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by neilc 12y ago
Just neglecting to continue to develop a piece of software isn't exactly "inflicting billions of damage" on "humanity". Letting IE stagnate was a dumb move, but it's not like MS had a moral imperative to consta
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by neilc 12y ago
> Postgres did an awful job on that query. Small values of LIMIT should not require a full sort, even when there's no index. Postgres will not necessarily do a full external merge sort for the query plan shown in the article: when t
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by neilc 12y ago
perhaps the deprecation of spinning disks has reduced the complexity of the issue SSDs are much more complicated than spinning disks, so if anything the problem has gotten worse.
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by neilc 12y ago
> there aren't many countries where corporation tax is above 35%... Japan comes to mind Japan's is only slightly higher, at 35.64%: http://www.kpmg.com/global/en/services/tax/tax-tools-and-re
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by neilc 12y ago
UPSERT is not a simple feature to implement correctly: http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/events/661.en.html
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For Coconut Waters, a Street Fight for Shelf Space(nytimes.com)
55 points by neilc 12y ago|46 comments
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by neilc 13y ago
Well, in practice the latency that normaly matters is between "start doing activity" and "finish doing activity", and the time actualy working (that depends on bandwidth) is normaly orders of magnitude bigger than the t
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by neilc 13y ago
Another factor is that technology improvements tend to favor increases in bandwidth over increases in latency (and there are hard limitations on latency, like the speed of light in distributed systems). This short paper by David Patterson i
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by neilc 13y ago
Uh, what? Unsaturated fats are generally regarded as healthier than saturated fats. Which specific unsaturated fats do you think have "many negative health associations"?
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by neilc 13y ago
I hate joins in the where clause because it is semantically wrong and confuses the building the set part with the filtering the result part. It is not "semantically wrong": conceptually, you can compute a join by taking the Cart
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by neilc 13y ago
Probably http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf
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by neilc 13y ago
On Facebook, you have no control when others are sharing your photograph. The same is true of the Internet in general.
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by neilc 13y ago
Although that Danish phrase actually refers to a dessert ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8dgr%C3%B8d )
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by neilc 13y ago
There have been countless research papers on this topic, so I doubt it -- http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=dynamic+memory+com... . Not to mention the fact that RAM compression was quite common back in the DOS&#x
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by neilc 13y ago
I believe Amazon Payments charges 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, which would not make it an effective way to rack up reward points.
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by neilc 13y ago
The amount of actual actionable information you can get from a gene map like that is.... a LOT more limited than people such as 23AndMe customers think. I wouldn't be so sure that 23andMe's business model depends on their custom
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by neilc 13y ago
If gender is predictive of higher/lower risk for a particular policy, then banning its use seems bizarre. It makes even less sense if the the insurance company is allowed to consider other factors that are correlated with gender (e.g.,
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by neilc 13y ago
20,000-40,000 people per year seek asylum in the US; we're discussing one person who has fled the US to avoid prosecution. Let's not overreact.
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by neilc 13y ago
Well, obviously renting doesn't "avoid" property tax -- the owner just passes the cost of the tax on to the renters. That said, the cost of housing in Austin is probably still considerably less than, say, the Bay Area or NYC.
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by neilc 13y ago
And how does Yahoo! still have cash? Jesus You realize Yahoo! is a profitable company, right?
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Why the Paleo Diet is not based on scientific reality(io9.com)
2 points by neilc 13y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 13y ago
Using a password manager like 1Password.
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by neilc 13y ago
Does anyone know the current status of this effort? I love the idea, but the mailing list has no activity and I didn't see any evidence that w3id URLs are currently usable.
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by neilc 14y ago
This study is worth a skim: http://www.wine-economics.org/aawe/wp-content/uploads/2012/1...
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by neilc 14y ago
The basic criteria for getting a job at the NSA is public knowledge ( https://www.nsa.gov/careers/jobs_search_apply/hirerequire.sh... ): The background investigation helps determine the applicant's honesty, trustworthiness, reliability, di
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by neilc 14y ago
The worst offenders are the professors who write their own textbooks (even though there are dozens of better ones already available) and then use them in their courses, making money off each student. I think you are seriously overestimati
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Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali win ACM Turing Award(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
1 points by neilc 14y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 14y ago
... and your point is? This is exactly the sort of activity I'd expect a marketing manager to be involved with. "Marketing" isn't a dirty word.
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by neilc 14y ago
That makes sense, but it makes for pretty terrible UX for major app launches like this one.
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by neilc 14y ago
The minimum number should be 0. In most places, it is. That said, I think most CS PhDs -- and definitely most strong CD PhDs -- will have a few publications in top conferences. This has several benefits: (1) communicating your results -

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