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by russell 17y ago
I really liked your option to hide already already viewed stories, although I would want to explicitly hide them, because there are interesting posts that I want to come back to. With a hide button I could go down the page and quickly hide
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by russell 17y ago
Good talk on chip design issues to support lots of cores, particularly to support Java garbage collection. Azul has paid a lot of attention to avoiing cache misses, such a zeroing objects in the cache instead of with memory writes. It's i
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by russell 17y ago
According to the article, the Chevy Volt really gets the equivalent of 50 mpg, not 230. If you go over its 40 mile battery range, it gets only 20 mpg.
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by russell 17y ago
Double the conversion rate says it all. Ease of development, support and upgrades are just gravy, although they free up time to make your product better. I would add 5a to your funnel, "Is this real or is it a virus?" Thanks for sharing.
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by russell 17y ago
Recommended. I used this site a few years ago to educate my self in the algorithms needed for a collaborative filtering project. The project was a success because the clients that deployed it got an immediate 30-40% increase in sales.
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Quantum amnesia gives time its arrow (newscientist.com)
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by russell 17y ago
Neward's article is here: http://blogs.tedneward.com/2006/06/26/The+Vietnam+Of+Compute... There is a post elsewhere on HN that links to the wrong article. You have to skip forward a bit to get beyond the history of the Vietnam War to get
818.
by russell 17y ago
I have neither a CS degree or a Masters, but I would say if it's only a year, go for it. The world is really competitive for newly minted CS graduates, although probably less so for UPenn, but the masters still puts you at the head of the
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by russell 17y ago
"... is the HR department." Among the many reasons that I avoid corporate IT. Some of the smell tests are nattering on and on about responsibilities like attending meetings, preparing reports. It's like telling a doctor to scrub before su
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by russell 17y ago
For those of you into IR he discusses the use of set oriented faceted search to refine the meaning of a users query, particularly with the goal of involving the user in the refinement. He finds a set oriented approach to be better than clu
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by russell 17y ago
Sometimes I come back later to find that people have misinterpreted my comment due to tone or incomplete or misstated argument. Within the hour I can add an "EDIT" to clarify what I meant. I suppose I should take the time to make is sound
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by russell 17y ago
I am adamantly against narrow constitutional amendments, particularly those that take away rights rather than add to them. I agree the tax code is a mess. The way to fix it is to fix it, not apply indirect pressure. Unfortunately, most of
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by russell 17y ago
I recently worked on a web based product that installed a server and a database on the users machine. All data was stored locally for privacy and locality of cpu resources, but could be backed up in the cloud and shared with whomever the u
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by russell 17y ago
I said yes, but I probably lied. 20 years ago I made minor repairs, but they have gotten so complicated that I would probably break things now.
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by russell 17y ago
>What is this supposed to mean? ... I didn't say anything about the intelligence of Java programmers. Like everywhere else some are brilliant and some are dumb as hammers. When I said "everything is too damned complicated", I was thin
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by russell 17y ago
As far as I know, the statement about lines of code was first stated by Fernando Corbato http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Corbat%C3%B3 (Corbato's Law). "It's our experience that regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly lan
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by russell 17y ago
Neat product. I had to buy one for my GF, the artist. The whole shopping cart experience is just a little bit better than usual. It asked me for my name and the used it to populate the CC and shipping names. The messages were nice, not i
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by russell 17y ago
There is not a lot of information on the site. I have only a cursory knowledge of Django, but the django-cms features seem to be the same as those of Django. Can anyone enlighten me to the benefits of django-cms?
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by russell 17y ago
Consider expressiveness. The number of lines of code that a programmer can write in a month tends to be a constant independent of language. A program in Java takes 2 to 5 times as many lines of code as in Python. In Java you will get a l
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by russell 17y ago
He takes brief looks at four areas of interest. Exotic type systems: he advocates dependent types. There appears to be an error is his second example (I dont know ML), so I cant quite follow he=is example. OTOH I implemented a program gen
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by russell 17y ago
I have long felt that sexual selection dominates random mutations for external features. My guess is that darker skin enabled sexual selection for hairlessness. I can see where smooth healthy skin would be more attractive than monkey hair
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by russell 17y ago
Dont expect astounding insights. He says Google is into targeted ads and phones.
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by russell 17y ago
It's a short but decent discussion of why unemployment figures dont reflect the real unemployment rate. It mentioned discouraged workers, who are not counted because they stopped looking. Also the underemployed are not counted. If you fi
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by russell 17y ago
Should you wonder what baryon acoustic oscillation is and how an earth-bound telescope could beat out a satellite this is your article. It's about an investigation into the influence of dark matter on the expansion of the universe.
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by russell 17y ago
Seems to be a good source for creating interview questions.
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by russell 17y ago
He says that Apple could lock down the tablet like it does the iPhone, only allowing Apple approved apps. And that would ruin computing. Well, I wouldnt buy an Apple tablet. Someone else will sell me a computer. Maybe it wont be as styl
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by russell 17y ago
I suspect he is right. A year or so my SO wanted a new computer. She's an artist so I suggested a tablet PC so she could draw directly on the screen. No way. She wanted a big honking server class machine, 8 gigabytes, 4 cores that coul
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by russell 17y ago
A friend once told me that when he became a contractor, he gave up the illusion of security for the illusion of freedom.
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by russell 17y ago
It gets the speedup by loading sets of column values into CPU cache and performing relational operators on the cache values. Main memory serves a a pipeline to the cache.
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by russell 17y ago
In the 90's I worked on vehicle emissions inspections programs for several states. A colleague of mine wondered if what we were doing was cost effective. He found out that it was cheaper to buy all the high polluters that it was to run the

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