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by neilc 17y ago
While it is possible to compare the same browser across two different version of jQuery, it's pretty difficult to do so: you need to manually "extract" the slivers from the two different bars and compare them visually, which is difficult an
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by neilc 17y ago
i hate all of them Wow, I find that surprising. Smart phones are just incredible pieces of technology, and have made my life a lot more convenient in lots of little ways. Obviously there is tons of room for improvement, but I think you'd
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by neilc 17y ago
I think you're overstating the case: I wouldn't call the Turing Award or the Fields Medal nonsense, for example. The "test of time" awards for enduring research are also pretty valid, I think (e.g. http://www.sigmod.org/sigmodinfo/awards/#
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by neilc 17y ago
I don't see much exposition of principles going on when the author asserts that hash functions are much slower than comparison functions, for example. If you're going to make an empirical argument, you need empirical evidence.
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by neilc 17y ago
What legal jurisdiction requires phone service for all employees? And which labor laws require that there be a set time of arrival in the morning? (I can understand laws requiring a documented number of hours worked per week, of course.)
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Things startups do and don't need(cdixon.tumblr.com)
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by neilc 17y ago
I don't know any start-up founder that cites his degree as a key motivation for doing a start-up. Nowhere does the post suggest that a PhD is motivation for doing a startup. The point is that if you have a valuable skill (whether a PhD
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by neilc 17y ago
he would fail miserably at starting a company because he equates the product/service his company would make/offer with his education I think you misunderstood the post. The author said nothing about how his PhD would directly relate to st
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by neilc 17y ago
his theories are overly simplistic Sure; he is basically writing popular science, for which conceptual simplicity is a key requirement. some of the things he studies ... [are] very important and well done research could have wide ranging
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by neilc 17y ago
The whole thing is silly, because JSmin is ~200 lines of code. It would be trivial to rewrite from scratch and avoid the braindamaged license.
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by neilc 17y ago
Last week, Google banned my PHP port of JSMin from Google Code due to a quibble over a line in the license stating that “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil”, which they believe makes the license non-free. It probably does make
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by neilc 17y ago
Customer focus - having an insanely strong focus on the customer distinguishes them from equally innovative competitors like Google. I'm not so sure about that -- Google certainly claim (and intend) to be very strongly focused on the cu
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by neilc 17y ago
I don't really understand the rationale behind the whole 'wontfix' thing There are lots of legitimate reasons for labeling something "wontfix": backward compatibility, conformance to standards, not actually or unambiguously wrong behavior
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by neilc 17y ago
Chrome updates are pretty bandwidth-light: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software...
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by neilc 17y ago
It's absolutely crazy to me that eBay was able to acquire 28% of Craigslist for $32 million. What a steal. The unnamed CL executive who sold his shares must be kicking himself now!
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by neilc 17y ago
FYI, Berkeley doesn't really have a Master's in CS, and the Master's program at Stanford is very different from the PhD program (you have to pay tuition and take a bunch of classes, whereas the Stanford PhD program has very few course requi
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by neilc 17y ago
If you want to work in industry for 3-5 years, I would do that either before or after graduate school, not in the middle. Once you've started graduate school (at least in a research program) and you're happy with your adviser/program, it wi
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by neilc 17y ago
the query plan is traditionally interpreted, not compiled to native code Actually, System R (IBM's pioneering relation database from the mid 1970s) compiled query plans down to machine code.
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Bloomberg Technology Embraces Baseball(nytimes.com)
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Thanks! We basically open-source everything we do; the problem is committing the resources to support stuff and polish it into a usable product, which unfortunately doesn't always happen. The Java-based implementation can be found here: ht
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by neilc 17y ago
We're still at the early stages, but some prior work that we're starting with can be found here: http://neilconway.org/docs/boom-20091023.pdf http://neilconway.org/docs/netdb2009_paxos.pdf The basic idea is to write distributed systems
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by neilc 17y ago
Israel has the highest density of tech start-ups in the world. Comparing the density of startups in Israel vs. the entire US or the entire European region is misleading, because the US and Europe are so much larger and more heterogenous.
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Building a runtime for a new language designed for distributed computing.
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by neilc 17y ago
Does anyone know of a similar tool that provides the "replay" feature for text editing? I don't actually need collaboration, just screencast-like replay.
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Well, that requires that you leave the country immediately after the business has been concluded; this proposal says that "... the founder would be granted a permanent resident visa", which presumably wouldn't expire.
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Well, there is potential for abuse: a startup founder gets an "investment" of $500k from an accredited angel and a permanent resident visa. A little while later, the startup takes an exit (e.g. dissolves the company and returns the assets t
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by neilc 17y ago
In a similar fashion, many highly talented individuals would remain in the same industry for less pay (e.g. many highly-paid programmers). Because their skills are in demand, they can work in a satisfying ("fun") career and still be amply c
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by neilc 17y ago
I won't try to tell the student what to do, but I will say: (1) Doing a PhD and anything else at the same time is pretty exhausting, and a pretty sure recipe for dragging for PhD out for a long time. A PhD requires a lot of dedication. (2)
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by neilc 17y ago
Top-tier PhD programs almost never allow students to defer an acceptance offer At least in CS, all the top schools I'm aware of usually allow you to defer an acceptance offer (IIRC 6 months for MIT, 1 year for Stanford/Berkeley/etc.).
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by neilc 17y ago
SQL being notoriously poor at hierarchal data has been known for quite a while; he's obviously very correct there. While SQL's difficulty with handling hierarchical data is well-known, he asserts that it is somehow a fundamental problem w

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