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by Fede_V 12y ago
There are lots of interesting and insightful critics of capitalism from a left point of view that don't rely on postmodern garbage. Read Russell, Orwell, Chomsky, Said, hell, anything but postmodern theorists.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
I just checked using a bunch of throwaway email accounts I had to sign up for various promotions. One of them was leaked - and one of them had a very old password associated with it. I now use KeePass2 to manage all my passwords - so the o
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by Fede_V 12y ago
There was an excellent VisPy talk at EuroSciPy, not sure if Enthought has already put the video on youtube. The team behind VisPy is excellent, and they are doing really good work of making OpenGL usable from a high level language.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
When discussing image quality, I found this paragraph hilarious: "The Sony is a brilliant camera with incredible clarity but lacks soul and comes off as being purely engineering driven. There’s nothing wrong with these things, it’s wha
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Fantastic video, thanks. Is there a link somewhere to the checklist he passed around to the audience, or is that private?
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by Fede_V 12y ago
I agree very much with your sentiment, but that quote by Newton is actually far more mean-spirited than you think. It was Newton making a huge burn about Hooke, one of his main scientific rivals, who was actually very very short. Newton wa
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Parallel MCMC implementations exist. My favorite is emcee - http://dan.iel.fm/emcee/current/ which has excellent support for parallelism. Derail aside - I completely agree that lying about features is horrendous
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Facebook pays their interns over 5k/month. With how tight the market for CS graduates is, the idea of someone working for free for a company that makes a for-profit product is pretty crazy. Unpaid (or, practically unpaid) internships
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Is the last part of your post meant to be ironic? People should feel privileged for the purpose of coding for someone else's for profit company, for free?
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Excellent questions. I'd also like to see this answered.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
I've used Numba to speed up some tight numerical computations written on NumPy arrays and it's incredibly good - about as fast as rewriting it from scratch in Cython, but much, much faster. The flipside is that it only really resu
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by Fede_V 12y ago
wow that's insane.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Thanks for being so raw and honest about this - even the less glamorous parts. It isn't easy to talk honestly about issues like gendered expectations and approaching VC, black hat marketing, or emotional manipulation for Visa, and a l
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by Fede_V 12y ago
I agree entirely. What's kind of a pity is that until NumPy is ported over, all of the scientific stack is basically unusable on PyPy - and right now, there are several incredibly good NumPy specific JITs (numexpr, numba, parakeet).
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Looks interesting, but I think if you trust non-open source encryption, you are basically a knave. Even with really smart people behind it, unless it's completely open, they could be compelled to put backdoors into it.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Think of it this way - a teacher makes a very small fraction of what a programmer makes. With that kind of pay, and the kind of bureaucratic restrictions they have to work with, how easy do you think it is to recruit top tier ambitious tal
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by Fede_V 12y ago
This looks incredibly interesting, and I would very much like to move from Dropbox to something open source. Thanks, will definitely play with it.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
AFAIK, there is a trick involving pasting a specific url after the Quora link that you are interested in to get past their sign up wall, but usually it's a waste of time. I am curious to see what their pivot is, in the current form, I
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Jake's blog is pretty great. I really suggest reading more stuff in there if you care about scientific computing.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Thanks for writing that. The first part was interesting, but the last part probably comes across as more bitter than you intended. About YC's interview policies - it would be very interesting to do some kind of cutoff analysis ( http:
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Again, my impression is that the main 'value added' that things like a business school gives you is the credentials and the network of alumni. In terms of tangible things that you learn, if you want to study calculus and statistic
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by Fede_V 12y ago
This is my own biased impression, but with rare exceptions, almost every article I've read in mainstream business publications (like Harvard Business Review, etc) has had a ratio of content to bullshit that was astonishing. Articles ab
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by Fede_V 13y ago
A very famous Harvard Nobel prize winning scientist had a phd student commit suicide while in his lab: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/29/magazine/lethal-chemistry-... Still there, still incredibly famous
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Great explanation, thanks. Could you explain how this set up would resist a hostile actor (like say, the NSA) from compelling the site to serve to wrong certificate?
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Graph theory applied to conferences(blogs.hbr.org)
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Uhh, what? Stack ranking is terrible and I'm glad MS got rid of it, but how does it justify leaking code in retaliation? How does it 'absolve him enough'? That's a crazy moral framework.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
First - awesome job! I'm curious, what motivated you to start working on it?
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by Fede_V 13y ago
I understand the logic behind it, but I disagree. If you are a very wealth person and your children decide to become volunteers for the red cross, you'll give them less money than if they decide to become bankers on Wall Street?
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by Fede_V 13y ago
I know hating is easy, but this is a genuinely commendable thing that the Gates are doing, and they deserve praise for it. If you want to call out Gates, you can criticize his attitude towards closed source software, IP, etc, but his charit
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by Fede_V 13y ago
A few things: - There's been several reports of SF landlords kicking out tenants from rent controlled apartments to lease out rooms on AirBnB. While I am against rent control (it's a terrible system that creates a few winners and

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