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by csbrooks 12y ago
Don't epidemics generally spread exponentially? Is it normal for that growth rate to slow as the size of the epidemic increases? (Honest question, not being sarcastic.)
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Congrats on 100,000 karma, btw. O_o
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by csbrooks 12y ago
This test went around at work a while ago. At the time, I worked with a number of artists. Many people got very different results depending on the monitor they were using.
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by csbrooks 12y ago
This screams out "there's two sides to every story". :(
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by csbrooks 12y ago
That is really cool. I wonder how it does when the lighting changes throughout the day?
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Can you elaborate? Or post a good link? I'm guessing the issue isn't "what is the difference" but "why does it matter, and when do they get confused with each other"?
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by csbrooks 12y ago
"This means that it’s very possible none of us are making anywhere near minimum wage on this project, but regardless we’re all making about the same hourly wage, a wage determined by the relative commercial success of the game." G
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by csbrooks 12y ago
"So yes, people think like this because it's easier to fix the bug than it is trying to figure out correlation." And many times, there's no clear advantage to figuring out the correlation first instead of just fixing the
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by csbrooks 12y ago
"maybe the bug is caused by this new problem, even though it's obviously completely unrelated, so I'm going to fix it and cross my fingers." You're mis-stating what I said. I said "you can't reason how it
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by csbrooks 12y ago
"In theory, theory is a lot like practice. In practice, practice is nothing like theory."
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by csbrooks 12y ago
I'm going to point something out here that's not really central to the argument the article is making. In programming, in my experience, the nastiest bugs to fix are actually two or three separate bugs interacting in weird ways. I
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by csbrooks 12y ago
What is the software engineering PE? Been programming professionally 18 years, never heard of it.
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Just a guess, I'm betting their terms of service are written so it's almost impossible for them to be in breach of them. Not to say they won't give a refund, but I'm guessing their lawyers have things setup so they aren&
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Noob question: When you say "implantable electrodes", you mean for humans, or for animals?
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Sure, maybe we can talk them into using water pistols instead of real weapons, too. :)
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by csbrooks 12y ago
"...for years, al-Qaida has used an encryption program written by its own coders called Mujahideen Secrets." Wow, that's crazy! I had no idea. Al-Qaida does their own software development? So weird. Using their own homebrew e
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by csbrooks 12y ago
CFD? Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_fluid_dynamics
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by csbrooks 12y ago
That's something I believe, too, but I never see it mentioned. If it's "just like cash", then you've made a significant early investment in the company. How is getting paid back what you put in fair?
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by csbrooks 12y ago
It drives me crazy when people say "just wear headphones". Would you take the SAT while wearing headphones? Because there are plenty of programming problems that are as hard as anything on the SAT. (I know I read that analogy some
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Or maybe she hadn't used Airbnb before, and was just following the instructions that got emailed to her.
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by csbrooks 12y ago
I don't feel like financial payback is sufficient. If laws were broken, people need to go to prison. Looks to me like all the evidence is right there.
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Pedantic note: They were burgled. To be robbed you have to be there.
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by csbrooks 12y ago
We have to go deeper... "What writing an article that made the front page about making the front page did for our website." Karmaception!
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Were you a cofounder, though? Sounds like you were an employee.
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by csbrooks 12y ago
I've installed adblock before because of ugly ads: specifically the "weird trick to get rid of belly fat" with a horrible drawing of... belly fat. (shudder)
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Push back a little. "Did you read the error message? What did it say? Did you do what it said to do?"
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Interesting. I'll have to think about that some more. I've been assuming it's because of human nature: when something's new and shiny, we see all the cool new things it will do for us. After being around it for long enou
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Ranting gets attention, so people rant. I've noticed people will use some library or platform or language, and at first they'll love it. Then two or three years on, all they can see are the places it falls short in the domain they
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Then just come up with an algorithm that proves if the program will halt or not. Easy peasy.
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by csbrooks 12y ago
I'm not sure about that; I feel like I got a lot from the article without following the links.

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