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rufustherag
12y ago
Thanks for the info, looks like quite a few reliable launch vehicles out there. I was mostly just trying to counter the kneejerk comment higher up about insurance and Indian rockets.
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rufustherag
12y ago
Google PSLV. It's over two decades since their last launch failure (and 18 years since a partial failure). At least 26 consecutive successful launches since the late 90's putting over 70 satellites into orbit. it also holds the re
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rufustherag
12y ago
Google 'isis' aalong with beheadings, rape, child slavery, sex slaves, burning people alive, burying people alive etc. Alternatively buy a newspaper from time to time.
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rufustherag
12y ago
Probably not necessary. The Indian rockets are generally more cost effective and reliable than the American ones.
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rufustherag
12y ago
Ah yes, Google, working hard to make '1984' a reality for the purpose of profits and advertising.
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rufustherag
12y ago
The book covers more advanced data structures too. You'd be amazed by the experienced developers was use basic arraylists, and occasionally hash tables without any idea if how they actually work. They get systems to work without knowin
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rufustherag
12y ago
Cloud isn't any more a buzzword than Internet is a buzzword or network or cumputer were buzzwords before that. From what I can see it looks pretty decent, just costs and arm and a leg like most books from Springer. If anything it will
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12y ago
It's enough cs for most practical purposes as a programmer (only from looking at the table of contents so far), which is probably the target audience.
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12y ago
After conducting many interviews of candidates I'm pretty sure that description fits at least 60-70% of experienced programmers.