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by mzl 16y ago
A cost-per-minute clock for meetings is a very striking reminder of the cost of dragging things on. While using it for meetings with lawyers is of course very fun (everybody dislikes lawyers), I find it to be even more needed for internal i
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by mzl 16y ago
That is not the point of the site. From the inspiration linked above, it is clear that it is about comparing salaries in a single firm or in a similar fairly homogeneous setting.
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by mzl 16y ago
When teaching our students concurrent programming using Erlang we never actually mentioned recursion and state immutability. With some careful hand-holding in the first exercises, most of the students seemed to be able to do fine. During th
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by mzl 16y ago
The Spotify situation is very interesting given the open internal market for services in the EU.
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by mzl 16y ago
Welcome to Sweden, I hope you like it here :) On a more serious note, I hope that it works out for you and your wife. Sweden is not always the best either, but at least spouses tend to get residency and AFAIK foreign expertise can typically
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by mzl 16y ago
I really don't understand Denmark when it comes to migration issues. They make it so hard to move there for non-EU citizens that it is ridiculous. As an example, I know of more than one married couple with one Dane and one non-eu citizen th
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by mzl 16y ago
The problem with "when hungry, eat", is that hunger is not really a good indicator for sustenance needs for humans. Living in western countries, we are surrounded by easily obtainable and addictive foods and nutrients. If we let hunger cont
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by mzl 16y ago
I fully agree with that. I love to sleep, and like my 8 hours of sleep per night.
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by mzl 16y ago
I think that you are missing the fact that short-sleepers wake up well-rested, even though their sleep-time is much shorter and would not suffice to give us normals enough rest. I'm not sure if there has been any actual studies that show th
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by mzl 16y ago
I used to know one of these short sleepers. He had never felt the need to sleep more than about two hours per night, and did so for his whole life (which was respectably long, no noticeable side-effects from the exceptionally short sleep).
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by mzl 16y ago
Sure, as long as you are working with a standard and linear memory model. The assumption that size_t and ptrdiff_t can store a pointer may break down on segmented memory architectures for example. If you want to code against the standard in
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by mzl 16y ago
Thanks. That comment was my biggest hitting one ever, so my average will probably jump quite a bit. Funny that it should be in a meta-karma thread. I do see what you mean, I didn't think you were discarding comments from low karma commenter
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by mzl 16y ago
I don't have any submission either, so the presence of an average score shouldn't be affected by that.
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by mzl 16y ago
I seldom comment on HN, and when I do I typically do so in threads that are somewhat dormant, with little activity. I don't really care about karma/votes at all, I just say something when I think I have something of value to add. My comment
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by mzl 16y ago
There is a correlation (most good CS researchers publish in journals), but it is not as strong as in physics. Also, the lead times are much longer. In CS conferences typically play the role that journals play in most other fields. The fact
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by mzl 16y ago
No, it doesn't have to be. The natural reaction to any nuclear threat is to over-react :)
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by mzl 16y ago
Apparently, the name Eyafjöll (which is used in the article with the ö changed to oe) refers to part of the site of the famous Icelandic volcano. From Wikipedia: "The name Eyjafjöll describes the southern side of the volcanic massif togethe
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by mzl 16y ago
You do realize that the bulked up guys probably weigh a lot more than you do so the number of achieved pull-ups is not an interesting measure? The really bulked-up ones most likely train for muscle mass, not for any useful activity.
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by mzl 16y ago
While I won't argue that Apple has the right to change the terms for future buyers of the products, I am upset because it changes the terms for the current owners of the products. I bought my iPhone under a set of assumptions, and they are
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by mzl 16y ago
For men my vote is on decathlon. Not sure about women though.
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by mzl 16y ago
There are lots of algorithms with very high time-compleity that are still usefull in practice. One nice example is the decision-algorithm for Presburger arithmetic which runs in O(2^2^n).
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by mzl 16y ago
It is not impossible, one just needs to actively learn to use the muscles around the eyes to make real-looking smiles. Takes a few years of sporadically applied effort though.
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by mzl 16y ago
Here is a nice article: http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/
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by mzl 16y ago
The Lady Gaga figure is not relevant. It was for the first months of public Spotify, before they had any real revenue. Since the payout is revenue based and not fixed (at least as far as I've heard), the level of revenue impacts the payouts
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by mzl 16y ago
That is most likely due to GEMA (the german collection agency) having very high fees for internet streaming. Same problem in Denmark with their collection agency.
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by mzl 16y ago
While the photo might not meet the bar for "verkshöjd"/originality, the photo would still be under copyright in Sweden. For photos that are not original enough, the copyright term is 50 years, while photos that are have a term of photograph
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by mzl 16y ago
English -700 years with a touch of spanish?
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by mzl 16y ago
Actually, participants in a regional competition get a free ACM Student Lite membership.
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by mzl 16y ago
One nice instance of the archetype is George Danzig: http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp
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by mzl 16y ago
Well, to be fair the parameter problem is common for all kinds of local search and is an interesting research topic. That being said, I agree that GAs are seldom the most efficient, other kinds of local search are typically better. For prob

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