swolchok

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by swolchok 17y ago
And just like we have spermicide to go with condoms today, we might have aminoglycoside-based topical microbicides to go with condoms tomorrow.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I think you're confusing P(member of particular race | member of particular religion) with P(member of particular religion | member of particular race).
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by swolchok 17y ago
Previous HN coverage of Vanish: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=815026 (Schneier on Security post) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=762631 (BBC article on Vanish) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717736 (physorg article)
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by swolchok 17y ago
I used gnuplot for the charts in my recent paper originally, but we switched to Excel for the latest version. EDIT: my advisor likes it better, and it actually makes really pretty graphs.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Previous HN coverage of Vanish at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=762631 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717736 Not much discussion, unfortunately. There's also a blog post at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ that tells
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by swolchok 17y ago
The article didn't do much to support the "Three Felonies a Day" thesis. More support for the tired, more general "laws are bullshit" refrain, but not for the thesis in the title.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Guidelines: "Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link,
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by swolchok 17y ago
Article's headline is misleading. Facebook was the vehicle for good old fashioned actionable offenses of the "harassment/defamation/libel/slander/whatever" flavor.
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by swolchok 17y ago
cema had it right -- undergraduates in general like to optimize away their education.
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by swolchok 17y ago
There is a much easier way to fight the MySpace angle: remember that if you can't at least see a woman's upper arm in any photo and you're on a free online dating site, you can assume that this is not due to an oversight.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I completely ignore names other than pg, a personal friend or two, and names on my confirmation-biased list of obnoxious karma whores. I don't make a mental note of "X must be a smart character" when I upvote X's comments.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Aren't those supposed to be called "vacations"?
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by swolchok 17y ago
UMich's new Informatics major (AFAICT, it's like Java-school CS) is doing Python for the intro programming course, and grad students in the School of Information also do Python. http://www.pythonlearn.com and http://www.si502.com/ respe
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by swolchok 17y ago
I'll be surprised if you tell me that the end result isn't usually undergraduates who can produce mediocre, unidiomatic code in any of 6 languages. (I've no personal experience with Berkeley grads, just general cynicism.)
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by swolchok 17y ago
If you're reusing that nice general list you wrote ages ago with static inlines so that there isn't any function call overhead anyway, it's trivial, because you change the "get next element" and "get prev element" functions and never worry
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by swolchok 17y ago
No one legitimate is going to do this because of the legal risks. No one illegitimate is going to do this because it's probably not as profitable as building a botnet.
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by swolchok 17y ago
That's too simplistic. Programs with hot code sections that don't fit in icache are slow programs. If your program is huge but you spend all your time in a small fraction of code (typical) that fits in icache (no idea if that's typical), it
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by swolchok 17y ago
$20,000/yr is less than I get from the CSE program at Michigan. Surely you're exaggerating?
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by swolchok 17y ago
One of my fellow grad students related a tale in which he was his advisor was telling him to work on something and he wanted to know whether his advisor was going to help. His advisor's reply: "Let me consult Ph.D. Comics." (Said advisor ha
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by swolchok 17y ago
And people are not defined entirely by what they do. I would expect that entrepreneurs are one of the communities that is very likely to disagree with you.
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by swolchok 17y ago
On reflection, it occurs to me that a Sufficiently Smart Compiler (TM) could figure out that you were going to open the file right after checking whether it exists and just call open(2) as the existence check instead of stat(2) and then ope
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by swolchok 17y ago
It sounds like you're saying that society does not have a diminishing marginal utility of money, and/or that they shouldn't have axed the golden investment opportunity for everyone (had they IPOed). Is that right?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Are you claiming that money does not have diminishing marginal utility? (i.e., the famous "s-curve"; it's in AIMA but I can't find a convenient picture with Google.)
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by swolchok 17y ago
Both opening the file and checking whether it exists involve a syscall, which dwarfs the overhead of throwing and catching an exception. If you check whether it exists and then try to open it, that's two syscalls.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I didn't say you have to know the documentation, and I'll admit I'm behind on how much of it IDEs show you. In my recollection, you generally get a list of language-level constructs and that's it. For example, the names of those exception
596.
by swolchok 17y ago
Relying on the IDE to know which exceptions can be thrown is nicer I think. No. If you can't remember what it throws, you can't remember the documentation. If you can't remember the documentation, you don't fully know how to use it proper
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by swolchok 17y ago
Compare "Oh, hey, I see you're a Christian too." and "I hope we can grow and enjoy God's love together.". The latter seems to connote much more devotion than the former. I would bet that "God" is more likely to be used in a devoted sense th
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by swolchok 17y ago
It's not +42%/+41%; it's 42%/41% average reply rate, whereas the overall average is 32%.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Is the "millionaire" as in "People will treat you like a millionaire for 'only' 20 bucks"?
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by swolchok 17y ago
I believe that Microsoft's Managed C++ uses the caret to indicate a "handle", or managed pointer.

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