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That's quite an achievement, and I'm even more impressed he was able to do so in the textile industry that suffered so much in the mid-nineties in the region. Context: I'm from the…

It makes zero sense to look at nationwide average for Brazil to draw any conclusions without looking at per-state or per-region data. Northern region has places with 60+ homicide r…

Nothing new on this, experienced programmers know the performance implications of data structures (ie, lists are generally bad regardless of the language/paradigm) and most complai…

Generally, a big improvement in ability to focus, and a sustained mental clarity throughout the day. Entering in ketosis was also an watershed moment, like an epiphany, with a sudd…

His reading is simplistic, but so is the article: there is no mention about different metabolic states, for instance. The brain depends on a very small quantity of glucose to funct…

The study doesn't mention this anywhere, but one can assume it considers only a state of glycolysis. This makes the the title/conclusion a bit misleading. In case of ketosis [1], t…

I would say it is not only valid but a very interesting method to deal with 0-day exploits and automatic scanners. I have a number of services running at home, all outside the stan…

Social welfare is not socialism.

Having grown up in Brazil, where computers and parts are expensive - and in a time where the country was recovering from a galloping inflation and a failed attempt from the governm…

> And I can actually not remember a single time when this was actually useful [..] This tells a lot about what is wrong with software development and why industry is constantly pla…

Sorry, but I strongly disagree. I can think of two very strong reasons to prefer awk over perl: * busybox implements awk, so its (usually) available even on embedded platforms * aw…

It's an excuse that is commonly given - but easily avoidable if you care enough about the ones that pay your salary by buying processors from your company. And not only that, but t…

Computer Science is a science field, therefore computer scientists usually see themselves as something more than an engineer - you don't want to apply the same knowledge over and o…

This classification of "paradigms" is a bit off. First, declarative programming is a generic name which includes a broad range of paradigms - from functional to logic programming. …

I suggest adding a "in US or UK" to the title.

Nothing wrong, I'd love to use taxis. But I have a few conditions: * I want to call a driver and know if the ride was accepted, if the car is coming, how much time it will​ take fo…

You article about hiring a C++ developer made me chuckle on the interviewees' answers; apart from the "virus" one I've also heard all the others - and had the same thoughts. You'd …

It's amusing to read all these calls for a more democratic EU, specially when comparisons with the USA are made. EU membership is voluntary, you can leave if you want. What would h…

How can one compare UK and US and say the later has better social mobility? Ever heard of NHS (1) or council housing? Have you compared tuition fees on both countries? While I most…

"When we've initially started [..], dominant was Go 1.3, which had mechanisms to detect memory blocks allocated inside used libraries and all such blocks were to be freed by GC. Go…

Latency and speed are two very different things. For good audio quality, the first is way more important than the later. Also, lossy codecs usually drop a good chunk of information…

My experience with endorsements tells they can be not only deceiving, but also a trap. There's this guy which I used to work with that was not very good in the job and used to dist…

SOS was meant to be easily recognizable and trivial to generate: ... --- ... --- ... --- ... (and so on)

Indeed, in the later case, exceptions are really an unnecessary cost. In fact, another argument which could be made against the use of exceptions is that the abstraction per se is …

Usually anything that deals with theory of computation, formal languages, formal methods, compilers, graph theory, functional programming, logic programming. I assume numerical ana…