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by thebear 12y ago
I live up in Tahoe, and I've always wondered why Reno doesn't attract more high tech enterprises. It has a good business climate, and it sits right there at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, with skiing minutes away and endless other
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by thebear 12y ago
I honestly don't know if it's the mathematician in me, or if I'm just a cranky person, or if I actually have a valid point, but if I were given the FizzBuzz task the way it is worded here, I would reject it on the grounds tha
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by thebear 12y ago
Wow. Extremely impressive all around. I can see how Standard Treasury's priorities are well-chosen, in every respect. Personally, however, I find it a bit regrettable that interacting with personal investors' brokerage accounts do
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by thebear 12y ago
It is perhaps worth drawing attention to this sentence in the article: "Though Bayes' theorem is where Bayesians get their name, it is not this law itself that is controversial, but the Bayesian interpretation of probability impli
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by thebear 12y ago
In this context, it's interesting to look at the history of the label "Made in Germany." It was mandated by the British in 1887 to distinguish true British products from cheap imitations of inferior quality, the latter coming
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by thebear 12y ago
I started a separate thread on that subject earlier. It didn't get a whole lot of attention, but FWIW: search for "thebear" on this page to find it. Specifically, you may like the employee vs. nuclear missile example that som
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by thebear 12y ago
Nice example with the nuclear missile. For those to whom this seems contrived, let me explain why the issue of type-safety and semantics is so important to me. I used to work in symbolic computation. In that world, it is very common for a l
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by thebear 12y ago
Ok, I got you. If type-safety means, as you say, "you can only use operations on x that x's type supports", then all is well. I must admit that I was under the impression that type-safety meant more: if I assign to a variable
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by thebear 12y ago
Yes, that's correct. It is, in fact, the same kind of behavior you get with templated code: you can instantiate your template with any type you wish; compile errors will occur when the instantiation is used in ways that are forbidden b
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by thebear 12y ago
Thanks for this blog post; it will help me to make the best use of C++11/14 features in day-to-day programming. One thing I've been wondering about for a while is how the auto keyword relates to type-safety. The blog post lists th
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by thebear 12y ago
I am not sure why this post begins with the header "Translation:". It is not a translation of the article.
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by thebear 12y ago
Very brief summary of the article: - Second Mayor Josef Schmid (CSU, conservative): "Every department I talk to reports user complaints. Our employees are suffering. The original decision to switch to Linux was politically motivated. W
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City of Munich Considers Switching Back From Linux to Windows (In German)(sueddeutsche.de)
24 points by thebear 12y ago|56 comments
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by thebear 12y ago
Here's a bit of historical trivia that may or may not be relevant in connection with Iran as a potential new exciting market for VCs. I do believe it's something that every hacker should know. I quote from the Wikipedia article on
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by thebear 12y ago
Given the facts that functional programming has been all the rage lately, and that advocates of functional programming tend to emphasize its mathematical roots, I would find it interesting to get Donald Knuth's take on the subject. Web
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by thebear 12y ago
OP here: very true. We're not done with performance measurement and benchmarking until we fully account for taxes, and for all fees as well. My grand vision is a system that does that effortlessly for every individual investor. But tha
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by thebear 12y ago
Indeed, investing in just the S&P 500 would be an example of poor diversification: you'd limit yourself to US large cap stocks. By recommending the S&P 500, Warren Buffet is saying, implicitly, that he believes in US large caps
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by thebear 12y ago
Probably for liquidity, but I don't know for sure.
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What Would Have Happened Had You Invested in an Index Fund?(blog.greaterthanzero.com)
47 points by thebear 12y ago|27 comments
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by thebear 12y ago
See also the Wikipedia article about the movie "Freaks": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks
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by thebear 12y ago
Yay, my Erdos number is 2 and thus better than that of Richard Feynman. I have a paper with Erdos-1 mathematician Saharon Shelah. Unfortunately, my Bacon number is infinity. To look up your Erdos number, if any, go to https://fil
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Pseudo-mathematics and financial charlatanism(eurekalert.org)
2 points by thebear 12y ago|0 comments
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OOP in JavaScript: A Tutorial for Those Who Are Accustomed to Classes(thbecker.net)
13 points by thebear 13y ago|3 comments
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C++11 FQA anyone?(yosefk.com)
8 points by thebear 13y ago|0 comments
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by thebear 13y ago
I guess they were right when they said that the cobbler's kids wear no shoes. It stumps me how one of the biggest, most powerful, and most resourceful software companies in the world would have a bunch of humans write a document on how
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by thebear 13y ago
Another way to see the effect of the precession of the Earth's axis is in astrology. What's your sign? It's the constellation in which the sun stands on the day of your birthday. It's easy to see that: go up into the str
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by thebear 13y ago
I would be interested to know what the OP thinks about stepping through code as opposed to reading it. To me, reading code and stepping through it in a debugger are two complimentary ways of understanding it. I call those the static and the
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by thebear 13y ago
Perhaps the most important insight to be gained from this article is Abelson's statement that "a lot of times you crud up a program to make it finally work and do all of the things that you need it to do, so there’s a lot of extra
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by thebear 13y ago
It has always surprised me how Silicon Valley works as well as it does in the almost complete absence of independent coffeehouses.
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by thebear 13y ago
In addtion to the things that other commenters have mentioned, there is one more difference between having your currency pegged to the Euro and being a Euro country: when goods are traded between two Euro countries, these goods aren't

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