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by newt0311 18y ago
And then there are the people who get macs for the hardware and replace OS X with some other unix variant.
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by newt0311 18y ago
So does Caltech
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by newt0311 18y ago
Interesting that many of the reasons listed for beginning programmers could actually apply to all programmers.
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What a Botnet looks like.(csoonline.com)
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by newt0311 18y ago
Agreed. Regexs are not very difficult to write if one is a good programmer and understands what they are searching for.
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by newt0311 18y ago
So... why not just turn swap off completely? I have done it a few times accidentally and once intentionally (when I was encrypting my HD). That would get the exact same result that they are getting.
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by newt0311 19y ago
the paper was published in the 1970s but the device itself has been fabricate in Hp labs so there is a very good chance that they got a provisional patent on this. They are probably working on a full patent at this time.
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by newt0311 19y ago
I have two major gripes with GNU emacs right now. THe mandatory signing over of papers and the lack of dynamic C library loading.
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by newt0311 19y ago
I hope apple is not making the same mistake with the iPhone that AT&T made with its personal computer in the early 1980s. I personally think that the most profitable route for Apple would be to just publish the internal hooks for the iP
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by newt0311 19y ago
Better solution: Build caching into the DB. Then every program using the DB gets free data caching and there is more general code reuse. Interesting how RDBMS's like Postgres and Oracle already have it.
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by newt0311 19y ago
At this point, I should point out that Einstein published his work on special relativity at the age of 26. If it takes 50 years to earn a Doctor of science, the education system is chocking itself. By that age, scientists are too set in the
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by newt0311 19y ago
From the article: 1. Scale your database through database clustering 2. Scale your application, while leaving your existing database untouched by front-ending the database with In-Memory-Data-Grid (IMDG) or caching technologies. The databas
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by newt0311 19y ago
I think that opera has become the third wheel when there is only enough space for 2. The opera browser is pretty good IMHO and it has some outstanding features that people may enjoy but it just doesn't have firefox's plugin support or the w
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by newt0311 19y ago
Wow. That sounded like slashdot. Please reasoned cool-headed rational arguments please. First argument: This self-fulfilling prophecy has been brought to you by Google Adsense: funding Slashdot trolls since 2003. What does this even mean? D
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by newt0311 19y ago
Economic fallacy of the make work bias. If scientists become cheap commodities, they will start to switch jobs until the salaries equalize the other options again. Case in point: In the early 1800s about 98% of the US population was in agri
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by newt0311 19y ago
Checked it out and it seems like they took a (very) small subset of what emacs can do and re-implemented it. In order: Edit multiple documents: Multiple buffers with buffer menus, buffer-name completion, etc. Syntax highlighting: See font-l
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by newt0311 19y ago
Isn't that the very definition of failing in the marketplace?
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by newt0311 19y ago
Personally, I got a macbook for the amazing hardware design. It is one of the few laptops I have seen which is sleek, beautiful, and very very effective. The laptop is very well designed. OS X is also well designed but for a different demog
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by newt0311 19y ago
Given said 11 year old interesting problems from mathematics competitions. The AMC10/12 and AIME competitions are good sources. Some others are USAMTS and for the really good ones, USAMO and Putnam. Note: Do NOT give the UIL competitions. T
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by newt0311 19y ago
Forget Amarok, mocp beats them all hands down.
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by newt0311 19y ago
Awesome. Future suggestion (for python), add in some external modules like scipy. Then it would be possible to send examples of some of the more obscure modules. Really nice app.
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by newt0311 19y ago
Python.
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by newt0311 19y ago
Only if you agree with Kant's philosophy and not with the many other interesting ones out there.
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by newt0311 19y ago
Human bodies may be made obsolete but I am keeping my fingers crossed. If we have computers which can simulate human brains (and presumably do it more efficiently/with more capabilities), we should have methods of transferring consciousness
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by newt0311 19y ago
Using very low prices to undercut competition and then later raising prices only works where there is some way to lock customers in. Japanese companies do it all the time (they have exclusive contracts to provide lock-in). This is extremely
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by newt0311 19y ago
See http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882
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by newt0311 19y ago
True. I checked the python reference again and it re-adjusts the modulo to have the same sign as the 2nd operand. >>> 1 % -3 -2 >>> -1 % -3 -1
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by newt0311 19y ago
That is actually an error in the python implementation. According to the language reference: "(a/b)*b + (a%b) = a" where the (a/b) step is rounded towards 0. This implies the if a is negative, (a%b) should also be negative. Note that this m