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by shiro 18y ago
There are big companies hungry for H-1Bs; could they exploit this new visa by "investing" small amount of money and then outsourcing some of their work into this newly created "company"?
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by shiro 18y ago
Same in Common Lisp. cl-user(1): (defvar fns (loop for i from 0 below 10 collect (lambda (n) (+ i n)))) fns cl-user(2): (funcall (elt fns 3) 4) 14 Personally I don't like this behavior (I've been bitten before in more s
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by shiro 18y ago
It may be a double-edged sword. You can take advantage of that human nature. Encouraging employees to write books on the relevant fields may benefit the company---it can be a nice PR of the company's technology level, it can attract good
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by shiro 18y ago
Did you read the entire article? The author says jealousy wasn't really a problem after all. The bigger problem were to keep motivation of the highest ranked people, and the mismatch between this system and the rest of the company. I
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by shiro 18y ago
Agreed on every accounts. I didn't make PCBs by myself anymore, but to me the messiest part was dealing with ferric chloride, so I expected this article to present some ways to avoid that material... Putting the mask on the copper surface
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by shiro 18y ago
Yeah, just translating keywords doesn't make language very different. But languages such as Nadeshiko (なでしこ) http://nadesi.com/ , a Japanese programming language, may be a challenge for non-Japanese speakers. Its source, especially one- o
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by shiro 18y ago
My favorite is kvikkalkul. Its source looks like full of smileys :)
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by shiro 18y ago
Agreed. Too many apple-to-orange comparisons. But categorizing by genres will require some amount of work. How about having an option "can't compare"? That the user can indicate they saw both but cannot compare. With enough data, maybe
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by shiro 18y ago
Um... you might want to use Ctrl-[ instead. The sad thing is that these days window manager or whatever tends to take away lots of good old ASCII to control-char mappings... (Ctrl-h IS backspace and Ctrl-i IS tab, damn!)
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by shiro 18y ago
The main problem is that there are limited number of users that really need large asset tracking solutions, and these big players have spent many years and now have something more or less working. To surpass the existing systems, you really
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by shiro 18y ago
To your question: I guess not. He just has a different development background. Productions like game dev or CG work require to track huge binary objects and source code in sync (I'd argue that, in these environments, any attempt to mana
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by shiro 18y ago
Or you can say, these mirrors do calculation by reflecting lights in specific ways---it's real-time, continuous calculation. Electronic digital circuits aren't the only way to calculate.
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by shiro 18y ago
Oops, typo. In the last paragraph I intended to say, "Probably the strategy is to keep your passion [for multiple interests], but to take ..." I don't know where the "not" came from; maybe editing error.
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by shiro 18y ago
I'm a freelance software consultant, which is my main source of income. Besides that, I act. I take auditions occasionally and lands to roles in local commercials, TV programs, independent films and reginoal theatres time to time. I'm p
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by shiro 18y ago
Not necessarily to be scared. Ultimately what you want from life is up to you; you have to decide it. However, to make wise decision, deep knowledge about the object is important, which is yourself in this case. Human mind constantly try
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by shiro 18y ago
Yeah, I also felt that the poster was just bragging on and on like a boring talk at a bar counter... oh wait, it's my post! Now I remember. It was within a long discussion with a guy who kept complaining nobody had respected his accompl
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by shiro 18y ago
Yes, and I've seen some of ATMs in Waikiki dispense $50 bills.
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by shiro 18y ago
I second for that. Actually I think the OP's description of two styles is two extreme cases of one spectrum. Plus, the OP doesn't distinguish difference in the size of the problem domain. Standing out academic papers looks perfect and it
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by shiro 18y ago
Isn't this what Squeak guys are (kind of) aiming at? OLPC comes with Etoys, in which children can easily write and modify graphical apps. What's interesting is that their environment inherently supports concurrency. If kids learn concurre
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by shiro 18y ago
I'm not sure, but probably because productivity of programmers is hard to measure? You, as a programmer, solve different problem each time. Productivity can be defined by (* individual-productivity-coefficient (/ (* amount-o
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by shiro 18y ago
> I think it depends on the project - is it a 'design up front, go away code once' project, or an iterative constantly changing thing. I think your line is too coarse. I do heavily rely on unit tests even in "iterative constant changi
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by shiro 18y ago
I liked the article. Although my ego swings from euphoria to depression depending on the positive or negative feedback, ultimately I feel I'm just an instrument of something bigger existence (I'd call it Muse if I'd be an artist, but I do
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by shiro 18y ago
One of the problem using monads in dynamically typed languages is, as this article suggests, the need to overload 'return' operation by the type of results, not by the type of arguments. I once tried to address this issue. http://practica
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by shiro 18y ago
California still has seasons I'd say. Here in Hawaii it is extremely easy to lose sense of time; you blink and pow! three years have been passed. But once you learn to see changes in subtle things such as the color tone of Diamond Head (it
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by shiro 18y ago
Check out this. http://shinh.skr.jp/dat_dir/fizzbuzz7.gif It is a valid GIF image file, but also a valid Fizz Buzz program in Ruby, Perl, Befunge, Z80 machine code, and x86 machine code.
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by shiro 18y ago
> the chances are most of them will say 'Bicycling' Interesting. I play piano ( http://www.youtube.com/user/anohana ), but back in college I also loved traveling by bicycle (carrying a tent, camping). Looking around my colleagues,
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by shiro 18y ago
There was a joke soft called 'sl' circulating among Japanese universities (I don't know if it went out abroad). It just showed an ascii art animation of a steam locomotive running across the screen. It was irritating, though, when you mis
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by shiro 18y ago
I like empirical papers describing experiences of applying ideas in real situations, in which they tend to expose unsuccessful approaches they have tried before finding one that works. It is not only useful but also enjoyable to read. I'd
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by shiro 18y ago
The thing is that you can't really see the distance to various goals until you start climbing up the path. It's like looking up the mountains from the coast; you'll see high peaks, some green in front, some white with snow in background;
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by shiro 18y ago
I'm using similar technique in the Scheme implementation Gauche. Gauche compiles Scheme into VM instrunctions, but VM itself, some foreign bridges, and performance-critical pieces are in C. I started from plain C, then gradually moved to

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