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by yannickt 14y ago
I would probably go with AAPL. AMZN is currently trading at over 3,000 times earnings; their forward P/E is in the 150 range. They are mainly an online retailer, and retail and high profit margins usually don't go hand in hand. I expect the
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by yannickt 14y ago
In the OP example, "using" has the same semantics as "typedef". The new syntax emerged from the need for "template typedefs". http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html#template-alias
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by yannickt 14y ago
Using your example let's assume myBar and myBaz are _owned_ by Foo. Before C++11 you would typically do this: class Foo { public: Foo() : myBar(0), myBaz(0) { myBar = new Bar; myBaz = new Baz; }
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by yannickt 14y ago
If you use smart pointers in your code (std::unique_ptr, std::shared_ptr), you will rarely have to call delete. A unique_ptr for example owns an object through a pointer; the pointer is automatically deleted when the unique_ptr goes out of
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by yannickt 14y ago
> This 'all for money' thing is just shortsighted and naive. Money matters and Money is everything are two very different mindsets, and I doubt the GP is advocating the latter.
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by yannickt 14y ago
Christianity has a long and strong track record of intolerance, but I don't think it can be disputed that Islam does much more damage today . One out of three (!) British Muslims aged 16 to 24 believe that Muslim apostates should be execut
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by yannickt 14y ago
Your post reminded me of an article Steve McConnell wrote in 1996 about consulting at Microsoft. "While Microsoft was still involved with OS/2, the OS/2 development group requested that the company install a washer and dryer in their buildi
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by yannickt 14y ago
"Could you imagine [..] key person departing -- happening while Jobs was running the show?" Avie Tevanian, Jon Rubinstein, Tony Fadell and Bertrand Serlet, all key people at various points in the history of Apple, left while Jobs was still
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by yannickt 14y ago
"The biggest selling point here (in Canada)" I hope Fiber comes to Canada, but I fear protectionist legislation will get in the way.
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by yannickt 14y ago
"Most tech companies in Kanata, for example, do not list on SO" I think that is true of most tech companies anywhere. SO was just one point of comparison. The point is there seems to be a lot more jobs in the US in quantity and variety, a
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by yannickt 14y ago
Repeat the same exercise on Monster (for example), where recruiters, Canada or US, do post jobs, and you will find that the disparity is even more pronounced.
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by yannickt 14y ago
Not to mention even if said cool shops were thriving - and few are -, there aren't nearly enough of them to hire, say, the 5000 workers that RIM is about to let go. As of this writing, StackOverflow lists: - 31 jobs in Toronto; - 4 jobs in
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by yannickt 14y ago
I think the larger issue here is that there aren't enough of these companies to hire the best Canada-trained developers on a long term basis; the most talented end up leaving for greener pastures (usually US). When they stay they often choo
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by yannickt 14y ago
I think you are vastly overestimating the impact Facebook had on the so-called Arab spring. Internet penetration in that part of the world is not high enough for social media to trigger an uprising at that scale. Also, just because a dict
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by yannickt 14y ago
I misrepresented your argument, and I apologize for it.
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The difference is that science doesn't tell you to dogmatically follow axioms per se. For example, the constancy of the speed of light is an axiom of Einstein's theory of relativity. Evidence that disproves said constancy would eventually l
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by yannickt 14y ago
What I mean is there are no articles of faith in science. There is no equivalent of "Jesus was born of a virgin". Science doesn't tell you that "E=MC2" is never to be questioned. The phenomenon you describe exists, but I don't think you wil
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by yannickt 14y ago
What you are describing is simply human fallibility. There is no dogma in science. Science does not mandate that anything be set in stone, never to be questioned, doubted or disputed. And when the "old guard" is made irrelevant, that happen
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by yannickt 14y ago
"It's probably more accurate to refer to this more aggressive public movement as antitheism" I disagree that this "movement" is aggressive. It is only perceived as aggressive because people are not used to having their religion publicly que
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by yannickt 14y ago
"However, I think that anyone who dismisses religion as worthless is blind or stupid." We've learned a great deal about our world and our nature since the primary texts of the most established religions have been written. People who dismiss
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by yannickt 15y ago
Another algorithms book that is IMO more approchable and more practical than CLRS is "Algorithms in C++" by Sedgewick.
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by yannickt 15y ago
What are the classes of problems that interest you? What is the standing of C++ in the communities involved in solving these problems? For example, if you are interested in HPC, graphics programming or systems programming, and would like to
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by yannickt 15y ago
The reviews for the hardcover edition are mostly positive: http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Apple-Americas-Admired-Secretiv... I've read the book. I haven't read many books about Apple and I enjoyed it; hardcore Apple fans may have a differen
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by yannickt 15y ago
It is also not type safe.
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"fundamental flaws in its design" It would be pretty hard to fix them without breaking backward compatibility.
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"Apple's innovation was the capacitive multi-touch screen and finger-friendly interface." Which is exactly why it resembled none of the smartphones that preceded it. That innovation was a monumental game changer.
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by yannickt 15y ago
"You get a betting advantage." Actually you don't. The investment industry understands very well that people will naively invest based on superior historical performance, so they use that history to sell investment products. One example of
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by yannickt 15y ago
The only thing you can measure is past performance. In investing, past success is not a guarantee of future long term success. Long Term Capital Management had two Nobel laureates among its partners. The fund was extremely successful in i
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by yannickt 15y ago
Your "correct strategy" is actually not incompatible with his statement, so long as you have most of your assets invested in stocks if you have a long term horizon.

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