crpatino

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by crpatino 17y ago
There are lots of places where you can make a stable income without flushing your health, your psyque and your social life down the toilet. Hell, if you don't care about that and are already working 80+ hrs per week, you could probably make
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by crpatino 17y ago
Let me quote from the article here... "Given all that could go wrong in this economy, they were doing well. Their business had just crossed cash flow breakeven, had grown past 50 employees, just raised a substantive follow-on round of finan
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by crpatino 17y ago
Other problem I see is the same as the poop vaporizer in the Jack Black's movie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy_%28film%29 . The fact that the shit is nowhere to be seen does not mean that it is not there anymore. We know this kid figure
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by crpatino 17y ago
The elimination of free soda has nothing to do with frugality in the face of financial distress. Quite the opposite, the article begins telling the story of how well they were doing (considering current economic downturn). The whole point o
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by crpatino 17y ago
More to the point! The big disadvantage ML methods is that they are just fancy statistics. The main faulty assumption here is that they believe the future looks a lot like the past, so they try to find even more complex patterns in histor
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by crpatino 17y ago
Here is a wikipedia link about land cleanup... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioremediation From the article: "Not all contaminants, however, are easily treated by bioremediation using microorganisms. For example, heavy metals ... Phytore
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by crpatino 17y ago
wow! keep with the good work, captain obvious. sure they do!!! that´s why they grew that big! if a regular site sends you that crap, it is spam... if your pals send it, you cannot just say no.
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by crpatino 17y ago
lupin, I think you are taking a really cheap shot at me. I am not arguing that we are about to run out of oil in the near future. I dont think oil will "run dry" in my lifetime, and quite possible not in my kids lifetime as well. So, let me
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by crpatino 17y ago
This is possible of course. After all, the stuff we extract from the ground came into existence somehow in nature, and we know we are good at speeding up nature to do staff we want. The two problems I see are scale and unwillingness. On the
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by crpatino 17y ago
Love to be the contrarian... this guy was probably good hearted, but he did not "saved millions from starvation". Worst case he may have enabled other people to curse billions to starvation. Overall, grain yields may have grown up. However,
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by crpatino 17y ago
The point is not being productive, but looking busy. Honestly, if the OP had the option, he should take a 2 hour nap, a shower a late brunch and start working about noon. If he cannot, it is probably because he has to be there at the of
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by crpatino 17y ago
have you ever seen them abused ? you'd understand why : (or at least have you thought about it ? you'd understand why : (or at least you can get the gist from this ? good : I can't help you)) Sorry, not perfect but with some indentation wou
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by crpatino 17y ago
Hey, a mild form of socialism is great in many ways. I have been thinking a lot lately about the rights to "Life, Freedom and Pursue of Happiness". In particular, I don't think the founders meant the right to Life to mean "right to not bein
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by crpatino 17y ago
"I think the real question is, how are we going to restructure to deal with high levels of unemployment, so that we stay stable and productive? ..." The real issue - social issue at least, is how will the people support themselves. As more
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by crpatino 18y ago
Hi owkaye, I think it all depends on how you organize things. If people can make progress on their own and just coordinate in few, well identified events, the more the better! At the end of day, all depends on the amount of coordination nee
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by crpatino 18y ago
So, you say you want to keep thing "as small as possible", bring 5 people on board, but still none of you is able to create something that the customers will pay for? I don't want to make any judgements, but seems like you do not appreciate
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by crpatino 18y ago
Why would you consider unfair to call logic thinking as mathematical thinking? Maybe it is the engineering background indeed, at least it is for myself. Maybe it was all those "engineering math" mandatory courses... you know, calculus, diff
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by crpatino 18y ago
Exponential growth cannot go on for ever; at least not in an Universe with hard limits, like our own. My personal opinion is that in Nature, every time you find data with an exponential growth trend, it means you have found the slope of a s
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by crpatino 18y ago
Have you people stopped to think about expertise ? It takes 10 years of meaningful practice to get very good at any profession. If you factor the reality that you have to put up with your share of unedifying grunt work, it takes more like
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by crpatino 18y ago
hang in there, buddy. You are on to something. My 2 cents: http://www.noticiaslinux.com/ http://gruporeforma.mural.com/suplementos/interfase/?plazaco... (this is a local newspaper site, some news might require subscription to read)
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by crpatino 18y ago
Maybe we are in for something here. Having been lectured with the infamous Joyanes' books, I quickly learned to get my info in English the minute I found gopher (way before I knew what an actual gopher looks like). This bias has made me con
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by crpatino 18y ago
This is of course oversimplified. The argument seems to me like: 1) If you love what you do, you will care. You will go the extra mile to do it right. 2) After a couple of years of doing what you love, and caring, and improving every day, y
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by crpatino 18y ago
Rescue-Time for Intranets (stand alone would do too). Ideally it would be able to track not only what applications you are using or URL are looking at, but also which files you are working with. Then you can tag entire directories in order
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by crpatino 18y ago
Why do you ask this? You already should know that, at IBM, you will be another brick in the wall. Do you need permission to do what you love?
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by crpatino 18y ago
hi, first post ever! basically... what you have, sir, is a day job with low expectations and no IP ownership conflict of interests. Please don't waste this opportunity. Of course you have to keep delivering value to the project, but if you