploy to try and get some sagging stock up?
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by munin 15y ago
it's ironic that fail2ban will probably not ban anyone if you are running ssh on a non-standard port it's also nice to be able to block an entire country like china. what if you have customers in china..?
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by munin 15y ago
there is a certain value in at least halting regression, in my opinion. if your work did not advance the sum of human knowledge, then did it at least keep the fires burning a little longer? then it was not a waste, in my opinion. also, if i
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by munin 15y ago
did we just re-invent waterfall? a lot of clients don't actually know what they want. when you get them to agree to something without some kind of prototype in front of them, you're wasting everyone's time ...
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by munin 15y ago
I like how they changed the text from "In your e-mail, please explain why C and Python solutions to decipher the string above return slightly different results." they added "naive" and "might" ...
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by munin 15y ago
one of the things everyone seems to forget about the whole 10000 hours thing is that the research says it's 10000 hours of mindful practice. that's a lot harder than 10000 hours of practice...
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by munin 15y ago
> Most "nerds/geeks" are disgusting. well at least we agree on something!
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RIM: Live Within Your Limits(aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)
2 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
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by munin 15y ago
I'm not sure about the Grand Challenge, but a fair amount of work for DARPA involves the performers (companies/organizations who did the work) walking away from the program with full IP rights to the result with the ability to patent it or
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by munin 15y ago
> What makes you think that the engineering teams in companies like Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Mitsubishi, GE etc. are "a long way behind in terms of 'software engineering'"? data. http://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2010/09/the-sad-
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by munin 15y ago
parsing is in my opinion the crappiest part of compiler writing. I feel pretty safe saying that because we have made tools to automate or near-automate the act of writing parsers for compilers ... I would argue that there's a big difference
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by munin 15y ago
> what differentiates you from someone in... the quality of my work, both in terms of the product (code, papers) and the experience of working with me (communication, cultural fit, etc)? just because you have remote people or even just
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by munin 15y ago
it's definitely true. but I'm pretty convinced that the most legitimate considerations are ones born out of physical necessity. are you doing archaeological excavation? studying wildlife in a forest? need to do everything in magical shielde
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by munin 15y ago
a lot of people here would probably tell you that if you need face time to motivate people and you are the kind of person who unironically says "align the company's vision", you're probably screwed anyway. I don't know if I personally would
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by munin 15y ago
wow. if that's the world you live in, why have any children? :( seriously, do you think that maybe different people are made happy by different things? i know men and women who have no interest in having a romantic relationship, let alone r
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by munin 15y ago
yeah totally. so, I'll see you at the bar? ;)
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Chrome: Most Secure (also check out those... rockets)(accuvant.com)
1 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
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by munin 15y ago
an advantage of the robotic age is at least we don't have to worry about negotiating for the life of a US serviceman ...
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by munin 15y ago
as far as I understand, "stall protection" is a feature of the autopilot knowing its current airspeed. you can drive down the road without hitting things, right? what if you're blind?
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by munin 15y ago
the only thing better than one way to authenticate DNS queries is N ways to authenticate DNS queries! "standards are great everyone should have some" snark aside, I guess it's nice to see someone really stepping forward and giving a crap ab
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by munin 15y ago
from 2007, yay

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