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by nn3 12y ago
Journalists are paid by the word. There is no incentive for being brief (and not wasting the time of the reader)
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by nn3 12y ago
You're dismissing bottom up programing. That is actually a wide used technique, especially useful when the problem is not completely understood at the beginning.
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by nn3 12y ago
So they want to ship a compiler if they can't even build their distribution with it? Seriously? Had to check the date, we are not yet in April.
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by nn3 12y ago
I like "artisanal vaccines"
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by nn3 12y ago
Direct link to the paper CIDR paper with all the data http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2015/CIDR15_KeyNote.pdf The original link is really only blog spam about it and should be replaced Yes it's a fascinating paper. Cont
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by nn3 12y ago
The headline is just idiotic. A single school is not "everybody"
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by nn3 12y ago
Or just dissolves itself when soaked for too long. I'm sure there are technical solutions to this. Of course the problems first has to be acknowledged.
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by nn3 12y ago
Most wine tasting is bunk: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-tas... It doesn't make sense to buy above your discrimination limit: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/
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by nn3 12y ago
This may be true for startups after the venture capital runs out, but in a lot of medium to large companies few highly profitable ventures subsidize a lot of inefficient ones. Occasionally someone may decide to start "trimming the fat&
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by nn3 12y ago
Welcome to 2014! Where simple bugs are not reported anymore, but instead being written up in sensational blog posts.
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by nn3 12y ago
Good example of Cambell's law. Doesn't seem much worse than the senior professor in western departments who automatically gets co-authorship on everything his department produces. Publication indexes are just very sick metrics. h
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by nn3 12y ago
[sf]scanf is also significantly faster than the C++ iostreams equivalents. I sped up a IO bound program stream processing program recently by 40+% by converting it back to sscanf().
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by nn3 12y ago
sqlite (or other "real databases") need a fsync for every or at least many transaction to be data safe. Without that it is far more prone to losing data than journald, because with a write ahead log the window for losing data is f
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by nn3 12y ago
Also it would be nice if the original author could put this work up as a tarball with standard make files somewhere so that other OS can benefit.
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by nn3 12y ago
A faster string search would be nice. I used to (and still sometimes do) use less to analyze large trace files. With a few hundred MB the searching becomes a real bottle neck. Couldn't be that hard to do a boyer moore for non RE substr
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by nn3 12y ago
Would be really cool if we discovered an Ediacaeran branch of live. But ~30years to publish such a find? Seriously? Something is really wrong in the way they work.
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by nn3 12y ago
So someone's vaporware is claiming to be better than a shipping system? <yawn> The article seemed to be very unbalanced. Normally you would expect at least a quote from the Dwave side.
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by nn3 12y ago
" Bottles are still filled by hand (one employee is able to get through about 400 per day); as a result, Mathmos lamps start at $80 while cheaper, mass-produced lamps sell for as little as $15. " Let's do a little math. Assum
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by nn3 12y ago
Not sure if calc already existed in 1984. But Stallman argued (in one of the early emacs papers) that dynamic scope is much more convenient for a editor than lexical scoping (as implemented in scheme or Common Lisp) Dynamic scope makes it e
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by nn3 12y ago
I used to live near a Kellog's factory. It was a really scary looking gigantic building, looking like a big machine from hell with steam pouring out of it. It was a really scary thought to imagine how they make cornflakes there. I neve
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by nn3 12y ago
No, crews from countries with significant military are far too expensive.
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by nn3 12y ago
But then when it comes to serious issues, like the Somalian pirates crisis, the ship owners suddenly want all the protection again that the tax dollars they are not paying can buy. All the benefits, none of the responsibility.
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by nn3 12y ago
One (new?) trick that snappy uses is to stop compressing for some time when it cannot find matches. This makes it much faster than other compressors on uncompressable files.
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by nn3 12y ago
gzip (and all universal source coding) I don't think LZW uses anything statistical. Neither Huffman encoding.
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by nn3 12y ago
"They cannot yet realize their dreams of taking over the world." Sums it up I think.
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by nn3 12y ago
Unless you're Henrietta Lacks?
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by nn3 12y ago
That's sad. That was a really useful site.
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by nn3 12y ago
I really like well researched academic flames.
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by nn3 12y ago
Some other mosquitos would likely take over the "human" niche yes But if the Malaria parasite is gone they may not be infected. If it's not gone the parasite would eventually adapt to the new mosquitos.
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Optimizing the McDonalds diet with linear programing(ampl.com)
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