Raplh

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by Raplh 17y ago
Whatever else you can say about the original post, WHEN will people putting things up on the web realize that "Today at 6:00am," becomes ambiguous real fast on the web, when nowhere else on the page is there a date? I see this constantly,
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by Raplh 17y ago
Rather than ranking the proposal against some version of protection, I evaluate it in terms of: would more good stuff happen with the proposal than without it? Clearly it would. Clearly having SOME additional number of people admitted who
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by Raplh 17y ago
I'm surprised GS wants to pay back the TARP $10billion so quickly. They are paying $500Million/yr to keep that $10Billion. GS also "borrowed" $5Billion from Berkshire Hathaway, giving BH preferred shares for its $5Billion. The preferred s
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by Raplh 17y ago
I upvoted this because clearly, if something can hurt you you should know about that before trying it. But I am interested: was your problem a fundamental one, or were you perhaps not adequately prepared to try this? How much "training" di
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by Raplh 17y ago
I have been wearing this bracelet for around 30 days. It is educational to discover, in my case, that there are certain types of family gatherings where the default behavior has me moving the bracelet back and forth across wrists many time
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by Raplh 18y ago
I'm not in software, but rather algorithm development for determining radio positions (like GPS but including other methods for cell phones). I have used eigenanalysis a number of times, a lot of orthogonal basis shifting of various kinds,
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by Raplh 18y ago
If you want to kill the thread I can live with that. Or perhaps this is the answer to the social experiment you implicitly performed.
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by Raplh 18y ago
Perhaps Tara could write her own wikipedia entry. Or is she too shy for that?
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Ask: Who is Tara Ploughman?
75 points by Raplh 18y ago|36 comments
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by Raplh 18y ago
I have worked for a university which, under budget pressure, allocated for < 1% average annual raise, but STILL put all the effort into review to spread it out so some got .7%, some got .8% and so on. What I remarked from this was: all
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by Raplh 18y ago
On the idea that problems which seem solved to some people are far from solved, indeed. Of course. I suspect, however, that the idea that there has ever been some kind of consensus that all problems in software were solved, or all problems
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by Raplh 18y ago
As stupid as Google's customer service, and their interpretation of the word "deleted" is, it is pretty obviously not intentional. My reasoning is: it adds virtually nothing to Google's income. If these had not been turned on, the next hig
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by Raplh 18y ago
I think there must be a basic law of nature that when you have a monopoly you get stupid. Perhaps the only way for Google to "not be evil" is to cut itself in half and have the two new companies compete with each other.
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by Raplh 18y ago
News release announcing google, apple, and microsoft were teaming up to "redefine the desktop," developing new hardware, operating system, and user interface to give you "all the functionality of a portable device, but without the fear of l
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by Raplh 18y ago
My tendency was to react the way you do. Upon years of reflection and experience, I concluded I was being a snob, and that there was very little information I could use in those errors. Despite my own genetic predisposition towards words (
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by Raplh 18y ago
This is not a story about 2nd rate thinking or a mediocre or bad software product. When a freshmen flunks a semester because he got a new video game, it is not because the video game's designers were 2nd rate. And Wall Street attracts peop
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by Raplh 18y ago
If the pool collapses with his kids in it, they might be killed. That plus the issue with damage to neighbors seems to provide a valid government interest to me.
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by Raplh 18y ago
No just give someone $15 to do your resume for you in Latex.
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by Raplh 18y ago
Hacking personality. Welcome to cyberpunk, what made you think it was all fiction? Eventually the artificial line between "medical" and "I feel like it" will need to be addressed. On the other hand, the world is probably rich enough to su
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by Raplh 18y ago
The good news is that an Indian student from an American college has a much easier time getting in to good American graduate programs (with 100% aid) then an Indian student from an IIT. This was definitely true at University of Rochester E
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by Raplh 18y ago
Caltech and Swarthmore (conflict of interest notice: I have degrees from both) are luxury brands with good success (as brands measured by endowment). They are quite different from the ivies as described by Gladwell. I was always surprised
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by Raplh 18y ago
I can see in Itunes how I can listen to the 4 most recent episodes on my iPod. But I can't after a few minutes figure out if, or how, I can listen to the archived tapes including the "lost google tapes." This is either an "oh on, I am an i
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by Raplh 18y ago
In my first year of graduate school, I was wondering "HOW can I do something creative?" It seemed an impossible problem. How do you come up with something which would startle you with its newness if somebody else showed it to you as somet