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• Which specific programming activities do women, on average, perform better than men? [closed]

  - by blueberryfields

  Following a recent discussion with female associates in hiring positions for software development/engineering positions, I found out that this kind of information would be incredibly useful to helping make sure that the workforce shows a gender balance. So I went looking. I've found various literature speaking about risk-taking behaviour and patterns, and other statistical differences between men and women when it comes to work performance. See for example this article related to hedge fund management. I have yet to see any such comparison in the computing field. To restate the question: Which specific programming activities do women, on average, perform better than men? Please back up your answers with specific details, preferably by linking to relevant research or, failing that, explaining what you're basing the information on.

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• D-fense! D-fense! ...for Java technology

  - by hinkmond

  Who needs defense when computing with the Java platform? Isn't "the best defense is a good offense"? At least in football and volleyball... See: The Best Defense Here's a quote: "The other Oracle tester page, Verify Java Version, consistently reports whether the latest version is installed. Just click the big red button to see if the 'recommended' version of Java is installed." So, go ahead and use Java technology! There is "nothing to fear but fear itself". I like that quote better. Hinkmond

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• Writing a spell checker similar to "did you mean"

  - by user888734

  I'm hoping to write a spellchecker for search queries in a web application - not unlike Google's "Did you mean?" The algorithm will be loosely based on this: http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2006T13 In short, it generates correction candidates and scores them on how often they appear (along with adjacent words in the search query) in an enormous dataset of known n-grams - Google Web 1T - which contains well over 1 billion 5-grams. I'm not using the Web 1T dataset, but building my n-gram sets from my own documents - about 200k docs, and I'm estimating tens or hundreds of millions of n-grams will be generated. This kind of process is pushing the limits of my understanding of basic computing performance - can I simply load my n-grams into memory in a hashtable or dictionary when the app starts? Is the only limiting factor the amount of memory on the machine? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Perhaps putting all my n-grams in a graph database with some sort of tree query optimisation? Could that ever be fast enough?

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• Is there a quick way to convert camera raw files to DNG?

  - by dericke

  Before I switched from Windows to Ubuntu for my daily computing, I used Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom for processing photos from my DSLR. Adobe made it really straightforward to convert from proprietary camera raw files (in my case, .NEF) to DNG. I haven't found any way to convert NEF to DNG in Ubuntu yet. Most photography programs do process NEFs to JPG/TIFF/PNG/etc., but I'm looking for a converter for archival purposes. Are there any tools available, either standalone or built into another app, that can losslessly convert from NEF to DNG?

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• Learning to program on punchcards

  - by Plutor

  I'd like to try programming with punch cards once in my life. How can I do this? I'm in my 30s, and grew up entirely in the PC era, programming on computers with screens and keyboards. I want to experience the way my father and grandfather used to work. I imagine the hardware (and probably the cards themselves) are no longer manufactured. Are there any universities or museums with functioning punch card readers anymore? I'm in Boston, but I'm willing to travel to do this. I asked MetaFilter, and I got some mixed answers (along with a lot of "no, don't do this" nay-saying). I did get a pointer to the Retro-Computing Society Of Rhode Island, but I haven't received a response to my email to them yet.

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• Meet Windows Azure on June 7th

  - by ScottGu

  As many of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the past 12 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to run the teams that build ASP.NET, the server framework libraries of .NET, and a few other products too). I will be doing a keynote in San Francisco this Thursday, June 7th at 1pm PDT.  The event will be streamed live, and I hope you’ll be able to join us as we walkthrough some of the exciting work we’ve been doing – and how you’ll be able to take advantage of it as developers. You can learn more and register to watch the event here. Hope to see you there, Scott

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• Fiscal quarter vs calendar quarter

  - by Geotarget

  I'm building a Date/Time class with a "configurable quarter" system as follows. User specifies which month the quarter starts at (config) Set of functions to deal with quarters (next quarter, prev quarter, etc) All quarter functions respect the config Now this class is primarily to be used for fiscal quarter calculations. So assuming I have this class with a configurable "quarter" system, would I need another parallel set of functions for calendar quarters too? What are the applications for calendar quarters anyways? By calendar quarters I mean where Q1 is Jan-Mar, and Q4 is Oct-Dec. By fiscal quarters I mean whatever standard your Country uses (in India Q1 starts in April)

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• How are you keeping abreast with latest HPC trends?

  - by Fanatic23

  For those of you primarily working on high performance computing for non-scientific purposes (as in no fortran) what are the ways by which you keep yourself abreast of the latest trends out there? Industry gossip? Random blogs from google? Search SO? I am into HPC recently and looking for the high level architectural landscape. Given that everyone from GPGPU coders to FPGA folks to Erlang developers claim they are into HPC, how are you keeping up with so much information?

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• Citrix dévoile Xen Cloud Platform 1.0, la première version de son environnement de développement Cloud open-source

  Citrix dévoile la première version de Xen Cloud Platform Son environnement de développement Cloud open-source Xen.org (à l'origine de l'hyperviseur open source Xen) annonce le lancement de Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0. Développé dans le cadre du Xen Cloud Project lancé en 2009, XCP 1.0 est une solution de Citrix pour les PME désireuses de mettre en place des clouds privés, ainsi qu'aux passionnés de l'open source, aux universités et aux chercheurs souhaitant expérimenter le cloud computing. Il s'agit d'un tournant dans l'utilisation en entreprise pour Xen.org. Jusqu'ici, celui-ci ne proposait traditionnellement que des logiciels sous forme de code source. XC...

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• Oracle dévoile sa Roadmap pour Java, améliorations de la JVM, support du Cloud, fonctionnalités objet et optimisations avancées

  Oracle dévoile sa RoadMap pour Java améliorations de la JVM, support du Cloud et fonctionnalités objet Oracle a dévoilé, lors de la conférence QCon de Londres, sa feuille de route pour le langage Java pour les années à venir. QCon est un événement annuel sur le développement logiciel pour les développeurs, les chefs de projet, les architectes et les analystes métiers. Il porte essentiellement sur la présentation de nouvelles innovations pour Java, .NET, HTML5, mobile et méthodes agiles. Les plans d'Oracle pour le futur sont essentiellement axés sur les améliorations et l'introduction des fonctionnalités objet, la facilité d'utilisation, le support du Cloud computing et des...

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• GDD-BR 2010 [1B] What's New in Google App Engine and GAE for Business

  GDD-BR 2010 [1B] What's New in Google App Engine and GAE for Business Speaker: Patrick Chanezon Track: Cloud Computing Time: B[11:15 - 12:00] Room: 1 Level: 151 Learn what's new with Java on App Engine. We'll take a whirlwind tour through the changes since last year, walk through a code sample for task queues and the new blobstore service, and demonstrate techniques for improving your application's performance. We'll top it off with a glimpse into some new features that we've planned for the year ahead. This session will include an overview of Google App Engine for Business. From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 49:20 More in Science & Technology

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• Problem using python QPID and gevent together [closed]

  - by William Payne

  I have a python script that pulls messages from an Apache QPID queue, and then uses gevent to perform (IO-bound) tasks on those messages in parallel. The queue that this script pulls from was recently changed: I suspect the version of the C++ QPID broker changed, although I cannot verify this at the present time. Now, my process deadlocks and hangs upon QPID queue creation. I strongly suspect that this is a result of an incompatibility with gevent, although I have not done the work yet to produce a minimal example to demonstrate the problem. (Next on my list). Does anybody else have experience of getting gevent and QPID to work together? or Has anybody else seen the same issues?

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• JavaOne 2012 Content Catalog is Available

  - by arungupta

  JavaOne 2012 Content Catalog is now available! The complete list of technical sessions, birds-of-feather, hands-on labs, tutorials and other details are available. We are still working on the overall schedule and it will be shared in the coming days. The conference will be held in San Francisco from September 30th to October 4th, 2012. You can also connect using the usual social media channels: facebook, twitter, blogs, linkedin, and mix. Oracle Open World, running in parallel to JavaOne, also has the content catalog available.

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• Do threads delete themselves?

  - by Prog

  Let's say I was working on a Swing application. Most of it is run on the EDT using SwingUtilities.invokeLater() inside the main method, because I heard (please correct me if I'm wrong) that that's what you need to do with Swing. However, some parts of it shouldn't run on the EDT. These parts are parts that take long to complete (I assume that this is because long tasks on the EDT will interfere with GUI stuff the EDT should be doing, and thus these kinds of tasks should be run on parallel, on a different thread. Is this assumption correct?) To do this, when I need to perform a task that takes long to complete and thus can't be run on the EDT like the rest of the program, I create a new thread and run that task inside it. My question is: When the run() method of that new thread finishes, aka the thread finished it's job. Does it delete itself? Or does it keep existing in the memory?

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• Windows 7 Climbing the Charts, Fights for Market Share

  Microsoft has to fight with competitors in various industries for market share whether it be in computing video games or portable media devices just to name a few. The story is no different within the cell phone industry either. Within this particular mobile arena the main enemies for Microsoft are RIM Apple and Google Android. Microsoft is lagging a bit among the competition as things currently stand but they hope that will change in the near future.... Transportation Design - AutoCAD Civil 3D Design Road Projects 75% Faster with Automatic Documentation Updates!

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• Getting Started Integrating Windows Azure with Microsoft Office Solutions

  Nearly everyone starts learning anything new by beginning with something simple and adding incremental knowledge. One of the biggest challenges with Windows Azure and SQL Azure is that the simple beginning seems a bit more elusive. The "Hello World" application in the new world of cloud computing, while not overly complex in concept, requires a good measure of preparation and configuration. The following content is designed to aid you in getting started with Windows Azure and SQL Azure in the spirit...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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• SAP courtise les petites structures et les startups, l'éditeur veut faire savoir que ses solutions ne s'adressent pas qu'aux "gros"

  SAP courtise les petites structures et les start-ups Et veut faire savoir que ses solutions ne s'adressent pas qu'aux multinationales HANA n'est pas réservé aux multinationales. SAP a mis les petits plats dans les grands pour le faire savoir lors d'un « concours » de start-ups qui souhaitent utiliser la technologie de In-Memory Computing de l'éditeur allemand pour accélérer de manière drastique le traitement de leurs données ? et donc de leurs temps de calcul. Cette journée parisienne du « SAP Startup Forum » a vu défiler des entreprises très diverses. Certaines ont été lancées depuis plusieurs années (comme Kxen, qui crée des outils de « deuxième génération d'analyse pré...

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• What is the current frequency of my processor (CPU-Z equivalent)?

  - by Anake

  Is there a ubuntu program like CPU-Z which will show me the actual frequency of my processor? I do a fair amount of scientific computing which leads to me running my programs for up to 10 hrs. To alleviate this problem a little I overclock my CPU. However I can't see what the actual clock of my processor from within ubuntu which means I either have to restart and look at the bios or load into windows. If there was an applet or command line command to find out this information it would be very helpful. Thanks for your help

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• Why do exclusively outsourcing projects as a company?

  - by user19833

  A prospective employer told me they took a company level decision to only do outsourcing projects. I do not understand why did they take such a decision and the guy I talked to did not elaborate. He further said only that "their intention is to build software components". Since they are growing quite fast and reached around 300 employees, shouldn't they be at least open to the possibility of having a project of their own, maybe? All other companies I've had contact with were at least open to have one in the future.. I talked to a few of their employees and some are working in parallel on more than 2 outsourced projects (dividing time something like 4 + 4 hours / day). It seemed like a lot of projects with a period of a few months, maybe half an year come and go... Why would a company choose to provide only outsourcing services like that? How does it work to keep hundreds of people on outsourced projects with a seemingly high project turnover rate?

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• VMware annonce VMware View 4.6, la solution de virtualisation bureautique améliore l'accès à distance grâce à la prise en charge du PCoIP

  VMware annonce VMware View 4.6 La solution de virtualisation bureautique améliore l'accès à distance grâce à la prise en charge du PCoIP VMware, le spécialiste des logiciels de virtualisation et d'infrastructures de Cloud Computing, annonce la disponibilité générale de la version 4.6 de VMware View, une solution qui offre un accès à distance qui prend désormais en charge le protocole PCoIP. Pour mémoire, la prise en charge du PCoIP permet de simplifier et de sécuriser les processus de connexion à distance et d'authentification sur le poste de travail, et, ajoute Vmware, « en libérant l'entreprise de l'obligation de posséder un VPN SSL ». « La prise en char...

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• Should I continue to learn and program using ansi c or non standard? [closed]

  - by Erik

  I am a Cs Student, enthusiastic about programming. C is my first programming language that I learned. (Never been exposed to programming, data structures, algorithms before) I failed the exam because I studied on my own and didn't know how to use windows non standard libraries like conio.h. (I had to draw circles, etc using get x and get y). I told them but they just don't care. What do I do because for a beginner this is very confusing? Do I continue to study ansi c on my own, or should I study non standard c? Should I do them in parallel? *I did use the search bar but found nothing useful that could help me.

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• Steps to manage a large project [closed]

  - by l46kok

  Software development is an area where parallel development to its fullest form is very difficult to achieve, although you could get reasonably close with the right design. This is especially true for game development. That being said, if you are designing a game from scratch from engine to front end, what steps should be taken in order? How would you efficiently manage your project and your team? I'm asking because several people and I are interested in working on a relatively large project for learning purposes. Initially, we were going to use a proprietary engine like Unity, but since we wanted to learn how the engine works, we're going to start from bottom. I'd appreciate any suggestions that you guys can provide me.

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• SAPPHIRE 2012 : SAP veut imposer sa nouvelle image et simplifier l'IT avec ses outils pour le Big Data, la mobilité et le Cloud

  SAPPHIRE 2012 : SAP veut imposer sa nouvelle image et simplifier l'IT Avec des outils pour le Big Data, la mobilité et le Cloud Après plusieurs années de changements radicaux qui l'ont fait passer d'éditeur mono-produit à fournisseur multi-services (BI, SGBD, Cloud, mobilité, In-computing), SAP rentre dans une nouvelle phase : celle de la consolidation. Cette évolution dans la continuité se traduit jusque dans l'arrivée de nouveaux slogans (comme « SAP runs like never before ») inspiré du traditionnel « Runs Better with SAP », placardés sur les murs du SAPPHIRE ? la grande messe annuelle de l'éditeur qui a ouvert ses portes aujourd'hui à Madrid. L'évolution se...

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• If I use locks, can my algorithm still be lock-free?

  - by Joe Pension

  A common definition of lock-free is that at least one process makes progress. 1 If I have a simple data structure such as a queue, protected by a lock, then one process can always make progress, as one process can acquire the lock, do what it wants, and release it. So does it meet the definition of lock-free? 1 See eg M. Herlihy, V. Luchangco, and M. Moir. Obstruction-free synchronization: Double-ended queues as an example. In Distributed Computing, 2003. "It is lock-free if it ensures only that some thread always makes progress".

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• Effecient finding of long-range spotting targets

  - by nihohit

  I'm creating a top-down 2d strategy game, with a square grid map. So far, I've used Bresenham's line drawing algorithm in a circle to determine what's in LOS of each unit, and then targedt one of the targets in the circle. Now I find that this limits my units to shoot only at targets that they see. I want to extend my targeting algorithm to target any other unit in range of my weapon, even if they're out of sight range of this given unit, if they're "spotted" by another friendly unit. In other words, I want to enable usage of weapons with ranges longer than sight range. Is there a better way than iterating over all sighted units and computing range and LOSto each of them?

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