MediaCrossing, Inc. is hiring a full time Senior Data Engineer/Data Architect. The position is in Stamford, CT, or full-time remote. Several members of the engineering team are working remotely in Boston, MA, others are…
Are you referring to skiing? Tribes is an interesting example of a "hack" that completely re-invents the game (in most people's opinions, for the better). For those not familiar, a bit of gaming history: Tribes is a FPS…
It looks like the GoPro and the remnants of the balloon helped it. The extra mass of the GroPro body allowed it to fall flat with the camera and ballon allowing it to spin on it's way down, like a maple seed. Also it…
Coincidentally, preparing for my compilers class this semester, I was just wondering if it would be easier to write in Python instead of SML, which the class uses. I was just looking into PLY while googling around.…
As a programmer, would I choose to be a member of a community based on open and free information, one where contributions are open to all of humanity, or a community built to feed the bottom line of a large corporation?…
I couldn't finish reading this either. It was too disturbing. Before anyone jumps to vilify the China or the Chinese for this, remember that these kinds of evils have historically been perpetuated by all people in the…
Direct link to HTML5 version. http://www.baroque.me/ Beautiful.
I like Louis C.K., was made aware of his new video through this posting, and just bought the video, but I don't think this belongs on HN.
The Hemingway Trick: Stop in the middle. Never stop working at the natural barriers. They next time you start working, the barrier will be the first thing you encounter, and you won't have the momentum to overcome it.…
I do mostly C and Python in Emacs, but have recently switched to using Emacs in a full screen terminal (iTerm). It works pretty well, and is the only environment I can make consistent across every platform that I use.…
Really interesting question. I wonder if there are any small countries willing to give it a try. I bet there are more countries without a military than ones without military secrets.
This is really more AMD throwing in the towel vs. Intel. It's really disappointing to see a competitor leave such an important market. I'm much more disappointed to see the X86 market go from 2 to 1, than I am happy to…
Agreed. Societal norms are needed to build the trust required for all large enough groups to function efficiently. This is why there is less crime in mono-cultures: everyone is a member of the same social order. The…
It hardly matters to these birds. http://animal.discovery.com/birds/ocean-gyre-birds/albatross... The argument that the ocean is so vast that you can dump anything in it without ill effects was proven wrong decades ago.…
Official announcement from Google, written by Larry Page: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/supercharging-android... He mentions patents specifically as one of the reasons for the acquisition. "Our acquisition of…
>A week later all four groups were given a short-answer test that assessed their ability to recall facts and draw logical conclusions based on the facts. The problem with this study is they measure learning using…
The problem is that test taking is only minimally useful outside of school, and by choosing tests as the only measurement, you end up optimizing for the wrong skill. (I know because I was a pretty good test taker as a…
I would have never written any code for class if given that option. In the real world, you do get punished if you need to program something, but don't know how to. College CS classes aren't meant to teach you how to get…
"Microsoft or Linux" -> "Microsoft and Linux" Speaks to how far Linux has come. This might be just be my isolated geeky viewpoint, but does anyone else see a world without Microsoft more likely than a world without…
Humans also weren't meant to build pyramids, send men to the moon, or write operating systems. Big organizations are needed for big problems. But I do generally agree with the article that big organizations are not the…
Losing the auction is more a failure of partnership than anything else. The Apple team included MS, Sony, RIM, Ericsson, and EMC, while the Google only teamed up with Intel. Where were all the Android partners? There…
Right, agreed. :)
Although this is a valid point in many cases, I don't think this is one of those cases. It's in these "infrastructure" type projects like kernels, compilers, interpreters, and parsers where "micro" optimizations are…
In your defense, a modern compiler will generate code very similar code from the code linked in the OP. Non-optimized recursion is very expensive in C :) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34125/which-if-any-c-comp...
I don't quite understand how he gets a 10,000x speedup from a 100x transistor count decrease. Does die area increase with the square of transistor count?
MediaCrossing, Inc. is hiring a full time Senior Data Engineer/Data Architect. The position is in Stamford, CT, or full-time remote. Several members of the engineering team are working remotely in Boston, MA, others are…
Are you referring to skiing? Tribes is an interesting example of a "hack" that completely re-invents the game (in most people's opinions, for the better). For those not familiar, a bit of gaming history: Tribes is a FPS…
It looks like the GoPro and the remnants of the balloon helped it. The extra mass of the GroPro body allowed it to fall flat with the camera and ballon allowing it to spin on it's way down, like a maple seed. Also it…
Coincidentally, preparing for my compilers class this semester, I was just wondering if it would be easier to write in Python instead of SML, which the class uses. I was just looking into PLY while googling around.…
As a programmer, would I choose to be a member of a community based on open and free information, one where contributions are open to all of humanity, or a community built to feed the bottom line of a large corporation?…
I couldn't finish reading this either. It was too disturbing. Before anyone jumps to vilify the China or the Chinese for this, remember that these kinds of evils have historically been perpetuated by all people in the…
Direct link to HTML5 version. http://www.baroque.me/ Beautiful.
I like Louis C.K., was made aware of his new video through this posting, and just bought the video, but I don't think this belongs on HN.
The Hemingway Trick: Stop in the middle. Never stop working at the natural barriers. They next time you start working, the barrier will be the first thing you encounter, and you won't have the momentum to overcome it.…
I do mostly C and Python in Emacs, but have recently switched to using Emacs in a full screen terminal (iTerm). It works pretty well, and is the only environment I can make consistent across every platform that I use.…
Really interesting question. I wonder if there are any small countries willing to give it a try. I bet there are more countries without a military than ones without military secrets.
This is really more AMD throwing in the towel vs. Intel. It's really disappointing to see a competitor leave such an important market. I'm much more disappointed to see the X86 market go from 2 to 1, than I am happy to…
Agreed. Societal norms are needed to build the trust required for all large enough groups to function efficiently. This is why there is less crime in mono-cultures: everyone is a member of the same social order. The…
It hardly matters to these birds. http://animal.discovery.com/birds/ocean-gyre-birds/albatross... The argument that the ocean is so vast that you can dump anything in it without ill effects was proven wrong decades ago.…
Official announcement from Google, written by Larry Page: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/supercharging-android... He mentions patents specifically as one of the reasons for the acquisition. "Our acquisition of…
>A week later all four groups were given a short-answer test that assessed their ability to recall facts and draw logical conclusions based on the facts. The problem with this study is they measure learning using…
The problem is that test taking is only minimally useful outside of school, and by choosing tests as the only measurement, you end up optimizing for the wrong skill. (I know because I was a pretty good test taker as a…
I would have never written any code for class if given that option. In the real world, you do get punished if you need to program something, but don't know how to. College CS classes aren't meant to teach you how to get…
"Microsoft or Linux" -> "Microsoft and Linux" Speaks to how far Linux has come. This might be just be my isolated geeky viewpoint, but does anyone else see a world without Microsoft more likely than a world without…
Humans also weren't meant to build pyramids, send men to the moon, or write operating systems. Big organizations are needed for big problems. But I do generally agree with the article that big organizations are not the…
Losing the auction is more a failure of partnership than anything else. The Apple team included MS, Sony, RIM, Ericsson, and EMC, while the Google only teamed up with Intel. Where were all the Android partners? There…
Right, agreed. :)
Although this is a valid point in many cases, I don't think this is one of those cases. It's in these "infrastructure" type projects like kernels, compilers, interpreters, and parsers where "micro" optimizations are…
In your defense, a modern compiler will generate code very similar code from the code linked in the OP. Non-optimized recursion is very expensive in C :) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34125/which-if-any-c-comp...
I don't quite understand how he gets a 10,000x speedup from a 100x transistor count decrease. Does die area increase with the square of transistor count?