blue_pancake

Re:Algorithmic auditors are exposing employee expense fraud on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:57PM (#18603955)

This is unnerving. I don't really have an issue with people who commit fraud being caught in the act. It still bothers me that we're closing out the 2010s and most of what we've achieved as an industry is make it easier for employers to surveil their people.

The story of the 20th century included a moon landing and ubiquitous personal computers. The 21st century's story seems to be about advertisers, health insurers, and employers using technology to get every edge on the common people that they can get.

Re:Algorithmic auditors are exposing employee expense fraud on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:55PM (#18603933)

Most employees are getting robbed by their employers, but those tend to be the ones who don't have expense accounts.

If you have a true expense account, you're likely on the robbing side, not the robbed.

Re:Undefined Behavior Is Really Undefined on Sunday December 02, 2018 @09:33AM (#18582449)

Undefined behavior gets a bad rap, but it's not always evil. Compilers and executables would be a lot slower if they had to account for these cases.

If you're writing serious C, you should be using tools like valgrind on debug-mode executables to make sure you aren't relying on undefined behavior. The tools are there. It's just not something a lot of people do.

Re:A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics on Sunday December 02, 2018 @09:30AM (#18582439)

How do you actually read math, physics and programming books?

Reading them the same way as you'd read a novel doesn't seem right.

Your intuition is correct. When people read a novel, they often "forget" that they're reading words and picture the action. The optimal reading speed for that is 200 to 250 WPM. You can't read mathematical papers, where everything has precise definitions, at that speed and expect a high rate of comprehension if everything's new to you. It takes a lot of time.

Do you really finish such books?

Yes, if I'm interested in the subject matter. It takes a lot of time, though.