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by plg 11y ago
In my experience if an older engineer/programmer is more expensive than a younger one --- but the older one is better --- the older one will be hired. You get what you pay for. As long as your skill set isn't basically a "com
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by plg 11y ago
what about global optimization methods, e.g. simulated annealing?
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by plg 11y ago
should be pointed out that just as 100 findings doesn't mean that 100 are true, it's also the case that 61 non-reproducible doesn't mean that 61 are false
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by plg 11y ago
ah thank you
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by plg 11y ago
$ gcc -o test test.c mill.c mill.c:221:13: error: conflicting types for 'wait' static void wait(int fd, short events) { ^ In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:65:0,
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by plg 12y ago
not the first time someone told me if I didn't like something about the way my government operates, I should just leave
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by plg 12y ago
Even worse
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by plg 12y ago
The example that really rubs me the wrong way (currently) is if I lived in Quebec, I would have to send my children to school in French, even though they have never spoken a word of French before --- that is, unless I send them to private s
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by plg 12y ago
it's worth pointing out that Quebec has no trouble at all living life as an "outsider" with respect to Canadian and north american "norms" ... i.e. no matter how "standard" uber becomes (or not) this will
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by plg 12y ago
it's just strange to me that on the one hand parts of the government would be trying to "crack" this system that ... other parts of the government came up with wouldn't it render the system not-as-useful if it were to be
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by plg 12y ago
How about (a) USA, (b) Canada, (c) UK?
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by plg 12y ago
I thought Tor originated with the U.S. navy?
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by plg 12y ago
so what is the liability of users who watch movies on popcorn time?
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by plg 12y ago
um... what are we doing, people??? seriously
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Google has filed a patent on robots that mimic dead celebrities:(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
2 points by plg 12y ago|1 comments
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What font is this?(scribd.com)
1 points by plg 12y ago|2 comments
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United lounge blocking (some?) VPN sites?
1 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments
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by plg 12y ago
Well isn't their core competency selling online (desktop) ads?
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REINFORCEjs JavaScript reinforcement learning library(cs.stanford.edu)
5 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments
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by plg 12y ago
So a correlation in the first difference (i.e. the first derivative) implies causality? Is that what he's saying? ummm
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The Innovative OS That’ll Bring PCs to the Developing World(wired.com)
3 points by plg 12y ago|1 comments
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by plg 12y ago
jesus god, what awful typesetting
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by plg 12y ago
I've been reading books on my iPad and it's fantastic. I recently switched to buying books from apple rather than from amazon and reading using iBooks. Again, fantastic. Great typesetting, great UI. Also I can share books with my
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by plg 12y ago
a comment by way of someone (me) who is getting a bit on in age... nice idea, but what about medical care? being in a large north american city, access to high quality and high-end medical care is something that I've taken advantage of
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by plg 12y ago
it's true, non-zero exit code is supposed to mean boolean FALSE but I am a part of my team, and so my code is my team's code, and hence the program is self-referential I think? my brain hurts
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by plg 12y ago
my machine learning algorithm for predicting whether there are bugs in any of my team's code: (C code) int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { return 1; }
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How did you become homeless?(youtube.com)
2 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments
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The homeless read mean tweets(youtube.com)
1 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments
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by plg 12y ago
"... seven faculty positions in the Department of Computer Science over the next few years, including two searches this year and three more next year ..."
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Google Unveils Chrome Stick That Turns Any Display into a PC(wired.com)
11 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments

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