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by achompas 13y ago
I think GP was referring to how are Macs are engineer-friendly, since they run *nix and work well with Linux.
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by achompas 13y ago
Well aren't we fortunate that holding two separate accounts in a relationship is nothing like this at all!!
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by achompas 13y ago
...your real cost is opportunity, but generally the market values a failed startup founder or early employee at enough of a premium over a member of a later stage team that you can catch up quickly. Hmm. Is "generally" right her
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by achompas 13y ago
This is faulty though, no? You're risking your best alternative to eating ramen over the course of those N years. That alternative is very, very high for anyone getting into YC at this point.
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by achompas 13y ago
Yeah, the family and significant obligations one takes on with age are terrible excuses for not aiming high. Losers!!
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by achompas 13y ago
No facts about the company's work, but Yann LeCun says 3 of his former students + postdocs work at this company: https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10151812982157143?... If they're hiring his stud
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by achompas 13y ago
Agreed. It's an unfortunate artifact of some people's personalities. I'm planning a vacation for a few months from now, and I feel guilty about taking an extra day. Forcing myself to ignore that.
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by achompas 13y ago
That's not what the author said, though. He said what you quoted, which supports his point about feeling justified (instead of guilty) when taking vacations. He didn't say "take a vacation so you can work better."
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by achompas 13y ago
Still, the fact that Microsoft is going out of their way to support such older systems speaks of their commitment to value. Here's another explanation: MS has a very, very large enterprise customer base. Maybe they're just kee
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by achompas 13y ago
"Handily" and "most" are funny words, given the benchmarking results in the Anandtech review of the Nexus 5. If by "most" you mean "battery," then I agree. Otherwise both phones are neck-and-neck, exc
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by achompas 13y ago
the iPhone 5 still beat it in a few key areas for me [...] A few days ago I upgraded to the iPhone 5S. I'm not impressed. This comment suggests you had both a Nexus 4 and an iPhone 5. Did you upgrade from a 5 to a 5S? Or something el
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by achompas 13y ago
Just got my brother a Nexus 5 for the holidays. Even those are bloated. Example: the SMS app is actually Google+ Hangouts. Had to dig for the AOSP SMS app. Another example: he complains about Google automatically uploading photos to a G+ ac
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by achompas 13y ago
Downvoting because this comment adds zero. Read the article. He also teaches a MOOC and has a much more nuanced view than "college is worth it b/c it pays my bills."
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by achompas 13y ago
random thoughts on this announcement I took Yann's ML class during the first semester of my program at NYU two years ago. It was a terrible experience, given that I hadn't worked with linear algebra or mathematical statistics si
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by achompas 13y ago
He dropped the neural networks class he was slated to teach in the spring, as far as I know. I wouldn't be surprised if, at this point, his work split 90% FB, 9% NYU Center for Data Science, 1% NYU CS.
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by achompas 13y ago
FTL is so much better. The story is better, the writing is actually professional, and you have much more autonomy (which leads to very interesting scenarios). The pace is frenetic, and your ship can actually explode (biiiiiiiiiig game-break
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by achompas 13y ago
Marco has never been one to wonder "if only Steve were still alive..." That's not the point at all, he's never made these comments about previous post-Jobs presentations.
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by achompas 13y ago
Going with $3000 to capture that area between your guess and $3250. :P
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by achompas 13y ago
The specific problem arises when you full-screen an app in 10.7 and 10.8. Your second monitor won't provide useable space--it'll just have the stupid dark linen texture.
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by achompas 13y ago
Just a double-post
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by achompas 13y ago
However, Miami Beach looks like that after every heavy rain. Hell, my folks' place in South Miami experiences flooding after heavy rains.
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by achompas 13y ago
I've discovered that resting your thumb on the home button before waking your phone speeds up the process. When I do that I barely even see the lock screen. It's like the sensor eagerly scans upon contact.
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by achompas 13y ago
This is an excellent point, although I disagree with 90%. Lots of a developer's time goes into QA/testing, design, and conversations about requirements and goals. I think developers spend much less than 90% of their time with an I
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by achompas 13y ago
There's a machine learning path that fits this: study math/stats/algorithms, get a graduate degree, work on research in industry or academia. Your question is somewhat vague, though. Do you want to spend the majority of your
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by achompas 13y ago
It depends on what side of AI/ML you end up on, though. The research-heavy side involves lots of math and requires a PhD (or a MS + experience, in industry); the data engineering & infrastructure side is almost solely coding (and d
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by achompas 13y ago
I agree with your point for what it's worth!! I also think it's easy to tell Maciej is kidding solely from his writing, but I figured I was biased since I follow him.
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by achompas 13y ago
I'm reading this as a sarcastic riff on parent, but parent is right. Seriously, follow Maciej on Twitter. He'd die before seriously referring to someone -- especially Thoreau -- as a content creator.
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by achompas 13y ago
I love Thoreau. I'm a hiker. I'm learning to program. I really like computers and technology. But I rarely, if ever try to unite the two. Sorry, it just doesn't work. One things computers try to do is make things scale, as I
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by achompas 13y ago
Hey there, I'd like to follow up on this point (and some other comments you've posted on HN). Do you mind if I email you?
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by achompas 13y ago
I'm a big fan of Murphy but its comprehensiveness means you lose some detailed explanations. Bishop really gets at those details (so does EoSL).

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