GoatOfAplomb

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by GoatOfAplomb 6y ago
Cargo cults: not just for code!
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by GoatOfAplomb 6y ago
> If not, you pay the store $N on your way out. I was thinking the same as I scanned down this thread, but I can't get past two things: 1) It's tough to for me (the customer) to have enough confidence that the showroom has all
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by GoatOfAplomb 6y ago
It looks to me like trentnix already provided their answer to this question, by stating what happens when the producer doesn't control pricing: "The end result is that there is less sales tax in your community because of the absen
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by GoatOfAplomb 6y ago
My green pings to gstatic are steady, 19-21ms. My blue pings to calgary are reliably ~2000ms then ~200ms. I wonder where in the chain that pattern is originating. I wonder if it'll stay like that over time.
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by GoatOfAplomb 6y ago
It _can_ be an analog to your million lines of code. But often times a given architecture won't scale to greater capabilities just by adding more parameters in the same pattern as before. (Oversimplifying, but) the signal from the tr
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by GoatOfAplomb 6y ago
There's a lot to be said for working on solutions to problems you have yourself. But I think that also leaves a lot of very fertile ground untouched - the problems that startup founders tend not to have, but many other people do.
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by GoatOfAplomb 6y ago
When I depended on poker for my income, I always thought one should work up to the next higher-stake game by building a bankroll at one's current level. People who moved up in betting limits via someone else's money rarely surviv
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by GoatOfAplomb 6y ago
I'm trying to find a quote I read about this paper once. To paraphrase, not only did this paper create a new field of academic inquiry, it answered most of that new field's interesting questions, too.
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by GoatOfAplomb 7y ago
> Wouldn't a mass surveillance system force people to never go outside, by fear of unintentionally breaking the law and get caught ? I find it more likely that enforcement would be relatively rare, and selective. Rare so that peopl
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by GoatOfAplomb 7y ago
Related story from an earlier time: Planet Poker, one of the earliest online poker sites, had about the least secure shuffler one could imagine, including: 1) They used the default pRNG library that came with their Borland C++ compiler. 2)
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by GoatOfAplomb 8y ago
The credit history questions are a mixed bag. I've gotten questions like "Which make of car have you owned?" with choices of Toyota, Rolls Royce, Duesenberg, and Checker. It's not a hard guess.
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by GoatOfAplomb 8y ago
I don't expect someone with a 30k salary to pay anywhere near 33% tax. Federal: 12k standard deduction for an individual, looks like $1969 in taxes on the remaining. New York State: 8k standard deduction, roughly $1100 tax on the res
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by GoatOfAplomb 8y ago
Google had the curious case of the Nexus Q. It was announced at Google I/O and they took orders. Within a few days it was canceled. Those who ordered were refunded AND got their Nexus Q.
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by GoatOfAplomb 8y ago
One can find an appraiser to value one's fine art at 10x what one paid for it just prior to donating it to a museum. It then provides tax reduction in excess of the purchase price, and so there can be a logical expectation of positive
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by GoatOfAplomb 8y ago
And AFTER considering all those other factors, you may need to see a $10B exit to get your $1M.
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by GoatOfAplomb 8y ago
Pmlnr told the recruiter up front that they were only willing to talk outside of 9-5. If the recruiter's schedule makes that impossible, the respectful thing to do is say so and end the engagement if necessary, not ignore pmlnr's
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by GoatOfAplomb 8y ago
Agreed re: transparency. I've had startups refuse to share what even the current valuation was (edit: even when actually presenting an offer!), let alone who has preferences and convertible notes and such. If I'm taking a substa
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by GoatOfAplomb 8y ago
I've experienced the downside of this. If there's a major issue related to your unit, but it's the association's responsibility, you're at their mercy, hoping they'll act quickly. I had a rental unit sit empt
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by GoatOfAplomb 8y ago
This is article is from 2013; neural networks weren't as ubiquitous. I wonder if they've gone in that direction since then.
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by GoatOfAplomb 9y ago
Android Open Source Project is still in gerrit, where the code is stored as a set of many git repositories. There's a "repo" tool that adds a helpful layer of abstraction to make those git repositories (mostly) look like a s
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by GoatOfAplomb 9y ago
Isn't Uber losing money on every ride?
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by GoatOfAplomb 9y ago
At the most popular sites, at popular limits, during the peak years, there were plenty of poor players to go around. We had databases of player behaviors, and consulted them to find juicy games, but there was enough to go around that games
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by GoatOfAplomb 9y ago
I tried changing a pledge to $0.63 just now, and the web form said I'd have to make it at least $1.00. So I canceled my pledge.
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by GoatOfAplomb 9y ago
"Although the practice mostly died out in Europe during the mid-20th century, it has continued in Russia, most famously with the Bolshoi Ballet,[4] and US presidential speaking engagements.[5][6]"
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by GoatOfAplomb 9y ago
I worked at SmartBrief (smartbrief.com), a company that creates newsletters on behalf of trade associations. The advertising would often yield impressive rates because of valuable niche audience, e.g. heavy equipment financing executives.
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by GoatOfAplomb 10y ago
There are still a lot of MUDs out there, which I'd consider to be multi-player extensions of games like Zork. Some still draw 500+ paying accounts logged in at peak times, and have characters that are 25+ years old, like Gemstone IV (
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Publishing Android apps in the early years(brianwilliammee.com)
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by GoatOfAplomb 12y ago
I don't agree with your 50% figure. Symmetrical, sure, but remember the blind bets. Once that money is committed, each player can have a higher EV in playing the hand than in folding. (Related thought experiment - consider a game whe
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by GoatOfAplomb 14y ago
Dude, I know you see "teaser" but I see "5 minutes with no demonstrated value." I'm convinced that the next 40 minutes of your video will have content that I could have just as easily consumed in blog format in about 45 seconds.