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    Trump picks his Supreme Court nominee: Neil Gorsuch

    It's their business because they have to pay for it, and not just indirectly through taxes. It's the difference between using my tax dollars to pay for something I don't believe in, such as drone strikes (which I can't complain about); and forcing me to personally buy a Hellfire missile to blow...
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    Ex-Goldman Sachs programmer found guilty, again, of source code theft

    That was his story, but the jury did not believe that story in the context of the other evidence. Here is how the federal appellate court described the facts:
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    When home Internet service costs $5,000—or even $15,000

    It doesn't even have to be a rural (i.e. sparsely populated) area. In my county, you'll pay about $25,000 (minimum) for water/sewer hookup for a new house even in a dense suburb: http://www.aacounty.org/departments/ins ... mpact-fees.
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    When home Internet service costs $5,000—or even $15,000

    The comment about being treated like a utility makes no sense. Water and sewer hook ups aren't free. They're very expensive, but usually the builder pays the county and you don't notice. We just got public water and sewer in a neighborhood that previously did not have it. The county charged...
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    Verizon warns FiOS user over “excessive” use of unlimited data

    I'll just leave this here: http://meincmagazine.com/business/2015/01 ... ios-builds ("Wireline operating income margin was 4.4 percent")
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    LinkedIn premium users to get $1 each in password-leak settlement

    The Ars article is missing some crucial details. There was a suit for the actual disclosure of the passwords. It was dismissed last year, because the judge decided that nobody could prove that anyone was actually harmed by the password disclosure. Your LinkedIn password was leaked--and so what...
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    Bacteria evolve; Conservapedia demands recount

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I wonder if the superstitious shepherds who slapped Genesis together had <I>any</I> idea of the problems they'd be creating 2500 years down the road. The mental gymnastics...
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    Louisiana passes first antievolution "academic freedom" law

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> Would any of you pay for your children to attend a private, secular K-12? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I decided sometime in college that I'd send my kids to private school...
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    Programmer branch prediction accuracy?

    There is a neat anecdote in Cooper & Torczon's "Engineering a Compiler". This company sold a FORTRAN compiler with an extension that allowed programmers to specify branch execution probabilities. Well, after a few versions, they found a bug in their code that generated code based on those...
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    Functional Programming

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Let's be honest: while writing your code as your AST is incredibly powerful, when everything looks the same and you're in a maze of small function calls, all alike, it can...
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    Functional Programming

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">It's not that they don't make sense. I just don't like dealing with brackets. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Meh. I'd rather deal with the brackets the editor takes care of...
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    Why the daggers in C and C++ back?

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Short answer: because C/C++ are pretty terrible and few people particularly want to use it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>+++<BR><BR>C/C++ gets the job done, and puts money in...
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    gcc and optimizations for virtual methods

    GCC does not do link-time optimization. It will compile that virtual method invocation with a v-table lookup.
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    Graphing/Charting Toolkits

    Non C/C++ is a pretty big range there -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br> This looks neat for simple stuff. <br><br>Though, it's pretty hard to beat Matlab for this sort of thing.<br><br>Oh, and there is also certainly no shame in...
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    Arc's out

    From agiftedlorax's link:<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">The closure supporters are, IMHO, not real programmers.<BR><BR>You only become a real programmer once you are forced to debug tens of...
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    Arc's out

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I'd have to agree. lisp's biggest problem is code readability. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>It's largely a matter of familiarity/practice. After several years of using the...
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    What do you, or would you, use for scientific computing?

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I would agree with you if I were not a Senior who is entering into a Chem E PhD program in the fall. I don't know yet what sort of research area I'll be in and so I want...
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    CRC32 Hash Collision Probability

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Doesn't the birthday problem apply here? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Yeah, uh, the bit about N files is completely wrong. I don't really know where I got that...
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    CRC32 Hash Collision Probability

    It's simple to figure out. No matter what your keys are the hash will be one of 2^32 different values. Assuming random input, the probability of any of these values appearing is equal. So, the probability of collision between the hashes of two given files is 1 / 2^32. The probability of...
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    Startup performance poll: importance of 50 milliseconds?

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I open my browser, read what I need and then close it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>It's 2008. We don't use single-tasking operating systems anymore. Why bother closing any...