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by Adrock 16y ago
If you wanted to get that same amount of processing power using Amazon EC2, that $2550 would get you about 1250 hours (52 days). Of course, you have to pay for your energy, build it, and maintain it.
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Secrets of Successful Data Scientists(dataspora.com)
1 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
Computers are commodity items.
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by Adrock 16y ago
12 years later, I still feel this was the defining class of the CMU CS undergrad experience. Worth reading.
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I Was Followed by BP Security and Then Detained by Police(propublica.org)
4 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
http://usesthis.com/
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by Adrock 16y ago
I don't like that clicking on a link automatically opens in a new tab. Your audience is technical and likely already has mastered using different mouse buttons to open in the same tab or a new one. You've taken that option away from me. A
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by Adrock 16y ago
I was really surprised by how much I enjoy Marvel's iPhone app. I was concerned that the small screen size would detract from the experience, but they managed to make it into an asset by carefully scripting the transition from panel to pan
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by Adrock 16y ago
If you're taking classes that you already have mastered, you're doing yourself a disservice. You're not getting educated, you're getting a degree. Perhaps you should be taking different classes. Math classes. CS classes that focus more
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It’s not the reader’s responsibility to subject themselves to your advertising(tumblr.quisby.net)
19 points by Adrock 16y ago|28 comments
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Lambdas in Java: An In-Depth Analysis(infoq.com)
4 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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Games Can Be Art(gamescanbeart.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|2 comments
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by Adrock 17y ago
I second Scite. My favorite features are the ability to print with syntax highlighting and copy to the clipboard as RTF with syntax highlighting.
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by Adrock 17y ago
Be careful. There is a very fine line past which repetition of my name feels condescending to me. Customer support representatives, particularly those that are clearly outside of the US, go way past this line every time.
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by Adrock 17y ago
My wife was teaching in a public school in NYC. They apply a teaching philosophy called "inclusive classrooms." The idea is that the highest performing kids and the lowest performing kids should all be in the same class so the advanced on
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by Adrock 17y ago
Equally unfashionable is the idea that there are advantages to homogeneous societies and classrooms.
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by Adrock 17y ago
That's not the only way... that dog made it into Window XP's search.
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10 Lessons Learned from Usability Testing(canoo.com)
2 points by Adrock 17y ago|0 comments
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Methods and apparatus for exception-based programming(google.com)
1 points by Adrock 17y ago|0 comments
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No. You Can’t Pick My Brain.(kickingsand.com)
34 points by Adrock 17y ago|35 comments
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The first rule of Lua(goplexian.com)
29 points by Adrock 17y ago|13 comments
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Why Scala Actors are Slow(groovy.dzone.com)
9 points by Adrock 17y ago|17 comments
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by Adrock 17y ago
> In all seriousness - can you cut this out? You've got valid and good points, but adding snark/sarcasm doesn't help them. Maybe I have a tin-ear, but the "keep it up" seemed genuine.
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Groovy++(groovy.dzone.com)
1 points by Adrock 17y ago|0 comments
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Interviewing Insights and Test Frameworks(googletesting.blogspot.com)
1 points by Adrock 17y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 17y ago
Google Reader
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by Adrock 17y ago
Comparing returns to the S&P is way too simplistic. What if the industry that company is in did particularly well?
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by Adrock 17y ago
Don't forget (long)Math.random(): http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%5C%28l...
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Feature Lists Make Us Comfortable, but Sometimes Make Us Dumb(perceptualedge.com)
1 points by Adrock 17y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 17y ago
One written tic I have in my technical writing is to use the adverb "simply" before an instruction. It was pointed out to me early in my career that this is worse than noise... it can make the reader feel bad or annoyed if they don't succe

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