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by pfedor 18y ago
The description in the Baroque Cycle involved cooling the hot metal extremely slowly, from which I understand that Stephenson assumed the process was similar to what simulated annealing simulates (AFAIK the creation of diamonds is based on
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by pfedor 18y ago
If you believe you can time the market then you might as well go all the way there and start speculating in options. If you do not believe you can time the market though, then being 100% cash is as bad strategy now as at any other time.
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by pfedor 18y ago
OK I'll ask him when I talk to him, but I'm 90% sure that Chemical Reviews is one of the journals which pay. Not Science or Nature, to be sure, but not exactly bad impact factor either.
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by pfedor 18y ago
My dad is a chemistry professor and I've never heard about the journals charging the authors. To the contrary, good journals do pay some symbolic fees to the authors.
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by pfedor 18y ago
One of the unique things about Smalltalk is that the GUI for defining, accessing and modifying classes is an integral part of the language. You write code to implement your methods, but the structure of your application is defined more or
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by pfedor 18y ago
One interesting fork was egcs, forked from gcc in the 1990s, by people who wanted to try out the "bazaar" development model (as opposed to the "cathedral" model the FSF used, which meant very little engaging of the community.) The experime
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LHC launching today 11:30pm Pacific Time(lhc-first-beam.web.cern.ch)
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by pfedor 18y ago
Let's keep things in perspective. I'll take ten memory leaks over one segmentation fault any day. Also, not every forgotten pointer constitutes a memory leak. To talk about a memory leak, your program has to eat up the amount of memory p
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by pfedor 18y ago
Is it MySQL-game or my-(SQL game)? I thought Google App Engine only gave you access to Bigtable not MySQL, so this would imply the latter?
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by pfedor 18y ago
Philosophy really has added so much to the world that you people seem to have blinded yourself towards: Scientific method, traced back to Aristotle If you want to read what a real scientist ha
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by pfedor 18y ago
You don't need the notion of mass here, it's purely kinematics. From the Lorenz transformation you see that if something traveled from A to B faster than light, then there is a reference frame in which the arrival to B happened earlier than
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by pfedor 18y ago
Then how is it different from counting angels on pinheads?
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by pfedor 18y ago
If the results of outsourcing were so bad you all guys wouldn't be so worked up about it. The truth is, the person you answered (currently downmodded to -1) made an excellent point. People who protest against outsourcing are no different
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by pfedor 18y ago
Aren't pretty much all companies incorporated in Delaware anyway?
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by pfedor 18y ago
Funny that you mention that, my brother had actually worked for a month as a bicycle courier and indeed he reached the point when he had to quit this job because of hurting knees.
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by pfedor 18y ago
I like the MacBook hardware a lot but I'm not so happy with Mac OS You can easily install Linux on Apple hardware. There are detailed instructions somewhere on the web. I'm writing these words from a Mac Mini
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by pfedor 18y ago
Ummmm I may be way off base here but I remember hearing that some implementations (*BSD??) randomly reorder the local variables on stack to make exploiting buffer overruns more difficult. So if it's true then you do need to make a function
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by pfedor 18y ago
My experience with dating sites is from a few years ago and not very extensive, but I disagree that men have no way of standing out. I'd say that a well-formed, a few paragraphs long, somewhat targeted (i.e., making references to the thing
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by pfedor 18y ago
As long as you don't mind that it's raining and the people don't speak English even at the city hall.
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Tesla to open showroom at Menlo Park site today(mercurynews.com)
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by pfedor 18y ago
There's also a number of disassembled ZX Spectrum games on the Internet, e.g., http://www.icemark.com/dataformats/hobbit/index.html
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by pfedor 18y ago
Except in reality, it doesn't. In reality, an eye for an eye is a very good strategy, with examples ranging from biology to military history to the results of iterated prisoner's dilemma tournaments played by computer programs.
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by pfedor 18y ago
The existence and abundance of free/open-source software seems to indicate that programming is different. You don't often hear about lawyers or MBAs or doctors or chemists or carpenters or even writers and musicians who happily work without
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by pfedor 18y ago
Totally out of date but a lot of interesting material nonetheless: Michael Abrash's "Graphics Programming Black Book". Available online at http://www.byte.com/abrash/
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Safely Using Package Managers(cert.org)
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by pfedor 18y ago
My observation is that online dating not only works but has by now become totally mainstream. I keep hearing about couples which met on the Internet, in fact I would say that this is true about 100% of the weddings I'm attending this year.
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by pfedor 18y ago
An older movie by the same authors--"Fargo"--was based on facts and was even better than "No Country for Old Men."
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by pfedor 18y ago
That's not what the most recent development is about. They had a settlement a while ago the terms of which had been undisclosed. But the ConnectU guys apparently decided that they wanted more, so they tried to reopen the case (which is in g
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by pfedor 18y ago
this takes time to learn how to do well If it's possible at all. If you believe that markets are efficient, then it's not. Even if they're not efficient, it may be impossible to exploit the inefficiencies because of the ta
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by pfedor 18y ago
Everyone who wants an H-1B visa or an employment based Green Card.

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