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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I wonder what sort of riots we would have over here if it costed hundreds of dollars for a gallon of gas. Not a valid comparison, but still fun to think about.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Every Peets manager in South Bay hates you now.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
This is spot on, but at least tell them to not take the spots with the outlets if they're going to visit Red Rock? How we going to work there now? Edit: Bah. If we're going to out one coffee shop, then why not the others. There's Dana St, a
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Your model has two different kinds of players, not one. There are players with a target activity rate of 0.1 and a players with a target activity rate of 0.01. Randomizing the activity rate over that will not produce a uniform distribution
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
The model itself is broken. It is doubtful the population is bimodal, divided between people who are nymphomaniacs, and people who will be satisfied once they find "the one". I just don't believe that people don't have affairs, or that pros
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
It seems he chose the simulation parameters without any regard to what the real life numbers are. Anyone who has studied complex systems will tell you this is a big deal. In things like weather simulations, a small change in initial conditi
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
The post is a bit of fluff, but the paper is better. Haskell already has GADTs, as the paper points out. Those of you crying out for examples, just read the paper. The real gem are these extensible kinds, which I haven't seen mentioned in H
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
That's true, and it's also a bit of a nitpick. How many of us actually work on multiple architectures or with different C compilers? For most systems-level stuff, you are simply using gcc on x86 linux, with plain-vanilla glibc, so honestly,
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
It's annoying to see resumes more than 1 page long from college students. Please highlight the classes that you consider most important to you. I don't have forever to talk to my buddies from your school about your resume so it's useful to
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Ask HN: Opportunities for foreigners in Europe
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
The only documentation I found useful at all was the RFC. It seems that if you want to use OpenSSL, you need to read both the RFC and the source. It's also preferable to have examples of its usage in other OSS code.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I couldn't agree more, and add one to the folks who've been in the "when we become revenue neutral". The funny thing is that in my case, the entire company bought into the founder's line on that (well, only about 12 people), because none of
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
What do you mean by trying to hard? I agree, but I've been trying to pin down what exactly it is.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Good thing they missed the coffee shops and the Hacker Dojo. We just dodged a bullet, eh? ;-)
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Boohoo, he was on the losing side Schrodinger and de Broglie. I'd give a kidney to be named on the losing side of a problem of this level, with guys like these.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
The problem with "age" is really a problem of attitude. We'll be crippling ourselves if we go by this proxy variable of age instead of looking at the real problem, because there are plenty of people under 30 who are a lot more cynical about
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I got my best coaching from other undergrads and occasionally other grads. Two dudes named David Kitchen and Noah Falk stood out in particular (if you guys are out there somewhere, I still think you rock!). It makes sense. The undergrad TAs
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Wow, nevermind then. That was hilarious.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Did this strike anyone else as being mildly chauvinistic?
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Social identity theory suggests that if a close friend excels in an area that is important to us, then we will feel threatened by them. But if they excel in an area not important to us, we will share in their success. Research into basic de
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I'm a fairly technical person (i.e. I can code), and I've gotten other technical people to totally buy into my idea, contribute to it, and "own" it in that sense. But I find that his thesis is still correct, most people need validation of t
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I agreed with you up until the "I found the material lacking in quality". Not all "smart people" are alike, and you may be one of the fortunate ones to not have the problems that he describes. Specifically, from what I've read of your previ
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I'm not sure it's that either. All of the Apple folks I know are pretty fanatical about the mantra of design. They are motivated to be good hackers because they have a strong desire to make beautiful products, rather than the other way arou
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
It doesn't seem that the post paints Google as being disrespectful to engineers. If it is unfriendly to engineers, then it is unfriendly to everyone. Some points here: The key point that starts off #1 is more or less a side effect of any co
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
The nice thing about this is that it establishes what we all knew was true. What would be interesting to know is what the big players' position on patents are. There certainly aren't several hundred "largest" tech firms by definition (or yo
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
That more or less nails one major class of attacks. We should try not to feed the trolls (the NYTimes, in this example), so I won't address any points specifically. There are some common patterns though, and these are worth thinking about b
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
This article has its fair dose of FUD, as NYTimes pertaining to tech usually are. The title sets the tone, and quoting Jalopnik as if they are credible journalism raises some serious eyebrows. You can typically read the bias in these articl
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Who goes to a restaurant or an airport to use the washrooms? Put another way, how many manufacturers of coffins are there in the US? We'd rather not think of such things.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I keep hearing about "complementary skill sets", but what was complementary about Brin and Page? They were both computer scientists with a mathematical bent.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
True, but stocks, homes and startups all have to eventually produce value, which is a comforting thing.

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