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   by vjz 12y ago

   Programming ability (similar to other STEM abilities) are power-law distributed, rather than Gaussian [1]. From this, it follows that training has very high probability of producing competent programmers but very low probability of producin
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   by vjz 13y ago

   I've been using ownCloud for over a year and it works great. The only issue is that it is not as convenient as Dropbox. It needs a server to host it, which is not free; and the server requires maintenance, security patches (see: heartb
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   by vjz 13y ago

   From the article: "what these two sets of massive reductions show is that companies like Amazon were probably charging far higher for their services than it cost to build and run them" It absolutely does not show that. What it s
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   by vjz 14y ago

   Tax-free municipal bonds