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When describing the (quite interesting, and well-described) "partially resident textures" technology, which is in turn inspired by John Carmack's MegaTexture technology, the review states:

For AMD’s technology each tile will be 64KB, which for an uncompressed 32bit texture would be enough room for a 4K x 4K chunk.

Isn't this off by a factor of 1,000? 4K x 4K is 16M texels, which at 32 bits per texel would require 64 MB. A chunk of 64 KB cannot hold that. They repeat the "64KB" value for the chunk size many times, not sure in what direction they're wrong, really. I guess if I kept up more with graphics tech, the answer would be obvious. :)
Not sure why you would say VXLAN is any more standards-based than OTV. They're both IETF drafts. Unlike VMware with VXLAN, Cisco seems serious about completing the standardization process.

OTV draft 03 is available here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hasmit-otv/

VMware submitted the initial VXLAN draft right before VMworld, and AFAIK there's been no activity since.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops...
>> I think there's enough evidence of sexism and racism in the technology sector to treat it curiously -- as in, it's worth examining further and figuring out if there's an actual problem

Doesn't enough evidence of sexism and racism constitute a problem already?

>> I'm also pretty lukewarm on her feelings about “the sexiest women in social media”. Taken seriously, she's right on all her points. Taken in good humor, I find it about as offensive as sexy firemen calendars (i.e., not at all offensive, just all in good fun).

The difference being that firemen calendars are advertised to be in good fun, whereas "sexiest women in social media" is advertised as sexy women in social media.
Maybe our universe runs in their VM. I don't know how you can assume that we would be able to detect anyone. If they are smarter than us, they'd know how to hide.
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Write an open letter to the industry showing your disapproval and intention of not inviting the speaker again.

That way the sleazeballs will acknowledge that their atitude is hurting his image.
If we are in the Matrix, then it would not be strange if we could change our physical reality with thought alone. There is no spoon, and all that.

Napoleon Hill talked about this in "Think and grow rich".

http://knol.google.com/k/tom-butler-bowdon/think-and-grow-ri...

Of course, such effects can always be explained by rational means...
Check out http://www.spreeder.com/app.php?intro=1 where they take a sentence or paragraph and "play" each word in the same spot on the screen, eliminating the need to move your eyes.

It would be interesting to see if there are any significant differences in the max WPM (words per minute) between English and Chinese readers under this context where information density is no longer a function of space.
I haven't used CS, but I expect its JS output to be more verbose than if someone had written the JS themself. This means the people trying to contribute with CS-JS will be adding longer code that doesn't fit with the coding style of the project, and will be much longer. It may be possible to change CS to output less verbosely, or to ignore the difference. I think the library's main writers will ask for contributions to be in JS, so it can be written to their coding style.
>> What does she want us to /do/ about this?

Not accept that this is just the normal stuff that happens when guys get together. Show our peers that it is not ok to treat women like sex toys.
Unfortunately it's difficult to guarantee discretion - for all you know the person you're contacting is the brother of the candidate's boss's girlfriend, for instance.

Furthermore, in my experience, references like to know in advance that they will be contacted: in my culture, any ethical reference is going to want to know who's asking, why, and whether they have permission to speak on the candidate's behalf.

Finally, there may be personal issues between the person you're contacting and the candidate that would make the reference biased.

Ultimately it seems pretty straightforward and professional to simply ask the candidate outright whether you can contact X, Y and Z as additional references (unless you happen to know these people well enough that discretion is relatively certain). At that point the candidate can say, "sure, but let me speak to them first to see if they're OK with that", or perhaps "No, Bob stole my wife from me and I hate that guy."
Sounds good if it works. Writing plugins, or automating Office through COM is an exercise in frustration right now. I've had to automate office to do some ridiculous stuff with word docs by invoking the COM objects half a dozen times now, and each time I do it pushes me one step closer to learning rails.
And you have >10^6 Wikipedia articles. How many of those are biographies? 1:100000 suggests that any state-league rugby player is a great man.
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It's more than 20 years since I graduated with a CS degree and I think my advice these days to anyone considering the subject would be to avoid CS unless you want to go on and do research level work in academia or industry. Of course, that's what I wanted to do before going to University and I did end up working as a researcher in academia for six years before co-founding a startup.

People keep thinking that a CS degree is a vocational training program for developers - they didn't used to be and if that's what they have turned into then it's no wonder that they are doing a terrible job.
To clarify / reiterate - the issues didn't happen at our conference (I double-checked with Jane on this!). I'm more interested in pre-emptive things to help make sure it never does happen at our conferences in future.
I wonder about the JS#/vendor lock in responses here in HN. We're talking about a macro language in MS Office, where your development and runtime environment is very well known (MS Office). I don't know how much portability demands you expect from code you're writing to format your Excel cells.

function mergeAndHideGridlines() {
getRange("H15:I16").merge();
activeWindow.displayGridlines = false;
}

Sure I can picture someone pasting in code from his/her JS library to reuse in a macro, but I don't foresee people commonly doing the other way and having issues because the Excel function that they worked on for several days doesn't work for webpages.
The primary issue with this is that bitcoin mining as a load is very different from anything else except code-breaking. (Notably, there are no bandwidth requirements at all -- you can feed a bitcoin miner the source data of 32 bytes and employ it for 4 billion hash iterations)

Knowing how fast a card is at bitcoin mining is flatly uninteresting to anyone who is not using it as one.
two things:

1. She is in tech.
2. In tech conferences, companies tend to use scantly dressed women to advertise their booths. Connection between the product they are selling and the external looks of the model presenting it is non-existent. Therefore it is about objectifying women for the sake of marketing. It should stop.
That is an excellent word and concept, thank you.

But it lacks the appreciation of how interesting the depressing observation is.

Weltschmerzfreude seems like it's just a contradiction (also I know almost no german at all so it's likely just gibberish) but it doesn't sound bad.
Exactly. Disappointing how a professor of psychology seems so intolerant. Curiosity isn't a universal value; that seems to be the fallacy.
Right, they are talking about exposing the existing Office API to Javascript. Not having Office generate Javascript or some abomination.
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Is there any such programs available online instead of attending inplace?
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Immensely disappointing how he (professor of psychology) dismisses MDMA as entertainment when it is shown to help treating PTSD.
> The answer is neither.

no need to thank me :)
I prefer (=<<) and (<<) to make it look more like normal function application. I'm quite prepared to be in the minority on this.

`Endo a` wraps `a -> a` so it can have a Monoid instance. Maybe I really want `endo :: [a -> a] -> (a -> a)`, by analogy with sum/Sum, all/All, etc.

`Kleisli m b c` wraps `b -> m c` so `Kleisli m` can have an Arrow instance (given Monad m).
It didn't work like that. It was a plain blank text field among a couple other blank text fields. No search was brought up upon data entry. Very innocuous; Perhaps that why you don't remember it.
If we run in their VM, then the Fermi paradox still applies--since physics is consistent in this VM and seemingly leads frequently to life, why wouldn't we see signs of it elsewhere in the galaxy?

If the "we're like ants/barnacles to them" theory is true, then they wouldn't bother intentionally hiding from us, because we're no threat to them. If they do it unintentionally, that would still be interesting: for example, it would probably mean that civilizations do not in fact aggressively colonize the galaxy.
Thanks for the link, that site came to mind when I was reading the article but I couldn't think what it was called.
but its in 1.2, right?
How is it different than simply being esoteric. Maybe I am personally fascinated with regular expressions and after much study, can belt out a half page of parse and extract 'magic' that would make the uninitiated shake their head and crown me a genius.

Sounds interesting, tell me more.

Personally, I would say that a truly talented programmer is simply someone who is very capable in mathematics and can produce a working and extendable program in a reasonable amount of time, that does something new and useful.

I would also say a criterion is that he really understands abstraction and how to get more from less. Ie think of how John Carmack creates abstraction which is just right for the problem (and in C at that). Or think about the metalinguistic paradigm in programming (or OOP used right, for that matter). Or how JQuery (and these days Coffeescript) makes client-side web code clean and accessible to everyone, without the previous Javascript hacks and DOM-spaghetti. An average programmer just plods along and hacks out a solution in a linear manner, a great programmer will traverse levels of abstraction to not only solve the problem but also shine a light at it from a superior perspective.
龙 takes up less space than "dragon" on a page or screen, though.
This guys are a great example of how to create a startup and get funding in countries like Croatia where the access to VC/angel money is limited. To start globally (when you are outside of US) is much harder then many think.
Disclaimer: I'm Chinese-American (can read both).

The example he gave is not a good one. I instantly recognized both words because the Chinese word for dragon is a single character and in English, words are separated by spaces.

Often times, words in Chinese are made up of 2 or 3 characters, or even 4.

Take for example this word [set?]

可口可樂

This means Coca-Cola in Chinese. In an English sentence, Coca-Cola is unmistakable as it's a word surrounded by spaces. In Chinese, we don't use spaces, we must decide for ourselves when words start and words end.

Furthermore, 可口 means thirsty. So it wouldn't be until I got to the third character that I would know I'm not reading thirsty (though more realistically context should have defined it for me already).

I find Chinese sentences involve much fewer syllables than English though, so perhaps there is some merit to that.
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Quite interesting read. Have to think a little bit more on this topic, as it popped up thrice in my life now. and I am interested in the energy-development.

so this might be an interesting angle. But more important would be, that we have more R&D in recycling atomic waste. the world really wasted a lot of time in this field, imho.
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I am Google Apps addict but they still don't have a web-based Excel-killer. I think that when bankers and corporates start using Google apps to build their financial models then Microsoft should worry.
It could be worse. The class website could be a Sharepoint portal.
You forgot the most important question > 'WHY? Why are you guys doing this that will probably fail, take you 10 years to realise it failed and cause you gastric ulcers of massive proportions?' If they fail to convince me here, I'd turn them down.
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You only have to miss the right time period by several thousand years to miss signs of (intelligent) life.

Someone remotely viewing earth with just a 10k year delay would not be able to measure signs of human life.

They would see exactly what we see elsewhere - nice possibly life-supporting planets, but no signs of any functionality.

Now realize we aren't just missing 10k years but 1000k years (at best).
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Even for startup business modelling I'd rather use a fifteen year old version of Lotus 1-2-3 than Google Apps. Their spreadsheet is definitely a second-tier product.
Yes, I probably wasn't very clear: what I meant is that a programmer writing a function somewhere in a program must have a complete knowledge of the scope where the function is and will be in the future, including changes in global variables exposed by the interpreter/browser.
In the end I would find me forced to add a prefix to all the variables in order to avoid collisions, just like I would be forced to do, if the language only had a single global scope.

This behaviour seems quite unreasonable to me, but I haven't been able to find explanations about it, other than it's expected behaviour.
Average of what? I'd bet 80% of 40-year-olds wouldn't be able to pass a high school level maths exam.
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Yeah it's wrong. The journalist probably thought "square root of 64/4 is 4 so it's 4K). Likely he just forgot to think what "K" means.

64k can fit 128x128 rgba texture, which looks like the correct size if you look at the "PRT Translation table" image.
Well, competitors have existed since a decade ago, but many have also died. The closest competitor now seems to be Plesk, but it hasn't been able to snatch the crown from cPanel yet. If I remember it, Plesk 7 or 8 for Windows is a mess. All software suck :)
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Great to read about other large-scale users of HipHop, thanks for posting. The last graph on CPU usage says it all really.
Huh, there is some points to check :
Points
2.Location of Data
3.Data Management and Transfer

have exact same description (copy-pasted?)
but have different advantage results.

For 2.Location of Data advantage goes to "Microsoft (slight).
Google has more qualifications on U.S. data storage obligation in minor respects."

For 3.Data Management and Transfer it suddenly become "Draw"
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I would believe so
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2011 is 404, here's 2010. All prior to 2010 and the "all time" are also 404.

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I like this explanation a lot. I will deploy it on my eight year old; she has always been disatisfied by my explanations of how wings work - as have I.

I'd also like to extend my thanks to the submitter of the story.
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Both languages read at similar "words per minute" speeds but it might be that one of them can express the same meaning in less words. This would make it faster in practice.
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So the only use case for this application is when one cannot use "the real thing" (org-mode in Emacs), e.g. when browsing using an internet kiosk PC, tablet, and smartphone?

Btw, I do hope tablets and phones can run Emacs soon :)
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The "analysis" seems to be strongly favoring Google products in the Email/Calendar Cloud/Local Solution section.

- Integration with Collaboration Tools: SharePoint Online is all about collaboration. As they want to continue using Microsoft Office, there is no better way (at the moment) than SharePoint. Google's cloud connect Add-In for Office is the first try at this, but it is still rather ugly (who wants a large bar on all documents, what about using the ribbon?) They also misspelled Lync, which is the Google Talk of Microsoft, goes much further than GTalk and integrates in ALL Office applications. You can chat with the people currently editing the same document you are editing on your local computer.

- Ease of Tools Development: "Google has a more robust and documented API" - NO, simply not true. "aligned with the skillsets on campus" is a valid argument. But saying it is easier to develop for Google products than for the MS stack is a stretch.

- User Familiarity: They say, that they use MS Office. Familiarity therefore is high with Office 365.
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Agreed. That and Pusher is not built on Node, rather on Event Machine.
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I actually agree with his stance against shadowing variables, just on philosophical grounds. It encourages good, descriptive naming. On the other hand, I acknowledge that sometimes it's desirable to shadow outer variables. I think it should be discouraged, but not prevented.

I think the big problem with Coffeescript's behavior is that it can introduce some damn subtle bugs that can be really hard to track down if you don't know what you're looking for, because you're not able to explicitly specify scope semantics. It's even worse if you're polluting higher-scope variables of the same type, because it becomes even less obvious where the error comes from.

Coffeescript more or less shares Ruby's scoping rules, but there's a cultural difference between the Ruby and Javascript communities that makes it a little less workable in Javascript. Specifically, Ruby's "everything is an object", aggressive use of namespacing, and the general idiom that only constants go into the global namespace tends to limit scope issues that could arise from mix-ins.

Coffeescript does attempt to mimic this by providing class semantics and wrapping everything in anonymous functions to limit scope leak, but there's still a lot of temptation to just create a bunch of top-level functions, and that leads to situations like the one described in the blog post.
That's Java in web browsers, not Java in general.

(I saw the headline and was ready to read some god-awful rant about the horrors of Java, and was delightfully surprised to discover it's a warning about the dangers of having Java running in a browser.)
How does he support compatibility with extensions for the main line if he changes the code base?
The CoffeeScript sourcecode itself does not advocate it. It uses functions named like 'last', 'starts', 'ends', 'extend' etc.
I remember reading a computer-magazine columnist back in the mid-90s talking about how Windows 95's interface was too revolutionary and different, and that we should expect Microsoft to have a parallel "Windows Classic" release with the same superior technical underpinnings as Windows 95, but with the traditional Windows interface that their millions of users were familiar with.

Obviously that didn't happen, and I doubt that this "GNOME 3 with a GNOME 2 interface" will get very far either. GNOME 3 is pretty great for most people's workflow, and if you're particularly attached to some feature that's not present, you could try the GNOME 3 2D fallback mode (which looks pretty much just like GNOME 2), or XFCE, or LXDE. If those aren't conservative enough for you, there's still the various *box window managers, WindowMaker, pekwm, and dozens of others.
Unfortunately there are many men (in all industries) that still put women on the 'scale' immediately, & subconsiously. At one end, women get ignored, stared through and sidelined. At the other they get harrassed and the only topic of conversation is attractiveness.

These men don't distinguish from the booth babes, strippers etc (who have chosen the model industry) and the women that they work with, that are their peers in the tech industry.

I think the worst part is when you point out you don't want to be addressed according to your appearance, these are the guys that claim their remarks were some kind of backhanded compliment!

Perhaps naming and shaming those involved in the more threatening, dangerous and scary encounters would be a deterrent or a warning sign at least.

I work in the tech industry & as yet to have never had a comparable encounter, though there have been general annoyances in the workplace that I've put a stop to early on.

Should I ever have such an experience I'd be sure to speak up about it.
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Just to clarify, what the Mint developers are forking is actually just the Gnome Shell, not the entire GNOME 3 platform. In this regard it's no different than Ubuntu's Unity.
Well, in such a large universe everything is too far away.