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by pfedor 18y ago
I don't think it's the best use of the CEO's time to wait a couple of hours for the connection every time there's no direct flight from point A to point B, or wait 1h for the checked-in baggage to arrive (more than once if it's an internati
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The Ultimate Flying Machine: Sexy as a Sports Car, Portable as a Jet Ski(wired.com)
2 points by pfedor 18y ago|1 comments
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by pfedor 18y ago
It is not the same question, they only seem that way. The information given is different. The answer in the second case depends on the popularity of the name Linda.
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by pfedor 18y ago
This can be used as a warm-up question for another fun problem (which a friend of mine was asked during a phone screen for a position at DE Shaw): What if instead of telling you that they have two children at least one of them a girl, someo
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by pfedor 18y ago
The new macbooks have powerful processors so they run out of juice very fast, but the older ones are much better. PowerBook G4 can last almost an entire flight from CA to New York.
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by pfedor 18y ago
There are people who still to this day use Newton for taking notes at meetings.
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Merry Grav-mass(stallman.org)
1 points by pfedor 18y ago|1 comments
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by pfedor 18y ago
The problem is, to make $120k you typically have to move someplace where rent alone may exceed 20k/year.
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by pfedor 18y ago
If your goal is to have sex with many hot women, then I think time spent practicing and refining your pick-up skills would be much better invested than time spent at the office.
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by pfedor 18y ago
Cannot the iPod touch be used for such purpose?
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by pfedor 18y ago
The comparison with programming languages is extremely misleading, because, unlike natural languages, programming languages do differ in the expressive power. An algorithm coded in Haskell or Lisp may well be 5x less code than an equivalen
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by pfedor 18y ago
The article is interesting, but I can't help but think that large part of the guy's problem is that he's not using Unix.
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by pfedor 18y ago
You will need a diploma for an H1-B application, for one thing.
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by pfedor 18y ago
Would you mind sharing what were the corrections to the physics content? Have there been significant changes? Thanks!
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by pfedor 18y ago
From the second paragraph of the article: 'The New York Times opened a profile of Klaus, 67, this week with a quote from a 1980s communist secret agent's report, claiming he behaves like a "rejected genius" [...]' So yeah, I would conclude
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by pfedor 18y ago
My hypothesis: global warming hype will decline, not because the global financial crisis but because of the new administration. The main reason global warming was such a popular meme in the recent years is by the power of association. So
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by pfedor 18y ago
"I've found three ways to combine any proprietary work with GPL and other Free Software, without a need to give away any source code, even when the Free part is under the new and most rigorous GPL3 license." What on Earth is he talking abou
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by pfedor 18y ago
One thing I never got: sure, it's certainly possible that one day the technology will come into existence that will create beings (be it computers or genetically modified brains or whatever) that will be as superior to humans as we are to a
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by pfedor 18y ago
It's probably not even considered a framework, but I had done a lot of web programming a while ago and I loved the Template Toolkit http://template-toolkit.org/
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by pfedor 18y ago
Well it's only a hundred pages. Short for a book.
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by pfedor 18y ago
People only say that kind of thing to rationalize supporting everything someone does, even when that someone is a liar. Why on Earth do you think I would need to rationalize supporting everything pres
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by pfedor 18y ago
Well, there's also the possibility that he tried one thing for a while, which didn't work very well so he switched to something different. As to whether he did a good job or not, the fact that he was reelected three times seems to indicate
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by pfedor 18y ago
To the contrary, perceiving McDonald's food as tasty is the natural state, that's why children love McDonald's. Only later some of them become liberal intellectuals and train themselves into not liking it.
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by pfedor 18y ago
My guess is it is possible thanks to careful redefining the meaning of the word "hunger". According to the article, more than one out of ten Americans "struggled with hunger" in 2007. If you can believe this, you will believe anything.
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by pfedor 18y ago
You can argue whether it's a meal, but a cheeseburger at McDonald's costs below one dollar, and a double cheeseburger is $1, soon to be raised to $1.19 according to some news I just googled.
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by pfedor 18y ago
Any actual examples of useful new technologies that were developed during the Apollo program? Any that couldn't have been had two orders of magnitude cheaper if funded directly and not as a "side effect"? Not that I'm against manned space f
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by pfedor 18y ago
You can also view it as a proof that imparting knowledge is not the purpose of the schools that presently exist, contrary to how they're advertised. Because if they had anything to do with education, they would look like what Xichekolas po
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by pfedor 18y ago
I'm pretty sure he meant "on average." And it's hardly surprising, since the market on average goes up. Dollar cost averaging decreases your expected value while also decreasing the standard deviation (risk.) I don't know the result gamb
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by pfedor 18y ago
Yes the imbalance is destructive. The high salaries of American doctors and attorneys are due to the access to those fields artificially closed, not only from the foreigners, but also from most American. Would you want to introduce such s
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by pfedor 18y ago
OK so you observe that it's easier to hire foreigners in high tech than in law or medicine. How about you ask yourself a question then: do you want American high tech companies to match the efficiency of its healthcare and legal system, or

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