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by ratsbane 17y ago
Link to the original article: http://research.microsoft.com/users/cormac/papers/2009/SoLon...
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Very nice. I'm thinking of an interactive editor for directed acyclic graphs with labeled nodes and wondering if there's anything out there already. This is clear and simple enough to be a good starting point.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I read Spolsky's essay again to see if he mentioned making public the employee ratings. For all his talk of openness in salaries, does he really publish salary information or just the salaries at each tier of the rating system? Are employ
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by ratsbane 17y ago
This is not the first of Spolsky's essays that's left me simultaneously amazed at his brilliance and clarity and dismayed at something around the edges that just completely misses. Maybe it's just the title that's misleading. His emphasis
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by ratsbane 17y ago
It's more likely that Windows, when it finally does die, won't die because of a single product like Chrome. Rather it will die slowly of a thousand cuts.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Hey! I enjoyed your post. #4 seems especially important to me. People expect to reimplement things in school - you're working problem sets over and over which have been worked by generations of students - but so often when people get out
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Eight reasons for reinvinting the wheel(mostlymaths.net)
8 points by ratsbane 17y ago|3 comments
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Looking at Alexa's numbers for a rough comparison of pageviews it looks like Digg gets about 10x as many as SO: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com#trafficstats
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by ratsbane 17y ago
GUIDs (UUIDs) are not necessarily good for cryptography; some implementations or versions make it easy to predict subsequent values. Originally UUIDs were created to provide uniqueness in cases when you didn't own the namespace: http://ww
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Considering that the author of this world in which we are meeting is P.G., are you sure we don't already :-) And I'd be delighted to live in a Wodehouse novel.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I'm not sure how it would work either or if it would. As new technology develops old technologies also become obsolete - thus as we have more laws dealing with biotech and airplanes, we can get rid of laws dealing with leprosy and stagecoa
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I've thought for a long time that we should have a cap on the size of the body of law - say, 250,000 words. This would accomplish sunset indirectly. If someone wants to pass a new law and the body of law is already at the limit they'd have
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Unclear from that article how much of the JP Morgan estimate of $600 million/year revenue to Google from China is from ads sold on Google and viewed in China (.cn/.com) and how much from sales to Chinese advertisers viewed anywhere on Googl
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Upvoted both for the content and expository writing style. He did a nice job not just of solving the problem but also showing how he did it.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
In the case of the jetpack the parachute is launched upward with rockets. This takes extra time: the time it would take for the operator or system to detect engine-out and initiate parachute launch, then the time it would take for a rocket
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I wonder how much altitude you could expect to lose from the moment the engine quits until the moment the parachute is fully deployed and slowing your descent? Surely it would be over a hundred feet - which means that any engine failure in
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Ha! This article contains five links to the Royal Mail web site.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
In defense of Larry Wall's moustache, it's awesome in a way that either Sonny Bono or Thomas Magnum could be proud of.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Giles Bowkett is funny, outrageous, and entertaining. His brand of humor probably isn't for everyone but to me it's a sign of someone who's imaginative enough and not afraid to think things through without being constrained by convention.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Just reading that blog post it sounds as if Citi behaved monstrously. Big banks are an easy target; frequently, I suspect, with justification. I personally don't like big banks; I use a small one. But... There's a lot that post didn't sa
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by ratsbane 17y ago
That is very cool. How might they keep the helicopters from bumping into each other at such close proximity?
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by ratsbane 17y ago
5.0.307.9 beta on Ubuntu 9.10 works fine... if you can see this.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Trying to wrap my head around that one - though I think you made a good point. Do you mean like super-luxury goods, haut couture, things like that?
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by ratsbane 17y ago
People have the same kind of misconception about GPS. Lots of people think a GPS receiver sends signals up to satellites so the satellites can know where it is. [sigh]
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by ratsbane 17y ago
If version control systems were airlines VSS would be a bus.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I think he means HTML forms. PUT and DELETE are broken in at least some (even modern) browser implementations.
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I agree too. Roy Fielding's dissertation on REST does say that URIs should not contain information about the identity of the user nor the details of the implementation of the resource on the server (no .php, .cgi, .aspx) but in a section o
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Point 6 (Sessions are Irrelevant) is really tricky. Fielding says much the same about sessions as this article but there's a lot of room for clarification. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
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The profiler in Perl DBI - new talk by Tim Bunce(blip.tv)
2 points by ratsbane 17y ago|0 comments
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Science is self-correcting(timesonline.co.uk)
2 points by ratsbane 17y ago|0 comments

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