RogerL

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by RogerL 13y ago
He is not saying that 99% are not converted, he is saying the conversion rate is not 99%. E.g., the conversion rate could be 90%, or 80%, and his statement would be correct.
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by RogerL 13y ago
That came across as very condescending to me. Could you tell us how you would implement this? I for one do not see how to implement it.
543.
by RogerL 13y ago
Call the CEO at Cretex, the parent company. Ask them why they fire employees that come up with ideas (the point of the incentive program, after all, was to offer ideas). You have nothing to lose at this point.
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by RogerL 13y ago
In Ada you have subtype, so you would write subtype my_type is Integer range 0..10; my_type x = 9; my_type y = 10; my_type a = x + y; So, obviously there is enough information to deduce at compile time that the sum operation yields an incor
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by RogerL 13y ago
As I posted below, Abelson and Sussman have revamped the course to Use Python, and other notable schools have done the same, such as Berkley.
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by RogerL 13y ago
I've been doing the same. It really strikes me how amazing the MIT professors are. In contrast, most of the Coursera courses have me tearing my hair out. Pet theories on how to structure a course, mumbling, stuttering, essentially read
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by RogerL 13y ago
And yet Sussman and Abelson themselves were behind the switch from Scheme to Python at MIT. I don't hold them out as infallible, even about their own course, but it should give us pause, yes? They have a lot of data, we have ... opini
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by RogerL 13y ago
I did that 2 years ago (Golden to bay area). I ended up living 1 to 1.5 hours from work.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Optimization takes serious amounts of time - it's generally a combinatorial problem. If you are not building for production release, do you want to sit for 5 minutes (or 5 hours for a big system) while the compiler cranks away optimizi
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by RogerL 13y ago
Those are not your only options. You can get exercise, and improve your health, in ways other than commuting by bike. Ways that reduce risk, not increase them, even.
551.
by RogerL 13y ago
There certainly is a rule about giving away the property of others, and I don't think we have established who owns what here.
552.
by RogerL 13y ago
Your description sounds incredibly basic, it is unlikely I would pay anything for what you describe. Plus, is your price per person , or what? If not per person, would you really, for example, license this to GE or Berkshire Hathaway (250,
553.
by RogerL 13y ago
You can get more done in a constant amount of time in C or C++ vs all the other languages, so yes. More compute time == more sophisticated AIs.
554.
by RogerL 13y ago
So my complicated algorithm that processes 200,000 data points is big data because it takes 1/2 hour to run, but someone else's petabyte algorithm that takes 1 second on a cluster is small to "bigger" data? I don't
555.
by RogerL 13y ago
"and why should be it?" I think you answer your own question. I was going to reply to the the parent post, but I'll say it here. I find it barking mad that you can get a 4 year degree without using C or close equivalent. How
556.
by RogerL 13y ago
It is not rare. I'm not putting the poster you are replying to down in any way when I say his sentiment is widely shared, and widely commented on. I have no idea, really, what is 'acceptable' to post here. There is no informa
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by RogerL 13y ago
I don't think I expressed my concern very well. The point is is that you often cannot just depend on some built in to do your mathematics for you - stability, speed, and convergence depend heavily on the implementation that you use. Th
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by RogerL 13y ago
Okay, how does \integral{\integral nasty expresion dx}dy} get implemented? (excuse the faux LaTex, I never remember the syntax)
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by RogerL 13y ago
I find it interesting and useful to contrast Ramen's website with Peek's. http://www.usertesting.com/?utm_source=Peek%20Home&utm_mediu... The first text you see says "Eliminate bad customer experiences.
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by RogerL 13y ago
I came in here post this point. I recognize HN isn't a single human, but the popular positions are somewhat incoherent. It is exactly this that the patent system is designed to solve. You spend all your hard work, time, and money devel
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by RogerL 13y ago
Sure, there are plenty of cases where visualization is helpful. But I see so many blog posts about it, and not much in the way of actual progress. Take the card again. It's your example, after all. I cannot think of any way to use that
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by RogerL 13y ago
There's a reason the game Pictionary is hard, despite the "a picture is worth a thousand words" saying. And that is that images, while evocative, are not very precise. Try to draw how you feel. If you are using card[0][12] to
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by RogerL 13y ago
It is talking about people with kids and such - you know, 30-40. Basically, you, very shortly, if not already. The article specifically called out people with kids, and pointed out that at the age of 30+ VC starts being skeptical of the cha
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by RogerL 13y ago
Well, you are "old". Yup, over thirty, you have missed the boat. Welcome to the new ageism. FWIW, I'm 47 and was programming assembly and microcode in my youth. So I have 10 years on you. At this scale, I doubt the difference
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by RogerL 13y ago
Bullshit. You are the one with a "platonic causation", namely, older = rigid thinking. Enders Game is a child's book, written to appeal to children. Note we don't actually have 9 year olds making decisions in reality.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Okay, so I just went to the Red Hat site. Tried to figure out what they offer. It's a mickey mouse site. Oh, they offer "support" for "enterprise linux". Okay, so are they offering support for a 10 year old release
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by RogerL 13y ago
You are criticizing 10-20 year old decisions on the basis on what is available today (I am referring to your "currently" phrase)? Most non-startup companies have a huge tech stack in place. That stack depends in many ways on the O
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by RogerL 13y ago
I've done that with hardware that got installed in a factory. Why not? You pay a one-time, small license fee, you get years of free support from a major company, I don't have to document all the details of my stripped down kernel
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by RogerL 13y ago
Beautiful. Thank you very much.
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by RogerL 13y ago
No, they were for a woodworking hobby (well, hobby for me, profession for the pros). Don't want to be more specific because I really respect all the moderators in the forums.

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