I'm perfectly comfortable with concision, thank you. Clearly one can interpret the Golden Rule two ways depending on whether you take into account the other person's different values or not. For example, you're probably…
I don't think so - the whole point is that other don't want the same behavior from you as you would want from you, in their shoes.
SF is (or used to be until recently) the West Coast's banking center, and everyone in that industry has to be ready when markets open on the East Coast at 5am Pacific.
> In the US system ... everyone else is promoted and then assigned It's worth pointing out that one of the reasons this system works in the US army is that non-commissioned officers are trusted with a great deal more…
This is basically what VxWorks (real-time OS) started doing in their 6.x series - the MMU is active and all memory addresses are virtual, but no two processes get access to the same virtual address range. That way you…
That's true but I think the bigger reason is that a single address space makes system calls as cheap as regular function calls, since there is no kernel boundary any more. Ironically, VxWorks's latest major rev was all…
I'm a little embarrassed that I never got the word play in "tarsnap" until just now...
No one's going to rag on the post's author for labeling himself "Christian" right at the top? He might have donated to Prop. 8 after all. Edit: That's sarcasm, people.
> Lagrange interpolations are only distantly related to Legendre/Hermite/etc polynomials Actually ... take an nth degree polynomial from your favorite orthogonal set. For each of its n+1 zeros, construct by Lagrange…
Except that EEs like to explicitly restrict the word "signal" to mean only the known inputs, and call the rest "noise."
Everyone says that, until they're put in charge of babysitting an old HPUX or AIX box and it's time to install something. Then no one complains about Autoconf again (though they can't bring themselves to praise it,…
Well, it helped that the Scuds had a 5% accuracy rate.
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html > Years ago David Cheriton at Stanford taught me something that seemed very obvious at the time -- that if you have a network link with low bandwidth then it's an…
Unlike the iPad, the iPhone, Dropbox, and "The Web," credit for this metaphor may fairly be given to David Gelertner. Although he applied it to naming files rather than servers. From…
It wasn't really funny until I saw the first figure, then I died laughing.
> I found it funny how all the reasons they gave why TCP sucked were things their workarounds were equally bad at. I have yet to see anything designed with UDP instead of TCP that didn't end up reimplementing TCP…
Dijkstra's algorithm is close enough to the Bellman equation for programmers, I guess :) Also I don't really think taking a Taylor series for the inverse square root should count as an "algorithm."
Everything you've said is strictly true, but I feel like it misses the point. The difference between water and diamonds is that water's marginal utility is almost zero, owing to its ubiquity, whereas the marginal…
Normalize to show percent of revenue and then we'll talk. A time series of $$$ allocated to R&D is basically going to show when the company's growing and when it's shrinking, the same way a heat map of who clicks on…
I'm positive that I've seen configure scripts that try to check whether they, themselves, are out of date, and regenerate themselves if so. That's the only time I've seen an error about autoconf version skew. To be…
OT but that felt like a pretty risky click for work...
While I agree, I have to point out that all former congressmen die in obscurity, unless they went on to a cabinet post or the Senate.
F-150's aren't the "trucks" he's talking about. F-150s are cars for people who want to feel like they're in a truck. In fact I think by "truck" he pretty much means "trucks not sold directly to consumers." Like a semi,…
To remind you to be careful when doing any kind of series expansion. It's more important than it sounds.
Nixon wasn't ugly, he was creepy-looking. If he hadn't been creepy, he wouldn't have been creepy-looking - it wasn't a problem with his actual looks.
I'm perfectly comfortable with concision, thank you. Clearly one can interpret the Golden Rule two ways depending on whether you take into account the other person's different values or not. For example, you're probably…
I don't think so - the whole point is that other don't want the same behavior from you as you would want from you, in their shoes.
SF is (or used to be until recently) the West Coast's banking center, and everyone in that industry has to be ready when markets open on the East Coast at 5am Pacific.
> In the US system ... everyone else is promoted and then assigned It's worth pointing out that one of the reasons this system works in the US army is that non-commissioned officers are trusted with a great deal more…
This is basically what VxWorks (real-time OS) started doing in their 6.x series - the MMU is active and all memory addresses are virtual, but no two processes get access to the same virtual address range. That way you…
That's true but I think the bigger reason is that a single address space makes system calls as cheap as regular function calls, since there is no kernel boundary any more. Ironically, VxWorks's latest major rev was all…
I'm a little embarrassed that I never got the word play in "tarsnap" until just now...
No one's going to rag on the post's author for labeling himself "Christian" right at the top? He might have donated to Prop. 8 after all. Edit: That's sarcasm, people.
> Lagrange interpolations are only distantly related to Legendre/Hermite/etc polynomials Actually ... take an nth degree polynomial from your favorite orthogonal set. For each of its n+1 zeros, construct by Lagrange…
Except that EEs like to explicitly restrict the word "signal" to mean only the known inputs, and call the rest "noise."
Everyone says that, until they're put in charge of babysitting an old HPUX or AIX box and it's time to install something. Then no one complains about Autoconf again (though they can't bring themselves to praise it,…
Well, it helped that the Scuds had a 5% accuracy rate.
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html > Years ago David Cheriton at Stanford taught me something that seemed very obvious at the time -- that if you have a network link with low bandwidth then it's an…
Unlike the iPad, the iPhone, Dropbox, and "The Web," credit for this metaphor may fairly be given to David Gelertner. Although he applied it to naming files rather than servers. From…
It wasn't really funny until I saw the first figure, then I died laughing.
> I found it funny how all the reasons they gave why TCP sucked were things their workarounds were equally bad at. I have yet to see anything designed with UDP instead of TCP that didn't end up reimplementing TCP…
Dijkstra's algorithm is close enough to the Bellman equation for programmers, I guess :) Also I don't really think taking a Taylor series for the inverse square root should count as an "algorithm."
Everything you've said is strictly true, but I feel like it misses the point. The difference between water and diamonds is that water's marginal utility is almost zero, owing to its ubiquity, whereas the marginal…
Normalize to show percent of revenue and then we'll talk. A time series of $$$ allocated to R&D is basically going to show when the company's growing and when it's shrinking, the same way a heat map of who clicks on…
I'm positive that I've seen configure scripts that try to check whether they, themselves, are out of date, and regenerate themselves if so. That's the only time I've seen an error about autoconf version skew. To be…
OT but that felt like a pretty risky click for work...
While I agree, I have to point out that all former congressmen die in obscurity, unless they went on to a cabinet post or the Senate.
F-150's aren't the "trucks" he's talking about. F-150s are cars for people who want to feel like they're in a truck. In fact I think by "truck" he pretty much means "trucks not sold directly to consumers." Like a semi,…
To remind you to be careful when doing any kind of series expansion. It's more important than it sounds.
Nixon wasn't ugly, he was creepy-looking. If he hadn't been creepy, he wouldn't have been creepy-looking - it wasn't a problem with his actual looks.