JoshCole

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by JoshCole 16y ago
I don't think this is an important question. I'm not sure that you're serious when you say that it is.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Another porting it to Konsole. https://github.com/phiggins/solarized/commit/b3c2170ec01fb7d...
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I picked one of their ideas. My goal was to find a project that would allow me to learn and I think I'll have a lot of opportunity to do that.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
As a fellow Hacker News user I am stunned by just how much overlap their was in our short list of places we are interested in applying. I deeply considered Python, Django, Sunlight labs, and Sencha labs. I ended up applying for Sencha Labs.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I think most people look for it, but that the poster is talking about due diligence. It is easy to read that someone contributed to open source and give them brownie points. It takes a bit of effort to find the work they did, figure out wha
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Right now Hacker News combats eternal September systematically through hell banning and a karma system. The karma system is actually set up in a way that tries to select for the best possible material. A user's karma and their post's karma
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I'm not sure, but I've been thinking about quality for a bit and figure I'd share my thoughts. Eternal September is named the way it is because in the past online communities only had to deal with influx when students got to college, but no
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Very nice. It took me about five minutes from reading the post to having a web server on my computer for the whole world to see. Really glad you threw this out here! I could really see myself using it for prototypes and quick projects that
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Sudoku has a human using their mind to solve things which don't need to be solved. A denial of service attack leaves a computer trying to handle things which don't need to be handled. So they have something trying to deal with things that d
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by JoshCole 16y ago
The article, when talking about the disadvantages of MIT OpenCourseWare and other "big OER" projects, mentions that textbooks can cost a lot of money. This can be true, but sometimes it isn't. A lot of courses are using older textbook editi
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I had been planning to work on Incanter over the summer as part of Google Summer of Code, but things didn't pan out. The organization promoting the project wasn't accepted as a mentoring organization. Now I have to find another internship.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Split it into ten groups of ten with a mouse per group. One mouse dies. Split that mouse's group into ten groups of one with one mouse for each group. There is a leftover group since one of your mice died, but it doesn't matter. If none of
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by JoshCole 16y ago
The thing I loved about the second solution is that it actually performs better at scale. I love the irony of the function with the higher growth rate being the better function as the number of wine bottles increases.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
The question about mice seemed sort of neat to me at first. I figured the desired solution was splitting the wine into two groups, taking the group that turns out to be poisoned, and then recursing. Then I came up with an alternative soluti
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by JoshCole 16y ago
One is actually a pretty big issue for me. Worse is that my laptop does have a hardware volume dial, but that dial only works after I've logged in.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I'm starting to love the typography of Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information." I'm loving it because unlike a lot of other texts I've read its margins provide room for very detailed notes. In a normal book if I want
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by JoshCole 16y ago
People are down voting this, but to me it seems like a very justified comment. I find this to be to be intensely, but shallowly interesting. It appeals to me as a male, but does nothing else. This certainly doesn't teach me anything about t
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by JoshCole 16y ago
One thing worth noting is that reversion to the mean doesn't have to be a bad thing. For example todays mean level of education compared to the mean level of education a few hundred years ago is very different. A good question to ask might
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I do use Clojure. I'm not working yet, so its only for personal projects. However, I've been using it on all sizes of personal projects. I especially like using it for web scraping. I do want to be using Lisp, mostly because it is giving me
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by JoshCole 16y ago
One thing I like about coding is the projects that are hard that you actually finish. I struggle with these, not understanding, fighting bugs, and just going slow in general. But I keep at it. At some point I look back and I see I've actual
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by JoshCole 16y ago
I'm building one to generate interest in myself as an employee. Like an item in a portfolio basically. I want to be able to get a job that I want when I get out of college. I'm also building it to learn. I think you learn more by doing than
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Spanish and Common Lisp most likely. The former is a transfer requirement for the UC system and the latter will be needed for The Paradigms of AI book I purchased.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
It has made me more aware of my own ability. It is really easy to see yourself as better than you are when your peers aren't expert, but on Hacker News I don't have that problem as so many of you are above me. This helps me to keep improvin
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Any particularly interesting books someone wants to point out?
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Tetris Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by JoshCole 16y ago|1 comments
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Has anyone made a plugin or anything of that sort which abstracts away the grunt work of using this sort of system? It sounds like a great thing to try out were it not for the opportunity cost of trying it.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Would it be wrong to create an online memorial for all large losses of life? If there is I don't see it. This just makes it all a little bit more real to me.
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Anyone else going to Golden West College?
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Ask HN: Are any of you at X where X is some college?
9 points by JoshCole 16y ago|21 comments
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by JoshCole 16y ago
Plus the sleazy sites that one would most want to avoid wouldn't be stopped by the filter. I'm thinking of those sites that pop up with, "WAIT! DON'T LEAVE! I'M SELLING YOU SOMETHING!" when you click the back button.

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