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by orp 15y ago
Yup, that one. I'm not saying it was a hard problem to diagnose - I mean, the file was right there in the home directory. Figuring out how to turn it off, by the way, was a little more involved.
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by orp 15y ago
I am unfortunately forced to disagree. I recently moved my home machine from Windows to Linux. After a little research, I picked Ubuntu 11.10 (with Unity). The installation went by pretty smoothly, everything seemed to work out of the box.
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by orp 15y ago
I've used BDB a lot over the last 10 years, embedded inside a C++ server, and I have to say I've been disappointed in its multi-threaded scalability. Running a single threaded access pattern can easily get you 20K plus reads/sec, but if you
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by orp 15y ago
Agree 100%. In fact, I think self-driving cars together with decent electric engines (which already exist) can revolutionize urban landscape. Just imagine how quiet and pollution free our cities will be if the only traffic allowed inside ar
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by orp 15y ago
I just watched the entire video, and it's really interesting. I especially recommend the part about how reflection is implemented in Scala 2.10. It explains the Cake pattern and how Scala self types enable dependency injection. Good stuff
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by orp 15y ago
Is there anything similar to Pandas that runs on the JVM?
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Data structure for Nearest Neighbor Search - VP Trees(pnylab.com)
5 points by orp 15y ago|3 comments
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by orp 15y ago
Well, if you think percentage wise, I guess for a given book I'm reading 50-90% of the text. That's far more than a summary. Emotionally, it's certainly enough to get attached to characters, which is the point. But the way my brain likes to
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by orp 15y ago
Interesting. I read about the same way, and I find that I'm using something very similar to your heuristic (looking for dialog signs, skip-reading long descriptions, etc.) I call this 'reading for the plot'. I also suffer from the same issu
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by orp 15y ago
Almost none. When people think they're in the right - they sue (or defend). Further, because of the 'loser pays' system, if the case is obviously bogus or blown up, often a lawyer will agree to take up a defense just for the right to claim
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by orp 15y ago
C++ has the same issues. To add another example, binary only distributions (e.g. some commercial software) bring their dependencies with them, meaning that you have to use roughly the same environment (compiler version, stl) to use them. Li
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by orp 16y ago
A friend of mine got seriously hooked into WoW. She's still hooked. However, she's made quite a few online friends that translated to real world friendships, and even met her husband in-game. I guess that counts.
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by orp 16y ago
When I was a team leader, I was asked to rate my team members on a curve. Management stressed that this was important, and that we all had to conform. I told my boss I had no intention of destroying my team, and handed out ratings and revie
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by orp 16y ago
I think you're belittling their work. The Nobel Prize wasn't just for the method of extracting graphene, it was for 'groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene'. This includes extracting, identifying and char
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by orp 16y ago
Most Israelis get drafted at age 18. They get out of the army at ages 20/21 or so. People out of top quality computer related military units have a lot of experience both as hackers and managers. There's really no being 'whisked away by the
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by orp 16y ago
'Also it should be borne in mind that this kind of activity isn't really making any constructive or lasting contribution to society. It's really just moving money around slightly more efficiently than previously. If you really want to chang
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by orp 16y ago
When I interview programmers I start off with this question: Write a function in C (on the whiteboard) that takes an array of integers and returns its sum. I explicitly explain to candidates that this is a warm-up question to start the inte
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by orp 16y ago
Can they do real time? They sound like a batch oriented system, and the financial fraud market is all about real time.
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by orp 16y ago
Personally, I'd don't see why this is an inappropriate forum, as long as the comments are intellectual in nature. To address your point, I agree with your general claim that there's no logical inconsistency in a monotheistic view by itself.
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by orp 16y ago
To my knowledge, the religious decree about slaughtering goats is the same today in judaism as it was 2,500 years ago. The reason it's not practiced today is 'just' because the decree also states that you have to perform the sacrifice at th
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by orp 16y ago
Sarcasm?
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by orp 17y ago
Israel.
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by orp 17y ago
I wonder at the ambitiousness of your recruiting vs. the salaries you pay. Can you reasonably expect to get a world class programmer for 100k and stock options? According to your criteria, you're thinking more of 'potentially world class',
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by orp 17y ago
I'm not sure that works when it comes to major breakthroughs. I'm hardly an expert, but I'm not sure Einstien's work, for instance, could be replicated by a 100 physicists 'breaking it into easier parts. Not mention you're contradicting Hei
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by orp 17y ago
Do you seriously think that in a functional relationship (as opposed to a dysfunctional one) a boyfriend get to do 'anything he wants'? Or a girlfriend, for that matter? It's perfectly legitimate (not to mention a fact in 99.99% of relation
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by orp 17y ago
Hi, Cool project. The only issue I found with it so far is that unlike the old logo, the borders of the 'world' aren't circular. That means that if you type 'go(500)' from the opening position, the turtle disappears. But it's a minor issue,
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US firm says handheld puke ray is ready to go(theregister.co.uk)
19 points by orp 17y ago|9 comments
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by orp 18y ago
There's no such thing as 7% yearly interest without risk. It just doesn't exists. If you look at government bonds (a.k.a. TBills), they'll tell you exactly how much interest a truly risk free investment is worth (in yearly interest). Anythi