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by weland 13y ago
One guy calls the web a language, now someone calls Go a mobile application development framework. Come on, guys, we're programmers, let's call things by their right names. Go is a programming language, and technicalities like gor
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by weland 13y ago
> Delivering education at scale is not in itself hard. Coursera, Udacity, Khan, edX...lots of people are making a very good go at it. Delivering the personal and social development that comes with a college education - that's the ha
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by weland 13y ago
> Besides, branding is "CEO" type work. Branding is CEO type work. Logo design isn't. Encouraging people to put all their resources into their work is awesome. "Jumping into the trenches" (oh, over the weekend!
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by weland 13y ago
> Micromanagement is a management style, not something you do over a weekend. Micromanagement is a bad management style to apply with creative teams. It breaks the creative flow, clouds judgement of quality and adds external pressure t
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by weland 13y ago
I beg to differ. > Through these actions and posts, shes's showing how cool and fun Yahoo! is. Look, the CEO works on weekends with a small skunkworks team on designing logos, and nerds out on the subtle details like any cool design
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by weland 13y ago
> My company has prototyped on both platforms, and I strongly prefer Android for this purpose. Test flight is significantly more inconvenient for all parties than sending around Android apks. So is Apple's provisioning process for d
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by weland 13y ago
It's not that easy. Not subscribing to the culture of most parents tends to result into isolating your child.
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by weland 13y ago
That hardly qualifies as "you can express dot product as matrix multiplication" in the context of the discussion about complexity. I also think it's backwards from a theoretical standpoint. Dot product isn't a cornercase
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by weland 13y ago
The usual approach is to use the foreign function interface and work with FFTW or some other high-performance library.
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by weland 13y ago
I don't think I've seen the dot product there. Don't just throw terms around, it's very confusing for beginners :-). While I may have missed your idea about the dot product, I'm quite sure you can't express a d
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by weland 13y ago
This headline is borderline imbecile. The background explanation (which the author of this post seems to have skipped, for some reason): if you search "Jew" on Google, there's a small box (in one of the Ad-Word boxes) that co
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by weland 13y ago
That sounds like a risky procedure in public places (but, as I mentioned elsewhere, I'm not too familiar with the details of the TSA procedures). When I took the course I mentioned in my post above, the explanation was along these line
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by weland 13y ago
I'm not familiar with the details of the TSA procedure (thankfully, I'm not an US citizen and haven't been there since the whole post-9/11 mess started) -- but I would agree that searching the bag should be done in fro
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by weland 13y ago
However, it's not vanilla photosharing that was Instagram's killer/distinguishing feature.
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by weland 13y ago
Thanks :-). Restaffing the TSA may not be necessary though -- not radically; there seems to be a problem with the culture there and with how performance is measured. That's systemic and comes from higher in the hierarchy. Specifically,
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by weland 13y ago
As someone who isn't doing web programming, this "app culture" is grinding my gears. I respect a fellow coder's work. I'm sure a lot of hard work went into all those applications listed there (of which, frankly, I h
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by weland 13y ago
This reminds me of a fun thing that happened to my colleagues a few years ago (weeks prior to me joining them). They were working on a router pimped with some home automation features (Z-Wave/ZigBee interfacing & co.); the baseboar
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by weland 13y ago
I'm currently doing some work in this field and wholeheartedly agree. There's an incredible amount of shaggy hackiness in many 3G devices, both mobile and operator infrastructure (and don't even get me started on LTE), to the
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by weland 13y ago
One of the things you get when you have a horde of untrained, uptight civilians dressed in uniforms is an incredibly unprofessional behaviour from someone who is supposed to do law enforcement. The agents did several things that escalated
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by weland 13y ago
Thanks for the tip! I added it to my list of films to watch, it looks quite neat from the description.
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by weland 13y ago
Nope. Wikipedia has two entries about a movie named Brazil, one from 1985 and one from 1944. Which one is it :-)?
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by weland 13y ago
> And people don't riot. That's new. That's worse. Coming from a part of the world that has seen at least one revolution and several coups d'etat in the last century, this is one of the things that has made me particu
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by weland 13y ago
> "Fortunately having an unchallenging job can provide lots of time and energy for research and side projects that can lead to jumping into more interesting work." That's not always true. It only works if the job is both e
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by weland 13y ago
IIRC, IBM are still reasonably big on R&D, aren't they? Also, investor-wise people were happy with what he did. A thriving company doing i-have-no-idea-what is a better investment than a sinking mainframe company.
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by weland 13y ago
I'd second rdl's enterprise mobile option. MS have the right foothold there, and neither iOS nor Android are what big, slow business users expect.
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by weland 13y ago
Fair enough. My memories of it are very dim, I could have sworn arrays were 1-indexed, too.
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by weland 13y ago
I presume this was mostly tongue-in-cheek or something, but even so I have a couple of pet peeves: - It's not immediately clear what the criteria for a "major failing" is. C# is actually an ECMA and ISO standard, just like Ja
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by weland 13y ago
The terrorist is the class enemy -- классовый враг -- of the Western world. I sometimes wonder how it would be if politicians would try to use this rhetorical device in an ex-Communist country (I used to live in one, so I should know). They
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by weland 13y ago
What about pages that are intended to look like historic pages, because they are e.g. paying tribute to them, or mirroring how far a programmer has come from when he first started using the Internet. I think there's enough cruft on t
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by weland 13y ago
I long suspected that.

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