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thejbf
15y ago
>> Why do you need more than one dimension for time coordinates to express time dilation Because in theory, there is no absolute time we can take as reference. 1 year for an object on moon is not 1 year for an object on Jupiter. So
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15y ago
Time is better implied as a consequence.
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According to Einstein, time is relative. If I move really fast time is passing slower for me. So time and its effects vary, there should be more than 1 dimension for time in the existing model. Or time should be separated from spatial + oth
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15y ago
>> What are you going to do inside Google? "I am still figuring that out." This clearly states that I sold for money and reputation. But the bad thing is selling to Google is not like selling to Google in 2005.
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15y ago
Getting laid off/being unemployed or being depressed by the status quo (your existing job) are all the same. Once you are so desperate, you can take any risk because any risk is better than the bottom line.
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15y ago
>> But the functional part gives no guarantees of referential transparency or immutable state, so the killer value of FP is lost. Well, forcing objects to immutable on Dalvik VM will be a performance crime. Scala has no practical se
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More time in the classroom doesn’t always mean better scores
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Have you ever heard of PhoneGap? http://www.phonegap.com
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Yes, but I can still spawn thousands of event-based Scala actors on the same machine. The actual problem with author: He believes running long and costly operations on an HTTP request is OK which is never and ever right. If you need to wait
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This is a very hard topic to compare to Kyle's experience. First of all, Kyle is already given an audience and the success is evaluated by some metrics about his psychical performance. While marketing, you have to create an audience first.
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He would be using tools like solid rulers to press them against paper. And he most probably use water and heat to shape 3d ovals.
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No, not exactly. We still dont know if we are able to give healthy births with no or less gravitation.
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15y ago
This dictionary looks like it's the index of The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d...
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Our body is what we eat. I would move to a more suburban neighborhood or go out less but never lower the quality the food.
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There is a balance between shipping a good product with good technology. If you are constantly pushed by deadlines and make things just work, it breaks stuff in the future. Any engineer that is continuously working under pressure of tight d
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Absolutely, these are giving me inspiration to launch my side projects as products and start my small scale business. Income is small but the amount of diverse stuff you have to deal with is definitely hard to experience if you're not worki
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Languages fit you if your tasks are fitting to those languages. As far as I can see as a C/C++ programmer you should have been involved more lower-level issues rather than writing software standing on several frameworks. Java is not a toy l