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by spitfire 12y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Victoria, B.C. Remote: Yes, onsite: Within B.C., expenses paid. Fulltime: No. I'm a quantitative researcher/developer. I've - built security/surveillence systems involving tricky sensing and placem
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by spitfire 12y ago
i960 was actually a very nice architecture. It had features like proper memory protection, hardware GC support and others that we would absolutely love to have in this day and age. It was a successor to the Intel iAPX 432 architecture. It a
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by spitfire 12y ago
In the early/mid 2000's Vancouver had a healthy games industry. Not sure about now. But your point is valid. Vancouver doesn't really have any technology industry that's in a virtuous cycle yet.
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by spitfire 12y ago
/Property is bought by absentee owners who take supply out of the market, drive up prices, but do not contribute to the economy./ This has been thoroughly debunked many times. Real estate agents are hiring helicopters filled with
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by spitfire 12y ago
Hornet archive still has them https://hornet.org/
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Ship or aircraft tracking data. Or if your the NSA, tracking mobile phones.
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by spitfire 12y ago
That's a new leaf for HBR arguing for the general public over the hedge fund.
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by spitfire 12y ago
There was a really cool app on NeXT called Quantrix (Also Lotus improv had the same idea). It was a spreadsheet where rules and data were kept separate. The modern java version can access databases. A spreadsheet user could get up and runni
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by spitfire 12y ago
If you feed MYSQL an invalid date for a date/timestamp field it will quietly insert 0000-00-00 and produce a warning, not an error.
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by spitfire 12y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Victoria, B.C. Remote: Yes, onsite: Within B.C., expenses paid. Fulltime: No. I'm a quantitative researcher/developer. I've built security/surveillence systems for the US military (USMC/DIA),
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by spitfire 12y ago
In Canada an offer to trade is legally binding. At least for the first sale of a erronous advertisement. Legally speaking if a company posts a screaming good deal in a flyer or advertisement they have to honour the first sale, but after tha
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by spitfire 12y ago
Which is sort of the point I was trying to get across. Media is bifurcated. If people are sick of free click bait, they're welcome to pay cash, or with attention to ads. If companies can't make money on click bait after a time, th
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by spitfire 12y ago
Then how, exactly, do The Economist, Laphams quarterly and Monocle stay in business?
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The thing is the "Think carefully and create deliberately" approach has been tried so very few times. But when we have tried it we've gotten Lisp machines, ACID RDBMs, strong typing, and many other important and very useful t
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by spitfire 12y ago
I can't help but think of surgical tamping rods.
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http://www.hornet.org
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by spitfire 12y ago
So assuming the two programs running are in fact the exact same, it seems like there's some error in one of the systems' floating point implementations. Either the old computer (and systems that came before it) were producing the
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by spitfire 12y ago
> The answer is not, "um, it depends on X", which usually indicate a lack of understanding of the problem as well as a lack of knowledge about the solution. People, especially tech nerds which tend to have ego issues, need to
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by spitfire 12y ago
Well, Lance Armstrong thought of it. Worked or him pretty well. Sort of.
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Typo: You never need to share the car strangers and we can....
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by spitfire 12y ago
Why is it so important to join a company that is structured in a particular fashion? Rather than work in an industry that you love? It seems to me to be a case of function following form.
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by spitfire 12y ago
Location: Victoria, B.C. Remote: Yes, onsite: Within B.C., expenses paid. Fulltime: No. I'm a quantitative researcher/developer. I've built security/surveillence systems for the US military (USMC/DIA), increased rec
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by spitfire 12y ago
I can speak for myself. I often up vote for the conversation rather than the content of the linked article.
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by spitfire 12y ago
Apparently you can't edit a url if you accidentally post a bad one. http://www.kwc.im/uploads/gkp-questions-2014-15.pdf I do this with my friends each year. The rules for us are simple. No internet, you can use an
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King Williams college quiz 2014(kwc.im)
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I am quite jealous of everyone else's bootstrap skills. Wish I could pull something even half that quality together.
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I would love a code. Where are you pulling the art work from? Are you hosting the art on your own AWS account or pulling from some sort of art project guetenburg?
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This is apropos for the topic. Before the era of digital computers, ships used to use analog fire control computers. It is fascinating to watch these. It reminds me to pay attention to the fundamentals, the particulars are only temporary.
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I wish they hadn't named the units of computation "Lambda functions". Cause, you know there's already something known as a "Lambda function" in computer science. But kudos for Amazon for furthering the datacent
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IBM went all the way with this in the AS/400 back in the 80's. Single level store - RAM and disk were unified storage. with no ability for a programmer to tell the difference (RAM was purely and operations problem).

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