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python has this now after 2.5, iirc. it's handy when you want an unbounded calculator =D

a friend dated someone who was a new lawyer and tried representing him/herself in a divorce. after crying on the stand it did not end well.

Google glass is an interesting idea that conflicts with basic tenants of psychology. Facial recognition and attractiveness are critical to how we interact with others. This drive i…

who wants to drink from the FIRE HOSE?

so the counterargument is that the opportunity cost doesn't exist because the hypothetical MS grad earning more is bad at managing money?

no serious person writes native code that vulnerable to timing attacks. if native crypto code has a measurable difference in execution time for different code paths that usually re…

a timing attack doesn't require constant duration for execution paths in the code. even with the noise in server communications remote timing attacks are often feasible - the noise…

>That point of yours actually points to a potential vulnerability in server-side (possibly native-code) encryption, not client-side encryption, which we discuss here. ...it also re…

timing attacks don't necessarily need access to the actual machine to work. his point is valid because a side channel timing attack may arise from the differences in time it takes …

a timing or voltage dependence on the key used for the encryption/decryption is often exploited by side channel attacks. this dependence can be used in some sophisticated attacks t…

i have no idea why you're being downvoted. auto and avionics companies go through hell to test this stuff at a level that involves the hardware and how it integrates with the softw…

my father worked full time while receiving his phd in the professional field he was employed in. he has had a very successful academic career. his dissertation was no joke and he h…

the most annoying part about being a type I diabetic is hearing people who haven't even looked up the basics of the disease rant about diet or corn.

I'm very lucky to work in a place where they understand the limitations of this policy. Most of the product we work on (not a CRUD app) is finished or at least at a fairly mature s…

i consistently ask myself how the fuck IBM sells anything to anybody.

maximizing salary is exactly what the study looked it. the approximation of finance = top salary is less accurate than the data they used. i'm not sure that's true either. remember…

not sure that's the case. "Here, however, is what was explosive: Dale and Krueger concluded that students, who were accepted into elite schools, but went to less selective institut…

i hated math when i entered college despite having passed the AP calc exam in high school. i didn't see the point and couldn't understand why i was learning about functions. i had …

i agree completely.

that's a good point. at my large company i do this every day on the embedded system i work on, which luckily is not a CRUD app. i guess i would hope they would ask me about that XD…

that formula narrows it down pretty well once the constants are defined and takes about a minute to determine. with more time than is found in a typical job interview you could act…

that may be an unfair assumption on my part. i just assumed that when people ask these abstract riddles, they're really looking for some way of testing your intuition and not somet…

well, pg is some dude defining identity on a blog, and the people i mention are famous scientists who quantified personality and isolated introversion/extraversion using a statisti…

I often do ask at least one of these questions on an interview. I don’t do it because I care about a precise answer or whether you know the exact dimensions of a golf ball. I care …

seeing as personality is defined as a preferred set of reactions to external events, your preferred style of social interaction is part of your identity by definition. this is shor…