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by papaf 16y ago
For illustration, if google had a single hit in the first month of 1999: monthly traffic 5 years later = 2^59 hits Which is the equivalent of every person in the world using google 83 million times that month.
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by papaf 16y ago
I don't have a computer science background and I recently read TAOCP and Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et al for an interview with google. I failed the interview but got through the books finding them very interesting. Reading TAOCP
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by papaf 16y ago
I've been using Kiva for around 2 years now and my loans have always been paid back. This Christmas, I'm going to try to give Kiva credit as a gift and see what the response is.
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by papaf 16y ago
The majority of Economists at the time also failed to predict the financial crisis. As a science, macroeconomics only has a limited set of historical data to go on and no ethical opportunities for lab experiments. Given this, perhaps we put
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by papaf 16y ago
I'd be happy to use your site. Basically I just use delicious as distributed bookmarks across all my machines. I'll be sad to see it go.
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by papaf 16y ago
I highly recommend the Political Compass: http://www.politicalcompass.org/ It changed my 1 dimensional thinking about the sliding scale between left and right and I feel richer for it.
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by papaf 16y ago
Maxima is really cool but, because its so powerful, its sometimes difficult to work out how to do things. If your needs are more modest, I highly recommend Mathomatic: http://www.mathomatic.org/math/
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by papaf 16y ago
I went to a talk by a part time science writer for the Economist. She is a Scientist and this shows because the science pieces in the Economist are as good as the fluffy stuff in the front of Nature. I think the anonymity allows people, who
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by papaf 16y ago
I find this to be a huge technology story. In the past, leaks have generally gone through journalists in newspapers. This had 2 qualities about it. The public didn't have access to the raw leaked information and the journalists, in most dem
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by papaf 16y ago
I'd like to come - my German is terrible though.
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by papaf 16y ago
There was a project to do this at the DNS level: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Root_Server_Network I don't know the history though or why the project was abandoned.
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by papaf 16y ago
I've fired up R and am doing some exploratory data analysis. I think its an interesting problem and will definitely submit something if I can get decent predictions with the downloaded data. I've looked at the literature and research has ta
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by papaf 16y ago
I think people are entitled to whine a bit. My anecdotal evidence suggests times are hard (in Europe at least). I am at my most qualified, experienced and mobile but have never had the difficulty I have now getting work. I am looking at job
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by papaf 16y ago
From your post I can't tell if you come from a biochemistry or a computational background. If you have a biochemistry background: I'd recommend that you use your strengths, and maybe concentrate on something that will help in the wetlab. Th
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by papaf 16y ago
This will disrupt the chances of any new media startups in the UK. It is also good news for companies like Sky that compete with the BBC and have an ISP service. Sky got good value for money donating to Ed Vaizey last election: http://www.
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by papaf 16y ago
I wasn't expecting much from this article but it links to recent research in high impact journals. The ones that caught my eye were: Science : Vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane stores destabilizing and venting Nature Geoscience stud
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by papaf 16y ago
I don't know a single person who's done substantial systems programming who takes Go seriously in terms of their field. Rob Pike? Ken Thompson?
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by papaf 16y ago
A Time for Drunken Horses is a less mainstream film that tells the story of entrepreneurship in the face of adversity. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259072/ I also found The Pursuit of Happiness pretty incredible http://www.imdb.com/title
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by papaf 16y ago
The grandparent made a very good point - many thanks for answering it better than I could. The fact is, after spending years in the company of postdoc level applied mathematicians and theoretical physicists, I would feel massively dishonest
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by papaf 16y ago
I recently applied for a programming position with some knowledge of maths. The recruiter phoned me up and asked me if I was good at maths. I explained that it depended on the subject area because, although I have just finished a PhD involv
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by papaf 16y ago
Link to full article: http://oppugn.us/posts/1287608776.html
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by papaf 16y ago
the error handling model in Go sounds pretty badly broken Broken in what way and what have you read? I'm genuinely interested. I don't want to end up doing language advocacy for a language I hardly use, but you seem to be confusing error
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by papaf 16y ago
I mostly program in Clojure now and I have only used Go a little bit. However, I really like Go. I have a lot of respect for the people who developed Go. I'm sure in their many years of designing operating systems and languages that the fea
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by papaf 16y ago
Wow, that's the most inspirational thing I've heard for a long time.
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by papaf 16y ago
An excellent example of a clear but entertaining README.
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by papaf 16y ago
I think OpenBSD has a similar culture: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=117270339530912
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by papaf 16y ago
The market is the only mechanism that can allocate scarce resources equitably. The article is surprisingly good and mentions that the economic argument is not so clear cut because the demand is inelastic. People still need to drink whatev
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by papaf 16y ago
It may not be related to the build system but just look at logging in java versus logging in Ruby. I was in a meeting once where I was the lone "cowboy" Perl programmer amongst amongst a group of Java dudes. One Java dude told another off
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by papaf 16y ago
A counter argument can be found in the book "The end of history and the last man". It puts forward the idea that technology improves at the greatest rate in a free market democracy because the professional classes are at their most effectiv
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by papaf 16y ago
The java JDK lockless queue is also compare and swap. I don't know the reasoning behind it though.

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