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by T_S_ 15y ago
I agree. We need SOAP to stop the JSON loving bit thieves trying to steal our intellectual overhead (IO). Don't drop the SOAP!
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by T_S_ 15y ago
The thing that stuck out for me is that SF is bigger than SV. My co-founders are divided on where we should be. Thoughts?
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by T_S_ 15y ago
When I worked on Wall Street about 10 years ago, somebody tried to used it to make a daily report and got slapped by the IT dept. for using "unsupportable" software. There weren't as many freshly minted PhDs floating around then. Maybe the
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by T_S_ 15y ago
My favorite, from Steward Brand: Confronting a difficult problem we might fruitfully ask, "What would a microbe do?"
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Great idea. Who owns Congress?
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by T_S_ 15y ago
New idea for funding strategy: Rent a name-brand entrepreneur for your idea. Or maybe it's an old one.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
I've got a great bug prediction tool: ghc, the haskell compiler. Whenever I use a value of the wrong type my program won't compile. In my code it is always a bug when that happens. (Some smarter people can write non-buggy code the compiler
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by T_S_ 15y ago
3. Weird extra steps...riddle/puzzles/challenges might seem cool to you but might just seem like another hoop to me. I can't wait until this business fad is over.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
I think you meant OpenCL is not going away, and I agree.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
tl;dr A Bloom filter implements the predicate isMemberOf efficiently--at the cost of some false postives. Its performance degrades when the set is large. Solution: index your set by time, implementing a Bloom filter for each epoch.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Ctrl-k
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by T_S_ 15y ago
That was confusing as hell.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Wonder what the reverse side looks like. Come to think of it it would be cool to slice the dice, to save weight and numbers.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Basically he's saying investors are dumb for making it hard for his now large company to hire engineers. Get out the violins.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
One thing that interests me is the "inductive leap" implicit in all modeling situations. You have empirical risk minimization, Bayesian, MML, MDL and others all taking a different approach to taking the leap. You also have the "mind project
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by T_S_ 15y ago
"A company that abused its bargaining position like this should not expect to be able to hire good employees in the future." It seems the company does not believe this to be the case. Possibly they are in a better position too know. Or they
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by T_S_ 15y ago
What I am suggesting is to allow the public and analysts to see the detailed positions of the institution and make accounting superfluous. We can view accounting as an extremely flawed model that lacks timely updates. By operating in the su
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by T_S_ 15y ago
This fails because it ignores the root cause. All banking crises are informational in nature. Circulating more of the right kind of information is nearly all the regulation you need. What information? Positions, live or daily, in detail. N
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by T_S_ 15y ago
While we're at it... 13 months, 28 days each = 364 days Plus 1 or 2 special days at the beginning of the year. Much easier to figure out the day of the week for your next meeting. We could name the 13th month Jobsuary, or you pick.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Gates did an amazing job of taking advantage of my many bosses ignorance in the early 90's. We all still pay for that, though less and less it seems. Thank goodness he left Balmer in charge. As for the the whole redemption through philanthr
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by T_S_ 15y ago
I think you have a point even though it is a gray area. However, I think that having the government focus on Real Transparency (TM) as a prevention instead of criminal enforcement would be a far more effective systemic reform. Not that I be
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by T_S_ 15y ago
The crisis was fueled by people showing up and doing their jobs. Think about that. The hunt for the criminals is a waste of time. People were acting aggressive, not criminal--with notable exceptions that could happen in any era. In fact, fi
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Eventually, by making a fresh account, taking checksums of its dotfiles, adding an applet, and taking checksums again, I found out that the new panel configuration lives in a file called .config/dconf/user that is an opaque binary blob. I
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Is it just me? I like the form factor of the 3GS much better than the 4/4S. I was hoping they would go back to that with the 5.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
The ecosystem for Haskell is improving rapidly. My startup built a computer vision application on top of easyVision and with the intention of rewriting it in ObjC. Instead we are working with the Haskell community to target the mobile platf
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Trading of securities is a regulated market. The rules about what information is available to the market are a combination of tradition and regulation. But they are man-made and arbitrary. I argue that the current fashions in regulation sta
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by T_S_ 15y ago
The antidote to coffee shops in Silicon Valley is Mountain View's Hacker Dojo. Drop-ins welcome.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Nice example about how lack of information leads to volatility in markets. If you are looking for prescriptions to fix our financial markets, increasing transparency of trading would do wonders to eliminate speculation and refocus investors
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Thanks for that link. It is much better than the one headlined.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Will we ever rid ourselves of corporate-speak? How many bits of information here? “We are fortunate to have someone of Meg Whitman’s caliber and experience step up to lead HP,” said Lane. “We are at a critical moment and we need renewed le

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