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by brent 19y ago
Success!!
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by brent 19y ago
seconded.
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by brent 19y ago
I'd say that the conclusion (I came to) wasn't just that googlers were more efficient with other languages, but that after that many years of lisp he's already more efficient with python.
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by brent 19y ago
Exactly, he mentioned it as an issue, not as the decision maker. Given 2 otherwise equivalent candidates (not that they are) who differ on one small issue that you have a stance on, you vote for the one who you agree with. This is certain
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by brent 19y ago
Randall does mention Obama's support of open data standards and net neutrality. These issues are not only related to "hacker news", but will have an effect on every reader of this site.
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by brent 19y ago
No one ever said anything like this about IBM or Microsoft. This time I'm sure the empire will stay _forever_.
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by brent 19y ago
By formatting I was referring to the fact that he had to match the 6th field. If grep would return 100k and only 10 in the desired field awk is obviously handy (the exception). In the general case where you are just trying to hunt things
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by brent 19y ago
No, I'm pretty sure he meant suck-cut: http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200509/1125942792.htm...
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by brent 19y ago
> Make directory trees in a single swipe. Really? How often will I need to make a directory structure that is several levels deep, but only one directory at each level? >Match certain fields in output, not just lines For someone wh
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by brent 19y ago
http://www.gradolabs.com/product_pages/sr60.htm
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by brent 19y ago
Same with medical devices and FDA requirements. You wouldn't want a blood glucose meter device to give you the wrong number!
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by brent 19y ago
Granted its ambiguous, but million closer to the top than money. Its also easier to say :-).
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by brent 19y ago
:-O Yikes. How embarrassing. No insult taken. I have pointed this out in other's writing. Funny how easy it is to slip and type mistakes like this when you're rushing out comments. Good catch...
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by brent 19y ago
Poor analogy. These are, for all intensive purposes, tools for mutually exclusive tasks. Programming languages are in general for the purpose of writing programs. While they may different slightly in capabilities they are for one purpose
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by brent 19y ago
As I replied to ca above, this would be breaking the single rule in question. You are limited to a single language, not a single compiler/interpreter to start with.
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by brent 19y ago
The question isn't what compiler you would want to start off with. Its what programming language (one SINGLE programming language) would you want to use if restricted to use only it.
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by brent 19y ago
Lack of funding. Personally I think most scientific publishing should be publicly funded by tax dollars as it eventually benefits everyone, but such is life. To go out on a further, yet still related tangent here is a humorous (read: sad)
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by brent 19y ago
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard this...
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Edge 2008 Question(edge.org)
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nyt, economist, the daily show
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by brent 19y ago
have any good math blog recommendations?
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by brent 19y ago
I would argue that this practice only got annoying when people complained about it every single time it happened.
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by brent 19y ago
Did you make more than Hannah Montana?
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by brent 19y ago
You didn't look at Indiana. http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/academics/sample_curricul... This is the undergraduate informatics curriculum which, as you'll notice, strictly includes social science courses throughout the first two years.
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by brent 19y ago
I believe what you're referring to then is the need for an increase in informatics programs (like at my school www.informatics.indiana.edu). However, I should stipulate that this is use of a computer to do tasks related to information, not
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by brent 19y ago
Mogwai, Terrific Speech 2
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by brent 19y ago
Thank you! That used to have a permanent spot on my playlist ~5-6 years ago and I had completely forgotten about it. What a gem.
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by brent 19y ago
I know there are people who trade algorithmically (I'm one of them). I just wanted evidence of one person who had made billions from it.
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by brent 19y ago
I couldn't agree more. Based on the quality of the teams at the top, if you beat their algorithms you have proven you have something particularly special. I think you'll easily be able to sell it for more than $1 million.
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by brent 19y ago
Do you have any information of anyone algorithmically outperforming the market enough to make them personally billionaires?

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