tamana

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by tamana 11y ago
$100 fee isn't even such a big de, compared to the Sept 11 Security Fee (terrorism tax) already attached to every leg of your airline trips.
1112.
by tamana 11y ago
Can we get some blog posts and discussions about how single individuals can put together such a beautifully branded and effective civil rights advocacy program, without a bloated nonprofit organization attached? This is a powerful weapon ag
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by tamana 11y ago
I don't see evidence that violent people's revolution (not the US kind of traditional polite batyle among aristocrats' armies) is more successful than a modernizing/liberalizing leader, like Russia at the end of the cold
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by tamana 11y ago
When Google was a smallish startup, they only hired people who did something exceptional outside of their job. They accepted hobbies, but only impressive ones, like being an airplane pilot.
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by tamana 11y ago
You said it yourself, these candidates produce exceptional work. The fact that they may be underpaid is a problem with their (group) ability to negotiate pay, not a failure in hiring manager's talent recognition.
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by tamana 11y ago
This is the premise of the classic Jiffy Express SNL skit.
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by tamana 11y ago
Regehr himself "disproved" Fermat's Last Theorem by abusing a non-terminating loop and over-aggressive compilers. http://blog.regehr.org/archives/140
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by tamana 11y ago
Working in say Java doesn't really force consistency, it just pushes the inconsistency up a level. Programmers still get painfully "clever" and idiosyncratic.
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by tamana 11y ago
But the compiler could just as well emit a warning "useless NULL comparison" instead of blithely assuming that the programmer intentionally wrote a book expression. That wouldn't handle every case of UB, but would handle many
1120.
by tamana 11y ago
How many white rhino live in America? America annihilated nearly every large animal species, as part of Manifest Destiny.
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by tamana 11y ago
China is the latest, but subjugating Africa has been a worldwide pastime.
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by tamana 11y ago
They aren't circles, they are p-gons. A factorization is drawn as a tree where each level has p radially symmetric branches, corresponding to a prime factor p. (Only the leafs are drawn, but you can fill in the branches and node). A p