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by mustpax 17y ago
This might be the first time I've seen a mainstream news publication use the work "hacking" to mean something other than "criminal subversion of computer systems." And we're talking Economist here, not Wired or another geeky outlet.
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This is a wonderful resource. I especially like the lighthearted tone that goes easy on the jargon. With a great bibliography to boot: Elliotte Rusty Harold: Effective XML. Addison-Wesley, 2004, 0321150406. This book explains which of XML'
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by mustpax 17y ago
I don't know anything about VCs and funding, that being said how are you supposed to get competitive bidding going if you can't shop term sheets, or verbal offers as this article suggests? What are you supposed to say, "I have a very good f
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The new retweet API should take care of this problem. My understanding is that it will collapse all retweets of a message into a single message. So, if you are following the original person who was retweeted, you won't see the retweet at al
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by mustpax 17y ago
Maybe Oracle is less willing than Sun to license their core differentiating server feature to competitors. I believe Time Machine is still built on top of ZFS snapshot though. So obviously some ZFS code remains. Edit: Apparently Time Machin
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You can use the CAS primitive between processes. It is guaranteed to be atomic, which is why semaphores are usually built on top of CAS. He essentially packs 4 byte strings into integers (assuming 32 bit integers) in an atomic manner. In th
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Of course, if you have concrete questions to ask the candidate that gauge their problem solving ability, motivation and attitude 5 minutes is not enough. If you are only looking for a likable candidate for a technical position, you are doin
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by mustpax 17y ago
I think this summarizes the issue: ... remember that Hulu has only 37 seconds of ads per "30-minute" show while a Fox broadcast includes a whopping 9 minutes of sales pitches
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Can someone who knows the ins and outs of the advertising business tell me why advertising seconds are worth more on TV than online for the same content? It sounds like advertisers are paying Hulu a lot less per viewer reached compared to c
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by mustpax 17y ago
I definitely agree with the humanist sentiment here. But an institutionalist would argue that the institutions, policies, procedures, systems have been set up to prevent countless losses of human life and human dignity. Undermining them for
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by mustpax 17y ago
I for one absolutely admire Craigslist’s non-branded, not-for-profit mentality. Regardless of its primitiveness, Craigslist serves its purpose exceptionally well. Apparently, not all companies need profits to keep them focused. eBay can’t s
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by mustpax 17y ago
This is clearly a floating point precision problem. It happens when are no bits small enough on the mantissa to express the difference between the two values. Check out: http://www.google.com/search?q=999999999999999+*+1 this overflows in
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by mustpax 17y ago
Thanks for digging that up. But being someone who recently went through this process, let me clarify some things to the best of my ability (in other words IANAL). This list of occupations only matters if you are applying for residency with
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I do make less (around 10% less) in Canada than I did in the states. But then I pay almost half of what I paid for rent in San Francisco. Food was better and cheaper in San Francisco, but that's not my biggest expense. So I end up saving mo
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by mustpax 17y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I did not mean to disregard the considerable costs of providing universal healthcare. For what it's worth, given my tax bracket and that I'm in my twenties, financially speaking, I am most likely a net win for
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Check out the Canadian Gov't website on skilled employment: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/index.asp You don't have to be in Canada, or work for a Canadian company, to apply. There are multiple criteria for determining who
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by mustpax 17y ago
As a foreigner who has been successfully ousted from the U. S. by the H1-B quota, let me tell you that life is better in Canada. The permanent residence program for skilled labor in Canada is infinitely less cumbersome and convoluted than t
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by mustpax 17y ago
Are you sure about the DMCA exemption part? I know EFF was petitioning to make carrier unlocking exempt from DMCA. Why would they need to file for this if it was already exempt?
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by mustpax 17y ago
Something tells me that this pitch has been emailed to various VCs many times over.
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While I agree with that, it's not just the megapixels that allow you to do that. In my experience the lens matters more if you want to magnify the detail in the picture, or crop it really tight. The sensor just gives you an upper bound, it
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by mustpax 17y ago
As a smarter man than myself once said: "Trying to judge digital cameras by their megapixels, is like trying to judge cars based on the maximum speed shown on the speedometer." Apart from increased noise smaller sensors are a lot less versa
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by mustpax 17y ago
"99 Prolog Problems" is a set of problems to solve in Prolog to teach yourself the language. It works well as an educational tool in other languages as well. Original problem set: https://prof.ti.bfh.ch/hew1/informatik3/prolog/p-99/
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Python solutions to the 99 Prolog Problems(wiki.python.org)
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Only Twitter can save us from URL shorteners(paksoy.net)
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by mustpax 17y ago
I'n not sure you are aware of the irony of telling someone "shut your trap" while defending Dvorak’s freedom of speech. Also, from the guidelines: Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.
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Thanks for pointing that out, I stand corrected. In my defense, I wasn't trying to criticize the theoretical content of the article, which, in all honesty, is beyond my mathematical knowledge to criticize. The real number to "infinite" deci
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On a somewhat related note: as computer scientists, we're usually dealing with discrete data, so correctness comes naturally to us with discrete problems. The problem with floating point numbers is that most mathematical operations on them
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For the whole article on a single page: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200909/health-care
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salesforce.com (public on NYSE: CRM) is hiring search engineers in San Francisco. Email me your resume and I'll pass it on.
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Well, to the Von Neumann architecture, data and instructions are all the same. Just a matter of where the Program Counter points to. Also both XML and XSLT are interpreted. Meaning a real program reads the source and manipulates the system

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