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by njloof 11y ago
I'd love to read the followup article -- got an RSS feed?
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by njloof 11y ago
Or Internet Explorer (for Mac).
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by njloof 11y ago
On modern architectures the byte swap is effectively free, if it is done at the time the data is read or written. Worry more about code that touches data just to swap bytes, which may have to page data in.
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by njloof 11y ago
Also recommended for hunter-gatherer acolytes: http://honest-food.net
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by njloof 11y ago
And you can launder a lot of money in a soccer field.
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by njloof 11y ago
I second the motion for Montreal!
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by njloof 12y ago
I'd like to buy a context, please.
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by njloof 12y ago
Yeah, I'd heard that with reiserfs your data could just disappear one day without a trace. Once I got the developer to admit fault he was able to show me where he'd hidden the data. It was badly corrupted by then but still identif
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by njloof 12y ago
My grandfather's watch only lasts a day between windings.
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by njloof 12y ago
Anecdotally, my last iPhone broke in a pool of anecdotal water.
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by njloof 12y ago
I was under personal service contracts for 16 years. They were incredibly helpful for making long term personal decisions, such as buying a house. Who knows when you'll get laid off as an at-will employee, for reasons having nothing to
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by njloof 12y ago
1. Isn't this that negativity we were trying to avoid? 2. Who's Moodle? Never heard of them. 3. Coursify is a more memorable name for the product than "Moodle", isn't it?
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by njloof 12y ago
Better source of data: http://www.dslreports.com/gbu One notable data point I can corroborate: Charter Business customer service is actually pretty good. It's their consumer end that has earned a poor reputation.
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by njloof 12y ago
Why does a commodity like gold have the value it does? Its price outshines its industrial uses. The remaining values are that it doesn't corrode and it's shiny.
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by njloof 12y ago
People have been hand-converting cars to electric power since the 70s, but the lead-acid battery technology of the time was miserable. Too heavy, plus poor deep cycle performance. As the Tesla story trending on HN right now says, the modern
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by njloof 12y ago
A good real estate crash should clear out the speculators.
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by njloof 12y ago
When Vista is dead? My mother-in-law is still on XP.
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by njloof 12y ago
But Netscape ran cross-platform, without which the WWW would have devolved into a Windows-only niche product. And that would have meant the only tablets today would be running Windows.
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by njloof 12y ago
We can call the app "Lawyr". Swipe left to quietly leave the company, swipe right to sue.
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by njloof 12y ago
I'm having trouble parsing that. Can you say it again, only in PROLOG?
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by njloof 12y ago
Yes, when I was younger I too would have thought, "Thank goodness someone will run the patent office that understands software." Now I think, "As a Google shareholder, she is too invested in the status quo."
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by njloof 12y ago
Sounds to me like HR did not even protect the company here.
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by njloof 12y ago
"No Irish Need Apply" Oh, you mean current policy.
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by njloof 12y ago
They're in management.
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by njloof 12y ago
Look for patterns of insider trading and hop on. Oh, and trade offline portfolios for much longer than you think necessary.
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by njloof 12y ago
Does it mean the singularity is happening when people consider googling to be too much work?
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by njloof 12y ago
This is why the union movement took hold at the dawn of the 20th century. I hope these millennials figure out a robust, globalized replacement.
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by njloof 12y ago
It's considered poaching to hire engineers from a company that's been bankrupt for two years?
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by njloof 12y ago
What if they ask "Do you have any suggestions for how I could perform better at my next job?" That opens the door to nonspecific advice that could touch on those issues.
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by njloof 12y ago
Many scientists (including my former advisor DeLiang Wang) are simulating dynamic oscillatory neural networks: http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~dwang/pnl/

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