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by abraxasz 13y ago
The favorite of the 12 apostles would be Saint John, not Saint Peter[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciple_whom_Jesus_loved
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by abraxasz 13y ago
Slightly unrelated. As part of the Seinfeld method (don't break the chain), I've been focusing on 4 tasks for 20 minutes every day. Some of them are very technical (asymptotic theory in statistics), some are more relaxed (programm
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by abraxasz 13y ago
Please, do replace "p" and "q" with whatever you had in mind then meditate on the meaning of "=>". If you still don't get it refer to doctoboggan's counter-example.
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by abraxasz 13y ago
This guy, Stewart Baker: "You ask me proofs that it works, I can show you proofs that the lack of it really fails" That is so flawed from a logic point of view that I won't even bother. "We can't be transparent .. w
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I like the analogy with the prisoner's dilemma, although I think the situation is slightly different. It'd be like playing the game against someone who's repeatedly shown that he'll betray you whenever possible. The opti
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by abraxasz 13y ago
Completely agree with you, that's why I think this whole mess is wonderful news. I like the nuclear war analogy here, and I hope that both sides will hurt each other so bad in this little game that at the end they'll sit down some
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by abraxasz 13y ago
"ask yourself if Charlie has ever had any ideals outside of looking out for number one." Problem is, if he doesn't, who will? I think that one thing that might have changed in our generation, is that we have the distinct impr
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by abraxasz 13y ago
Like others have said, if you want to implement such a program, then that's the way to do it. Now whether it would be good to see this as a trend for the industry is not clear cut. Say you have only 3 weeks of vacation a year, then you
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by abraxasz 13y ago
In my case it's more grudge than hatred. The fact that a company made me pay for VISTA is unforgivable. \joke More seriously, I've noticed that a large portion (like in 90%) of the CS department and Statistics department in my Uni
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I agree with Omidyar here. Not that I'm particularly interested in sports and entertainment: when I read the paper on line, I go straight to whatever I'm interested in (often politics, econ, etc..). Nevertheless, I thing one of th
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by abraxasz 13y ago
Look, he's the CEO of the once mightiest tech company in the world and you satisfy yourself with: "he was right about something dismissed by many". I would expect that "[contending] with forces out of [his] control"
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by abraxasz 13y ago
"That said, I just went ahead and opted-out" Right, that's my problem. Here's something that's been bugging me for some time, and that applies to all services that turn in features by default: do they do it because
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by abraxasz 13y ago
After reading the first sentence of the post, I paused and tried to imagine what would come next. I had three guesses: 1) A clean, unconditional apology, like: "I screwed up, I'm going to fix it". I had very little hope since
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by abraxasz 13y ago
There are many of them. I use Spectacle. You can move windows to the right / left / top / bottom, maximize it, send it to another monitor, etc..
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I interned in a french company a couple years ago, and was surprised to discover what the company's computer setup was. You had the usual windows XP, but you couldn't install anything on it: they had this system where you had to c
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I can't, by a long shot: I don't know Haskell deeply enough. But I think he can read his code without problem.
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by abraxasz 13y ago
A quick comment concerning Haskell. I've been learning it on and off, with some help from my roommate who's a Haskell genius. The way he writes Haskell always amazes me. He starts with a very straightforward verbose version, then
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by abraxasz 13y ago
That's one way to do it (the best way). You can still draw "causal" conclusion on observational studies (where you don't get to explicitly assign people to group A and B, but where those assignment are given to you), but
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by abraxasz 13y ago
1) "Google [...] doesn't give that data to those companies". What about selling that data? That's in line with what you call "being a middle man" I think. 2) "[they] have no incentive to do so". They
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I'm originally from France, and I used three methods to improve my english: 1) Reading in english. back in high school, when I was still a beginner, my go-to books in english were the Harry Potter series: not because I have a particula
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by abraxasz 13y ago
Yeah but following this logic, the analyst himself becomes a person of interest since connected to his former spouse..
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by abraxasz 13y ago
Some languages heavily used in finance (and not much else) haven't been mentioned, and would likely fair pretty well. I'm thinking about K, and in Ocaml. Ocaml in particular is used at Jane Street which is known for paying extreme
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I do acknowledge a moral conflict when using add blockers, for the first reason you give. But ads and trackers have gotten out of hands, to the point where most of the chrome extensions I have installed deal with that type of things: - Adbl
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by abraxasz 13y ago
Published the exact day Google announces his Loon Project? I can't say for sure, but if this project is successful, I'd call it a major innovation...
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I understand that this might be specific to me, but I'd actually rather have someone tell me: "You're useless. For god's sake stop contributing until you get your sh t together" rather than: “your skills don't seem to be quite at the level
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by abraxasz 13y ago
What about asking whether the StackOverflow user base is an unbiased sample of the population of programmers? Here's a possible theory explaining both the greater competence of old programmers and their rarity, based on the StackOverflow da
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I have never answered this type of email. Why? Because at this stage, I don't know your product, and I don't want you to annoy me (you may not think it's annoying, but really, it is). That being said, I sent spontaneous feedback emails exac
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I don't think there is a problem with press releases, as long as journalists acknowledge them for what they are: press releases. It's fine imho for a newspaper to reproduce a press releases verbatim, if it makes it clear to the reader that
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by abraxasz 14y ago
Yes, a million times yes. I'd like to emphasize the following points: (2), (3), (4) are all tied to the same idea: Your data will be parsed by a script, not by me. I'm not going to use excel to analyse your data. I'm gonna import them into
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by abraxasz 14y ago
You seem to be exclusively concerned with those "late bloomers" who have both their parents and the system against them. Now: 1) Like the parent's comment said, nobody's trying to prevent these kids from succeeding. It's the role of the edu

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