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Yep. And there are the formal optimality gaps like "this algorithm provably finds a solution in polynomial time no less than twice the optimum tour length", and there are also the …

That's not the right analogy. It means you're not allowed to sue someone else for requiring an ID check in order to let you shop there. I'm not a lawyer, but I'd be surprised if th…

I'm not sure it should really count as a "Lisp book", but The Art of the Metaobject Protocol" is one of my favorite technical books ever. It takes some knocks for not really contai…

Which 20 Republican senators do you imagine are going to stop him?

Oddly enough, I assume the Google advancement structure values anything but stability. You launch products to get promoted. Maintaining them is for fools and losers. Granted, I hav…

I think you're taking him a bit too literally. In these examples, you're not looking at simplifying anything. You're not getting rid of unneeded code. You're getting rid of debugge…

They used to as part of their quarterly earnings reports, if I remember correctly. They stopped during the latter part of WoD when by all accounts the subscriber numbers were very …

Even local optima are often pretty good in practice. Also, it's a very good practice to iterate through the neighbors in a random order (if you're doing next descent, for steepest …

There's another issue as well. His mapping of difficulty reaching a key isn't really the whole picture. On a conventional QWERTY layout, neither the E nor the C keys are especially…

I have the previous xps 13 running linux now. I'd like to support them, but unfortunately, CostCo sold me the Windows version with mostly equivalent specs for like $400 cheaper tha…

I don't think he's at all concerned about the license. He's just saying most people won't and shouldn't do "real work" on a machine that could break at any point with no possibilit…

I think if an x1 Carbon ran OS X, you'd see a massive number of people migrating from Macbooks over to it.

Sure, but all of those are different than an admin at hacker news doing an UPDATE posts SET text="I hate brown people" WHERE post_id=17560983 to make you look like a racist (or wha…

It's also important to remember just how far Git was ahead of most competitors in performance. I was using monotone quite a bit around this time, and while its UI was frankly not m…

I believe the recommendation is to use something like Signal or iMessage -- an end-to-end encrypted channel that isn't email.

Almost every email client defaults to HTML. There are going to be people using both encryption and HTML.

I haven't been on a search committee in years, but in the mid 2000s, I think 3-500 was about the norm for a mid-range state school. Not all those people were qualified, but I think…

Tenure track positions are not at all hard to fill. There are 500 people applying for every one of them, and probably 350-400 of those people are completely qualified to do the job…

As has been pointed out before, statistics like these "for every five open faculty positions, only one is filled" are incredibly misleading. The reason only one in five is filled i…

$125 an hour isn't crazy. I billed that doing some consulting for a company in Memphis maybe five years ago, and that was a no negotiation involved arrangement. I'd worked there be…

Well yeah. I don't think anyone is under the impression that Apple made a laptop that, by design, fries peripherals when it's charging.

I think it's a general Apple failure mode. They're so wrapped up in the idea of making something completely unheard of, that they overly weight novelty. Most of these "clearly bad …

First, "don't make mistakes" is a policy so idiotic in its conception that I don't think there exists a good-faith argument for advocating for it. Second, a "cover-up" is when you …

> To attempt a sale is not a right, at least not one I am familiar with. It's called "copyright". You have the right to control distribution of your creative work. A direct and una…