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by adw 13y ago
I reckon you're looking at $1000 including software but excluding the laptop, basically; say $100-150 for decent headphones, $200-250 for monitors, $100 for a workable MIDI controller, $150 for an audio interface (something from M-Audi
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by adw 13y ago
Guy who posted this is having his arse handed to him on the thread, it's worth noting. (Which doesn't excuse the original poster's casual sexism, but does speak well of everyone else on the list.)
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by adw 13y ago
Instacart is a really interesting business (it's a logistics play, not a retailer, and logistics is stealthily really sexy – it doesn't matter what sells, you win), but the thing is, US is at least ten to fifteen years behind th
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by adw 13y ago
Definitely have, and it's deliberate; instead of Cambridge acting only with reference to itself (and generally grade harsher than other universities), they now apparently aim to make a Cambridge 1st or 2:1 equivalent to the same grades
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by adw 13y ago
For what it's worth, the curve at Cambridge, for Natural Sciences, was set such that 67% or thereabouts is a First.
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by adw 13y ago
The GBA and DS lines were pretty significant hits.
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by adw 13y ago
Flipboard ( http://flipboard.com/ ), a social magazine service, is looking for people who do ... lots of things. Infrastructure engineers, mobile developers, designers, editors. Full-time/permanent hires, full healthcare
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by adw 13y ago
I was down nearer the Highbury end of things, but in terms of drugs/violence/random menacing on the streets SF is way sketchier.
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by adw 13y ago
SF is way worse (I used to live in Finsbury Park, now live in the Mission).
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by adw 13y ago
It's a card index. (I happen to think it's a decent metaphor, but whatever, it's Internet Hate Week today.)
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by adw 13y ago
It's the day after the day you spend recovering from Hogmanay...
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by adw 13y ago
The Crow Road is my favourite book. It might speak more to Scots – I don't know – but it's wonderful.
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by adw 13y ago
I'm not sure you can assume that if you're, say, Instagram (pre-big-round/acquisition). You may well have several hundred, even thousands, of AWS instances with a staff in single digits. Properly hard problem, as you've pointed out.
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by adw 13y ago
So "yes" – what would you do if you had, say, several hundred (or several thousand) servers?
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by adw 13y ago
Flipboard ( http://flipboard.com/ ) Palo Alto, CA – permanent, full-time We're hiring engineers and designers. Flipboard is a social magazine service. We're looking for both front-end (mobile, Web) and server people; our client teams are aw
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by adw 13y ago
Why is persuasion such a bad thing? He's absolutely in the persuasion game. So is everyone else. I see it as him acknowledging that and saying "you know, this is a position of power, I have a responsibility to use it for good, as I see it".
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by adw 13y ago
Python is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of data science; but there the vast majority of your inner loop isn't Python (numpy, scipy, pandas, numba, theano; C, Fortran, assembler, Cython, LLVM, CUDA...). Basically Python is the glue lang
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by adw 13y ago
They make a Windows 8 app which provides access to all of their services (with ads): Chrome.
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by adw 14y ago
The music and the chat are about the people in a way that ping-pong and Xbox really aren't...
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by adw 14y ago
Linden Lab, Second Life.
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by adw 14y ago
Fortran libraries; you mean Scipy? A bunch of the Python numerics world (one of the big growth cases for Python!) are Fortran. LAPACK/ARPACK are still unmatched.
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by adw 15y ago
One of the most expensive substances in the world – and someone just synthesized an alternative: http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2012/04/09/bre... Whale guano. Seriously.
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by adw 15y ago
It's the Food Channel for geeks, seriously.
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by adw 15y ago
What's more, for many of us it's insulting to people we love – friends, colleagues or family. (My mum's seriously twice the programmer I'll ever be, for the record.)
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by adw 15y ago
Key question: would a more, let's say, considered leading voice in tech be a good or bad thing? Genuinely unconvinced either way.
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by adw 15y ago
I like wearing suits. I even like wearing ties. I don't mean anything by it, I just like tailored stuff. It looks good! It's highly evolved to maximise what men have got. But: if I wore one to most of my meetings, or to work, people'd ask q
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by adw 15y ago
Nobel laureates have been known to crank out. No-one is safe, seriously.
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by adw 15y ago
As an ex-scientist, I'd add one more contention: the cranks. They take way too much time. Limiting the site to active researchers (at least for posting) would help, but even that wouldn't be enough. Not willing to name names in public, but
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by adw 15y ago
Charlie Stross (cstross of this parish) has almost certainly already written it.
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by adw 15y ago
Cash on hand has a negative interest rate. That's what inflation is. If you can get credit at below the rate of inflation it's actually free money.

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