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   by pmelendez 11y ago

   DTrace is another advantage of using Solaris
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   by pmelendez 11y ago

   This website (as far as I know, I don't know if they changed that) since the beginning uses flat files instead of a database. Depending on the case it might actually work and be a valid strategy for persistency
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   by pmelendez 11y ago

   I like this... it served well to get my feet wet about what is out there. It would be nice having a chart comparing the pro and cons of those OSs. Maybe in the future? Thanks! :)
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   by pmelendez 11y ago

   I failed it again... Every time I take a test like this I ended being fooled by the confirmation bias.
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   by pmelendez 11y ago

   Location: Mississauga / Toronto Area, Canada Remote: Only (Part-time) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C++, C#, PHP, SQL, UnrealScript, JavaScript (NodeJS/Front-end), HTML, CSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB. Familia
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   by pmelendez 11y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Remote, Contract/Part Time only I have thirteen years of professional experience in several areas such as web, games, finance, mobile, oil and gas. Skills: C++, C#, PHP, SQL, UnrealScript, JavaScript (NodeJS/Front-e
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   by pmelendez 11y ago

   Very true... I would dare him to tell me how Scheme is the same that C++.
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   by pmelendez 11y ago

   > when you create a tool for the masses, the individual preferences should be the last in line Well Javascript is Javascript because of some guy personal prefences at Netscape. The same is true for C# and Java in their respective compani
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   by pmelendez 11y ago

   You forgot this part: >and I have evidence that it has been objectively productive for me
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    Exactly my point... I think Hinton deserve a lot of merit for being "stubborn" enough to find grants for a field that a lot of people have serious doubts about.
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    Oops... Thanks! I could fix it just in time :)
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    I started taking machine learning courses in 1999 until later 2001. One of my professors (who had worked with Vapnik back when we didn't know if support vector machines were a good idea) said that he didn't use ANN too much becaus
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    > Linked lists don't suffer from this problem, but at the cost of 1-2 pointers per item. Another cost is the cache misses. If you are doing operations in a sequential fashion using an array would have a significant advantage if the
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    Given the number of comments with "Please tell me this is a satire" in this thread, I would say it wasn't particularly explicit.
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    > The use of hashes is an implementation detail and wholly irrelevant. Not in this case. An ordered map implemented as a tree has the same interface but with very different operation complexities
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    >"I hope you’re convinced. A hash is simple. A hash is fast. A hash is all you need." Hash tables are cool but they are far from being the only thing you need. The problem with this kind of subtle satire without a disclaimer at
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    > then lots big old libraries will not compile anymore and nobody is willing to fix all the old code. This is begging for one question in my opinion. Should we keep using old libraries that nobody is maintaining anymore? Isn't that
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    > What's wrong with being written in C++? Many C devs love to hate C++. I guess is something like some C++ devs love to hate Java. It's a bit of a heritage issue :) C++ does the job for me... it's is almost as powerful as
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    > It would be more accurate to say "in a healthy, growing economy, the value of a house climbs faster than inflation." I totally agreed, that's what I meant by normally but you are right, it might be not normal at all.
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    > Why do so many rational people and businesses make irrational decisions to sell the house then? Well a decision like this doesn't have one dimension. For instance, some people in their 60's see that they don't need a big
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    > "lose a morning" applying security patches and rebooting " I was applying a security patch and give me something like this ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1416849
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    > "except for the ridiculously bad command line UI" This... I welcome that they are improving it a bit on W10 but it's not nearly as good as in Linux. (Cmder does a decent job though)
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    Maybe, but at least in my case I have been using Linux exclusively as a desktop at several jobs for many years and still I found it to be a buggy experience. I'm still waiting for the year of linux's desktop. That's not the c
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    > "Normally" when? In what conditions? In a healthy economy with a moderate inflation and on markets that are not over-valued and/or with an unreal credit offer. > Japan's house prices have been falling for more th
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    It is not that unusual: http://askubuntu.com/questions/477370/ubuntu-14-04-boots-to-... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2080918 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sou
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    Well that's an odd problem and not usual at all (at least not for me and my 4 Windows machines). However, my main computer in my last job was an Ubuntu machine (A Dell with hardware linux-friendly components) and the amount of oddities
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    Well the problem is the driver and likely Linux and MacOS are treating the keyboard as a generic device. Have you tried forcing windows to use a generic drive for the keyboard?
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    According with the dictionary.reference.com: assets. items of ownership convertible into cash So buying a house is indeed an asset since you can convert it to cash. Renting is actually pure cost
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    >Oh and your mortgage was for 300k and you can only sell it for 250k? 200k? Well, this is circumstantial, normally the value of a house climb faster than inflation. Sorry you have that bad experience but it was derived by a distortion in
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    by pmelendez 11y ago

    Maybe it's just personal but when I respond a question in SO I feel I am giving back to the community... This feels more like giving it to Google. Google already monetize their service by making me see ads(which is fair). SO monetize t