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by cschmidt 13y ago
I don't think they meant video interview. I read somewhere else that he went to the AP offices and they talked for two hours. So interview in the sense of reporter talking to person. It did seem a rather short article for that amount
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Well at least they do approve the beta requests quickly. It seems to be based on http://cloudfoundry.com/ , which isn't obvious from their initial landing page.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I suppose the difference is that most people with a reported $400 million don't keep it in cash at home. As I understand it, Bitcoin is more like cash in that possession is ownership.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
My code didn't come by the end of the countdown. I sat there and watched it tick down for a few minutes. It just arrived, a minute or so late. Great job IBM.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
You're correct, it falls under that last rule of user-defined class. They certainly have a right to define it that way, in some sense. But it just goes entirely against the spirit of that documentation to do so. I would be fairly sho
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by cschmidt 13y ago
One of the most basic pages of python documentation [1] says this: Any object can be tested for truth value, for use in an if or while condition or as operand of the Boolean operations below. The following values are conside
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I did exactly the same thing. I had to use Stripe.js and a custom form. I'm doing a monthly subscription, so it feels too weird to have a "Remember Me" button. If my customers are trying to sign up for an ongoing thing, why
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Maine has a scale model solar system about 40 miles across. I drive by it every summer. http://pages.umpi.edu/~nmms/solar/
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by cschmidt 13y ago
This gets posted on HN occasionally, and when it does I post this fun blog post by Michael Trick, a CMU Operations Research professor, who used the Secretary problem to pick his wife: http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=1
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I was hoping for that effect as well - since you get three this should have been quite self sustaining. I did my bit, I guess. Sorry it ended up unbalanced.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Done. Enjoy. I'm all out now.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Done.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I have 2 invites to give away. Please reply if you want them.
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Ask HN: You want Atom invites/you have invites to give?
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Classify will be released with Mathematica 10, which is officially coming soon... http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica-10-coming-soon.html You can tell from looking at the bottom of the documentation page: http://r
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I thought that was the main use of the $100 bill. Supposedly 2/3 of the $100 bills circulate outside the US [1], presumably for money laundering type activities. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_one_
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by cschmidt 13y ago
An then they came up with the poll tax to keep the poor from voting. I'm sure Tom Perkins would like that again.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I think the article was trying to say that most people who avoid gluten don't have celiac disease, which is relatively rare. Those people can process the gluten, but it still leads to other gut problems.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
As in "I used to think correlation implied causation. Then I took a statistics class. Now I don't..." http://xkcd.com/552/
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Are you thinking of RabbigMQ perhaps?
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Yes, the Multyvac launch has been delayed until February 19. They are supporting much of the PiCloud functionality, but not function publishing, which I used quite a lot. (That was a way you could "publish" a function to PiCloud,
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Having a way to pickle code objects and their dependencies is a huge win, and I'm angry I hadn't heard of PiCloud earlier. That's a nice use of the cloud library, without using the PiCloud service. Unfortunatel
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Yes, I use Django, among many people. The 1.6.2 is just a minor bug fix release. I'll upgrade to it tomorrow, but it isn't that exciting. I haven't been following 1.7, so someone else will have to comment on that.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
My son, who is 13, is playing Flappy Birds this week. At least in part, it is because all the other kids in middle school are playing it. It does have some viral buzz in that sense.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
It is a great resource, but it is getting out of date. They even have a disclaimer on that page [1] now: While the book mentions Django version 1.4 in places, the vast majority of the book is for Django version 1.0, which w
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I loved the 1.5 version, and just ordered the new version. If Pydanny or Audrey stops by to read this, I have a suggestion. You two should write a book aimed at someone entirely new to Django. I've seen your book often recommended as t
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I also gave Dan's "Now I Know" book [1] as holiday presents this year, which was quite a hit. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Now-Know-Revealing-Stories-Interesting...
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I hesitated in making a joke on HN, since that never works well here. I was actually making fun of the practice of having Indian call center employees go by ridiculous American sounding names that couldn't possibly be theirs. I always
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by cschmidt 13y ago
"Scott" Venkatasubramanian
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That's true. But only a vanishingly small fraction of the possible brackets has come up in history. Similarly, the lottery ticket 1 2 3 4 5 6 has probably never won. Since all lottery tickets are equally likely, it still makes sense

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