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Ember.js based sudoku solver(nhan.github.io)
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by bhntr3 14y ago
I wonder if this will work. I feel like spreadsheets are inherently satisficing mechanisms for data. I think the reason excel has done so well is that its a default when normal folks don't really need much. I wonder if people actively see
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Completely agree. The key to business success: make a lot of money. Like Bill Clinton posted on the wall, it's the economy, stupid. It's sadly obvious but its nearly unbelievable because its the answer that seems too vapid and cyclical to h
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This is a great point and a great example. I find: I google things I understand but don't remember. I read books about things I know about but don't understand. I read blogs and other streams to learn what I don't know about.
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Timelike: a network simulator(aphyr.com)
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Couldn't one say the same thing about the Stanford admissions board or the Google hiring board? They're extremely smart people expending a lot of effort on the problem of selecting the most likely to succeeds from a group of candidates. I
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by bhntr3 14y ago
These seem like pretty made up numbers for a blog that claims to be about statistics: "And that changes perceptions. 1 out of 10 people with an idea would have pursued it in 2004. Now, maybe 3 out of 10 would."
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by bhntr3 14y ago
Quoting from the end of the article: "And our solution to monolithic code in Python are classes." So, I guess the question I ask as someone who doesn't write a ton of python code is: Is that true? And if so, why? Is it not possible to com
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by bhntr3 14y ago
I guess I was inferring a counter argument to "the middle class is declining" which goes something like "the middle class is changing and not the same types of people now that it was then." Young people studying longer, settling down later
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by bhntr3 14y ago
> I think I'm not being out of line to claim that on the average an American's high-school-level education is pretty poor. The thing is that it's not really that true. Here's a typical article on Huffington Post bemoaning the American
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by bhntr3 14y ago
It's an interesting argument that I've heard many times in different ways. I'm inclined to think there's some truth to it. But when you look at trends, income is stagnant, wages are stagnant AND measures of social mobility are low as well
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by bhntr3 14y ago
There's a series of articles about the American middle class with infographics and video here: http://www.globalpost.com/america-the-gutted-globalpost
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by bhntr3 14y ago
I took Edward Tufte's course: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ That's interesting but most valuable is probably his books. I was planning to read Interactive Data Visualization for the Web http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449339739/in
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by bhntr3 14y ago
1. Probability Bayesian statistics and its applications. A lot of things I want to understand like Probabilistic Graphical Models, Cryptography, and Computer Vision seem to be based in fundamental bayesian statistics I never really grokked
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by bhntr3 14y ago
It would be great if this blog post were picked up by a legit news organization, researched and fact checked, cross referenced with other stories (like the French one) and published more widely as an expose. This is bad for consumers and ba
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by bhntr3 14y ago
Feedback is more than welcome! Please get in touch on github. Let Peter, Louis and all the other developers know what can be done better. I know Peter is hard at work fixing some of the issues already identified here. Also Igor mentioned
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by bhntr3 14y ago
Tom is one of the two main developers you're talking about when you say "most of the people working on Ember were SproutCore developers." I think the "lack of architectural road blocks" is called ember.js. If you're working with Sproutcore
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by bhntr3 14y ago
The best dessert I've ever eaten was both: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qofsdSMuGbg There's something extremely decadent about devouring something that beautiful and meticulously crafted. Fine dining is as much about the experience it
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by bhntr3 14y ago
Wow. His presentation is beautiful. I love the colors. EDIT: More photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolvesmouth It's like eating art.
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by bhntr3 14y ago
Without a graph, I'm not entirely convinced of the conclusion. 2000 was a crazy boom year for tech. I wouldn't be surprised if it took 12 years for wages to return to dotcom era levels.
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by bhntr3 14y ago
Banks are a hard place to work in IT. But the pay is good. In New York, I've seen a lot of good engineers get sucked in. I worked as a consultant at Citi for a year. I wouldn't quite write someone off because they worked at a bank. It c
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by bhntr3 14y ago
It's called Gyu An and it's in Ginza. It will set you back about $100 for a kobe steak multi course meal but if you've never had real kobe wagyu, it's worth it at least once. It's the most affordable place to get real kobe in Tokyo and it'
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by bhntr3 14y ago
If you're saying it's a good thing that you can't have both, I'd agree. But if you believe PG that Startup = Growth http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html then "solving" it might involve simply not being so startup or growth obsessed in ge
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by bhntr3 14y ago
I'd hesitate to call Google search entertainment or community-building (social) though. Those are the two characteristics where universal appeal is difficult that I meant to highlight. Google is really good at universal systems that produc
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by bhntr3 14y ago
Will we ever solve the niche appeal vs. universal acceptance problem? Lots of stuff has this problem: Movies, TV, music, games (all entertainment really including Facebook.) That's what this article highlighted the most to me. It's hard t
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by bhntr3 14y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Wired-Story-Writers-Science-Sentence/d... Wired for Story is a great book about the science of story. I think it applies to a lot more than writing.
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by bhntr3 14y ago
I think "B2D" is risky. Here are some potential problems: 1) Success of "the cloud" / SaaS. Many people are moving important data into the cloud but there are also more high profile outages, more high profile security breaches and more lo
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by bhntr3 14y ago
I commented on this in the Maker/Manager transition article from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4816586 At weak engineering companies, senior developers are moved into managing roles because (I believe) the company culture
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by bhntr3 14y ago
I've seen people do the side project thing and I think it's somewhat of a waste. I'd only advocate it for personal satisfaction reasons. If you think your technical skill is an asset and you want to stay fresh I'd say you should be partici
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by bhntr3 14y ago
Two points to augment the article: 1) It's too easy to fall into the pattern of bullsh%t by day, hacking by night. There are two problems with that. First, you're still seeing management as bullsh%t (a natural inclination for a hacker.)

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