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by nasmorn 15y ago
The guys from MIT who invented a then not explicitly illegal card counting technique earned a lot, it is all about creating value http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Blackjack_Team
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by nasmorn 15y ago
Very true, in Austria many politicians are farmers or teachers because our party system encourages these professions into politics though unions, agricultural chambers and so on. They are represented out of proportion because they have a wa
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by nasmorn 15y ago
Also while you can build a company on the motto "People feeling uncomfortable with a HTML generation library have no business adding a list tag somewhere" there are certainly cases where it makes sense for them to do so.
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by nasmorn 15y ago
even then, the selenium tests I use run about 3 times faster on my iMac compared to my macbook air. To me, fast tests are good tests.
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by nasmorn 15y ago
Totally tangentially to the post I just confirmed that it is called Dom Perignon and in doing so I learned that they have a massive technical debt with their website. Or maybe the requirements were in the line of, build us the slowest flash
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by nasmorn 15y ago
Well this sounds like a problem that could be fixed quite easily, albeit it would cost some money to do so. But for people willing to pay for this kind of workflow it would be no issue to provide them with a testing machine. Since you only
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by nasmorn 15y ago
Biking to work is so much more than saving a bit of carbon emissions. It provides physical exertion (which is usually lacking in our society) at a minimal time commitment. I am sure this is hard to quantify in carbon emissions but since a t
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by nasmorn 15y ago
If you want to share your data over the internet you kinda need to send it out at one time or another. This traffic can always be intercepted and stored for later use. What is your point exactly?
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by nasmorn 15y ago
In the most important case it was sets. There was a collision detection routine that took up too much time because checking membership for vectors is not constant time. The sets/vectors were very small though, low double digits, but once yo
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by nasmorn 15y ago
I made an iPhone game (tower defense) where everything used std:vectors until I ran into performance problems. And lo and behold they could all be solved with using data structures for which the necessary operations where less expensive. Th
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by nasmorn 15y ago
I second that. For musicians it is hard to hide their incompetence, for programmers it is just a matter of picking the right succession of jobs.
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by nasmorn 15y ago
Don't forget that when you eventually go under (or in your case if) some employees will usually stay on past the time when you can actually pay them. It is very hard to fire them because you will cling to the hope you can still make it. In
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by nasmorn 15y ago
I guess I will have to work then. Pity I looked forward to a week of TED talks.
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by nasmorn 15y ago
Even though you are tired of it, here is another one. The root cause of Alexanders invasion as of Herodotus was the march of the 10000. The Persian army could not stop this ragtag band of Greek mercenaries in all those months and so they ha
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by nasmorn 15y ago
The article never claimed that status quo can't continue for some time. It showed quite clearly that this time is bound to between half a century and a few hundred at most. After that our economy ceases to function even though we would be e
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by nasmorn 15y ago
Small caveat. I am a threshold earner to be able to travel the world regularly. The monetary cost of traveling is highly variable but the time cost is huge. For me it seems easier to attain by thresholding my yearly income.
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by nasmorn 15y ago
It helps in the sense that VCs often need to invest a certain minimum sum of money or prefer to invest more thus giving better terms in this case. If the company isn't strapped for cash it can be beneficial to allow the VC to attain a highe
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by nasmorn 15y ago
I think a well done cyborg prostitute could make prostitution more mass market. No way to make it illegal, guilt free and 100% sanitizeable. And lets be honest, a for pay 15min intercourse just doesn't benefit that much from the human touch
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by nasmorn 15y ago
On the other hand it is one of the fields where the use of C++ is completly warranted. It is fun and offers challenging problems. I started programming like that and I sure liked it.
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by nasmorn 15y ago
I think it does. I for example are somewhat attached to my decision of using git and would probably dismiss someone telling me how much it sucks. On the other hand I am not a power user, it intimidates me at times. If I read a post explain
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by nasmorn 15y ago
I live in Vienna right above a big supermarket. It is a nice neighbour, I couldn't think of any reason why it shouldnt be allowed in a residential zone. It is as if I had a fridge in the cellar with unlimited supplies. Only I havent because
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by nasmorn 15y ago
I think the compass is great. If you get out into the world sometimes and arent a gazzillionaire you can't use Google Maps even if you happen to have a signal. On my trip to Argentina for example a GB of roaming data was 15000 USD. In words
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by nasmorn 15y ago
What you want to take the second Porsche away from the dentists? Killing the American Dream and all.
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by nasmorn 15y ago
Even truer in regard to the Bild Zeitung. Not exactly the kind of newspaper that would make one dumber for not reading it, kinda like the German version of The Sun.
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by nasmorn 15y ago
I once read a story about a Korean aircraft hitting a mountain where the blackbox recorded the last minutes. They copilot and engineer (used to have those too) would only speak up a few seconds before impact. Before that they would only mak
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by nasmorn 15y ago
What is so great about Linode that I would pay 3 times as much as on german hoster http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix_vserver/vserver-... Sure the website is in german, traffic is not unlimited but I have used them for more than
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by nasmorn 15y ago
No because your one successful essay is the only one that your audience will ever read. The others are just read by your friends and coworkers or your hardcore fans, if you have any.
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by nasmorn 15y ago
The native americans would object to your theory. I think the only difference was that America was plenty big and the people killed there didn't survive in significant enough numbers in America today so their view of the whole affair doesn'
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by nasmorn 15y ago
Rationality can only be meaningfully defined as an optimizing behavior over ones preferences. If these are to not do any extra work unless fined the neighbors were plenty rational before. The author is yearning for morally decent people. I
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by nasmorn 15y ago
When i click on zena hosting your template compiler shows some errors

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