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by aristus 10y ago
I think you got your signs reversed. The spider in question has extremely good vision. "Jumping spiders already have excellent vision and Portia’s is ten times as good, making it sharper than most mammals."
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by aristus 10y ago
Mencken's whole schtick was to be a populist intellectual. At one point he was so famous that a letter from Germany simply addressed "Mencken, USA" got delivered just fine. His usual essays and reportage use more elevated lan
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by aristus 10y ago
Yep. I spent 2.5 years at MemSQL, which nailed its colors to the mast of solving distributed joins via good old SQL. It is absolutely possible to have fast scaled distributed SQL, and a pony. The caveats are falling away one by one.
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by aristus 10y ago
Absolutely. But at that point we are quibbling over syntax instead of semantics, which is not that interesting. In practice you can do hierarchical models in SQL just fine (cf Oracle's ANCESTOR features, or AsterData's regexps), a
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by aristus 10y ago
Bah. People keep confusing the syntax with the data model. SQL is simply a notation to express theorems in relational set theory. It's pretty much the only pure-functional, side-effect-free programming language that's actually gon
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by aristus 10y ago
I searched for [oranges] and got a mix of fruit juice and prison inmate statistics. What kind of fuzzy matching is going on here?
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by aristus 10y ago
You are correct. Tattooists aren't known for their biochem chops.
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by aristus 10y ago
Pigskins, oranges, old shoes, dumb friends... :) But they are talking about tattoos that fade because they are broken down by a biological process, which makes me giggle picturing Arnold The Pig with "Born 2 Trot" on his hock.
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by aristus 10y ago
I meant more in the sense of watching someone try to tattoo a 100kg hog, and how hard they'd get bit. But you are right, it's probably more like little adorable Wilbur pigs. :(
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by aristus 10y ago
Long long ago I was a tattoo artist. With very careful needle adjustments, color choices, and a steady hand, this is already possible with conventional inks. Simple example: white ink is titanium oxide, basically sunscreen, and breaks down
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by aristus 10y ago
I used to work for a cashflow factor in the late 90s. It's a legit business need, but with few legit players. Almost like payday loans for business. It's due for a brand uplift and some visibility.
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by aristus 10y ago
Sure, it's 17-34, but the curve of applicants weights heavily toward the left side. And it's not universal; Grace Hopper joined the Navy at 37. Also also, the "aptitude test" sounds a lot like that whiteboard process, ri
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by aristus 10y ago
It's not ironic, it's very much by design. It's a bit like the Army. In theory anyone of any age and background can join up, but the physical requirements and "culture fit" does a very good job of selecting for youn
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A Good Name Points Back to You(ribbonfarm.com)
3 points by aristus 11y ago|0 comments
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Fight Club Pitch Deck(carlos.bueno.org)
2 points by aristus 11y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 11y ago
If it's laser toner, then it's resin and carbon fused to the page at a high heat. Carbon is an element so can't fade, and resin's only problem is ultraviolet. Pretty stable combo. I did a lot of research on this subject
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by aristus 11y ago
Well, I'm glad that's solved. You've convinced me.
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by aristus 11y ago
Oh yes, they are thoroughly fucked. But so are the people in general. The "curse" of oil is that it takes relatively few people to run the industry. Perhaps 100,000. The rest of the population is surplus to requirements. In theory
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by aristus 11y ago
Oye, chamo. :) My wife wants to visit Caracas with our son in the summer, to see family. Last time we were there was 2008, when the "fuerte" was 8:1 and we witnessed two carjackings. I think it's a terrible idea to go back, e
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by aristus 11y ago
It's fun to use these situations as proof of one political belief or another, but I suggest looking deeper than "socialism" or "leftism". Chavez tapped a popular anger that was the direct result of mismanagement by
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by aristus 11y ago
You worked on MPK20?
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by aristus 11y ago
I take it you've never seen a newspaper "bullpen", or a clark's office. :) It comes down to class. Many professions that were once afforded private accommodation are now being downclassed. It's also easier to scale
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by aristus 11y ago
It's your choice to ignore it. More precisely, it's your privilege to ignore it. "...how do we as a technical industry even change that when we need to focus..." The point of startups is not blindly attacking the biggest
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by aristus 11y ago
So there's no discrimination, the entire post is a lie, because you found a point of math to be pedantic about. Got it.
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by aristus 11y ago
The deal is that targeted pedantry like this completely derail the discussion, which is not 12 ≠ 0, but how and why black women are being excluded from tech.
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by aristus 11y ago
OK. So... that's you entire comment? That's it? Problem solved?
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by aristus 11y ago
What do you wish to gain by being painfully pedantic? Black women are 5-6% of the population, but 0.01% of funded founders. That is a rounding error, effectively zero. Why not focus on the actual point of the post instead?
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by aristus 11y ago
Missing Vowpal Wabbit: http://hunch.net/~vw/
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by aristus 11y ago
Most of what we do in distributed systems is provide the illusion of a consistent, shared memory space. We literally pretend that we can violate the laws of physics, to make the programming for everyone else simpler.
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by aristus 11y ago
Thank you for HM. It was the first magazine I was published in. Always admired your creativity and drive to make it happen.

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