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Re:So We Might Have Killed the Job Description on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @09:12AM (#9144264)
>"Find the perfect fit for you in your worklife. We offer a novel approach to finding a new job based on how you will spend your time. Be the man!!"

I thought you were getting rid of horrible job descriptions.

you shouldn't dismiss this as an argument over semantics if your understanding of the term differs from researchers' use of the term. if you introduce "a fast tool for XYZ" and researchers understand XYZ to mean A, where you understand it to mean B, then the tool is not useful for researchers to perform what they know as XYZ.

tools like BLAST are extremely sophisticated and have been under development for decades, and I'm fairly confident they've moved past naive string comparisons by now.

Re:Bitcoinfs: A minimal full Bitcoin node in F# on Sunday January 25, 2015 @03:04PM (#8944054)
enter `<script type='text/javascript'>alert(1);</script>` as a note phrase, visit another note, then click the door icon
Re:AI-Powered Meeting Scheduler X.ai Raises $9.2M Series A on Sunday January 11, 2015 @10:15PM (#8872344)
Much of the wording on their website is annoyingly imprecise --

> N-Gram, the latter part of her surname, is a technique used in computational linguistics.

it's not a technique; it's just a name for a sequence of n things. Also, I've never seen the 'N' or 'G' capitalized.

Re:Crowdfunding is too expensive on Monday December 29, 2014 @12:19PM (#8810673)
what fraud costs? please elaborate
Re:Crowdfunding is too expensive on Monday December 29, 2014 @12:18PM (#8810666)
bitcoin transaction fees do not depend on the amount transferred. for a standard p2pk transaction of any amount the fee is less than 50 cents https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees