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by prefect42 9y ago
...which has reference #14 has Sen listed as the author of another article (can't find direct link), here's #14 though: Sen, C. K. & Ghatak, S. miRNA control of tissue repair and regeneration. Am. J. Pathol. 185, 2629–2640 (20
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by prefect42 9y ago
I had played various Infocom games as a kid, simply amazing. Then recently "discovered" that there is this exciting corner of the Multiverse know as Interactive Fiction, which has been flourishing quite well for a long time. Jus
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by prefect42 10y ago
Oddly enough, that was the first thing that popped into my head, when seeing the title.
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by prefect42 10y ago
> It's offloading the cost of hiring on to prospective candidates. Why is that a bad thing? The prospective candidates aren't entitled to anything, the burden should be on them to prove they have any capabilities for the job.
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by prefect42 10y ago
I'm quite impressed with the Hololens, but keep in mind that it's a totally a first gen developer product, so was better than my expectations. Yes the field of view is a tad narrow, and yes, the gestures still don't pick up
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by prefect42 10y ago
You've just defined the Internet.
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by prefect42 10y ago
Fortune.com does "know better", it's all about Ad revenue.
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by prefect42 10y ago
Right, the Wikipedia page for SHA1 does show research on a variety of possible attacks, starting from 2005.
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by prefect42 10y ago
71 device years, on an p2.16xlarge instance, I think the NSA could certainly come up with something way moar better in a shorter timeframe, assuming they haven't already done so.
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by prefect42 10y ago
I've been doing concurrent programming for 17 years, it's been pretty much the same game, at least with Java/C/C#/C++ which is my experience. The abstractions are helpful, but clearly no panacea. The most common p
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by prefect42 10y ago
+1 for just admitting that you owned Betamax (vastly superior of course to those VHS ninnies).
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by prefect42 10y ago
My all time favorite is one of the original songs, but still a "style parody", Everything You Know is Wrong. But all songs, whether direct parodies or originals, are pure brilliance.
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by prefect42 10y ago
One can argue these topics until the cows come home, and possibly later. One can strongly argue for/against imperative programming, functional programming, OOP, design patterns, Design Patterns with Cool Names, Design Patterns as Impl
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by prefect42 10y ago
Why is that actually considered dysfunction? And why just valley?
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by prefect42 10y ago
Bad link, goes right to some Android virus or scareware page.
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by prefect42 10y ago
Sounds more like acid, IMO.
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by prefect42 10y ago
Despite the deluge of advice from the Innovation-thumpers of the many virtues of personal washing, I have yet to invent a flying car while standing in the shower thinking. (great song though).
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by prefect42 10y ago
Funny that, I've used that exact expression before, with Matrox framegrabbers ;-)
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by prefect42 10y ago
OK thanks again for the info, now very much worth a serious look.
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by prefect42 10y ago
Thanks for the mention of this, I'm quite interested, looking at their FAQ right now, curious to see how they handle latency. Do you notice any lag? Also, what FPS do you achieve?
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by prefect42 10y ago
Where do you that salary number from, American tech salary of 200k/yr?
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by prefect42 10y ago
At my company, we are fortunate to have quiet spaces that have dual monitors, keyboard, and mouse, for your laptop. I agree, it's a necessity.
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by prefect42 10y ago
That's a nice memory profiler, have good success with it. I've also used DebugDiag, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=499... and plain ol' perfmon and its performance counter
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by prefect42 10y ago
Ah, what pray tell, does one do with all that fancy purple rock?
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by prefect42 10y ago
In Microsoft-Land, I find that every time we force ourselves to upgrade to the latest compiler (really entire IDE, Visual Studio) then everyone also needs to upgrade their machines. Both the IDE and the C++ compiler run dog slow on "o
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by prefect42 10y ago
Perhaps I'm a simple creature, but running up stairs is one of the greatest pleasures in life ;-)
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by prefect42 10y ago
That is a rather lovely story, enjoyed it very much. Will most definitely be reading the entirety of CompellingSF.
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by prefect42 10y ago
What?! No power factor formula?
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by prefect42 10y ago
20% seems a bit high, now perhaps if it was "20% of the world's vacuums and Cat Antagonists" I might find that believable.
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by prefect42 10y ago
On a similar note, Zork I had a textual description of a sunset (being a text adventure) that, for whatever reason, I found massively peaceful.

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