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PostgreSQL is a phenomenal software project, so any press such as this is welcomed. I was irked, however, by this guy's ego. He came off as too 'pats-self-on-the-back' throughout.

I appreciate that he credited Tom Lane and Robert Haas, the end implementors, but they are surely keenly aware of function pointer overhead. I give the post author credit only for taking the time to run the benchmarks and bring it to the community's attention... no small feat, to be sure, but also no David.

It does provide value in drawing light to SortSupport and its implementation.
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And now your "relatively simple solution" has turned into a massive legal quagmire.
This is a very interesting comparison. Even though the author admits it is subjective, he's quite candid about pros and cons for both countries. It's certainly an interesting read, even if I can't agree on many points (being an American).
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Do you not see the irony in that your own argument above used set theory to prove your point about algebra?

You say people rarely fail algebra and succeed at other subjects. To put that another way, let's assume that there are four sets. Set A consists of a group of people who are successful at one or more subjects, and Set B consists of people who are successful at no subjects. Set C consists of people who are good at math, and Set D consists of everyone else. Your statement implies that, for the most part, A = C and B = D.
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Eric's talk was more about general web development principles than about any YUI technologies specifically.
Can anybody confirm if the 20% in google still stands?

And, if it does, is it really 20% of the regular work hours? In my experience, 20% usually comes to something like: "Work on the important project 100% of the work week. After that, work 20% more on something you like."

Everybody I know that works in Google, works far more than the standard 40h per week. Even if you cut of 20% of that time, they still work more than usual. Ofc, that doesn't mean it is generally the case, that's why I'm asking.
I see that as a "cost cutting exercise": it's there, so it saves them having to negotiate deals and stream the content, as users would expect the Freeview channels and might not want two boxes.

But the main appeal of BT Vision is the content it provides over IP - customers that don't care bout that might just as well stick to a Freeview box.
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Actually in my experience ExtJs is one of the best libraries/frameworks* [1]. It has a steep learning curve* [2] but after that you can build awesome applications quite fast.

* [1] : library based on the author's definition and framework based on sencha's documentation.

* [2] : the learning curve is steep even for experienced javascript developers.

edit: I just had to fight the * * *
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I took the approach of making a class called a "ModelView" which adds a few things - one of which is an "On Render" event that fires after the view renders. we do all of our jquery binding in our onrender function and so whenever the view re-draws, onrender is fired and all of the jquery stuff will be re-bound.

It would be nice to have the view re-drawn more intelligently so things don't need to be re-drawn and re-bound each time. But, I couldn't think of a generic way to do that without knowing the details of the view.

If anybody has any interest, the code I wrote is at http://phreeze.com
I find myself asking similar questions when these stories come up. Even after accounting for alcohol (they could force breathalyser tests at badge-pickup time to reduce drunks inside...), it just doesn't fit very well. I suspect it's incorrect to think that the offenders are often socially inept. In this universe, being an "[anything] geek" is OK now. Programming and techie-ness in general are "cool". While it has resulted in less bullying for the nerds, the tradeoff is that techies and the like no longer fit into a small range of human personalities, which conveniently explains why the more mono-personality conventions of old were more respectful. The personalities now more closely represent society as a whole, which is filled with ravenous, over-confident, and over-sexed pickup machines. Indeed, the types of behaviors reported sound a lot more like the work of college fraternity bros than any of the privacy-loving/shy/asexual/low-libido/antisocial/"socially inept"/functionally-autistic/egalitarian nerds (who rarely go to conventions (let alone the after-parties) in the first place because crowds!) that were previously what made up a great percentage of the tech population.
Results are impressive with "snake image segmentation" alone but OK with other algos. http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrk/halide12/

I didn't get how algorithms expressed in this language are faster, if it is just a 'Representation'. Is it because of its efficiency in parallelization? If so, any hand tuned assembly should be on par with it. any other thoughts?

Btw, the title "Writing graphics software..." is misleading as 'Halide' addresses only Image processing on CPU/GPU but nothing to do with 3D/2D graphics software.
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Not only it's on-topic, it's even more amusing. At some point one of the teams was trying to score +1, but as the time passed it became safer to score -1 for a chance of +2 later; after deciding on scoring -1, the situation sort of reversed and the other team tried to score either +1 or -1.
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This was an interesting read. I think the author of the original paper though has some valid points and that this response labeling the original paper "anti-intellectual" is dishonest in that regard.

In my opinion, the problems we have with Mathematics education in this country stem more from how the curriculum is structured than from particularly bad teaching or lack of natural ability. Looking back, it seems bizarre that all of elementary school gets devoted to performing arithmetic and then Algebra is suddenly introduced sometime in middle or early high school. In my opinion, arithmetic can be taught much faster than it is (Trachtenberg system et alia) and basic Algebra should really be introduced concurrently.

The problem with this approach is that you can no longer sell neatly compartmentalized textbooks labelled "Addition," "Subtraction," ... , "Algebra" etc...

The other thing that bugs me is the bizarre choice of topics taught in Algebra classes. I remember, I was forced to memorize the binomial theorem. At the time, it really made no sense. I'm now of the opinion that you shouldn't be taught math you don't have the machinery to develop on your own. Knowing arithmetic, you can build Algebra (not very rigorously, but the idea seems pretty obvious.) It's a much bigger leap to develop the binomial theorem, which requires more advanced machinery, which is generally not taught.

Of course, once I could derive the binomial theorem on my own, it made much more sense.

I did very well in math throughout my academic career, but didn't ever really feel like I had very much mathematical skill. Only now that I've developed an interest in doing math in a recreational capacity that I really feel like I've developed any sort of substantial mathematical ability. I'm really now convinced that the problem solving approach is the way to go and that this is how early math should be taught.
Well, if it is going to be open source, I may be able to help with that :-)
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If multicast was used, the bandwidth used wouldn't be particularly high, that's the point.
Start me up :-)

Scary that I remember IBM's OS/2 Warp ads more vividly than MS's Win95 campaign.

Ah the nostalgia!
Throwing away Progressive Enhancement makes sense for things way at the 'App' end of the spectrum but it's going to spread like a cancer right up to the 'Content' end of things and if we're not careful one day we're going to look back and realise we've broken the web.
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"By Axel Boldt, 1995-2010." - most of it seems to be from 1995. The section about "communism and socialism" (not really major topics these days) also suggests that this is rather old.
Primarily, I do it as a means of staving off nerves, and also 'keeping my place' in case I look away. I'm getting contacted constantly and distracted even more constantly, so being able to see a hilight of the line I last read saves me a lot of time fairly often.
I didn't read the article as saying DEF CON was the same as all other conferences. I read the opposite: that DEF CON is the worst, but the "hacker" niche of conferences are all pretty bad.

And you are wrong about whether DEF CON will be a hold-out of sexism. It might be the last holdout, but if and when gender equality becomes widespread across the US technical community, it's easy to see that no sexism could holdout in any popular venue. At the very least, the sponsors would run away.

Finally, this:

> The idea that a woman could write an article like this with no idea that occasionally a drunken man will make a pass at them is preposterous. Therefore I can only assume it's written specifically to start a kind of cultural flame war with the intent being to bring more attention and resources to their organization's cause.

That is quite the accusation, with not even the flimsiest of supporting evidence.
Unfortunately this just moves the nuclear weapons around. We really need disarmament.
It's well supported experimentally.
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The US is still one of the most meritocratic countries in the world

Looking at the US from the outside, it doesn't really seem that way any more. And I live in a country (UK) that is far worse.
Americans living abroad are not even allowed to give up
citizenship to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

That's wrong, along with many other facts in this article.
For my first exit interview (2.5 yrs, Big3 Indian Consulting Firm), I was leaving purely for the low and unfair HR compensation policies. I had not planned what to say in exit interview, but the way it turned out is I flipped the question back on HR:

"How many exit interviews have you done in the last 3 months? (I knew she'd done atleast 10-15). And tell me top 3 changes or actions that you've taken based on them"

The discussion hilariously turned towards how she didn't really have the power to do anything, except to be a pretty lady face on the way out for soon to be ex-employees and 'give feedback to senior mgmt' but without any power to influence any remedial measures.

If you are working in a big company with more than hundreds/thousands of employees, you are leaving pretty much for one of these 3 things:
1. Compensation
2. Compensation in other name(promotion, rank, perceived status)
3. Bad/asshole mgmt, stupid policies etc everything else that makes Scott Adams successful.

In such orgs, by the time you are giving exit interview, almost anyone responsible up-down in your chain knows why you're leaving. And everyone knows nothing's going to change just because one guy is leaving.

So don't expect much, don't give much. Just say your goodbyes and leave.
Don't feed the trolls. Ryan is trolling here.
I don't think this affects your point, but on a random night in Pure, women will outnumber men by maybe 4-to-1, and the same is true of (I believe) most Vegas nightclubs.
Economic incentives? China is a major trading partner for NZ at least.

China overtook the United States at the end of 2008
to become New Zealand's second largest trading partner,
with bilateral trade amounting to $9.4 billion in the
year ended December 2009.

source: http://www.nzdmo.govt.nz/publications/nzefo/2010/17.htm
Wouldn't someone notice if the cable went out of commission for 10 minutes while they spliced?
It was on Reddit a few days ago... http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/xb6ft/
Ack, while the paper looks to be legitimate (and has big names like Marc Levoy on it), the beginning of this write-up is terrible. Facebook absolutely did not buy Instagram for its filters as they are well understood technically - FB bought Instagram for its exploding community. Furthermore, as of at least Instagram 2.0, filters were all heavily GPU accelerated and can be performed in real-time on the phone, i.e. massively parallel and unlikely to need any benefit that Halide might provide.
It's certainly a choice

Less variance or more variance. But I think it really doesn't pay off (unless it's for high level jobs, think NASA, DOE, etc)
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I went to a couple of "Women in technology" meetings, where I was often outnumbered 5-to-1. It's terrifying. I can't imagine the idea of going to a place where I'm so outnumbered, and also having the possibility of being groped.

Frankly, I'm amazed the police aren't called more. Groping - or "sexual assault" as it's more commonly called - is very very illegal.
If think I am with robbiea on this one, if you get to the point where you are at an exit interview then management should already know why you are leaving, if they don't then that's your fault for not making your grieviences be heard. It should be at this point you leave they have not been able to rectify the situation.

An old coworker of mine had some fun advice... He said if his wife asked if some outfit made her look fat, and it did, then he would say so. He would tell her what he didn't like. As a result, he doesn't have a fat wife with ugly clothing (and he retains a wife).

An honest relationship would be where the truths have been told all along. Telling your wife she looks fat as you walk out the door is not gonna give her enough time to try and make a change.

I personally think it is important to remember to be professional. Keep emotions in check because it can be far to easy to vent and say how much of an asshole everyone is.

That said, sometimes a place will piss you off that much that you just don't care. I worked at a place like this once and now look back at it as a learning experience. I am much much more picky and inquisitive about the job, role, tools, machinery, atmosphere etc before I even consider accepting an offer.
Thanks for this, there's some beautiful clojure in there.
I sat and watched the mens time trials yesterday whilst working, the commentary seemed to help my brain focus on doing a really, really tedious task and I got it done without messing round on the internet and taking twice as long.
I don't deny that the world is full of jerks, but I don't think it is possible to cure them all. Better to simply avoid them.

Although I can understand if somebody wants to defend their turf (create jerk-free zones).

If the "ligthen up" comments are voted away, it seems to be a good thing? So why support the meme that "lighten up" is a standard response? You can always find people displaying any grade of sexism you desire and point to them saying "see, I told you so, sexism exists". It is just not a very useful thing to do.
> * If you avoid the late night (especially unofficial) parties, bars, and drunken events in general, you are going to avoid most of the inappropriate (and worst) behavior.
> * Female attendees will get hit on multiple times by lonely nerdy guys, I really don't know what to say about this, but if you stick to the actual convention, you probably won't endure much worse than bad pickup lines.

Is this not the complaint - that you can't take part in your culture's events because of the behaviour of others? I would find it intolerable if all the other attendees went off to the last night parties and bars, and I couldn't because I was likely to be sexually assaulted.
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That's not quite true tho is it? FB does offer something it represents as being a platform. And bear in mind that he didn't just blindly build a product assuming that he could trust the platform. He solicited and continually received assurances that his product would be welcomed and valued on the platform. It was only after he had invested time and money building it that the rules changed. And it was that experience that resulted in his conviction of the need for a competing product.
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At least it means there would be a debate about them, rather than sailing through smoothly with no worries, and keeping asking for bigger budgets to expand their mission, like I'm sure TSA wants to do, by checking subway stations and bus stops, and whatnot.
> More than weird, will a 'tweet' have relevance 50 years from now? Even a social network? Seems using things that have a temporal cultural context is a bit iffy.

I don't think Knuth is under any illusions about staying relevant: The original editions had code examples for a machine having 6-bit bytes and used self-modifying code to store the return address of subroutines rather than a stack.

In later editions he updated the examples, but even with respect to algorithms the new fascicles make references to quite recent papers and results. The books as timeless as they are, are products of their time more so than most books on mathematical topics.
This is very disappointing.

http://www.listener.co.nz/commentary/the-internaut/pacific-f... - has a good summary of coverage on this issue from Radio NZ.
http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html Read #2
Can I recommend referring to "groping" as "sexual assault? It won't help with the trolls here, but it does help focus the discussion a little bit.
I just felt that this is a marketing tac-tic by dalton to promote his new app.net

Just a random thought.
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But so is the US. More fascist than dictatorship. But certainly no respect for human rights. I mean, have you been asleep the last decade? They're China but with slicker PR.

But even more so because Australia is a two product, two customer economy. One of those customers is China. The other is not the US. I'll let you look it up.
Not necessarily. Some of the companies are structured such that they don't own the patent, just certain rights to it. Basically they sue on behalf of someone else which both reduces the risk and also allows the patent owner to claim that they're not the one behind the suit.

I'd imagine that those rights would just be tied up so they weren't transferable (so if the company did go under they would no longer be an asset) and that this structure would become the norm.

What you'd need to do is have the suing company stump up the money in advance into some sort of escrow account (or some other mechanism for proving they can pay).
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When the thing on the other side of the bridge doesn't share your values i'd say it's healthy, and the fact that connections will likely be burned is a plus. Btw, burn them by default doesn't make sense, on that i can agree.
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I'm doing this as well as freelancer. Mostly I work on an opensource project that day, sometimes I use it for learning something new. Reason I started this was that I do not have the energy to do such things on the weekend (otherwise I'm constantly tired at work) and I still did want some productive spare-time. Unfortunately as freelancer this means 20% less pay (at least in the short run) and you need a client allowing for that, but after doing that for more than year now I still feel it's worth it.
Thanks a bunch! I wasn't aware of SmartGIT. Already send it out to my co-workers. Let's see how they like it.
Some people will use it. Maybe not as many as PadMapper, but I developed CLMapper with myself as the ideal user.
I see what the author is getting at and agree. However we need to analyze this statement... "Far more important, he argues, is debunking the myth of meritocracy, harmful 'because it provides an incomplete explanation for success and failure, often mistakenly exalting the rich and condemning the poor.'"

It's important for people on the one hand to not feel too terrible if they don't achieve their dreams. But it's also important that people not become so self-obsessed with the impossibility of dreaming that we stop dreaming to begin with. There are people who always have a reason for why something didn't work out... you know those kinds of people. They never achieve their dreams. They've doomed themselves from the start.

We need to find a way to be a less anxious society that can still dream and accept failure.
'liberal western democracy'. That's actually quite funny.
Rackspace is making it easy for me right now..

Ironically I suppose, it's the first outage I've had with them while actively working in a long time.
If your underwater fibre goes down for 10 minutes would international espionage really be the first thing that comes to mind?
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Any freelancers reading this: I have an idea to allow people to recommend possible replacements upon exit interviews.

"richbridge" "moneydoor" "smartexit"

Perhaps you can already work out the use case and flow. Drop me a line if interested.
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Could they land it in Mexico or Canada instead?
This already exists, Gentex's SmartBeam[1] product has technology to shutter headlights on high-beam mode so that the light does not hit the windscreens of oncoming cars.

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I don't understand the easter egg?
I think that's a problem in academia in general.
C++'s template-based sorting mechanisms allow for the same optimization without manually special-casing anything. (The compiler "integrates everything", to quote the author, out of the box.) C++ port of Postgresql, anyone?
Would it really be feasible to encrypt/decrypt all data going over such a large link? What kind of latency would that add?