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by christofd 17y ago
While I play a fair bit of J.S. Bach material in my free time, I find that listening to Bach over long periods of time rather depressing. It builds a heavy darker mood. Ambient & lighter Electronica is easier on the mood and the repetit
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by christofd 17y ago
The basics of devising algorithmic strategies come from the field of Market Microstructure in Finance/Economics. I took a graduate level course on it (math prof. from Stanford). I found a decent graduate level course syllabus with all the m
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by christofd 17y ago
Very interesting stuff!
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by christofd 17y ago
Sometimes it's easier to follow the herd. Since you're paying a lot of money for classes, might as well attend. Keeping up with course material on your own, while skipping class, will result in 3-4 times the effort and lower grades -> y
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by christofd 17y ago
I'm saying Toronto, because on a global scale you would have to add Waterloo (being 1h outside of Toronto) to the greater Toronto area.
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by christofd 17y ago
Actually, intense thinking, as I recall, burns a lot of calories. The trick is diet, as mentioned on here (next to moderate levels of exercise). Eat mostly veggies, rice, pasta, avocados, fruit. Drink water and no pop. The other thing: look
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by christofd 17y ago
I do re-check threads I've commented/ voted on. I assume others do as well and want to be held accountable: this is HN! I have no interest in spending time on here if this turns out to be another noisy channel. I assumed some Google fan-boy
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by christofd 17y ago
If HN even had a 5% female ratio I'd be surprised.
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by christofd 17y ago
Alright, I'm calling this out: I want to know the reason for the down-vote. STEP UP! If it's some technical reason that I've ignored, good for you. If it's passive aggressive behavior then not so good.
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by christofd 17y ago
Why the hell would somebody vote me down for an observation maybe saving other people from possibly several thousand dollars damage to their computing equipment???
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by christofd 17y ago
Although, certain online learning resources inspire confidence -> e.g. Django book, Thinking in Java, O'Reilly Safari etc. The nice thing with an online version is that you can e.g. scale up the text size to an ultra-readable format, ju
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by christofd 17y ago
yeah, nearly fried my apple laptop, watching cnn video - i noticed: 95 degrees celsius
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by christofd 17y ago
When you are first learning a subject it's really helpful to have it printed out on paper. As you chew through it, you can leave all kinds of personal markings, underlinings etc. And you are not distracted by a million other things - a boo
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by christofd 17y ago
Used to have a swiss Giroflex 33-7777 (about a grand -> http://www.giroflex.com/content/produkte/giroflex_33.php?pro... )... now just a decent Staples office chair -> not much difference
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by christofd 17y ago
Hmm... the real circumstances of social experiments are tough to evaluate. I'd have to be there to believe it. I'm skeptical... people might just have thought: hey cool, a social experiment, let's play with the situation and enjoy myself. I
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by christofd 17y ago
Intense, thorough tutorial. Nice to see a pragmatic Hadoop walk-thru.
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by christofd 17y ago
I've been throwing my thoughts into text files as well. I just hate scrolling through a long text file to find something. Gotta figure something out... Also, I use the webcam of my laptop to make snapshots of paper notes I've written (the p
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by christofd 17y ago
Those are some mighty big words.
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by christofd 17y ago
Yeah, I didn't like this. He produced some solid work with Mongrel. He should get back on that train and get over the static. I personally don't care what has been said - I wouldn't even think people at a Ruby conference would care much eit
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by christofd 17y ago
No it isn't. There are traffic accident injuries, where people lose large parts of their brain, and the brain compensates. By comparison, if you would lose your right leg, your body will not grow a new one.
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by christofd 17y ago
no, you guys don't get the background story, regarding University of Waterloo's new logo.
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by christofd 17y ago
I'm just about ready to release a rant about ignorant, car-culture addicted North-Americans that just can't get used to anything other than suburbs, drive-thrus and SUV's (I believe you can even get married in a car in the U.S. etc.). Oh wo
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by christofd 17y ago
pew pew. we have lazerz :)
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by christofd 17y ago
Talent in athletic fields is much easier to determine, because the factors are often hard physical limitations: length of body, weight, muscle mass, balance. Talent in intellectual endeavors is hard to define. In the liberal arts it's sort
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by christofd 17y ago
Ah, a Canadian ;) Those hockey players. Btw - those 2 Rails projects of yours are well done.
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by christofd 17y ago
I don't understand Yahoo!'s focus, except that they own a large assortment of web properties (e.g. flickr, Yahoo! search etc.). I don't understand the positioning of the elements on the page and their relative importance. I don't understand
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by christofd 17y ago
Well put. Was just gonna quote some of these sources. The author of these studies was one of my professors :)
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by christofd 17y ago
Case Law is in-transparent and tough to navigate through vs. Civil Law Code (Roman Law) from Continental Europe, where law has to be derived from higher written-down principles. It's mostly the Anglo-Saxon societies that have Case Law. My i
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by christofd 17y ago
How does it work again (I remember reading up on ant behaviour)? An ant comes straight back on the same path, when it finds food. Since ants leave pheromone markers, this path is now stronger, so other ants know and will in turn follow. A s
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by christofd 17y ago
Why are the students exceptionally motivated to fulfill this assignment: - They have nowhere else to go. They have to sit in that class room. More or less, it's their job. - They are being asked to create something from their own imaginatio

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