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901.
by bigfudge 11y ago
Realistically, are you going to drop python+numpy+scipy just to get away from matplotlib?
902.
by bigfudge 11y ago
This is incorrect. It's perfectly possible to make light fluffy bread without adding sugar. Sugar might be added to accelerate the process for economic reasons, but that's something else.
903.
by bigfudge 11y ago
It would be nice to assume that were true, but is it actually the case? And what laws were the breaking? Perhaps more interesting is how close the second category comes in terms of frequency: what's the probability for a black man wit
904.
by bigfudge 11y ago
As I implicitly recognised in my initial comment, the number of non totalitarian communist governments is small. Nonetheless there are plenty of people who self-identify as communist (e.g. in Greece) who don't advocate policies that re
905.
by bigfudge 11y ago
You're being down voted, but I don't know why. The tone of the debate is surprising to me too.
906.
by bigfudge 11y ago
No matter the history, using communist as a synonym for totalitarian is lazy.
907.
by bigfudge 11y ago
Lets' think about the record of your police in selective enforcement of traffic laws for minorities. If the norm is non-enforcement, and if I was black, I'd probably prefer it if the law was 'tidied up' in this regard.
908.
by bigfudge 12y ago
The key papers on this are listed here: https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=kirsch+antidepressant... About 70-80% of the drug effect is replicated in the placebo arm. Other things to be worried about: - Unpublished data
909.
by bigfudge 12y ago
Hi - we've just soft launched pennyred.net and would really appreciate feedback from this audience. Hopefully the service will be useful to parent out there too.
910.
Show HN: Pennyred.net, simple, safe, moderated email for young children(pennyred.net)
1 points by bigfudge 12y ago|2 comments
911.
Ask HN: A new moderated email service for younger children
1 points by bigfudge 12y ago|1 comments
912.
by bigfudge 12y ago
Can you give an example of when this has happened? It strikes me that driving your model around being difficult to replicate from a technical point of view wouldn't necessarily lead to good business decisions.
913.
by bigfudge 13y ago
Except that what many of us here would consider extreme are actually pretty common. Estimates for the prevalence of domestic violence and sexual abuse are difficult to measure accurately, but are conservatively > 10% in the population at
914.
by bigfudge 13y ago
We've had our moments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants'_Revolt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_Tax_Riots
915.
by bigfudge 13y ago
Disclaimer: I'm Anglo Saxon, and I'm also a butcher in your terms despite spending reasonable amount of time and effort working to understand this stuff. I think the key difference here is that code actually has to compile, so no
916.
by bigfudge 13y ago
I think the only way out is to allow demo apps. I find it really hard to justify $10 or $20 on an app which may or may not fit into my workflow. That's on top of the problem of determining whether something is of reasonable quality (i.
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by bigfudge 13y ago
There's actually a chap on the mailing list who is from heroku and helping to make changes to allow it to run as in a worker. Not sure whether it's working yet, but the blocker was that shiny required root, but the devs have rele
918.
by bigfudge 13y ago
Sarcasm is the lowest form of humour. It works particularly badly on the internet where tone of voice and context are lost or attenuated. And I'm really hoping this is sarcasm.
919.
by bigfudge 13y ago
Just as feedback, it would be nice to be able to use twilio worldwide... is there a reason you limit to US? UK sms works quite well now.
920.
by bigfudge 13y ago
Given how little tax they pay in the UK, I'm surprised it's not higher.
921.
by bigfudge 13y ago
I think there's actually an argument not to discuss these small pilot studies outside of the immediate community of researchers. The studies aren't powered to detect a difference, and history tells us we're more likely to be
922.
by bigfudge 13y ago
Someone else may have mentioned it, but it's really annoying not to be able to do a regular signup through gmail. I don't trust anyone to manage my contacts I'm afraid. Perhaps make those components optional, but just use the
923.
by bigfudge 13y ago
Given traffic in the UK, I don't think it's a safe assumption all those accidents were at > 50mph.
924.
by bigfudge 13y ago
Perhaps you just need to include time. Does X_1 causing Y causing Z causing Z_2 solve your problem without requiring cyclic graphs?
925.
by bigfudge 14y ago
That's both rude and unhelpful, and does nothing to address the original point (that they should focus on availability), which I would tend to agree with.
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IPhone 5 more than doubles 4s geekbench score(macrumors.com)
2 points by bigfudge 14y ago|0 comments
927.
by bigfudge 14y ago
Except that without certifications like this costs of waste, environmental degradation etc. become externalities for the companies and individuals involved. It's not viable to dump laptops in a landfill batteries and all, so who is going to
928.
by bigfudge 14y ago
That's really interesting, as I had a similar experience. However it has downsides: I now find it much harder than I used to to disengage from details and look at the big picture. Knowing how something might be implemented or could be taken
929.
by bigfudge 14y ago
Why not? Sure, neither ruby nor python emphasise immutability, and recursion isn't optimised, but both lend themselves to a functional style if you're so inclined. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/159797/is-ruby-a-function...
930.
by bigfudge 15y ago
That's unfair. He's done extended radio series on language and poetry, topics on which he's genuinely expert, which were a joy.

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