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by cschmidt 14y ago
I haven't used Waf either, but some information is here: www.scons.org/wiki/SconsVsOtherBuildTools
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Exactly, $45 or $150 is not exactly going to break the bank for a commercial venture. If it is something you need, and it saves you a couple of hours of time, then you're ahead.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
There is good, quality classical still being written today. Try John Adams, for example. His website is www.earbox.com My favorite piece of his is Harmonielehre, but there is lots of great stuff there.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Of course Einstein is famous for not knowing his own phone number in Princeton. He didn't see the point in remembering things he could look up.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
He says he is not a lot of things, but OR person isn't one of them. In fact, what he does do sounds very much like OR to me. Do you think OR is a scary term for the masses? I find saying I do Operations Research works with many people. It
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Given that his degree is in Operations Research, I wonder why he doesn't say he does Operations Research, rather than Industrial Mathematics. I often say I do OR.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
If you liked the article, then you should read Chris Anderson's book Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. Lots of interesting stuff about the "Maker" revolution, with 3d printing, etc. He also tells about 3d robotics got going. I really
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by cschmidt 14y ago
For some reason, I find it harder to find what I'm looking for in the R help than just about any other language. That's why you end up not knowing about useful packages for a very long time. Is that just me?
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I've benefited from lots of theoretical classes, and you're absolutely right that you need to understand the theory of what you're doing. For example, I took a lovely class from Prof. John Hooker (at CMU) that derived Linear Programming du
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I do derivations all the time. I just do a series of algebraic transformations, starting from what I have, and getting to what I need. Some might say that I'm doing a proof. But I never use proof by contradiction, contrapositive, induction,
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I don't know about the OP's point on the value of proof to programmers. I do optimization and machine learning, and I use all kinds of math on a regular basis. But I don't prove things, and rarely need to follow someone else's proof eithe
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I've built gender identification models from first names, using census data. In playing with that data, it seems to me that African American names have a longer tail distribution. That is, the top 100 names cover a much smaller fraction of
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by cschmidt 14y ago
They have some filters. You can't take out ads on pharmacy, alcohol, or drug related terms for example. I'd assume they have filters on hate related words as well.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Just to be clear, when I said: > They see it as an underage Facebook. I meant the underage kids, not Facebook itself. I wouldn't say Instagram solicits kids, just that there are lot of them on there.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
It is all personal taste I guess. Mine was about half that price for the 1000M. Their value is in the beautiful cases and bracelets, all CNC cut from a hunk of stainless steel. They are among the most waterproof watches on the market. I'll
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I guess your generic is my minimalist elegance ;-).
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by cschmidt 14y ago
You should check out UTS watches. The German guy who started it had a business selling high end CNC machines. I guess he wanted to make something with them. So he cuts the cases for these watches on his machines. He puts a nice mechanica
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I wonder exactly what violations they're dealing with. My son's junior high is full of kids using Instagram. They see it as an underage Facebook. That could be it. Or is there some wave of people using an assumed name.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
That's funny that we both posted about how great it is to get a ChE PhD. Glad you're enjoying it.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Boy, all the articles about Ph.D.'s on HN are so negative. I had a great time getting mine. I got a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon. I guess it must depend a lot on the subject you're studying. We mostly did classes for
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by cschmidt 14y ago
"It may lead to the U.S. attorney’s office looking at each case on its own merits." What a concept: prosecuting each case on its own merits.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Including... Q. I know that the editorial staff at the Economist hates Silvio Berlusconi, so I have to ask... Would you rather fight one horse sized Silvio Berlusconi or 100 duck sized Silvio Berlusconis? and Q. Who ar
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I am Tom Standage, Digital Editor at The Economist. AMA(reddit.com)
2 points by cschmidt 14y ago|1 comments
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by cschmidt 14y ago
> what I have quoted, ... outright contradicts what you are saying. I guess I don't see the contradiction. Your beloved quote seems to be saying that you should not to be afraid of being hated by people who disagree with your convict
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by cschmidt 14y ago
You went to a web page that you wanted to read, and it didn't let you override the font choice as it should have for good accessibility. You got mad. I'd suggest a different approach. Take a deep breath, have that cigarette you need. I'm
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WBUR Transcript: U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Defends Handling Of Swartz Case(wbur.org)
4 points by cschmidt 14y ago|1 comments
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by cschmidt 14y ago
That's an interestingly emotional, defensive response. Most HN readers would simply have found it an cool scientific article. I don't think the Economist science section really has a "propaganda" axe to grind. (And as others have said, they
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Chapter 25 is a short 4 page chapter on deployment. I do look forward to having a chance to read it all.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
No it was there, I just don't tend to pay much attention to my scroll bar. It is way over there on the right. The designer of this page went to a lot of effort to make the blue bar at the bottom fill the entire page, without letting any of
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by cschmidt 14y ago
It is pretty - but it triggers a pet peeve of mine. I spend 30 seconds trying to get this page to "do something". It is just the photo and a blue bar a the bottom. No indication of "scroll down". I wonder how many people give up. I was

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