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I find the environmental criticisms here bizarre; do the communication mechanisms the rest of us use suddenly have no environmental costs?

In fairness, that sounds apocryphal. If it were really common then there would be no money in doing it because the market would have factored in days before the event the fact that…

It might be the reason that Apple are infringing on the patent is that they are selling, not just using, a product which contains something which infringes the patent.

Thanks, that's an interesting article.

Do you have a link to what you consider to be a good description/definition/tutorial of "Data Oriented Programming"?

If the two larger circles had that ratio then it would imply that the two circles in the bottom left and bottom right would have the same radius. Which they don't appear to. So the…

I'm not really sure what you mean. If company X allows customers to pay for goods/services with bitcoins then they would be able to pay the wages of their employees using the bitco…

> Can someone else explain, why i'd take time off of work to do this job interview? Why not take a day off and interview with Google/Apple/Microsoft instead? Surely it depends on t…

Wouldn't the geometric mean of 1 and 3 be sqrt(3) ?

But that's precisely the point, if they're all "highly logical" then in the island-wtih-3-brown-and-1-green case the person with green eyes can't correctly know their eye colour so…

OK, so we agree that if there are X You claim that if X = 4 and everyone has brown eyes then on day 4 they will all kill themselves. Suppose I am one of these islanders. I can see …

Suppose instead of being 900 brown eyed people there are X brown eyed people. Suppose X is one, then the brown eyed person appears to be stuck, all the blue eyed people are dead so…

You originally said that the people with brown eyes would commit suicide after 900 days. Can you explain to me how any of them can know for sure that they don't have green eyes?

> It's only a short reprieve though; because either the browns know that only two colours exist (and so on day 100 immediately know they are brown) or they face the same conundrum …

I wouldn't really agree that it doesn't work out in practice. For the systems that I work on, the concept of privacy is extremely useful, perhaps we're doing things 'the wrong way'…

I'd have to politely disagree; if your class has mutable state and you want to maintain some invariant relationships amongst the elements of your class then as far as I can see you…

I haven't followed the story that well, and only skim read this article, but there was a four-ish hour outage in the morning last week. I think the LSE came up OK for about half an…

So they're not falling over themselves to fix a bug which no one has noticed for 10+ years, and which hardly anyone is going to hit in actual use. Maybe they're spending their time…

IntelliJ's IDEA IDE has excellent Scala integration in the Community Edition (i.e. the free version). I've been working with Scala for about two years now and in my experience IDEA…

Nope, you can only apply to one college at either Oxford or Cambridge per year (you can't apply to both universities, which probably makes sense as almost everyone who applied to o…

Indeed, Charles attended Trinity College, Cambridge.

Have you done any research on this? Assume for a moment that the exam results of students follow a bell shaped curve and that the mean and standard deviation of exam results in the…

Only some UK universities have a collegiate system (Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, St. Andrews(?)). Most do not (I believe) and I imagine are roughly similar to US universities. At col…

Although you then have to solve two problems; optimizing the constraints, and then optimizing within the constraints. If I applied the arbitrary constraint that x must be an odd mu…

I think you're generally right that people would normally choose the better prices. A few hypothetical reasons why someone might not could be: once fees/commissions are included th…