xigency

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   by xigency 10y ago

   Along those lines, are you hiring engineers now who want to improve that process? Creating dynamic ways to develop products and edit code. It seems like the positions listed here http://www.fogcreek.com/careers are support
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   by xigency 10y ago

   Well yes, both of those questions, but why JP Morgan? As a Chase bank customer, I thought most of their software people were involved in banking software and online checking. This is, basically, a crazy moonshot for my personal (if not gian
3. 573.▲
   by xigency 10y ago

   This may be an unusual question, but why?
4. 574.▲
   by xigency 10y ago

   Yea, apparently two disconnected spoked-wheels are a bicycle now, based on the drawing it accepted from me.
5. 575.▲
   by xigency 10y ago

   And yet there is a later or contemporaneous photograph of him without any spots or sores, so that doesn't make too much sense.
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   by xigency 10y ago

   The last question: > Write a C program which prints Hello World! without using a semicolon!!! That seems daunting. At first.
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   by xigency 10y ago

   Really, that's all possible now using emscripten and it still doesn't sound productive.
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   by xigency 10y ago

   > I HATE touchpads, as the cursor tends to shoot off into space when I accidentally touch it with the heel of my hand when typing. Apple touchpads don't have this "feature".
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   by xigency 10y ago

   Ah yes, the land area would be a better comparison than total area. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=ratio+of+land+area+of+...
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    by xigency 10y ago

    > A more reasonable comparison would be between Sweden and ... New Jersey Except that Sweden is 20 times larger than New Jersey in area. The continental US is 18 times larger than Sweden, so it is actually a better (if terrible) comparis
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    by xigency 10y ago

    You might not be a jerk but you are off-target. This 15 year-old NYT piece with the iPod announcement, something that ballooned to gigantic sales and forming the base of a more influential contemporary product line, the iPhone, shows how ex
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    by xigency 10y ago

    > Dirt poor countries with a quarter the resources, ... Korea Are you talking about North Korea? South Korea's Human Development Index is 17 (over Mexico's 74th) and their GDP is 13th (behind Mexico's 11th) and their per c
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    by xigency 10y ago

    This idea sounds like a slightly more brilliant test than this candidate was faced with.
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    by xigency 10y ago

    This is actually a real danger in hiring: personal bias.
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    by xigency 10y ago

    Ask Jeeves? Being able to find it in a book might be useful, but when Google is down I bet they would like to get things up and running as soon as possible.
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    by xigency 10y ago

    Ignoring the political significance of this design, the cubic street layout would either be great or awful based on experience with diagonal streets. Does anyone know of examples of other cities with striking diagonal layouts?
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    by xigency 10y ago

    Good point.
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    by xigency 10y ago

    That hardly makes sense. Changing the color of text is definitely a feature of HTML and CSS. What's the lazy reason for not rendering that before serving the html page.
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    by xigency 10y ago

    To contest your point of a 1:1 mapping, there are hentaigana which are older than the obsolete characters in both hiragana and katakana. Interestingly enough, these are not supported in Unicode. Additionally, depending on context, hiragana
20. 590.▲
    by xigency 10y ago

    While possible phonetically, it would be strange to see kanji transliterated as katakana. But I guess there are some Japanese sources that are written all in katakana.
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    by xigency 10y ago

    This writing is sort of a strange metaphor, but I guess the point the author makes is that kanji can be transliterated as hiragana but not katakana. The writer goes on to talk about traumatic brain injuries so I guess he's aiming at th
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    by xigency 10y ago

    This seems like a font issue. Would training the model for this console font help?
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    by xigency 10y ago

    To anyone screen capturing small fonts as a demonstration, or capturing digital text especially at a small resolution, I don't believe that that is the purpose of this OCR library. (As a specialized problem, that might be easier to sol
24. 594.▲
    by xigency 10y ago

    I remember trying to solve a spatial 4D maze using this program: http://www.urticator.net/maze/ It's difficult.
25. 595.▲
    by xigency 10y ago

    I'm looking at writing a compiler for my own language, and I can certainly use ideas for anything that's technically feasible.
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    by xigency 10y ago

    Tie fighters on Mars?
27. 597.▲
    by xigency 10y ago

    Maybe they concluded that this is fair to use and that's why they didn't have any argument beyond posting the ICANN rules for us.
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    by xigency 10y ago

    It's confusing enough that they recycled their own product name, the Chromebook Pixel.
29. 599.▲
    by xigency 10y ago

    Exactly. I can hardly see an application or any utility outside of gaming.
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    by xigency 10y ago

    I think someone who has equipment engaged in DDoS attacks might be a bigger cost to the telecom than they are paying anyway. Those 20,000 customers are either using disproportionately more bandwidth and resources or they are at least unwitt