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  1. Re:Fix the title: $1.9 on Universal Buys EMI's Recorded Music Unit For $1.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    Naxos FTW!!!

  2. Re:Bad learning resources on IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru · · Score: 1

    There a similar maven recipe for deploying a hadoop cluster

    no, not now, but if you need it, you could easily fork http://mojo.codehaus.org/wagon-maven-plugin so that it could be used like that:mvn install deploy:deploy deploy:execute-on-remote.

    Hadoop is easy -- having the analytical skills to express a problem as mapreduce in the first place is the hard part.

    Agreed, math is more useful, my halfexpertise enables me to assert that the right way to express a problem for hadoop is it to formulate it into associative (a+b==b+a) and distributive (a*(b+c)==a*b+a*c) operators. But I only have two day of self-education on the subject, if someone more experienced would like to enlighten us, I would appreciate.

  3. Re:Bad learning resources on IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru · · Score: 4, Informative

    drink the maven kool aid, and you worries will be beyond you.
    To use hadoop :

            org.apache.hadoop
            hadoop-core
            0.20.205.0

    in your pom.mxl

    Then write 2 classes like those one:

    class MyMap extends MapReduceBase implements Mapper<K1, V1, K2, V2 >...
    class MyReduce extends MapReduceBase implements Reducer<K2, V2, K3, V3>...

    Feed instances of those to a JobConf and feed that instance to a JobClient.

    The rest should be obvious to a seasoned programmer, just by looking at the nomenclature of the classes hierarchy.

    The great Ward Cunningham, is right, put two days into studying something and you are already half way to expert.

  4. Bastard Noise is worst than that on Mathematically Pattern-Free Music · · Score: 1

    Bastard Noise: The Analysis of Self-Destruction is the worst voluntary atonal arrhythmic non-patterned music ever.
    If you don't consider suicide during a listening session, you are deaf!

  5. Re:cure but... on Mathematically Pattern-Free Music · · Score: 1

    I prefer the more recent Nick Didkovsky, the father of JMSL

  6. Re:who wants to work for google? on Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates · · Score: 1

    The peoples I used know that went to work for Google have, for all intents and purposes, disappeared...

  7. Re:Getting there slowly.. on Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard · · Score: 1

    I was talking on the phone while responding
    here are the correct number:
    exponential time (in np if np!=p):for 2^(n-1)
    Eating one bagel takes 1 minutes;
    eating two bagels takes bagel take 2 minutes;
    eating three bagels takes 4 minutes;
    eating four bagels takes 8 minutes;
    eating ten bagels takes 512 minutes.

  8. Re:Getting there slowly.. on Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard · · Score: 1

    you might have explained exponential time with your imprecision

    polynomial time: for (n+1)/2 (also known as linear time)
    Eating one bagel takes 1 minutes;
    eating two bagels takes bagel take 1.5 minutes;
    eating three bagels takes 2.5 minutes;
    eating four bagels takes 3 minutes;
    eating ten bagels takes 5.5 minutes.

    polynomial time: for (n^3+n^2+n+1)/4
    Eating one bagel takes 1 minutes;
    eating two bagels takes bagel take 3.75 minutes;
    eating three bagels takes 10 minutes;
    eating four bagels takes 21.25 minutes;
    eating ten bagels takes 277.75 minutes.

    exponential time (in np if np!=p):for 2^(n-1)
    Eating one bagel takes 1 minutes;
    eating two bagels takes bagel take 2 minutes;
    eating three bagels takes 10 minutes;
    eating four bagels takes 21.25 minutes;
    eating ten bagels takes 512 minutes.
       

  9. Re:Definitely true for MS on Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates · · Score: 1

    I had a similar experience in the interview process for my current job I but was very blunt about it. I told the interviewer:

    I can give you a good answer to your problem but I have to stay silent about 5 minutes while I solve it and only after that I can explain my solution. However, if you really wish so, I can do a bad job while talking about it but be warned that you will eventually hear me talk about how I think when I think about "talking through" my process while I crapply solve you trick problem. I value quality and correctness, but as I said, if you really wish so, I can botch it for you. The choice is up to you.

    The interviewer evidently selected quality (who would choose crap?) and about 3 minutes later, I had an elegant solution based on graphs theory.

  10. Re:who wants to work for google? on Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    google is not full with EXCEPTIONAL developers, it is filled with EXCEPTIONALLY clever people; you get what you select for. As D&D should have taught you, INT is not equals to WIS !

  11. Re:I wish they would do the obvious on How X-Ray Scanners Became Mandatory In US Airports · · Score: 1

    And if you fly first class : eat real maple smoked old style peppered bacon and have a glass of cask strength 12yr aged in a sherry oak bourbon opened with one small ice cube

  12. Re:Install media? on OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World · · Score: 1

    use a Forth bios assuming that it has a LOAD verb and usb support.
    write a UNTAR verb and an UNZIP verb
    put the floppy
    A:/image.tgz
    LOAD.
    UNTAR.
    UNZIP.
    EXECUTE '.

    see that was easy as pie ;)

  13. Re:Let's pull all foriegn aid.. on US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote · · Score: 1

    Most peoples in the world do not hate Americans on a personal level, they mostly hate your government and his vulgar display of power.

  14. Re:Ketracel-white on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 2

    And when it does not works, we gave them good'ol amphetamine sulphate! http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/17/1042520778665.html

  15. Re:It does not work.. on Inside Facebook's Cyber-Security System · · Score: 1

    Aren't Zynga games retrofit-able as a stupid detector, that could serve as the basis for the stupid filter ?

  16. Re:Of course... on Man Has Nokia Phone Embedded In False Limb · · Score: 1

    So with iDick, I will have to stop fucking my gf ear ? Lame as a 1gen iPod, I want myDick back.

  17. Re:service jobs on The Real Job Threat · · Score: 1

    Let me present you an excerpt of the wonderful music composed by EMILY HOWELL a program by David Cope:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOjV5eDXkyc

  18. Re:Wow... on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    find them and start a being Abstrackt (609015) club !

  19. Re:Patch available -- don't panic on New JBOSS Worm Infecting Unpatched Servers · · Score: 1

    indeed, and running core business production server on the unsupported community edition is almost as bad !

  20. Re:Price discovery make distribution efficient on Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices · · Score: 1

    no, I disagree, regulations when used moderately, can transform a Weibull(lambda>1,k>2) shaped resource distribution function into a Weibull(1>lambda>0,k<2) ressource distribution function. You evidently want to avoid the pure communist limit(Weibull(lambda,k<2),lambda,0) resource distribution function but unless you are in the top a%, why would you choose the first one over the second one ?

    I used Weibull as an example as it can approximate a lot of distributions just by tweaking lambda and k.

  21. Re:Price discovery make distribution efficient on Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices · · Score: 1

    It definitely beats artificial rationing.

    but it is rationed, from the summary :

    even limiting hard drive purchases to 1-2 drives per person.

    So it is then an hybrid approach to resource allocation. A market operating under regulations...

    Hybrid approaches that takes into account the wide spectrum of behaviours generated by life/physics/the universe random number generator know as god, are almost always better than those that repose on a binary world view that classify things in us/them, good/evil,etc... Most Manichean solutions to societal problems usually ends up in worsening them.

  22. Re:An this way they again get non-engineer coders on Gnarly Programming Challenges Help Recruit Coders · · Score: 2

    You are almost correct, solving most of these problems using an O(2^x) algorithm or worst is trivial, but solving it on a large dataset before the universe heat death is not. But the challenge you mentioned (maintainable interfaces, writing high quality code, having a good design and a good architecture, having working defense-in-depth against attacks) are hard, nonetheless they can be solved at the workplace by establishing a well crafted mentorship and learning program; being an innate NP-hard problem solver writer is... is... is well innate.

  23. Re:That depends... on Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    If your employer would(hypothetically), tell you to clean out your desk and instruct security not to let the door hit your worthless ass on the way out if you were to get sick and be expected to be less productive because of treatment/recovery for a period of time, then it is a fairly safe bet that you are just an "input" to them. If so, fuck-em. They'd fuck you over for money, and it looks like you've been handed the change to do unto them before they do unto you.

    If, in that same hypothetical situation, they would exhibit care, understanding, concern, accomodation, etc, it is probable that they are the sort of entity that will recognize, value, and reciprocate loyalty...

    Well said, this is the best litmus test of organizational consideration toward its employees that I have read!

  24. Re:Not too useful on Competing Contests To Create Pro- and Anti-Piracy PSAs · · Score: 1

    What happen when music writing is totally automated ?

    Music only seems magical on the surface, but it has a number of parameters that can describe it in a probabilistic way. (I refer you to the series of paper from Nick Didkovsky for a limited (but grandiose in 2001) implementation strategy) Programs that can imitate the composition style of someone already exist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_music#Statistical_style_modeling), we only need a good style mutator (I gargantuan task , but a priori, there is no reason why it should be impossible) and we will be able to generate all the music that can exist.

    In some ways, it has already happened; name me a new style of music that "appeared" in the last 10 years, and I will name you someone pioneering that style somewhere between [T-1000y,T-10y], and if I don't, well, then I win a new style to explore, and I will gladly apologize.

  25. Re:Hmmm on Microsoft To Bring Cable TV To 360 · · Score: 1

    if the price had a link to the cost, I would it for it but as it was proposed, it had an average profits of 980cents per GB transferred, it was insane....