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by ricksplat 10y ago
But I mean day to day how's is this reinforced. Is there some kind of subtle bullying or gaslighting going on?
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Coming from a more "bottom up" perspective it's likely that the derivation of these numbers are related to the implementation rather than anything to do with the musical theory. Digital technology makes working with arbitrary
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Reminds me of pulp's "common people" ... you could call your dad he could stop it all yeah
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by ricksplat 10y ago
It sounds a little like learned helplessness ... having spent some time in the UK I have noticed this unquestioning deference to "ones betters" and I wonder how it comes about. How is this trait acquired?
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I'm just back from a holiday in south east Asia. All the time I was there I was getting ads on twitter targetted to the local market (in the local language) presumably based on my roaming IP. Maybe my grasp is a bit simplistic but isn&
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Just speaking from my own personal experience ...
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by ricksplat 10y ago
That's all well and good as long as you're a student, or partying your twenties away and as long as everybody in the house gets on .... I've done this, and while it is good fun in parts the downsides become downright tiring.
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BlackBerry joins the ranks of the tech dinosaurs(irishtimes.com)
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by ricksplat 10y ago
This is brilliant news! It's one of those iconic London buildings. You'll see it on approach to London to Victoria station, it's clearly visible from the London eye, and as the other commenter noted it's on the cover of
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I'm not sure why you're anthropomorphising evolution. It's a process, not even a thing. It's a consequence of interacting environmental conditions, and it doesn't "care" at all in any sense of the word. No
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by ricksplat 10y ago
backward: these traits are a disadvantage to host organism. forward: they are an advantage, and thus survive. Are they aligned with natural selection processes in the environment.
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by ricksplat 10y ago
It sounds as though you are speaking from the standpoint that genes mutate at random in all and any "directions" (net). However, non-successful genes are eliminated, so in the effective sense it is (gross). The direction of evolut
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Which of these categories does "epigenetic" factors fall into? It seems to straddle both ...
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Absolutely! I am a big believer in paying for things. I wish sites would give me the "option" of paying and thus not being mined and spammed with stupid irrelevant advertisements (advocates often saying these two phenomena should
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I think what he is saying is, if you remove preconceptions, e.g. that '+' means "addition" then you can infer that it means "multiply" and that the "+ 1" is implied, based on the answer. As a human, u
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by ricksplat 10y ago
We're still waiting to hear what's acceptable in terms of "fair use" but yeah I guess reverse-engineering to create a competing clone probably wouldn't be covered :)
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by ricksplat 10y ago
That was the whole thing about PCs - if my memory of Cringley's "Triumph of the Nerds" serves, the genesis of this category was IBM rushing to a market where other "closed" vendors such as Apple were already estab
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by ricksplat 10y ago
http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I didn't mean there were "side deals" I just presumed that funding for Apache came from somewhere and this is surely somewhat from the organisations that donate technology. To say it's NOT part of the equation is naive
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by ricksplat 10y ago
> Why is Apache taking these up / wasting time on them? Presumably they get some funding in return. It makes $$$ sense for those entrusting if they have an established user base they no longer want to support.
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by ricksplat 10y ago
A lot of this seems to relate to their UK business - with the timing and all I have to ask is this anything to do with Brexit?
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by ricksplat 10y ago
By demonstrating they could make money without it. When nobody else could.
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Yes that's what I meant. Common patterns = Heuristics as a developer you need to be aware of the common patterns the compiler is looking for.
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I googled it: "Excel Profiler" turns up a number of 3p products such as this http://www.decisionmodels.com/FastExcelV3Profiler.htm
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by ricksplat 10y ago
It's a NP complete problem. What I mean is, there is no generalisable solution to this. Optimising algorithms employed by sophisticated technical users (think `-O`optimisation; Java hotspot) typically employ sets of heuristics that run
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I don't think you even need to go that far. Can you optimise your implementation so that parallelisable chunks could run across all your cores? This sounds like the kind of think Excel may even do "automatically" but like man
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by ricksplat 10y ago
I'm curious, is there a way to "profile" an excel application? If you suspect a sheet is taking longer to calculate than it should are there tools that can help you drill down to discover the bottleneck?
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by ricksplat 10y ago
That's exactly what it is, and it's an area over which the EC does not have jurisdiction. Hence spinning it, unproven, as a competition issue.
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by ricksplat 10y ago
Nails it. Though there may be a case to be answered regarding Ireland's tax arrangements with Apple and other MNCs, the crux of this is the EC overreaching their mandate.
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by ricksplat 10y ago
As an Irish person, I can only look on in bewilderment. Yes, it's certain that Apple is getting a sweet deal on tax. The tax that's under discussion is for their "European Sales Office" which was allowed to repatriate pr

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