andrew1

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by andrew1 15y ago
I find the environmental criticisms here bizarre; do the communication mechanisms the rest of us use suddenly have no environmental costs?
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by andrew1 15y ago
In fairness, that sounds apocryphal. If it were really common then there would be no money in doing it because the market would have factored in days before the event the fact that the price were going to fall.
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by andrew1 15y ago
It might be the reason that Apple are infringing on the patent is that they are selling, not just using, a product which contains something which infringes the patent.
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by andrew1 15y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting article.
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by andrew1 15y ago
Do you have a link to what you consider to be a good description/definition/tutorial of "Data Oriented Programming"?
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by andrew1 15y ago
If the two larger circles had that ratio then it would imply that the two circles in the bottom left and bottom right would have the same radius. Which they don't appear to. So the ratio between the two larger circles must be slightly small
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by andrew1 15y ago
I'm not really sure what you mean. If company X allows customers to pay for goods/services with bitcoins then they would be able to pay the wages of their employees using the bitcoins.
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by andrew1 15y ago
> Can someone else explain, why i'd take time off of work to do this job interview? Why not take a day off and interview with Google/Apple/Microsoft instead? Surely it depends on the job. Maybe it's paying twice as much as Google/Apple/
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by andrew1 15y ago
Wouldn't the geometric mean of 1 and 3 be sqrt(3) ?
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by andrew1 15y ago
But that's precisely the point, if they're all "highly logical" then in the island-wtih-3-brown-and-1-green case the person with green eyes can't correctly know their eye colour so can't kill themself. But they are in exactly the same situ
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by andrew1 15y ago
OK, so we agree that if there are X <= 3 people then they're stuck and cannot kill themselves. You claim that if X = 4 and everyone has brown eyes then on day 4 they will all kill themselves. Suppose I am one of these islanders. I can s
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by andrew1 15y ago
Suppose instead of being 900 brown eyed people there are X brown eyed people. Suppose X is one, then the brown eyed person appears to be stuck, all the blue eyed people are dead so he knows he doesn't have blue eyes, but he can't determine
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by andrew1 15y ago
You originally said that the people with brown eyes would commit suicide after 900 days. Can you explain to me how any of them can know for sure that they don't have green eyes?
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by andrew1 15y ago
> It's only a short reprieve though; because either the browns know that only two colours exist (and so on day 100 immediately know they are brown) or they face the same conundrum as blue, and commit suicide on day 900. In the case wher
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by andrew1 16y ago
I wouldn't really agree that it doesn't work out in practice. For the systems that I work on, the concept of privacy is extremely useful, perhaps we're doing things 'the wrong way' to believe that but I don't think that's all that likely. W
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by andrew1 16y ago
I'd have to politely disagree; if your class has mutable state and you want to maintain some invariant relationships amongst the elements of your class then as far as I can see you really need to be able to specify that some operations can
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by andrew1 16y ago
I haven't followed the story that well, and only skim read this article, but there was a four-ish hour outage in the morning last week. I think the LSE came up OK for about half an hour but then went down (although it might not have come up
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by andrew1 16y ago
So they're not falling over themselves to fix a bug which no one has noticed for 10+ years, and which hardly anyone is going to hit in actual use. Maybe they're spending their time fixing problems which are actually affecting developers.
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by andrew1 16y ago
IntelliJ's IDEA IDE has excellent Scala integration in the Community Edition (i.e. the free version). I've been working with Scala for about two years now and in my experience IDEA has always been ahead of Eclipse for Scala development. Tha
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by andrew1 16y ago
Nope, you can only apply to one college at either Oxford or Cambridge per year (you can't apply to both universities, which probably makes sense as almost everyone who applied to one would probably apply to the other). There is a clearing s
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by andrew1 16y ago
Indeed, Charles attended Trinity College, Cambridge.
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by andrew1 16y ago
Have you done any research on this? Assume for a moment that the exam results of students follow a bell shaped curve and that the mean and standard deviation of exam results in the state and private sector are the same, then you would expec
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by andrew1 16y ago
Only some UK universities have a collegiate system (Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, St. Andrews(?)). Most do not (I believe) and I imagine are roughly similar to US universities. At collegiate universities there is a split between what a college
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by andrew1 16y ago
Although you then have to solve two problems; optimizing the constraints, and then optimizing within the constraints. If I applied the arbitrary constraint that x must be an odd multiple of pi, then I'm not going to get a very good answer t
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by andrew1 16y ago
I think you're generally right that people would normally choose the better prices. A few hypothetical reasons why someone might not could be: once fees/commissions are included the exchange with the worse price could actually be cheaper; a
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by andrew1 16y ago
I'm not really sure what you're talking about. A market participant will choose which exchange to execute a trade on based on their analysis of those exchanges. If for a particular trade they decide that out of all the exchanges, darkpools
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by andrew1 16y ago
There are markets outside of the US though, where it would be possible to buy on the more expensive exchange.
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by andrew1 16y ago
They're not shafting anyone, no one will be obliged to trade on this market. People are only going to trade on it if they believe they'll gain some advantage through doing it - so conversely you could argue that by offering this service Cre
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by andrew1 16y ago
Well, here's a situation where it can't happen: Exchange A: Price you can BUY ACME Co. = $34.50 Exchange B: Price you can BUY ACME Co. = $34.45 Exchange B: Price you can SELL ACME Co. = $34.40 Exchange A:
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by andrew1 16y ago
> You type in words that you expect to be in the pages you're looking for, and the search engine lists pages that actually contain ALL of those words. It's not as simple as that though is it? Otherwise how would those GoogleBombs or wha

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