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by saretired 10y ago
This editorial seems to assume that clocks were more or less synchronous prior to the introduction of time zones -- this is completely false. Time zones were introduced (at the behest of the railroads in the U.S.) because communities had th
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by saretired 10y ago
Except that cases are hardly rare where a small minority party becomes crucial for forming a government and winds up wielding power far beyond its numerical support among the population. And its not rare for countries to be unable to form a
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by saretired 10y ago
The NeXT interface was wonderfully designed. Back in the day, its competition was Openlook and Motif, plus the classic Mac desktop and whatever Windows and OS/2 had at the time -- it was really a wonderful, integrated, beautifully exec
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by saretired 10y ago
Some of it is cultural: Americans don't want their kids to have too much homework, in many cases they don't want to help with homework or are unable to; they want a silver bullet. Some of it is lack of qualified teachers, and part
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by saretired 10y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by the actual big fish in the market. Google's Q2 16 ad revenue was $19.1B, NBC's was $2.1B, CBS's was $1.6B, and ABC's was also $1.6B.
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by saretired 10y ago
Google and Facebook capture user data across many dimensions, and so are able to present advertisers with highly targeted groups of prospects. I don't know if that's the case with Twitter or Snapchat. I would say that the more a
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by saretired 10y ago
They have revenue from advertising and from selling access to their data; what they don't have is profits. Twitter raised about $1.8 billion in convertible notes in 2014. The proceeds have helped them plug the revenue shortfall, howeve
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by saretired 10y ago
According to this article, 16% of the Harvard class of 2019 are legacies: http://features.thecrimson.com/2015/freshman-survey/makeup-n... (The survey was voluntary, and there is no mention of the percentage respon
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by saretired 10y ago
When I was in grad school at an Ivy League university in the early 80s, it was reported in the school paper that about 50% of undergraduates were legacies. Has that changed?
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by saretired 10y ago
On the other hand, so are some of her investors. And there I think it comes down to protecting their reputations; if they can point to criminal fraud, they can paint themselves as victims rather than fools. We'll see how it plays out.
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by saretired 10y ago
All I can add is a warning about running NTP if you are maintaining a priority queue of time-stamped actions (now + delta, where delta depends on the action): use CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead of wall time.
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by saretired 10y ago
Yup. Plus they have negative 2 billion in retained earnings, a lot of long term debt, about 20% of total assets are goodwill and intangibles, and if they eventually have to do a stock offering to raise capital it will be a bloodbath for cu
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by saretired 10y ago
Buckley was not a political thinker. He was a narrow-minded ideologue who used every rhetorical flourish at his command to support his doctrinaire positions. He never saw any gray areas and never acknowledged that his opponents' positi
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by saretired 10y ago
Yup. The FCC fined Verizon $1.35 million for using supercookies without users' permission, which is unlikely to change the behavior of a company that paid its 4 top executives over $40 million in total in 2015.
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by saretired 10y ago
It depends what business you're in and what your needs are. Agile doesn't get much traction in flight control software or telephone switches.
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by saretired 10y ago
TeX/LaTeX
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by saretired 10y ago
What bothers me about this article is the hook: if you can learn this stuff you can get a quant job on Wall St. Realistically, very very few people can (truly) learn this amount of material on their own, and even so, you will be competing w
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by saretired 10y ago
This is an excellent idea, and clearly it would also help the SEC investigate illegal trading. Prediction, based on the exceptional efficiency of Wall St lobbying: the Congress will refuse to give the SEC the funding for this.
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by saretired 10y ago
Intel's Math Kernel Library has optimized versions of BLAS, a sparse solver, etc. I'd like to see a comparison using ICC/MKL.
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by saretired 10y ago
They did on Wall St., where Sun and NeXT competed for a while. Neither got much penetration in the general corporate dev market.
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by saretired 10y ago
The great majority of WW I troops were drafted. Moralizing from a base of total ignorance doesn't advance a cause.
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by saretired 10y ago
Wolfram has put the entire text of Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers online http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/cellular-automata... The survey papers in this collection would be the place for O
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by saretired 10y ago
Forbes delays 4 seconds before telling the user they won't see content unless they either disable their ad blocker or "sign in."
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by saretired 10y ago
Not to diminish the magnitude of his foundation, but he's still personally worth over $77 billion and is the richest person in the US (Forbes, 2015).
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by saretired 11y ago
Why are you comparing a middle school problem with a college level problem? I believe the purpose of the first problem is not to teach something about arithmetic, but to test (or reinforce or expand) the child's understanding of d = rt
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by saretired 11y ago
I got 1/3 through this article and the silliness made me stop. There was absolutely nothing controversial about imaginary and complex numbers in the Victorian era. The unprovability of Euclid's parallel postulate had a tremendous
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by saretired 11y ago
Yahoo is a public company and they are already facing heavy pressure from activist investors (i.e. quick-buck artists who want their profit locked in now). Yahoo had some leeway to try new things when Mayer was hired, maybe even things with
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by saretired 11y ago
Wait, you think these scammers--they are not telemarketers--believe they work for Microsoft or Amex and don't know they are lying? We're supposed to be polite to criminals?
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by saretired 11y ago
The article is poorly researched. Napoleon III's motivation was preventing insurrections, not improving health of Parisians or the smell of the streets. Haussman targeted areas favorable to guerrilla action from rooftops, to barricades
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by saretired 11y ago
Can't judge whether holocracy has improved Zappos' financial results--and what else actually matters?--since Amazon doesn't break out Zappos separately. But I find it easy to believe that Zappos was ordered to reduce expenses

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