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by pc 18y ago
The visa interview takes place in the individual’s country of origin and for us that meant the American embassy in London. Actually, this isn't necessarily true; once a petition for a visa has been approved, you can go for your interview
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by pc 18y ago
I still believe it's a Good Idea to play safe until broader legal fallout is definitively ruled out one way or another Ok, then don't use it. Very likely, but I wouldn't bet my life on it. Indeed. But do these "I wouldn't bet my life on
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by pc 18y ago
Agreed that there are risks here. I'd be interested to hear from anyone with specific knowledge of the Symbolics situation -- my email address is patrick#collison#ie. I've tried to contact David Schmidt (the listed contact at symbolics.com)
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by pc 18y ago
Basically, numeric-only domains?
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by pc 18y ago
If I understand this right, the article proposes IP addresses as a replacement for domain names in URLs. This would be a bad idea: - They'd break if you wanted to load-balance with something like round-robin DNS. - They'd be a disaster when
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by pc 18y ago
It doesn't talk to the rest of the world the way you're used to. Well, it can now -- we ported Thrift to Smalltalk for Auctomatic, so that we can easily interoperate with code written in other languages.
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by pc 19y ago
We wrote our product in Smalltalk, and our company was bought a few weeks ago. In the eyes of our acquirer, the speed with which we could implement features far outweighed any disadvantages (and was one of the main reasons they were interes
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by pc 19y ago
Levy is right, though -- "as in, bozo?" is the response of most Americans when they hear the name spoken.
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by pc 19y ago
Two of Bocko's doctoral students, Xiaoxiao Dong and Mark Sterling, worked with Bocko to measure every aspect of a clarinet that affects its sound—from the backpressure in the mouthpiece for every different fingering, to the way sound radia
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Microsoft UNIX(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by pc 19y ago|3 comments
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by pc 19y ago
As things stood, #4 would have required #1 or #2 for starters.
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by pc 19y ago
"This poses an interesting question: if you find yourself in such a position, working at a company that is doing so many things wrong, what do you do?" Leave.
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by pc 19y ago
Paper: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/98-07.pdf
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by pc 19y ago
His hypothetical continuations don't quite work. theSite = mark(); puts "Hello, World!" theSite.return(); This is the first example in the post, and one which it's claimed will loop continually. Translating to Scheme (where we ca
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Classic math puzzles for job interviews(scribd.com)
32 points by pc 19y ago|18 comments
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by pc 19y ago
Congrats! Clickpass is going to be big.
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by pc 19y ago
That technically does satisfy the goal of "contributing", but it's also a boring, menial job. (Which is why volunteer-driven projects have poor documentation in the first place.) I don't know of any open-source developer who got started wri
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by pc 19y ago
Missing option: Smalltalk
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by pc 19y ago
The underlying assumption -- that social connections will act as a barrier to war -- seems pretty flawed. Extensive connections didn't prevent any of the European wars between, say, 1700 and 1945. A country is more likely to have an interna
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by pc 19y ago
Not a chance.
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by pc 19y ago
Yep.
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by pc 19y ago
"I was surprised by the simplicity of the math underlying the google PageRank algorithm, and the ease with which it seemed to be efficiently implementable" It's actually not all that easy to implement this stuff efficiently when n grows to
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by pc 19y ago
Check out UIView-Gestures.h, http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=20448 , and http://code.google.com/p/iphonedoom/wiki/GestureEvents .
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by pc 19y ago
It exists, and it's (surprise) called Labyrinth: http://labyrinth.codify.se/
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by pc 19y ago
It would be nicer alright, but having used it for a while, I've found it doesn't make much difference. A Britannica edition used to last a decade; I can survive a few months without update.
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by pc 19y ago
Though several anecdotes aren't data, I hear similar stories (of Marxist economics being espoused at school) every time I spend time in France.
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by pc 19y ago
"When looking for matches, the bot ignores punctuation, case, and nicks"
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by pc 19y ago
transcript: http://www.resourceshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/face...
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by pc 19y ago
"As a Rails programmer, the more popular Rails is, the more worth are your Rails skills." I know some COBOL consultants who'd disagree.
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by pc 19y ago
http://uk.intruders.tv/video/paulgraham.flv -- plays fine in most open-source players

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