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by zb 12y ago
The problem with H1-B is that it's not even a speed bump for those it is supposedly trying to stop, while it's a total road block for everyone else. If all you care about is rotating in another 19000 warm, cheap bodies every year
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by zb 12y ago
> I don't think waterfall is actually used in other disciplines, perhaps we were just cargo culting back then? I think this is half right. There was quite a bit of cargo-culting going on. But the fundamental error was to try to ap
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by zb 12y ago
He should be using pre-tax numbers for everything - not only is he not deducting any expenses, he's comparing the final after-tax number with the before-tax minimum wage. Still, assuming his research is accurate at best it comes out
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by zb 12y ago
The one time I ordered an Uber, we spent 25 minutes waiting while the driver drove around a similarly (but still quite distinctly) named street on the other side of town. After several phone calls, she ended up using her own GPS navigator t
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by zb 12y ago
C++ compilation is much slower than C, and linking is off the charts slower. I don't think that's even controversial?
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by zb 12y ago
He was a convicted fraudster long before the Megaupload thing ever happened. Just saying.
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by zb 12y ago
I believe a vingtile is like a quartile, except that there are 20 of them instead of 4 (vingt = 20 in French). So I'm guessing each bucket contains an equal number of counties, rather than being an equal size.
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by zb 12y ago
If you use the term "Open Source" as a verb, you're probably Doing It Wrong. If you develop a piece of software in the open, preferably with a community around it, then you won't be able to get away with it being impossi
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by zb 12y ago
I hope he has better evidence than what is presented in this article - a line chart that should have been a histogram and which muddies the data by inverting the supposed cause and effect; a study that shows a decline in the psychological w
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by zb 12y ago
Another perspective on the author's previous work: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
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by zb 12y ago
This may or may not be something that would interest him, but OpenStack is written in Python (no Django, but parts of it use MongoDB), and pretty much nobody who is deeply involved in OpenStack development has any shortage of recruiters try
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by zb 12y ago
> X + Y + Z ≤ 10 (the sum is two digits) I don't understand this part. Surely every number between 10 and 99 (inclusive) has two digits? And numbers <10 have only one digit? Have I forgotten how to count to 2? If we use your inte
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by zb 12y ago
Probably because /proc is very Linux-specific, and gdb is not.
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Strategic or random? How the brain chooses(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by zb 12y ago|0 comments
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by zb 12y ago
Edward Tufte does a pretty entertaining takedown of Galenson's work in his book Beautiful Evidence . The excerpt in question is online: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
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by zb 12y ago
Wow, this is quite stunning to read. He actually baldly states that the only reason for experimenting is to confirm what you already believe, and that you should therefore just do as many experiments as it takes to 'prove' yoursel
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by zb 12y ago
Minor clarification: the almanac data is generally valid enough for a long time. It's essentially a very, very low-precision version of the ephemeris, and is used to give the receiver a hint on which satellites are likely to be in view
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by zb 12y ago
> the GPS signal is not a simple RF carrier There is still a simple carrier; the modulation only affects the sidebands (which contain the broadcast data). Also, don't forget that GPS is a dual-frequency system (civilian receivers do
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by zb 12y ago
Nobody said anything about not having standardised testing. The problem here is high-stakes standardised testing. You can know stuff about a system that you can't measure completely (i.e. any system) by sampling it - you'll get
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by zb 12y ago
Ironically, standardised testing is a prime example of a system choosing to solve an easy problem instead of the problem it has. Hard question: are our schools meeting the educational needs of their pupils and society? Easy question: did en
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by zb 12y ago
That's absolutely true of the sidebands (which contain the modulated data), but it's probably worth noting that the carrier still needs to be above the noise floor by at least around 30dBHz in order to decode anything.
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by zb 12y ago
Incidentally, GPS receivers are typically sensitive down to around -160dBm, or 0.1aW.
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by zb 12y ago
Harlem is in Manhattan.
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by zb 12y ago
It is my understanding that 501(c)(3) status has always been difficult to get for open source software foundations. Organisations such as the Linux Foundation operate instead under 501(c)(6) (business trade association). However, the OpenSt
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What is Trans Fat?(kiwiandpeach.com)
1 points by zb 12y ago|0 comments
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by zb 12y ago
Seconded. I wrote up a little piece about my visit to Fallingwater and why it particularly fascinates me, as a software engineer: http://www.zerobanana.com/essays/fallingwater/ (Kentucky Knob is also really intere
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How Children What?(thesprouts.org)
1 points by zb 12y ago|0 comments
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by zb 12y ago
That's a great looking planter bed, nice work! Some things aren't nearly as hard as people think - I took a similar approach to building an actual bed a few months back: http://kiwiandpeach.com/2014/03/20
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by zb 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippasus_of_Metapontum
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by zb 13y ago
The process you're describing is the Spiral Model, not the Waterfall. The major innovation of the Spiral Model was that you acknowledged that you would need to iterate - in the Waterfall days that was considered something to be embarra

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