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by xirium 19y ago
http://www.dilbert.com/ http://www.thedailywtf.com/
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by xirium 19y ago
You've got to add value when outsourcing and the project has to be of a particular scale. A friend recently outsourced development which could be concisely specified. From the UK, he got a student in the US to develop security software for
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "It seems the three popular hash functions these days is the Jenkins, FNV, and Hsieh hash functions." FNV is popular in banking applications. From the article: "'we read Knuth so you don't have to'" People working in langu
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by xirium 19y ago
I certainly didn't make coffee shops with Lego. However, it is political correctness to ban it. Lego is a very flexible toy which develops spatial skills and co-ordination. You can do whatever you like with Lego but these teachers don't lik
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by xirium 19y ago
Does lock-in include FUD? Does FUD include providing the best service? I worked for a company which was insanely profitable but it had almost no lock-in. However, the boss took it as a personal affront if you didn't have success with the pr
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by xirium 19y ago
Friends don't let friends do DRM.
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by xirium 19y ago
I agree. This is bullshit. Xerox PARC solved a superset of these compatability problems by 1985. It was called InterScript ( http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage.prx?exp=5455 ) and it allows editors to preserve unknown elements within
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by xirium 19y ago
There's a patent for storing a specific database structure in memory and therefore MySQL Server memory tables use a hash structure to avoid this patent. This would very well when you lookup a row which is present. However, the entire hash i
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by xirium 19y ago
That's a good reasoned argument with research precedents, unlike some of the half-baked rumours featured on the forum.
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by xirium 19y ago
If you incrementally add one new feature then any existing user may or may not use the new feature. But what happens if you radically overhaul a site, changing its style, changing the items, style and placement of the navigation and improvi
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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=118017
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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=118017
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by xirium 19y ago
Occasionally, just very occasionally, great things happen on IRC. Unfortunately, it happens so infrequently. You'd get more success by concentrating effort elsewhere.
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by xirium 19y ago
If someone is copying then they don't understand the philosophy, the assumptions or the discarded options. The chance of being overtaken by an outright imitator is possible but small.
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FabWorld: Where Chips Become Reality(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by xirium 19y ago
Hey! Quote fairly. "many of which lack programming ability".
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by xirium 19y ago
It may be possible to retreive the data without openning a drive. I can think of two methods for achieving this objective. Firstly, I've seen reference to SCSI commands to retrieve "unbaked" sectors from CDROMs. Support for this functionali
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by xirium 19y ago
Most of the websites I access don't ask for my email address and they don't spam me either.
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by xirium 19y ago
This looks like a social network for entrepreneurs, many of which lack programming ability and are seeking junior people who can implement the technical details of their vision. Coders: don't be fleeced of your valuable skills. If these peo
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by xirium 19y ago
Our venture assumes that spinning platters will be obsolete within three years.
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by xirium 19y ago
Will hydrogen power laptops and mobile telephones be allowed on aeroplanes? Lithium ion batteries are problematic when they combust. The energy density of hydrogen or methanol could make this situation worse. If these gadgets aren't allowed
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "in the last three decades the percentage of jobs requiring at least some college has doubled". About 10 years ago, an acquaintance and former teacher noted a trend of qualification inflation. For example, in the UK, you n
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by xirium 19y ago
It would great if client application had understanding of context rather than blindly performing layout or having fragile scripts which scrape content. Today, if you access an ecommerce website and retreive a page which describes one or mor
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by xirium 19y ago
Its an instant rumour mill. Now what will TechCrunch do?
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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117126
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by xirium 19y ago
In Ray Kurweil's book, The Singularity Is Near, he makes the argument that progress begins slowly and then the majority of results occur near completion. An example given was the Human Genome Project in which the cost and progress of sequen
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by xirium 19y ago
Blah blah blah.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean." From the article: "The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which yo
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by xirium 19y ago
http://www.altavista.com/ - Now run by Yahoo but with less clutter than the Yahoo domain.
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by xirium 19y ago
Not necessarily. Diebold donates more to Republicans than Democrats. Is this evil? Well, when you make voting machines, political donations are at the very least a conflict of interest.

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