BetaCygni

Sure, as talent and willingness to learn is enough to hire someone. It will take about a year until you write "ok" code though.

Well, that's something we've all invented before. Why does it warrant a patent?

To get the $1.000.000 (one million dollars) he just has to send a small amount of money to cover legal and administrative costs.

(sorry, it's good to hear (edit: if true...) that science is going strong in Nigeria)

They get "up to 1.25%" commission from the dealers, no thanks. If I hire someone for advice I want that person to be paid only by me and by people like me.

Thieves' Guild - Formally the Guild of Thieves, Cutpurses and Allied Trades

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilds_of_Ankh-Morpork#Thieves...

Non-paywall link: https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

You may be right, googling doesn't take much time though. A Linux system without internet is indeed barely usable. Thos man pages are absolutely unreadable.

Windows: easy things are easy, normal things require some googling, hard things are impossible.

Linux: easy things are easy, normal things require some googling, hard things are hard.

> Steve Jobs came within $5k of going to have cracked unsolved Zodiac Killer cipher

I wonder why he stopped then?

Except that lighting cash on fire would be more fun and take less time ;)

Well, nice functionality without good documentation is an absolute waste, so I can understand why this guy is getting wound up.

Yeah, she will relapse. Sad. I'm glad that she is a good writer and that I got to read this moving story.

She would have had problems even if she was not named after her dead sister. Even if there was no dead sister. I hope she gets help.

> house of the dead where defleshing was performed as a burial ritual

Ah yes... spooky enough.

It might not be fair; it's just that in my mind one moment Microsoft was hyping Silverlight and the next moment they were discontinuing it. That's not a nice way to treat your customers.

What Microsoft should have done is to make it compile to HTML5. Something like SmartGWT is a great way to write interface in Java. It may even be the way the Java ends up on the desktop again.

I am serious. I didn't concern myself with it a lot, but popularity seemed actually rising (to my annoyance).

That's true, but at least Java applets died a natural death instead of being axed.

I checked the history of Silverlight and the first version was released in 2007. jQuery was released in 2006 so Silverlight was a classic case of "too little, too late".

Real Java applications run well nowadays, so much so that you don't notice it's Java (except that you always have to give them more memory...)

And yes, you can still use MFC ;)

It's not a question of $ or of liking MS, it is a question of trust. Microsoft can and will suddenly discontinue entire solutions like Silverlight. I know of a company that is in real trouble because they first rewrote their entire application in Silverlight and now have to do it again in HTML5...

Java on the desktop is almost dead due to the horrible JRE by Oracle. On the server and on Android it is alive and well, and the community is big enough to keep it going even if Oracle loses interest. It will also make its return to the desktop one day when someone figures out how to make it suck less, as the language and the available libraries are awesome.

So magnetic waves? Shouldn't those be called "electromagnetic waves"? What's new here? Just that they use a frequency that is transmitted well through the body?

Takes up too much (vertical) space.

1) Yeah because humans behave rationally.

2) If your algorithm does not take the value of the holdings of an ETF into account you deserve to lose money.

> An attempt to solve this problem has been randomization as shown already in Hoare’s first articles on Quicksort [1]. On the other hand, this does not change the statistical probability for bad cases.

I really like the randomization solution. Worst case? What worst case?

We're using a few of their modems in bridge mode and then everything works fine. It's just the routing they can't do.

Insecurely configured system is insecure, news at eleven.

DrayTek sucks as a router, those things need to be rebooted all the time. Use an EdgeRouter.

With some slightly questionable math you can turn 100 users/min into 7.2 million monthly visits. I guarantee you that's "large scale" enough. If you've actually got experience with deploying at your current job you should be fine, just apply. The only real way to learn is on the job.

https://xkcd.com/1138/ (Heatmap)?

So what's the alternative? If you've got an app that loads slowly, what are you supposed to do?

Hey guys, we've discovered that averaging a noisy signal improves results!

I've read quite a bit of Asimov, did you notice it's the same story over and over again?

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.

They reference Asimov. Good. His rules should provide enough inspiration and he explored them thoroughly.

For example: the zeroth law (preserve humanity) might help in deciding between a child and an adult. If the adult is beyond reproductive age (e.g. elderly) it may save the child. If the adult is still able to reproduce and the child would not survive on its own, save the adult. In case of doubt it should probably use quality adjusted life years, and that will probably cause it to save the child.