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...which has reference #14 has Sen listed as the author of another article (can't find direct link), here's #14 though: Sen, C. K. & Ghatak, S. miRNA control of tissue repair and r…

I had played various Infocom games as a kid, simply amazing. Then recently "discovered" that there is this exciting corner of the Multiverse know as Interactive Fiction, which has …

Oddly enough, that was the first thing that popped into my head, when seeing the title.

> It's offloading the cost of hiring on to prospective candidates. Why is that a bad thing? The prospective candidates aren't entitled to anything, the burden should be on them to …

I'm quite impressed with the Hololens, but keep in mind that it's a totally a first gen developer product, so was better than my expectations. Yes the field of view is a tad narrow…

You've just defined the Internet.

Fortune.com does "know better", it's all about Ad revenue.

Right, the Wikipedia page for SHA1 does show research on a variety of possible attacks, starting from 2005.

71 device years, on an p2.16xlarge instance, I think the NSA could certainly come up with something way moar better in a shorter timeframe, assuming they haven't already done so.

I've been doing concurrent programming for 17 years, it's been pretty much the same game, at least with Java/C/C#/C++ which is my experience. The abstractions are helpful, but clea…

+1 for just admitting that you owned Betamax (vastly superior of course to those VHS ninnies).

My all time favorite is one of the original songs, but still a "style parody", Everything You Know is Wrong. But all songs, whether direct parodies or originals, are pure brillianc…

One can argue these topics until the cows come home, and possibly later. One can strongly argue for/against imperative programming, functional programming, OOP, design patterns, De…

Why is that actually considered dysfunction? And why just valley?

Bad link, goes right to some Android virus or scareware page.

Sounds more like acid, IMO.

Despite the deluge of advice from the Innovation-thumpers of the many virtues of personal washing, I have yet to invent a flying car while standing in the shower thinking. (great s…

Funny that, I've used that exact expression before, with Matrox framegrabbers ;-)

OK thanks again for the info, now very much worth a serious look.

Thanks for the mention of this, I'm quite interested, looking at their FAQ right now, curious to see how they handle latency. Do you notice any lag? Also, what FPS do you achieve?

Where do you that salary number from, American tech salary of 200k/yr?

At my company, we are fortunate to have quiet spaces that have dual monitors, keyboard, and mouse, for your laptop. I agree, it's a necessity.

That's a nice memory profiler, have good success with it. I've also used DebugDiag, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=499... and plain ol' perfmon and its pe…

Ah, what pray tell, does one do with all that fancy purple rock?