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by dfarm 17y ago
So simple that only a child could do it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA-dMSDPFhA
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by dfarm 17y ago
I don't think you understand what "Not invented here syndrome" means. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here What I mean is that Google always has to do things the Google way whether that's an improvement or not. Whether this
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by dfarm 17y ago
It does certainly smack of "Not-Invented-Here Syndrome," but compared to the Dilbert like project management culture of my job I rather admire it. I've just been getting in to generic programming with C++ (Stepanov's new book, awesome). So
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by dfarm 17y ago
Holy %*&% -- I didn't know kuro5hin was still around... Seems like semantic web stuff today is Prolog on the network. I still need to learn it at some point.
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by dfarm 18y ago
Wow. Not often you see troll bait featured as an actual post.
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by dfarm 18y ago
Sorry for the generalization shimi. I thought for awhile about how to express that idea and couldn't think of a good way. But you're right, education and/or intelligence are not the predictors. I guess it just seems to me that it SHOULD be.
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by dfarm 18y ago
I always thought this kind of thing was always done by uneducated postal workers and the like. Pretty disheartening to see a fellow engineer act so stupidly. Time to reconsider getting a concealed weapons permit I guess. Condolences to Agar
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by dfarm 18y ago
If you're stuck in windows like I am at work you really need to try MS Powershell. It works great. I'm just as comfortable with it as I am with bash at home. It's object based scripting is quite cool also; you can do COM automation in a ver
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by dfarm 18y ago
Dell has billions in cash too; they get that way from not spending... Crazy times to be looking for work knock on wood
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by dfarm 18y ago
Strang is the man. I actually bought this textbook to supplement my Calc III textbook because I was having a hard time (prof being crap didn't help). So I bought this text (which has multivariable at the end + a nice section on LinALg of co
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by dfarm 18y ago
I think he's saying that he IS an Apple employee (that eats at BJ's) not that he overheard it. The the patent link below seems to indicate that he's dead on.
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by dfarm 18y ago
Based on what you wrote you would hate Courant and Robbins What is Mathematics? , too rigorous. I think you would enjoy Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg and Calculus Made Easy by Sylvanus Thompson. You might also f