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by notaddicted 14y ago
love a look as well: jhl805@gmail.com
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by notaddicted 14y ago
Another factor is that the cost/reward for mining will double (assuming same hashing power for the network) in the mid future. Quoting http://bitcoinx.com/profit/ "When the block count will hit ~200000 some time around December 2012 the g
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by notaddicted 14y ago
"Just because you tie two rocks together doesn't make them float" - Andy Grove
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by notaddicted 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch... There is an example with mixing paint colors that is pretty easy to understand.
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by notaddicted 14y ago
Pretty. I searched for the film 8 1/2 ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/ ) Two things: 1. The director's first name is wrong. 2. No results (maybe due to the ½ symbol.) EDIT: here http://movies.io/m/fI
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by notaddicted 14y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=manufactured+homes&l=1 less snarky answer: mobile/prefab homes are more common where the land is cheap, and places where a lot of people live, the land isn't cheap. I've never seen one where you can't tell (or ha
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by notaddicted 14y ago
That mem_lat3 is pretty interesting, is there more info about it anywhere? Do you know what "Latency" refers to? Is that for Sandy Bridge consumer quad core? (hence ending at 8MB since that is L3$ size...)?
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by notaddicted 14y ago
This is kind of a weird problem, because it requires you to keep all the numbers in memory, so the "streaming" aspect is a lot less useful. And then once you have the list in memory there are linear median finding algorithms. The only way o
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by notaddicted 14y ago
If an inadequate raise (thus inadequate compensation) is a sign of disrespect, then creating a rule which causes inadequate raises is institutionalizing disrespect. What I'm trying to say is, it isn't better, it's worse. By creating pre-com
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by notaddicted 14y ago
And it is mystifying how they can justify not giving the data back to MegaUpload. If it is evidence for the case, it must be available to the defence right? And if it isn't evidence, then why can't they have it back?
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by notaddicted 14y ago
yup, thanks for the heads up, it worked for me. I realized that most of that was unnecessary, this is what I was talking about: import gc, sys def show(*args): for obj in args: frame = sys._getframe(1) for k,v in fr
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by notaddicted 14y ago
Everything is a first class object? What about the if-statement? Anyway, my personal gripes aside, I've been looking for something like this: http://www.scribd.com/doc/58306088/Bad-Ideas#outer_page_54 ... a way to print "name=value" for v
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by notaddicted 14y ago
Flashback: Discussion of merging 2009: Git: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=505876 which refers to 2007: A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds http://www.wincent.com/a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/20
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by notaddicted 14y ago
Twice as fast as Magellan!
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by notaddicted 14y ago
It is bad if they are launching a product from 2008, or launching a product that conceivably could have been done in 2008. If they were doing a dropbox clone they're four years behind, but as an above commenter mentioned, they aren't. I act
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by notaddicted 15y ago
Another easy way to put histograms in a text file is to make them sideways. Below is one for the sum of three dice rolls. Python code + larger example: http://codepad.org/YmkQDvni . 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | # 4 | #### 5 | ##
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by notaddicted 15y ago
I've been doing the same thing: http://i.imgur.com/WR7Xl.png
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by notaddicted 15y ago
tiny nitpick, the typical three letter code for Japan is JPN, not JAP.
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by notaddicted 15y ago
Joel's article was written in 2004 so, using gasoline as the benchmark, the 2012 dollars figure is $2180 [1]. [1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28average+price+of+gas...
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by notaddicted 15y ago
Yeah, regarding going ahead with the "naive" search, I'm coming up with a price of 5k to 15k on Amazon EC2 using the cluster compute 8XL instances, and under a month using 10 machines.
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by notaddicted 15y ago
Since they don't really follow through on the original question: the article implies it will take ~137 micro gallons to charge an iphone. The size of the fuel would be slightly inferior to an M&M [1]. [1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/in
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by notaddicted 15y ago
The pricing function is "continuous", it isn't differentiable.
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by notaddicted 15y ago
Arguing about definitions, a how-to: Step 1. Choose a word with a vague and emotional meaning to the audience Step 2. Espouse a definition of the term based on syllogistic reasoning. example A: The hacker way is good. Continuous iteration a
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by notaddicted 15y ago
I believe he is talking about trademark-like terms that designate the provenance of certain products, for example Cognac as opposed to brandy. For more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation_d%27origine_contr%C...
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by notaddicted 15y ago
Another possibility on the AWS cloud is to put the logs on S3, Amazon S3 has High Durability. Heroku has published a tool for doing it: https://github.com/heroku/WAL-E , which they use to manage their database product.
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by notaddicted 15y ago
I was reading "Bargaining for Advantage" this weekend after reading another recent salary post and also recently re-negotiating my salary. I really like the book because it kind of sets down a clear set of steps and vocabulary to refer to t
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by notaddicted 15y ago
Starbucks lists caffeine per drink which I think is a good universal reference point. 400mg is 20oz, i.e. a Venti, http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/brewed-coffee/pikes-pla... .
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by notaddicted 15y ago
Employment isn't a transaction, it is a relationship. If one is not being paid enough nothing prevents revisiting the discussion. Having said that, I don't see a lot of advice on the topic online. Obviously after spending some time at a com
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by notaddicted 15y ago
I think psychologically, it is better to be the one to blurt out the first number in order to take advantage of Anchoring Bias ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring ). BUT, I think that this only applies when you have good knowledge abou
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by notaddicted 15y ago
As alluded to by Steve Yegge in a blog post in 2005 ( http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/the-emacs-problem ), if you are using a Lisp, storing data as sexp means that you can define the appropriate functions, and "execute" the data to

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