cheradenine01

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by cheradenine01 10y ago
Translation: Companies idea of "Market Rate" is not, in fact "Market Rate".
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by cheradenine01 11y ago
The license starts off with the typical 'without restriction', then promptly adds badgeware restrictions. Shame.
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by cheradenine01 11y ago
A good way to treat the risk: If, instead of the stock, you had been given the equivalent cash value (at today's prices) - would you choose to invest all of it in GOOG stock? I would use that way of thinking to determine what amount of
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by cheradenine01 11y ago
Whilst population continues to rise, you'll be waiting a long time for your "correction".
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by cheradenine01 11y ago
Really? A mortgage repayment £3200 implies a mortgage amount of £800,000. Most people I know don't have houses costing that much, even in London.
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by cheradenine01 11y ago
The Emperor's New Mind (and the followup whose name I forget). There's a rather scratchy recorded documentary here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVq39QbFQXE See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by cheradenine01 11y ago
Nope. Go read Penrose. There are problems that the brain can solve, but you can (provably) show that an algorithm cannot. For example - tesselation on an infinite plane.
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by cheradenine01 11y ago
Don't we have Universities for this? I mean - what's the point of spending 3-4 years in an Academic environment that proceeds to then test and grade students on exactly how good they are, at the time - then only to perform the who
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by cheradenine01 11y ago
True. In fact, it's even stranger in the UK, or so I'm told... Trains have drivers. Some stations have shorter platforms than others. Thus at those stations a smaller number of train doors need to open to allow passengers on and o
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by cheradenine01 11y ago
So, a pilot explains why we all will forever need to have pilots. I am friends with a pilot (commercial 737 short-haul captain for a 'value' european airline). He will happily tell you that a) Much of what he does is automatable a
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by cheradenine01 11y ago
Been done - on ARM instruction sets, no less. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMULET_microprocessor
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by cheradenine01 12y ago
In accounts, we often hilight negative numbers in red. It's one of the defaults in things like excel. So red text has come to mean '-'. '-' is also 'taken away', so I can see why it's logical to have
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by cheradenine01 13y ago
Huh? Git is GPLv2.
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Technical people should have their own EULA(magnayn.wordpress.com)
2 points by cheradenine01 13y ago|0 comments
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by cheradenine01 14y ago
Yes, but you can't tell in your editor if you've got \t int b); or \t\t int b); Because they'll look the same to you, but not to anyone else without 4-space-tabs.
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by cheradenine01 14y ago
That's an argument against public film financing, not in favour of higher marginal taxation on the wealthy.
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WTF is Adobe thinking?(magnayn.wordpress.com)
1 points by cheradenine01 14y ago|0 comments