"Ramen profitable" would be the term for that :)
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The second job description (once you read the full thing) is actually quite reasonable. They describe their product, responsibilities, their financing, company size, languages in use, etc. It's not stellar, but it's far from bullshit.
"Mrs Liu said police had informed her they would take her to Mr Liu's prison in the north-eastern province of Liaoning on Saturday so she could give him the news."
Also, claiming that the Dalik VM is not a Java VM doesn't seem right.
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/cultur...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4779267.stm
"Those who had been widowed were almost 40% more likely to die, and those who had been divorced or separated were 27% more likely to die. "
Overall, the article felt light on facts - even the title is even fairly linkbaity (live forever!). For an article on increased lifespan (with citations instead of hand-waving), this article is much better:
An employee of one of our direct competitors even called one of my developers to try and extract information - good thing she caught on quick. We eventually tracked a number of attack vectors to either him or his company. They weren't the brightest attacks though (calling her from his work #, emailing her and other employees from email addresses which he'd used online, running port scanners and SQL Injection tests (etc) on our servers from company IP addresses).
Other times people call pretending to be customers, but they don't pass the smell test. We've had a few people call with tons of questions about our tech, capabilities, existing customers, etc, but won't divulge much of their own information or can't properly answer some of the basic questions that our real customers would know.
Early customers are kind of like a job interview, it has to feel right for both sides.
In any case, the processors were reportedly quite bad and the whole thing was eventually dropped.
Although it does feel like SVG/images are still not quite as snappy to drag when compared to just regular images in the browser DOM (which is why we did a hybrid).
The test taking tradition is centuries old in China - one of the emperors (forget which one) made many of the civil servant type positions require exams in order to cut down on the cronyism that was rampant at the time. It worked and the tradition stuck for quite a long time.
Not saying it's impossible (maybe the September numbers so far support this), but the jump from ~2.1 million to ~3.7 million in 4 months feels a bit unnatural given the historical data.
One thing Canadian tech companies are good at is growing to 20-30 employees and selling out to a US company. But that's very different - the innovation is sucked out in those circumstances.
I feel that the "Revenue? We'll worry about that later" attitude is somehow important for innovation. Investors in Canada are really not one for high risk, high returns.
I mean, it's not horrible here or anything, but I really don't think our startup environment holds a flame to the US.
It was like an awakening, I had not realized how uncomfortable are our western toilets until this experience.
The thing I don't understand is why going from "autoredirect" to "click to redirect" was the crux for renewal. It feels strange that that was the key deciding factor for the Government.
I suppose their original threat was a touch naive.
My company has been doing GPU programming for years and we often get 100X-300X+ speedup over the CPU, but we do almost all of our GPU work in shaders. CUDA/OpenCL is much nicer to deal with, since not all problems map nicely to pixel/vertex shaders, but we've tended to have a very difficult time getting CUDA to go from "it's working" to "wow, that's fast". Luckily, in our space most operations map well onto shaders.
She goes on to suggest that the gifted programs are more targeted to girls - things like verbal-oriented tests and needing to "sit still" for periods of time.
And this is supported by a graph from 1932? I'm not saying it isn't true, but surely there is more recent data to support one of the "best-established findings" of that field.
A better story is the guy they stopped with a crossbow at the G20: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100624/national/g20_car_w...
The important bit is at the end where they say "10% of the time is spent on polygon intersection" and the rest on image processing. We do GPU image processing on the cloud and this is (likely) where Scribd could likely obtain a significant speedup - many of our image processing operations run hundreds of times faster than on the CPU.
It's also not the sensor distance that contributes to the halo effect for some satellites, it's the capture time. Often, each band is captured one after the other. Some satellites, like Rapideye's, have several seconds between certain bands. For instance their B/R bands are (I believe) first/last bands captured (of 5 total), so all moving clouds in their imagery get a red/blue halo.