Sorting ||s well. If you are talking about just a 5% increase, a threaded version will work very well on most multicore setups and get you far more than 5% speed up, more like 40% for 2 threads. I have done this. It wasn't particularity hard to do.
Think about it. Many sort algorithms are recursive. So you have a lot of independent things to do before you combine the results (ie sort sublists). Merge sort works particularly well for this and also for offline/paged data structures and sizes(ie doesn't fit in ram).
Ideas are cheap and easy. There are literally millions of "ideas" out there. Many of them are pretty much the same. Facebook and myspace where just 2 of the *many* social apps out there. Why did they get popular while others did not? This is equivalent to many good business ideas. Its just a first step and many good ideas go nowhere because of bad execution, no execution or even just bad luck.
Also you are missing what other people mean by "i just want a programmer". These are the people that find a slapped together web site that falls over once a week a piece of magic. That *is* a genius programmer for these people. They wouldn't know a good programmer if their very life depended on it.
And yet we have left out the hardest part of the idea->program process. Communication. The great idea will often never be well formed or properly formulated. It will be up to the hacker or programmer to work out what they really mean. Hell sometimes they just want something that is computationally impossible, like strong AI (yes i have had that twice now).
An implementation of an adequate idea is worth thousands of good ideas.
IIRC Edison said "Invention is 1% inspiration [the idea part], 99% perspiration [the implementation part]".
No one is served by ignorance, unnecessary secrets serve only ignorance. Wikileaks has helped make some people less ignorant. The response of the US and other diplomats has been even more -- enlightening.
All right, genius, show us even one shred of evidence that the government threatened to shut down either Amazon or Paypal.
Well i would, but you know the government insist that this information is secret for "national security reasons" and that release of this proof will "endanger peoples lives" and is unamerican.
Because people are stupid, and rather ignorant of history. And despite/. reputation for "smarter" than average audience... it is in fact decidedly average. The average US citizen response to this is *not* helping American reputation one bit. You[the average us citizen] can no longer claim that the government is not really representing you when you actively encourage them to hide all the details.
If i have done something in my official capacity as a diplomat... I should be required to face the consequences. We are *not* taking about personal privacy... Which incidentally many of these same officials don't want us to have either.
Yea, and "leaking" documents that prove that torture was used is "un-American" and would "endanger peoples lives". Wiki leaks would clearly only leak such documents to make money and because of its strong anti American agenda. The US should be permitted all the "secrecy" they ask for.
Its not just their personal views. Its views they communicated in their official capacity as a diplomat. How exactly are we, the public, better served by letting our governments do this all behind closed doors? How are we, the people they represent served with secrecy.
The only difference is now you know.... How is that worse than not knowing?
When a diplomat is doing their diplomacy thing in the name of *my* and their country. They represent *me* and the rest of the country. We have a right to know how we are being represented! This is *official* business and has nothing to do with personal privacy.
This is *nothing* like having a camera in the bedroom. Never mind that these same "officials" suggested that this sort of thing is a good idea *for us* but not them.
Since the story broke, things have changed a bit. The ISP has or was going to take down the site. Master card and visa are blocking his service and ebay has blacklisted him. It seems others don't want to test the "negative" publicity angle.
So your saying that we should let the government censor anything they like and even be an active participant in that censorship so they won't need to pass censorship laws?
Seriously?
I think there is a job opening in the ministry of truth for you.
Well i am pretty sure the terrorist have. Since bombing railway tracks goes back a real long way. The French resitance did it to great effect during WWII.
That's what they tell you get in radiation. There is a very big lack of 3rd party oversight and data to support the claim. This is really the first use of x-rays without some kind of medical benefit. And across the whole population.
Even worse are the van scanners. They are designed to see inside a steel shipping container, so no so soft x-rays, and quite a lot higher dosage. And they just need to drive past your house.
I don't care about the financial cost of these machines. I care about the privacy and liberty costs of these machines. They don't make us safer, they don't protect us and we end up giving up freedoms and privacy for absolutely nothing.
But if these machine do cost 100K each (doesn't sound bad for a certified x-ray machine), then how much does Janet Napolitano get per machine?
Informants working with the military.. Like in the last leak.... They kind of need to know who they are (the army that is). I get the impression we are talking right past each other.
That;s not true. The scanners pick up the difference in composition. Metal and ceramic is very different from cotton (cloth) and your flesh. X-rays back scatter quite differently from these different materials, and hence show up in the scanner. Same principal applies to mm wave scanners.
Sure, if you want to pay 10x for shipping than what you pay now. And building a 20000 ton sail boat is something we *have not done* so it would be a massive R&D project as well. On top of that you have a lot of shipping routes that go through areas where there is very little wind all year round.
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Sorting ||s well. If you are talking about just a 5% increase, a threaded version will work very well on most multicore setups and get you far more than 5% speed up, more like 40% for 2 threads. I have done this. It wasn't particularity hard to do.
Think about it. Many sort algorithms are recursive. So you have a lot of independent things to do before you combine the results (ie sort sublists). Merge sort works particularly well for this and also for offline/paged data structures and sizes(ie doesn't fit in ram).
Ideas are cheap and easy. There are literally millions of "ideas" out there. Many of them are pretty much the same. Facebook and myspace where just 2 of the *many* social apps out there. Why did they get popular while others did not? This is equivalent to many good business ideas. Its just a first step and many good ideas go nowhere because of bad execution, no execution or even just bad luck.
Also you are missing what other people mean by "i just want a programmer". These are the people that find a slapped together web site that falls over once a week a piece of magic. That *is* a genius programmer for these people. They wouldn't know a good programmer if their very life depended on it.
And yet we have left out the hardest part of the idea->program process. Communication. The great idea will often never be well formed or properly formulated. It will be up to the hacker or programmer to work out what they really mean. Hell sometimes they just want something that is computationally impossible, like strong AI (yes i have had that twice now).
An implementation of an adequate idea is worth thousands of good ideas.
IIRC Edison said "Invention is 1% inspiration [the idea part], 99% perspiration [the implementation part]".
No one is served by ignorance, unnecessary secrets serve only ignorance. Wikileaks has helped make some people less ignorant. The response of the US and other diplomats has been even more -- enlightening.
All right, genius, show us even one shred of evidence that the government threatened to shut down either Amazon or Paypal.
Well i would, but you know the government insist that this information is secret for "national security reasons" and that release of this proof will "endanger peoples lives" and is unamerican.
And where is the US on the scale? 21? Yea, Right.
Because people are stupid, and rather ignorant of history. And despite /. reputation for "smarter" than average audience... it is in fact decidedly average. The average US citizen response to this is *not* helping American reputation one bit. You[the average us citizen] can no longer claim that the government is not really representing you when you actively encourage them to hide all the details.
Nice straw man you have there.
If i have done something in my official capacity as a diplomat... I should be required to face the consequences. We are *not* taking about personal privacy... Which incidentally many of these same officials don't want us to have either.
Yea, and "leaking" documents that prove that torture was used is "un-American" and would "endanger peoples lives". Wiki leaks would clearly only leak such documents to make money and because of its strong anti American agenda. The US should be permitted all the "secrecy" they ask for.
Its not just their personal views. Its views they communicated in their official capacity as a diplomat. How exactly are we, the public, better served by letting our governments do this all behind closed doors? How are we, the people they represent served with secrecy.
The only difference is now you know.... How is that worse than not knowing?
|I often say this. Its not like these cables can't be leaked *without* wikileaks...
It doesn't have a duty to help the US government do anything.
As I understand, neither does any US web site, company or persons.
When a diplomat is doing their diplomacy thing in the name of *my* and their country. They represent *me* and the rest of the country. We have a right to know how we are being represented! This is *official* business and has nothing to do with personal privacy.
This is *nothing* like having a camera in the bedroom. Never mind that these same "officials" suggested that this sort of thing is a good idea *for us* but not them.
No the main thing is why does apple make that decision rather than the users?
Since the story broke, things have changed a bit. The ISP has or was going to take down the site. Master card and visa are blocking his service and ebay has blacklisted him. It seems others don't want to test the "negative" publicity angle.
So your saying that we should let the government censor anything they like and even be an active participant in that censorship so they won't need to pass censorship laws?
Seriously?
I think there is a job opening in the ministry of truth for you.
Wow... For shoes no less.
That's pretty mean. XP wasn't *that* bad.
Well i am pretty sure the terrorist have. Since bombing railway tracks goes back a real long way. The French resitance did it to great effect during WWII.
Put scanners at the Superbowl. That's when.
That's what they tell you get in radiation. There is a very big lack of 3rd party oversight and data to support the claim. This is really the first use of x-rays without some kind of medical benefit. And across the whole population.
Even worse are the van scanners. They are designed to see inside a steel shipping container, so no so soft x-rays, and quite a lot higher dosage. And they just need to drive past your house.
I don't care about the financial cost of these machines. I care about the privacy and liberty costs of these machines. They don't make us safer, they don't protect us and we end up giving up freedoms and privacy for absolutely nothing.
But if these machine do cost 100K each (doesn't sound bad for a certified x-ray machine), then how much does Janet Napolitano get per machine?
Informants working with the military.. Like in the last leak.... They kind of need to know who they are (the army that is). I get the impression we are talking right past each other.
That;s not true. The scanners pick up the difference in composition. Metal and ceramic is very different from cotton (cloth) and your flesh. X-rays back scatter quite differently from these different materials, and hence show up in the scanner. Same principal applies to mm wave scanners.
Sure, if you want to pay 10x for shipping than what you pay now. And building a 20000 ton sail boat is something we *have not done* so it would be a massive R&D project as well. On top of that you have a lot of shipping routes that go through areas where there is very little wind all year round.
It would be cheaper to fly the cargo.