Steve_Baker

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by Steve_Baker 13y ago
"she later told me that I was anti-authoritarian and more likely to do what I thought was right rather than what I had been instructed to do. I am still baffled to this day about how that is an undesirable attribute" Pretty much s
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by Steve_Baker 13y ago
Liquefaction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction
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by Steve_Baker 14y ago
Every time fizzbuzz comes up, someone has to post a solution it seems, but why does everyone write such huge fizzbuzz programs? for(int i=1; i <= 100; i++) printf((char *[]){"%d\n","Buzz\n","Fizz\n","FizzBuzz\n"}[((i%3==0)<&
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by Steve_Baker 15y ago
The virtual size of a program includes all shared objects (shared libraries, shared copy on write memory pages, the read only executable pages and other shared memory) that a process uses in addition to the memory that only that particular
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by Steve_Baker 15y ago
Politicians already make a lot of their wealth from insider information. Even if you somehow stopped all donations, corporations would just trade more knowledge for favors. Politicians should be prohibited from direct investment, both duri
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by Steve_Baker 15y ago
I think you may have missed what I think is the most important point made in the article: "It is also interesting to consider that students in the treatment group spent approximately half of the summer working on pre-algebra skills. Becaus
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by Steve_Baker 15y ago
How do you tell a file from a directory without stat()ing it? The d_type field is not portable. Since find and other tools like it need to recursively descend a directory tree, a stat() for each file to determine its type is unavoidable.
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by Steve_Baker 15y ago
Yes, you just split the current view (vertically or horizontally) or open a new window. Any change to a file will be immediately updated in the other views/windows.
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by Steve_Baker 15y ago
I think regardless of the reasons why, people who want to be leaders, on the whole, clearly shouldn't be. Since these people comprise a small subset of the total of all people, simply choosing randomly will tend to not choose them. I doubt
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by Steve_Baker 16y ago
Obviously not for me. I finish all my programs in under 5 minutes. :-(
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by Steve_Baker 16y ago
I'd tend to agree, but for myself I think what I enjoyed most about programming was the problem solving aspect. As I've matured as a programmer the problems become easier and thus less interesting and there seems to be less and less undisc
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by Steve_Baker 16y ago
I live in a smallish city in Indiana, pay $56 a month for < 5Mb cable and it's often down for hours at a time, and from my own experience is better than the alternative DSL in available in the area. The reliability has improved over ti
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by Steve_Baker 17y ago
If only the average administrator were so forward thinking. Too often they can think no further than the next quarter. Still, there are always consulting fees for him to look forward to.
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by Steve_Baker 17y ago
I know that a lot of people would think that, but I can tell you from personal experience that that is likely not the case. One offs, impressive or not, rarely, if ever, factor into an administrators budgetary decisions. Killing the goose
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by Steve_Baker 17y ago
I don't think it follows that polyandry is less advantageous for a woman than polygamy -- more men equals more resources. I think the reason is that most societies are patriarchal rather than matriarchal and this has traditionally led to m
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by Steve_Baker 17y ago
Anyone who wants to see Avatar (or any western movie) in China can just plunk down the 9-10 yuan (<$1.50) for a (probably pretty decent) bootleg DVD that can be found in just about any marketplace. I'm sure this is mostly for posturing
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by Steve_Baker 17y ago
People like to watch train wrecks too, but that doesn't mean they want to be in one.
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by Steve_Baker 17y ago
Why buy the more expensive calculator with feature X when you can add that feature to your cheaper device with a software upgrade? I imagine some of the difference between models might be mostly software.