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by craigyk 14y ago
OTH, I thought eating out in SF was both cheaper and higher quality than where I live now (San Diego).
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by craigyk 14y ago
Must be a west coast thing. One of the first things I noticed when I visited Vancouver for the first time was how many crackheads were just sitting about, and how friendly they were when asking for directions.
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by craigyk 14y ago
What you can trade for using your currency is what gives it value. At least IMO. In that case paper money is doing fine. The primary purpose of currency is too ease trade, not too keep score. As long as the value of paper money stays re
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by craigyk 14y ago
I'd rather have invested that $35 into the stock market. Going by the dow jones from 1933 to today, that $35 would be worth over $9,000. That's the proper comparison to gold.
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by craigyk 14y ago
Hear Hear. Haven't heard that one before but it probably has quite some truth to it. Sort of like the old: "Science advances one funeral at a time" - Max Planck. Anyways. His criticisms are all good ones, and yet I can't help but feel li
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by craigyk 14y ago
naw, trust is fine. trust is pretty specific in this context
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by craigyk 14y ago
Followed by the observation, that for a 2 liter, the price per ounce is still remarkably close to the original price
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by craigyk 14y ago
landslide in what fashion? Innovation or income? Steve was awesome, but Apple wouldn't be where it is today if it wasn't for Tim, or actually all of the upper level execs. Pretty much all of Apple's upper level are rockstars; at least in
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by craigyk 14y ago
wow, not one comment dissing Obj-C? my head just blew up.
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by craigyk 14y ago
Seriously. groklaw is starting to sound whiny with their unending criticism of the guy. Argue the system not the verdict. I am for major reforms to the current patent system, but deep down am secretly pleased that the jury decided to sti
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by craigyk 14y ago
The true secret to Mongo's awesomeness for me has always been the dev experience. JSON documents, query by example, etc.: Awesome API.
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by craigyk 14y ago
Yes, it is smart. On many levels, even the long run. I think you might not be aware that a very large percentage of drugs in the West emerge from publicly funded research... sometimes even 'basic science' research. While pharma does do its
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by craigyk 14y ago
Why VCs judge people: 1. The team/people do matter 2. They aren't smart/knowledgeable* enough to truly evaluate the merits, weaknesses, etc. of a pitch, so they use people as a proxy. * smart/knowledgable are used here loosely to encomp
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by craigyk 14y ago
Is there a chance that YC might one day think of funding more capital intensive ventures, like biotech?
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by craigyk 14y ago
Oh, Ok, I get it, by offline they mean raw data and a client-side rendering library. That is a nice improvement, but I would have to assume, this does not include satellite imagery then. Come to think of it, I'd be amazed if Apple's map a
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by craigyk 14y ago
Hmm, pretty underwhelming. Great 3D: cool to be sure, but of limited use. Also, I think this is trying to head off Apple's equivalent announcement next week, which I expect to be even more eye-popping, but of the same limited-use. Street
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by craigyk 14y ago
Exactly what I thought when I saw all the responses to Atwood's original post. I think he meant to play the realist card. Of course the world would be better if more people learned how to code, but that comes at a substantial time cost.
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by craigyk 14y ago
I don't remember where I read it, but "watching someone try to do functional programming in python can be painful". I have to agree quite a bit with that. The distinction between lambdas and functions, expressions, etc. I started doing a
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by craigyk 14y ago
professional is a relative word... if someone is a reliable coworker, does quality work, and isn't a douchebag then they've just met my definition of professional.
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by craigyk 14y ago
Or it's a freedom of speech thing, -or- its feeling some sympathy for a guy whose writing style tries to be somewhat creative, certainly not dry, and probably didn't expect, and doesn't deserve accusations of sexism, etc.
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by craigyk 14y ago
whose 'we'?. I'd rather work with someone a little colorful over someone who is dull, all other things being equal. I'd even rather work with someone who occasionally made me wince, or feel uncomfortable as long as they had offsetting hig
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by craigyk 14y ago
You know what's douchebaggy? It's the trend I've noticed where invariably someone says: Blah Blah Blah, I'm so professional, blah blah blah, I'm a boss|manager|startup founder|etc blah blah blah and I'd fire you for this. Edit: Seriously,
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by craigyk 15y ago
True, good points, but not insurmountable roadblocks, especially if more weight gets thrown behind it. I think the last two points can also be addressed by better caching, etc. Further into the panel, it seems like there is interest in hav
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by craigyk 15y ago
I'm SO glad that the core of the python scientific computing development has many of the same apprehensions as I do. This panel was interesting also in that everyone was not so subtly beating around the Python 3K, why? bush. I would have be
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by craigyk 15y ago
This was my exact view as well. Especially since I've learned a few languages since I first learned Python, and I just don't understand why they didn't take the opportunity to implement more good features from other languages.
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by craigyk 15y ago
If you think this is cool, you'd love the flagella motor complex. Especially the assembly process. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey7Emmddf7Y
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by craigyk 15y ago
if Python had better function syntax and anonynous functions, decorators wouldn't even be a 'thing'
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by craigyk 15y ago
As someone with lots of Python experience, having used CoffeeScript/JS for ~three months makes Python looks somewhat old fashioned when I switch back. If Coffee/JS had some way of overloading array access operations, and maybe a numpy equi
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by craigyk 15y ago
THANK YOU. This addresses a question I've had on stack overflow for a couple of days. It also addresses at least two issues in Node.js's github tracker under the 'fs' flag.
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by craigyk 15y ago
How would people recommend doing async file IO w/ tornado? I was using Tornado until I needed to write a server to handle very large file uploads at which point I switched to Node.js + CoffeeScript.

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