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  1. Re:So, were are they assembled or fabed? on US Blocks Intel From Selling Xeon Chips To Chinese Supercomputer Projects · · Score: 1

    Exactly right - Intel's development fab is in Hillsboro, Oregon. They get the fab process working there, and then document the hell out of it and reproduce that billion+ dollar facility in their production fabs around the world - Costa Rica, Philippines, Malaysia, etc. Then they tear out the inside of the development fab and start over for the next generation. Periodically they need a bigger building footprint, so they build another dev fab next door and assign the previous dev fab to be a production fab at that node for products until they're done with it.

    That would be what this campus does.

    If you drag the map upwards a couple of times, you can see my house.

  2. Yes I can. I have lots of things I think are true because I seen the data in the past and it was convincing. I don't go around being a walking data encyclopedia. The data wouldn't fit in my head. Compression is important.

  3. Re:And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    It doesn't miss the point at all. Maintaining a dominant skill center does great good for the country that has it and it sucks for everyone else. I don't think this is in dispute except among people who think migration is a bad thing. But they are wrong.

    The post I was responding to was painting a picture of why people migrate that is simply wrong in the context of US hi-tech focused visa applications. If that doesn't deal with the points you think are important, I do not care.

    Everyone should try migration some time in their life. I highly recommend it.

  4. Re:Cows and their unnatural diet. on America's Methane Mystery: NASA Set To Investigate Hotspot Over the 4 Corners · · Score: 1

    Dang. Another flippant, non scientific post foiled.

  5. Re:And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    No Japanese or Chinese company were trying to get me at the time. There's also a language barrier that would have made it a harder transition.

    I really like Japan and if the opportunity came up to move there, I'd probably take it.

  6. Re:And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Does this mean I have to go and find the data I looked at a couple of years ago and then decide which one is wrong?

  7. Cows and their unnatural diet. on America's Methane Mystery: NASA Set To Investigate Hotspot Over the 4 Corners · · Score: 2

    May I suggest cows, being fed corn in place of their natural cellulose diet?

  8. Re:And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1, Interesting

    instead of the 'I cant fix my own country, so I'll just go to the US, instead' mentality.

    Speaking as one of the immigrants (see my slashdot name for details) I didn't come here because the US was better or my home country was deficient, I came here because I work in technology and the center of the techy universe is the West coast of the United States.

    If I worked in pharma I'd probably have gone somewhere else.

    You do know that more Americans emigrate than non-American immigrate to the US?

  9. Re:Neural Nets on FTC Creates Office Dedicated To "Algorithmic Transparency" · · Score: 1

    Secure multiparty computation algorithms provide fully visible algorithms that remain a black box.
    A neat trick.

    http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~nige...

  10. Re:CS Isn't a core subject on Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject · · Score: 1

    4 apples could be represented in a GF(2^2) Galois field. So 4 apples is congruous to 0 apples.

  11. Re:CS Isn't a core subject on Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject · · Score: 1

    That's programming, where you don't need to know how the lower layers of a computer work. But a full computer typically includes chips, capacitors, FR4 substrates, instruction sets, operating systems, buck-boost converters, and a whole bunch of algorithms.

    So the whole field of CS is large. Programming intersects with mathematical computer science, but it's hardly the whole of computer science.

    Take a look on the research on formally correct side channel mitigation in logic circuits or Yao garbled circuits for an example of advanced mathematics intersecting with low level circuit details.
     

  12. Re:Negotiation on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    Because they aren't hiring your for your negotiation skills...

    They aren't hiring me at all. I have skills that are valuable to some organizations. If I were seeking new employment (which I'm not) my goals would not be to "get the job", it would be to find the organization for which my skills are most valuable and then help them understand why. I don't think Reddit would be on the list. I don't have a high opinion of the CEO either.

  13. CS Isn't a core subject on Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject · · Score: 2

    CS might be an economically important subject, but it's hardly core. It's a composition of math, electronics and engineering.

    Math is a core subject, but only once they quit with the "math = arithmetic, algebra, calculus" mantra in schools. Start teaching logic and inference.

  14. Re:Gender balance "problem"? on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    Yup. I was in the UK then. I studied at Manchester University.

  15. Negotiation on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We come up with an offer that we think is fair.

    That's a pretty poor negotiating strategy if you're trying to hire the talent you want rather than the gender you want.

    Why wouldn't I spend the time to fly out and interview if there was a significant chance I wouldn't like whatever number it was that they considered 'fair' and I couldn't negotiate from there?

  16. Re:Which features? on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    I'd have to try them to know.

  17. Re: Tabs vs Spaces on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    I've been doing that today. So far it's going ok.

  18. Re:Why no deportation? on Verdict Reached In Boston Bombing Trial · · Score: 1

    Setting aside the moral issues, I thought a large dose of barbiturates worked well enough. Why is the mechanics of it considered difficult.

  19. Re:Too bad it did not happen on Osama Bin Laden on Verdict Reached In Boston Bombing Trial · · Score: 1

    A country's legal system doesn't have to lower itself to the level of the criminals it is punishing.

  20. Re:Not a surprise on Verdict Reached In Boston Bombing Trial · · Score: 1

    Why was is better than avoiding a trial by pleading guilty? IANAL obviously.

  21. Re: Tabs vs Spaces on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    Ctrl for block select instead of alt, but not bad. I'll will continue messing with it.

  22. Re: Tabs vs Spaces on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    I just typed geany into my work environment (big corp, shared linux compute server type environment) and it's there. I've never been more surprised. I usually have to mess around compiling this sort of thing.

     

  23. Re: Tabs vs Spaces on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    Yes. I don't have a problem with vim. I use it every day and after 25 years, it's wired into my head fairly well.

    But I would love greater consistency in the common actions across platforms. copy, paste, block select/delete/insert, insert mode indent etc. . Every now and then I go and meddle with the .vimrc and try to make them behave the same, but entropy creeps in over time.

    These days I write more code by writing python to generate the code than by writing directly in the domain specific languages I use. It's heavy lifting to get started, but cuts out a layer of typo debugging.
     

  24. Re:Gender balance "problem"? on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    My recollection is of 3 or 4 women in a room of 200 students.

    Your recollection is wrong. Or, you weren't paying attention. Or the women just happened to sit as far away from you as to not be seen.

    My recollection is not wrong. I counted. It was a database lecture. It was 3 or 4 because the lecturer was female. 3 in the audience.

    My data point doesn't have to match your averages.

  25. Re: Tabs vs Spaces on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    I'll try them. They're new to me.