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by russell 16y ago
As a consultant, I got to do lots of interviews. I found that questions and programming problems go in fads or cycles. I often get the same programming problem at more than one company. After an interview, I go over the problems to see i
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by russell 16y ago
To summarize, the answer is yes, if they are software developers and make a salary of $455 or above per week, unless they do mostly debugging. The answer, kiddies, is if you want overtime write buggy code.
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by russell 16y ago
The problem is that it is doctors everywhere in the chain. Doctors ignore the best practices, so they arent going to enforce the same on nurses. Doctors review doctors so the same problems again. Hospitals dont want the costs of gowns, e
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by russell 16y ago
I know. I was being deliberately obtuse. Imperial China had what you were talking about and it was institutionalized corruption.
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Actually not. San Francisco, and East Bay MUD which supply much of the SF Peninsula and the East Bay both own their own Sierra dams and infrastructure. I dont think a hostage situation would ensue.
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by russell 16y ago
Residential users use about 10% of the water, last time I looked. Larger users are alpha, hay, and rice. So if we ban growing rice in the desert, we will have plenty for the people. CA rice is probably for export, because it is the shor g
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by russell 16y ago
You would love CA then, where the state seizes local taxes to pay state bills and the republicans rant on about lowering taxes. The cities are feeling the pinch and have to cut local services.
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by russell 16y ago
Thank god this wont happen. I live just north of San Luis Obispo and would be left with the same old mess. Better would be to fix the mess in Sacramento. A new governor with a more pragmatic outlook, Jerry Brown, passing the initiative t
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by russell 16y ago
Nice idea, but legalize is really a programming language that predates even COBOL. If you deviate seriously, you may get exceptions and loose your case. I think a better legal language would be even less understandable. For those of you w
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by russell 16y ago
IANAL, but I would hazard that you are wrong on nearly all points. There are very specific rules on the form of a patent application. It used to be/may still be that you had to include stylized drawings of a machine that accomplished the
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by russell 16y ago
So what's different from google? Top down control vs bottom up innovation. Google engineers have 20% free time to work on interesting projects. Something like that would do wonders for MS. Google didn't invent the 20% free time, 3M has
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by russell 16y ago
There seems to be a muddling of concepts in the article. My understanding of the concept of core grammar comes from Steven Pinker. The core grammar is not a syntax tree ready to parse anything, but a set of instincts that can be applied w
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Is a social media bubble ready to burst?(imediaconnection.com)
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by russell 16y ago
For Your Information, a pre-internet acronym.
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by russell 16y ago
I always thought that northern New England was the closest to the original English. Why else would we subject ourselves to such ridicule from the rest of the country?
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by russell 16y ago
I went over to Amazon to see what the reviews said. Some of them did a decent job of summarizing the salient points. The crises were characterized by real estate crashes followed by stock market crashes, followed by an average of 86% incr
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by russell 16y ago
It's so much easier to google than rant about someone else's use of a term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_vapor_deposition_of_di...
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by russell 16y ago
You are right of course. The trick is to move the incentives to get the desired result. If the system is fundamentally chaotic, a simple tweak would result in all claims being denied. Or 90% of all patents being denied would probably not
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by russell 16y ago
Patent reform would be best, but just changing the incentive system would do a world of good. IIRC the patent office is funded partly by fees, giving it motivation to quickly grant patents. Declining patents throws a monkey wrench into th
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by russell 16y ago
In CA you can do just that. They are called Charter Schools. If you can convince parents and the local school board that your magnet school provides an exceptional learning experience forr all potential students, not just an elite, then t
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by russell 16y ago
I worked for a for-pay Q&A site a little while back. They had all the incentives of SO and more. For example if you answered half-a-dozen questions a month, you got free access. The reward system. The asker declared how much the que
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by russell 16y ago
As the article points out, the number is an exaggeration, because it includes server closets and rooms under 500 square feet, hardly what we think of data centers. I am skeptical whether this could succeed, because a lot of gov application
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by russell 16y ago
Surely Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson are the winners as the masters of the style. I saw them at a Usenix convention 20 years or so after the picture in the posting. Their beard were much fuller and much grayer, beer bellies of remarkabl
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by russell 16y ago
It may be much worse than we thought. The well pipe is nearing collapse under the seabed and efforts to cap it from the top will eventually fail.
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by russell 16y ago
This looks like a good idea. Picture your typical urban freeway interchange with left turn lanes to get onto the freeway. This design eliminates the left turns by moving each direction to the left on the bridge: English on the bridge and
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by russell 16y ago
IANAL: my comment is worthless, but Pro: it's cheaper. Con: investors dont like LLC's so they will make you convert to a C type, so in the long it will be more time, hassle, and money than you would have saved.
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by russell 16y ago
My niece had an inherited congenital defect where one eye was weaker than the other, which if untreated, she would have eventually gone blind in the weaker eye. Fortunately it was discovered in time. For quite some time she wore a patch
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"It’s Better to Beg for Forgiveness than to Ask for Permission", Grace Hopper, one of our pioneers. She also coined the term "debugging" and was one of the creators of COBOL.
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by russell 16y ago
The biggest solar flare known occurred in 1859: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06... probably a 500 year event. It set telegraph paper on fire and would have fried any exposed electronic equipment. however any
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by russell 16y ago
It looks like the systems, ie standard practices, were in place, but that the appropriate practice was overridden at several places. Haliburton did a poor cementing job but BP chose not to fix it. That is BP's failure, not Haliburton's.

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