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I'm perfectly comfortable with concision, thank you. Clearly one can interpret the Golden Rule two ways depending on whether you take into account the other person's different valu…

I don't think so - the whole point is that other don't want the same behavior from you as you would want from you, in their shoes.

SF is (or used to be until recently) the West Coast's banking center, and everyone in that industry has to be ready when markets open on the East Coast at 5am Pacific.

> In Ruby, unit tests stand in place of static compiler checks. I haven't heard a strong argument against them nor a replacement for them. How about static compiler checks? :)

> In the US system ... everyone else is promoted and then assigned It's worth pointing out that one of the reasons this system works in the US army is that non-commissioned officer…

Wouldn't this only apply to neural networks as used for classification? I mean the general paradigm of deforming curves until they're separated by a hyperplane seems pretty obvious…

This is basically what VxWorks (real-time OS) started doing in their 6.x series - the MMU is active and all memory addresses are virtual, but no two processes get access to the sam…

That's true but I think the bigger reason is that a single address space makes system calls as cheap as regular function calls, since there is no kernel boundary any more. Ironical…

I'm a little embarrassed that I never got the word play in "tarsnap" until just now...

Yes, but you have to admit it does need a call-to-action link that's actually a button.

That's a lot of buzzwords in one sentence. Reminds me of the early 90s when everything had to use neuro fuzzy wavelets.

I'm confused, are you saying there's a link between people's beliefs and actions or not?

No one's going to rag on the post's author for labeling himself "Christian" right at the top? He might have donated to Prop. 8 after all. Edit: That's sarcasm, people.

> Lagrange interpolations are only distantly related to Legendre/Hermite/etc polynomials Actually ... take an nth degree polynomial from your favorite orthogonal set. For each of i…

Except that EEs like to explicitly restrict the word "signal" to mean only the known inputs, and call the rest "noise."

"Signal" has always bugged me because it has the connotation of a function of time , whereas historically the Fourier series were first used to represent functions of space .

Everyone says that, until they're put in charge of babysitting an old HPUX or AIX box and it's time to install something. Then no one complains about Autoconf again (though they ca…

Well, it helped that the Scuds had a 5% accuracy rate.

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html > Years ago David Cheriton at Stanford taught me something that seemed very obvious at the time -- that if you have a netwo…

Unlike the iPad, the iPhone, Dropbox, and "The Web," credit for this metaphor may fairly be given to David Gelertner. Although he applied it to naming files rather than servers. Fr…

It wasn't really funny until I saw the first figure, then I died laughing.

> I found it funny how all the reasons they gave why TCP sucked were things their workarounds were equally bad at. I have yet to see anything designed with UDP instead of TCP that …

You're right, it was Newton's method.

Dijkstra's algorithm is close enough to the Bellman equation for programmers, I guess :) Also I don't really think taking a Taylor series for the inverse square root should count a…

I've always been partial to Brad Efron's explanations, see http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.179.... IMO he nails the key distinction here: "One definition sa…