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by serichsen 15y ago
This is a matter of expectations. What did you expect? I opened a twitter account when I noticed some people who had interesting things to say and who did this on twitter. My expectation was a little "news" feed. Then, while I was at it,
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by serichsen 15y ago
I think that this study fails to address that they may confuse cause and effect. What is the reason for a telecommuting arrangement? Why doesn't that person just move closer to the job location? The answer is often that he has family tie
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by serichsen 15y ago
I believe that the right way (TM) is to just publish the source code, no strings attached, no guarantees given. If anything, register the name as a trademark. If that is too radical for you, LGPL might just be what you want. You already o
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by serichsen 15y ago
From when is that paper?
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by serichsen 15y ago
What language is that (shown around 1:52)?
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by serichsen 15y ago
"Energy efficiency" is _not_ an energy source and cannot be handled as one. The developed world has now for at least 30 years been trying to reduce its energy demand, but energy demand is rising all the same. Thinking that it is constant,
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by serichsen 15y ago
I suspect that any MBA "education" programme by itself is completely worthless. You need a scientific or engineering background to put meaning to the numbers and buzzwords.
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by serichsen 15y ago
I hope that many politicians are among the false positives.
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by serichsen 15y ago
It seems that the development of drugs is such an incredibly expensive investment that you need to grant a limited monopoly to the developer so that he can recoup on it.
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by serichsen 15y ago
The algorithmic determination of districts is attractive, but there can still be the problem of accidental "gerrymandering"---that the voters are so thoroughly mixed that the 40% party loses to the 60% party almost everywhere. There is anot
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by serichsen 15y ago
If the monkeys have the copyright, then (in current legislation) no one may reproduce the photos, unless he somehow gets the monkeys to convincingly understand copyright and convincingly express their will to license him. I think that this
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by serichsen 15y ago
Generally, yes, unless your work contract says something else. There are many companies who only have such work contracts, but there are counter examples.
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by serichsen 15y ago
The point of the article, as I see it, is that you should strive for clear and correct writing, from the outset. Claiming that this goal is somehow detrimental to code quality strikes me as absurd. Fixing syntax errors will do nothing for
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by serichsen 15y ago
Beg to differ. Code that "works" the first time it is run is no different from code that "works" after several debugging cycles. You still have to prove (or test, in a pinch) that it works in either case.
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by serichsen 15y ago
I think that private companies need to establish due process just like governments, especially when they are among the market leaders in their field. That means that they need to check accusations first, before they damage their customers.
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by serichsen 15y ago
Cute. Even the current photovoltaic cells do not make economic sense. Why should a five times more inefficient method be better? If anything, they should look whether there are other temperature gradients they could use for this, but I su
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by serichsen 15y ago
OK, where are the answers?
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by serichsen 15y ago
I know of companies where working overtime is "expected" and where accumulating a certain amount of overtime hours per year is seen as "commitment" or "dedication". They also have several employees who are out of action for months due to b
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by serichsen 15y ago
+1 for SICP, but I cannot really recommend C++, since it does only pseudo object orientation (plus it has a syntax jungle from hell). I would recommend to learn Common Lisp instead.
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by serichsen 15y ago
Answer: no.
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by serichsen 15y ago
I must admit that the first sentence greeting the reader being "This document ("Work") is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties." is a bit off-putting.
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by serichsen 15y ago
Bad article: the "how it works" section does not explain how it works at all.
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by serichsen 15y ago
After the weapons have been built, it is irrelevant whether you destroy their factories. The US would not chance a nuclear retaliation either. If they had not been sure that Iraq does _not_ possess nuclear weapons, they would never have in
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by serichsen 15y ago
I was immediately reminded of the same story. As far as I remember, speculators (who are important for a market, but should not dominate it) have been relatively recently allowed to dominate the market they speculate in. This led to them
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by serichsen 15y ago
"Their"? Whose?
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by serichsen 15y ago
Heh, yeah, but... The problem is that Libya consented not to have nuclear weapons. Now everyone does what they want with Libya. Nuclear weapons do work as a deterrent, but small countries profit orders of magnitude more from this than big
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by serichsen 15y ago
Here are some industry applications using Lisp: http://wiki.alu.org/Industry Application
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by serichsen 15y ago
Heh, yeah. It is hilarious at first sight, but this misconception is actually common.
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by serichsen 15y ago
I use loop for simple things, but iterate is more general. For example, you can put your collect forms inside other forms, not just at the loop "toplevel". Also, editing larger chunks in an iterate form is easier, and automatic indenting
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by serichsen 16y ago
... and still no deaths from radiation.

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