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by btcoal 15y ago
What I would love to see is a major (Hollywood) motion picture about WWII cryptanalysis, Enigma, etc. To my knowledge every aspect of WWII has been depicted except this (Pacific theater, Normandy, Concentration camps, Navajo codetalkers, an
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by btcoal 15y ago
Or better yet, the conference paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina/my_papers/civ11.pdf Very interesting.
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by btcoal 15y ago
I just have never been able to understand how some people can look at all the challenges in the world and not feel a need to solve one of them. But, I admit, this is the majority of most people. Of the minority of people that really feel co
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by btcoal 15y ago
SUCCESS!
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by btcoal 15y ago
I hope I'm not the only one that actually embraces this sort of work environment.
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by btcoal 15y ago
A. Why does he need any indication. Fail fast, fail cheap. If it doesn't work it is only a loss to those invovled. B. I would pay. So there.
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by btcoal 15y ago
I don't know why this got downvoted. With the financial trouble in Portugal, Spain and Greece and the imbalance in monetary and fiscal health (Contrast those 3 with Germany) within the EU, the Euro looks very shaky indeed.
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The Scope of Mathematical Programming Projects(math-blog.com)
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by btcoal 15y ago
Wow. I think you and I are in very similar positions. Although you've got a decade headstart on me: Win. I would say our interests and current set of skills overlap quite a bit, this is what I'm doing to get to the next level: - Find a ment
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by btcoal 15y ago
Agreed. I am also not a fan of using "startup" as a strict noun. I think of it more of an adjective. That is, companies can be in their "startup" phase. Too many people consider startup as a business category in and of itself. Moreover, eve
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by btcoal 15y ago
When I'm planning out my meals I use W|A to calculate calories. It's incredibly useful for this. I love that it not only gives point estimates for fat, sodium, etc., but also plots the distribution of these values: http://www.wolframalpha.
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by btcoal 15y ago
R
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Ask HN: Value in Stanford Professional Cert
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Mathematics Video Lectures - Free Science and Video Lectures Online(freescienceonline.blogspot.com)
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The Long Poll: AJAX Push(like) Chat with Comet(niryariv.wordpress.com)
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by btcoal 16y ago
I'm not sure why the question mark here. Are you questioning the meaning of this phrase or its applicability? If the former, then it is a reference to Dante's The Divine Comedy. If the latter, then in The Inferno, there is a special place r
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by btcoal 16y ago
When I was first learning the piano I numbered the notes from Beethoven's Fur Elise, then numbered the keys on my keyboard to match. Then I just pressed the keys in order. Eventually, through muscle memory, I could play the piece pretty wel
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by btcoal 16y ago
I would never work with co-founders who only like to live on cardboard pizza and redbull ;) Same. I don't buy into the startup "lifestyle" of most B2C web companies. I'm pretty sure, in the US, it's a relic of the dotcom era that needs to
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by btcoal 16y ago
Hedge fund.
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by btcoal 16y ago
Way to completely forget about taxes. Also, if hackers were 1/10 as unionized as teachers or other public sector employees OR GM employees the median salary would be double that.
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by btcoal 16y ago
(A) The weather in NYC is definitely not as extreme as ANY of the places you listed. I have lived in all five for varying lengths of time. (B) Many more creative types than just developers are attracted to NYC such as fashion, tv, finance (
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by btcoal 16y ago
I upvoted you to cancel out the downvote you got. Spot on.
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by btcoal 16y ago
Anytime I hear a discussion about designing computational tools for "non-programmers" I'm reminded of the subway in Mexico City, Mexico. The subway stops have nicely detailed pictures that are descriptive of the locations around the stops.
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by btcoal 16y ago
A) Any half-competent scientist is comfortable programming. B) Some programming is even required in a lot of undergrad business/MBA programs C) What the author really means by "MBA-types" are morons. So, yes there is a market for an user-fr