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by natep 16y ago
He said "risky or harmful to the corporation in the long run" so I don't think he believes there is a causality connection there. No longer trying to speak for the GP here, but I think that for many of the people that hate 'golden parachute
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by natep 16y ago
Well, as a computer scientist, I'd hope you use pi * r * r, because there's no reason to compute tau/2 every time, and pow() is needlessly inefficient for integer powers (on all languages I know. ~6 times slower in python). I'd expect you t
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by natep 16y ago
If you're doing complicated math or physics, the last thing you want is to be off by a multiple of 2 when you're done. It's happened to me enough times, I almost wish I were still doing physics so I could use tau instead of pi. For electron
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by natep 16y ago
But in analogous equations (energy of motion .5mv^2, energy of spring, .5kx^2), there is a 1/2. Basically, anytime you integrate a linear equation, you get a factor of 1/2. Using pi as the circle constant hides this fact. http://tauday.com
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by natep 16y ago
There was a story on the front page yesterday that I can't find, but no, it doesn't matter when you post. There are always enough people viewing the new page to vote it to the front.
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by natep 16y ago
Wow. My next computer might be a mac... The auto-versioning got me thinking of how to do this with git. You could have a cron job come by while you're working and if anything has changed, add and commit it to $CURR_BRANCH/auto. Then, when y
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by natep 16y ago
Or if it's just one computer, use the built-in Windows Update
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by natep 16y ago
The Declaration of Independence says it, so it must be true? The DoI is, among other things, a social contract that most Americans have agreed to, which is exactly what ThomPete said.
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by natep 16y ago
It's probably running as a low-priority process, so that if any normal process needs CPU time, it get it. I'm currently running Enigma@home and Milkyway@home on my computer, so all of my cores are always at 100%, except when my other progra
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by natep 16y ago
What I find the weirdest is that schools can strip search students without a warrant or consulting the parents (if I remember the SC decision correctly), but will give in to pressure like this. I'd rather have the reverse be true.
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by natep 16y ago
I'm going to give this a whirl, but I don't see any integration with the tasks GMail already has, built-in, so I can't get them to my phone. If you can sync tasks with GMail, then the android app I bought will take care of that sync step, r
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by natep 16y ago
Flagged, try http://www.reddit.com/r/television
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by natep 16y ago
Actually, it seems like a roughly even split between salaries+wages, internet hosting, in-kind expenses, operating, travel, and deprecation (in 2007, at least, because it was easiest to find)[1]. Wikimedia may not be a publicly traded compa
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by natep 16y ago
It's showing as the current version for me, but here's the permalink: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Christopher_M...
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by natep 16y ago
Has he published anything? I'm not saying he hasn't or that he won't, but I don't see his name on any of the Frenetic papers [1], he doesn't have anything listed on his site [2], and I couldn't find anything by him on Google Scholar. So, ev
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by natep 16y ago
Even when one or more of the computers is a public machine (ex. in a library)? This would have been great when I was in college and didn't always want to carry my laptop around.
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by natep 16y ago
Very interesting idea. Is there any way I can be notified when you get some merchants in the Baltimore/DC area? Or maybe when you get that far, it'll be on HN...
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by natep 16y ago
I agree you can't generalize a problem, but if you make an algorithm work on more than just one specific problem class, aren't you generalizing the algorithm (in this case, by reducing the problem)? The only other word I can think to use th
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by natep 16y ago
He said generalize it (the algorithm) to other NP problems, which I took to mean 'turn every NP problem into 3-SAT and solve that'
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by natep 16y ago
Should have taken time to think. You don't even need to read the OP to know what you said is nonsense.
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by natep 16y ago
Not sure why this hasn't been said yet (maybe I missed it), but dukgo.com already has this figured out. https://duckduckgo.com/fabric It knows that fabric means something in textiles, geology, etc, and that it has multiple meanings in com
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by natep 16y ago
Answer to the translation: yes :(
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by natep 16y ago
Actually, I just remembered that I had left a comment on that thread, so here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049698 He took it down at Kayak's request, because of the load caused by continuous requests on their servers: http
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by natep 16y ago
Good question. I was just about to tell a friend about it and this is the only post I can find.
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by natep 16y ago
I don't think you're supposed to be able to get used to obfuscated anything. By that metric, C is equally unreadable: http://ioccc.org/ I've seen very readable perl code, although I won't use that to make sweeping generalizations about th
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by natep 16y ago
It's not really much more than the patents. People tell people that Blackboard will sue them because BB has patents and has sued others before. Unfortunately, there are plenty of other companies that sue competitors instead of trying to com
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by natep 16y ago
I think he took it down because it's just a draft (and maybe because his feelings are hurt): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2082241
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by natep 16y ago
Don't think so. None of the founders of the two original companies that merged to form blackboard.com list Cal in their background. 2 from Cornell and 2 from American University Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc . Foun
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by natep 16y ago
I thought I was done with Peoplesoft after I graduated (it was many times worse than the downloadable software that came before it, and that looked over a decade old), but now my work uses it for some things :( <blink>Processing...&
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by natep 16y ago
Not if they put your phone in a faraday cage (could be a bag, box, or room) where it doesn't have any signal to the outside world, right?

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