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by bcbrown 14y ago
Same here, I gave up. I'd rather read about the syntax. Save the lectures for concepts that are hard to get across in text. I thought part of the problem was that the course was geared towards grad students for whom this might be their firs
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The traffic is atrocious. Because the tech community is split between Seattle and the Eastside across the lake, which only has two bridges, you either have to only work at companies on the same side of the lake as where you live, move whene
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by bcbrown 14y ago
You mention comparing against Hadoop for computationally-intensive data analysis. Would Rethink be suitable for a several-terabyte dataset with non-computationally-intensive analytics? Currently we're using Hive and Python over streaming Ha
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When Genius Bombs [1995](washingtonpost.com)
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Saint John's?
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Thanks for the link to Peak Experience. Two years ago I spent six months driving across the country, camping and hiking in national parks. I experienced several instances of what I described as "transcendent ecstasy", which sounds like a si
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Good point, you're right.
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The [position of a player on a Monopoly board] has 40 possible states.
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Has anyone read the book the quote came from, "Data and Reality"? It looks intriguing. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935504215/
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I usually read the first couple comments on an article before reading the article itself. I was all set to write a comment disagreeing with you after reading the first couple paragraphs, but by the end I completely agreed. Sounds like it wo
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by bcbrown 14y ago
If the only hiring companies are early-stage VC-backed startups in the Bay Area, that's not very interesting to me. That's the impression I got.
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Did you read the "Relative Meaning" section of that link? It specifically discusses C.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
The only framework I've used of the ones discussed is Hadoop Streaming with Python. For our use case (rapid prototyping of statistical analytics on several-terabyte structured data), it worked perfectly and was almost frictionless. As the a
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Anyone who is interested at beginning strength training I'd encourage to pick up a copy of Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength. It has very detailed instructions of all the important movements.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
A few years ago I had the traditional "computer guy" posture, with slumping shoulders and neck. I began, for unrelated reasons, barbell strength training. Deadlifts, Squats, and Presses. They have had a dramatic effect on my posture. I beli
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Another trick that I learned from my ski team was to do arm circles. The centripetal force forces blood into your extremities.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Pedantically, "orthogonal" is an extrapolation of "perpendicular" from two dimensions to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
"quite a few hackers" != "most people are hackers"
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They mitigate that by discarding without looking several of the cards, so it's not a completely even distribution of outcomes. E.g., it's possible that 4 of the '6's won't come out at all that time through the deck.
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The Internet is more than the World Wide Web.
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Alternate hypothesis: a high concentration of Americans, who are fascinated with anything to do with themselves. That's what I found interesting about it.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
It might be that at any given point of time, there are a lot of people who want or need to learn Unix. I already know Python, but I think there is value in learning the fundamentals of the Unix shell programs. I've spent the first five year
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by bcbrown 14y ago
What I have learned from individual athletic competition is that the person who wins is usually the person who is willing to sacrifice the most in order to win - free time, hobbies, family and social relationships, health. I think that's pr
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by bcbrown 14y ago
As far as I can tell, it's not possible to go through the lesson using just a keyboard; a mouse is required to scroll or to change focus from the embedded interpreter back to the page itself so that the arrow keys will scroll.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
"Babbage" is the name of a column in the Economist, and is used in this sense to refer to the author of the column. So the writer is talking about his or her own schooling.
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If your permanent neighbor has a loud party, you can talk to them about it the next day, and there's a decent chance you can come to an accommodation, since they have to live next to you too. If a transient neighbor is too loud, you have no
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by bcbrown 14y ago
The shape of an obelisk has a narrow, constant width. The shape of a pyramid has a width that is wide at the bottom, and narrow at the top. The 'y axis' of the shape is how far along in the startup life cycle the company is. The width is ho
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I learned this interesting factoid in an astrophysics class. All data is from Wolfram Alpha: Mass of universe: 3 * 10^52 kg Schwarzschild radius for that mass: 4.455 * 10^25 meters Volume of sphere with that radius: 3.704 * 10^77 m^3 Densit
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I still don't have a smartphone. I have an old clamshell phone, and I'm happy with it.
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I bet you'll learn a lot trying to teach your friends - it's a great way to solidify concepts in your own mind.

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