smanek

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by smanek 17y ago
Yes it does. The whole point is to separate the good answers from the bad answers.
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by smanek 17y ago
I found Q2 section 3 about "An American peasant, so poor that he had no food to eat, was forced to go to odd jobs for a local rich person" somewhat funny/interesting. I would have like to see the questions associated with that prompt.
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by smanek 17y ago
Bearer bonds? More seriously, I remember reading this paper: http://dsns.csie.nctu.edu.tw/research/crypto/HTML/PDF/C88/31... a few years back. That only guarantees the buyer's anonymity (the seller still has to deposit money in his bank w
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by smanek 17y ago
Yes and no ... Maybe my resume is written incorrectly now but,a s it stands, a lot of presentation is mixed with the content. That would make it ugly to do things like have only the HTML version include logos of employers or having the plai
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by smanek 17y ago
My big question is: how do you make the PDF? I have my resume in LaTeX right now - and it works well enough (although, it is getting a bit long in the tooth). Ideally, I would like to store my resume in some sort of presentation agnostic 's
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by smanek 17y ago
We don't live in a plutocracy - there is a lot of economic mobility in America today (more than almost anywhere else at any other time). I won't bore you with anecdotal evidence (although I have plenty) but simply consider that the majority
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by smanek 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224861
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by smanek 17y ago
So, a base cost of $125K/30 kids. Add in benefits for the teacher and you're at $150K. Liability insurance is another $50K. Rent per year for 1500 sq ft to house the 30 kids (the classroom is smaller, but you also need to amortize the cost
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by smanek 17y ago
I didn't buy the GPG/TLS thing before. After reading this I do. I just realized how completely out of my depth I am for crypto stuff. At least now I know ...
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by smanek 17y ago
Completely off topic: I just want to say I've never seen anyone other than Tocqueville use 'mores.' Bravo, sir ;-)
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by smanek 17y ago
Because if the language uses threads instead of processes the compiler can perform all sorts of neat optimizations on message passing. As a trivial example (an example I included in the post above yours), consider 'copy-on-write' optimizati
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by smanek 17y ago
The problem, in my mind, is that many languages provide 'transparent' shared state between the threads - which can easily introduce very subtle bugs. The simple solution is to requires any sharing of state to be made explicit (e.g., message
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by smanek 17y ago
'NATO' and 'SCUBA' are pronounceable. The Economist contends that'BBC' and 'IMF' aren't acronyms since you can't pronounce the words they form (you just sound out the letters).
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by smanek 17y ago
Yeah ... I don't know how I feel about it either. I like to imagine that I have a pretty good grasp of English - but I'm pretty sure I violate about half those rules on a regular basis. In any case, it's informative to see the style guide o
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Common Solecisms - Words you are almost certainly using incorrectly(economist.com)
73 points by smanek 17y ago|66 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
The human brain isn't all that powerful (hardware wise) ... The numbers I've seen suggest that it's total 'processing power' is only on the order of a few hundred teraflops - and we already have plenty of clusters bigger than that. I know t
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by smanek 17y ago
Heh, I see what you did there. I don't think that holds because society (and the law) hold the parents to be responsible for a child's well being - not the school. With that responsibility also comes the right to make decisions affecting th
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by smanek 17y ago
But once transistors can't get any smaller the only way to get more cores will be to have physically larger CPUs. That might work for a while. But, pretty quickly, those larger dies will use too much power and get too hot (not to mention be
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Ask HN: What comes after we hit the 16nm barrier?
16 points by smanek 17y ago|31 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
I don't think it's a school's place to decide what constitutes a legitimate reason to miss school - it should be the parent's prerogative. If the parent says it's alright for a kid to miss a day of school - I really don't think the school s
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by smanek 17y ago
I like a lot of their ideas. They promote teachers on merit, they don't emphasize political correctness, failing students don't advance to the next grade, and so on. But, it seems like their teachers don't know how to teach science: "Zika s
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by smanek 17y ago
Apparently the president of Canon Electronics (Hisashi Sakamaki) wrote this book: http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4396612486/mitsu-10... whose title translates to "A company will do well if you get rid of the chairs and computers
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by smanek 17y ago
lol, I was debating including definition 1 instead of saying 'perpendicular,' but I chickened out. But you are correct, sir ;-)
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by smanek 17y ago
Programmers (and people in quantitative fields in general) are hugely over represented as libertarians. I would say it's because they are able to objectively evaluate systems and come to better decisions - but that would be revealing my bia
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by smanek 17y ago
I think that comes from the ideas behind vector decomposition (remember physics 101? ;-)). When you decompose a goal into several linearly independent sub-goals - those sub-goals are said to be 'orthogonal' since they don't have any interac
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by smanek 17y ago
There is obviously plenty of literature about side channel attacks, particularly timing attacks (which you have contributed to ;-)). But, among 'lay programmers' I've met, I would say that more than 9/10 have no idea what a 'side channel at
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by smanek 17y ago
Just to be pedantic, orthogonal means perpendicular (i.e., 'at a right angle to'). It seems like you meant opposite/complementary/inverse, etc. Sorry - people misappropriating math jargon into the mainstream is a little pet peeve of mine. I
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by smanek 17y ago
If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in t
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by smanek 17y ago
Deep Blue '97, which beat Kasparov, was a: "RS/6000 SP Thin P2SC-based system with 30-nodes, with each node containing a 120 MHz P2SC microprocessor for a total of 30, enhanced with 480 special purpose VLSI chess chips." (from Wikipedia) I'
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by smanek 17y ago
In my experience, customize is usually pretty good about only adding code to the bottom of my .emacs in a separate section (although, I rarely use it)

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