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by russell 14y ago
No plagiarism? Why not? If s/he can download a piece of open source software that can do the job, I would call that a pretty successful test. That's what a good developer would do on the job. And it isnt plagiarism if s/he leaves in the
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by russell 14y ago
My personal favorite is Eta Carinae which could be 20 times the size of Betelgeuse and may be big enough to be a hypernova. It may explode in our lifetimes. Pretty pictures at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae
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What I took away is that women like to share things and men follow women. This isnt snarky, but an observation that might be applied to other sites that are not obviously women oriented.
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The last B-52's were built in 1962 at a cost of $9m. The $53m figure was in 1998 dollars. That's about $70m in 2012 dollars. Still a pretty good deal.
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You could at least encrypt the passwords on disk an decrypt them when needed. this is not ideal because you still need to keep the key around, but it is better than plaintext.
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Last time I knew, examiners were graded on the number of patents granted, not rejected. Removing perverse incentives would help a lot.
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It would seem that Level3 has a chance to be a hero by licensing these patents to whomever for a nominal fee. Edit: replying to the comments. Licensing for a nominal fee isnt pure, but it is practical. It would certainly discourage the tro
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by russell 14y ago
And you think that a Congress that lets the economy slide towards depression in favor of the rich at the expense of the rest of us really gives a damn about patent reform. Except for what their handlers want. Apologies. This comment is no
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by russell 14y ago
I detest that questions are being closed because they are subjective. Often I am interested in subjective questions. Opinions on Clojure vs. Scala and the like. Discussions are even better.
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Ask a developer who is working in the area that you are interested in to give you some guidance. My girlfriend decided to become a web designer. Do she asked an experienced developer, me. I said HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery. She add
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by russell 14y ago
The article is very interesting, much more so than the meta discussion here. Mark's thesis is that the middle class have no place to put their money except in real estate which is creating an unsustainable bubble which will lead shortly to
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Crowd-funding dark side: Sometimes investments go down drain(usatoday.com)
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Declare victory and come home. Leave nation building to the natives not the contractors. Fix the tax code so that the rich pay taxes commensurate with the rest of us, so that corporations cant shift earnings offshore, so that resource extr
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The article actually supposes that large businesses really care to think locally. If a business can shut down a factory in Michigan and reopen in China for some perceived cost advantage or switch from a local supplier to a foreign one, thi
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by russell 14y ago
2) Do the work at night, esp. paving. In CA this is routinely done, even for roads of moderate capacity.
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I recall reading a paper that found that the success at the end of the introductory CS course could be measured before the start of the course by a simple test. It measured their understanding of sequential execution, assignment, recursion
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Money can be pretty handy.
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Anesthesiologists are the worst offenders. My experience is that none of them are in network. You think you have everything covered and along comes this bill that is as big as everything else. Woe to you if you are uninsured. I had minor
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by russell 14y ago
I've been rear-ended 7 times in the past 5 years. I'll be glad when everyone else has self-driving cars. (My GF says I drive too fast and stop too quickly. She's probably right, although 3 of those times I was moving at less than walking
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by russell 14y ago
return 3.14159; I have been a code producing developer for more than 40 years. I hate wasting time proving that I can do trivial problems. Sometimes I have spent half an afternoon writing one trivial problem after another. I would much r
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by russell 14y ago
IIRC (it was a long time ago) CY said he did not become an astronaut because he wanted to be a pilot and not just shot around on the end of a rocket. I took it at face value, not thinking that it might be sour grapes. Needless to say ther
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Turning alberich's observation, I would say that to date online education has provided a poorer experience than live lectures. But I think we are at the point where online can become a richer experience. IIRC Salman Kahn thinks that onlin
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"I started writing Lauren Ipsum by looking for ideas that I understood well enough to explain to a nine-year-old child." Three decades ago I started a company that created a word processor. As part of our usability testing, we gave our lit
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by russell 14y ago
It's not an article; it's a press release. They're all the same whether they come from Harvard, MIT or Podunk U.
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Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer for more information. The strangest feature was its core rope memory. In order to save weight only the 1 bits had a core. Whenever a code change was made the memory had to be r
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I could use Linux but then HR wouldnt be able to schedule me for sensitivity training. (Snide but true.)
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If you remember "Stranger in a Strange Land" (1960s) set around the year 2000, one of the characters, a reporter I believe, had a mobile phone that was the size of a briefcase. Another character marveled that he must be rather well off bec
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by russell 14y ago
You are mistaken. Free upgrades are not illegal. The Apple OS is not even a competitor of Windows because they dont run on the same hardware. MS got into trouble because they tried to use their dominant os position to force out competito
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These kinds of comparisons are worthless, because they are too short to show the advantages of large scale application of language specific idioms. LOC is not really a good measure of code size. The number of symbols is better. A single
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by russell 14y ago
Unlike most corporate R&D, PARC did good stuff. It was Xerox HQ that was exceptionally stupid. They had all the technology, but managed to do very little with it. Silicon Valley companies picked it up and ran with it.

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