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by vomjom 17y ago
I've used Kall8 and RingCentral. While I'd generally recommend RingCentral (especially if you use a lot of minutes), it depends on your requirements. Kall8's advantages over RingCentral: - Recorded calls - Can get the name of the caller th
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by vomjom 17y ago
It's extremely unlikely that he makes money. From the article, the rent is set by auction. So, it's a common value auction with incomplete information, the perfect setting for the Winner's Curse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner%27s_c
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by vomjom 17y ago
Well, considering bandwidth is more important to google than storage, they could take the more obvious approach and just choose the appropriate method and codec for a person's web browser.
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by vomjom 17y ago
I own one and can't tolerate regular keyboards anymore. The main disadvantage is that it's incredibly expensive (note that you can find it for as low as $260 if you search the web). I spilled water on my first one and had to buy a second o
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by vomjom 17y ago
Frankly, CLRS goes over a lot of the basic knowledge you need to get through the book. I don't think a discrete math textbook will help you if your main goal is to get through CLRS; the math in that book isn't that dense. Like all things,
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by vomjom 17y ago
My suspicion is that they're not counting the ethanol in their MPGe calculation. They claim to be using E85. In other words, the fuel mixture may contain about 85% ethanol. Their MPGe calculation probably only counts the gasoline in that
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by vomjom 17y ago
Wow, you completely missed the point. Obviously, the author knows that height is already taxed. The real point is that some members of society are more productive than others. Apparently, tall people are more productive than short people.
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by vomjom 17y ago
What? Long-Term Capital Management didn't use Black-Scholes. It hired Merton and Scholes, but used a completely different trading strategy. They tried fixed income arbitrage with very high leverage. Black-Scholes ONLY applies to options.
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by vomjom 17y ago
I'm a little late to the conversation, but I'll explain the reasoning. You don't want the hash and the bucket size to have a common divisor. A prime bucket size is the best way to ensure that. For example, let's suppose you have a bucket
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by vomjom 17y ago
Rarely do most people who go to top schools pay full price. Only those from extremely wealthy families do. All (yes, all) the top schools are need-blind, meaning they don't look at your financial situation when deciding whether to accept y
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by vomjom 17y ago
The main problem with AppEngine is vendor lock-in. If you write your program to AppEngine, and Google decides one day to close down your site, you have no options.
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by vomjom 17y ago
For the bouba and kiki example, maybe the reason we associate shapes with sounds is because we already have words in our vocabulary that are associated with similar shapes? For example, bouba is similar to bubble, which has no sharp edges.
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by vomjom 17y ago
I think you misunderstand the goals of sqlite, which is why you think it's a bug and the author does not. Sqlite doesn't intend to include a very smart query planner simply because that would make it much larger and more complex. That mean
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by vomjom 17y ago
If you'd prefer a more accurate and less misleading introduction to money, you can try these Yale video lectures: http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/financial-markets/ Specifically, these lectures: http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/financial-mark
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by vomjom 17y ago
The name of the project tells you what it does. If you don't understand from the name of the project, you'll certainly have no use for it.
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by vomjom 17y ago
The team that's been on top (BellKor, the same people who wrote the article) already combined with another strong team. The main problem is that a lot of teams already do the same stuff, so the benefit of combining isn't always that great.
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by vomjom 17y ago
Actually, it's often the opposite. In particular, clang tries to use the least amount of memory possible for better caching effects, which is why it compiles much faster. For the compiled program, it's also comparable in speed (and sometime
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by vomjom 17y ago
"To check that they had not merely discovered that creative people are more likely to choose to live abroad, Dr Maddux and Dr Galinsky identified and measured personality traits, such as openness to new experiences, that are known to predic
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by vomjom 17y ago
I was all prepared to rant about how wrong he was, but he convinced me. I've had all kinds of problems with PostgreSQL because its planner would choose a poor query plan in certain situations. Specifically, we don't have a good way of esti
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by vomjom 17y ago
If you want Python to "be smart enough to cast x automatically", then you want a weakly typed language. Weakly typed languages are difficult to reason about. For example, should "3" == 3? Should 3 automatically be converted to "3" in that