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by talaketu 11y ago
"the HR lady" - you mean the recruiter.
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by talaketu 11y ago
as it was in algol day. :=
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by talaketu 11y ago
> “Which pages are getting an unusual hit in the last 30 minutes?” A good statistic for this is an exponentially weighted moving average, which can be computed online by a leaky integrator using a single accumulator register per counted
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by talaketu 11y ago
does PEX still have value? https://pex.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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by talaketu 11y ago
A regenerative braking system might make cyclists happier to stop, it's true.
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by talaketu 11y ago
"work" to change velocity is proportional to the square of the change in velocity, proportional to mass, and independent of gearing.
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by talaketu 11y ago
I'd guess it's simply legal hygiene to defend against a phoenix.
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by talaketu 12y ago
> "Normalization’s goal is to eliminate update anomalies. Normalization is not necessary in an immutable data set. The only reason to normalize immutable DataSets may be to reduce the storage necessary." You can still have an
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by talaketu 12y ago
maybe written in logo? Edit: Bruce Cornwell is in the credits as one of the Computer Animation Consultants. More info about him and some other great work here: http://vimeo.com/channels/bkcfilms/videos/rss
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by talaketu 12y ago
Unless "name" is unique, there could be multiple matches. Asking for the "first" demands an ordering. Perhaps (a) the user doesn't care what ordering is used, and/or (b) (such as in your example in the prece
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by talaketu 12y ago
"Identity is theft of the self."
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by talaketu 12y ago
It is misleading to sell something as unlimited when that can't actually be fulfilled, and it's unrealistic to believe you can buy something of value that is unlimited. Setting a price for finite capacity that is to be reserved is
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by talaketu 12y ago
$5-20B. And the many x86 unix clones... not so much. What's the difference? Was Linux technically superior? Freedom? Community? GNU? Interesting questions indeed.
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by talaketu 13y ago
http://xanadu.com/zigzag/
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by talaketu 13y ago
There is no "JONES" on that list.
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by talaketu 13y ago
> No one ever discusses the implications of a system which is constantly, needlessly, insanely doing nothing but MAKING COPIES OF DATA. see persistent data structure
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by talaketu 13y ago
(not necessarily symmetric)
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by talaketu 13y ago
"Chargeback risk" is the only theory on the table, isn't it?
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by talaketu 13y ago
Wikipedia leads me to the belief that "omission" will "give rise to liability when the law imposes a duty to act". More specifically: * "the omission is expressly made sufficient by the law defining the offense; o
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by talaketu 13y ago
> Have any technicalities every held up in court? (fixed that for you) of course they have. For example, having corporate "document retention" policies that are actually destruction policies is usual to avoid risks associated
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by talaketu 13y ago
this is like a placebo pregnancy test. "oh... you are taking a pregnancy test? then you are probably pregnant."
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by talaketu 13y ago
So, you are evaluating the probability that this drive is encrypted by taking the ratio of E/(E+R), where E and R are frequencies? This is simple probability, and does not involve Bayes Theorem at all. But how do you determine the frequen
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by talaketu 13y ago
You should check the "dictionary".
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by talaketu 14y ago
It's a good question. But this is the story of an engineer using a profiling tool to solve a performance problem, and the solution was to drop resolution in his probabilistic data model. I don't see how BCNF would have avoided this if the
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by talaketu 14y ago
Notice that it's a free* service. * conditions apply - see Little's Law. Interesting, because, on a marginal basis, it probably saves Australia Post delivery costs, making this another example of the security/convenience trade-off. Normally
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by talaketu 14y ago
Incorrect. The consumer-secret and access-token-secret are not transmitted from client to the server during oauth. They are only used to sign requests.
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by talaketu 14y ago
Awesome presentation. Brendan Gregg shows a scary amount of expertise here. Very motivating to start using more advanced tools.
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by talaketu 14y ago
come now... not all depression is clinical.
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by talaketu 14y ago
You're funny! An absolutely unqualified categorical refutation of tiresome internet quackery. Any qualifications in the area?
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by talaketu 14y ago
> You can try to blame the regime; but really, this is the life that the generation in control during the Korean war chose You are contradicting yourself.

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