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by cschmidt 14y ago
I don't if this is known by everyone, but the anonymous author G.F. is Glenn Fleishman.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Did he really leave? His office is in the Stata center at MIT. I thought he was still an unpaid "research associate" at MIT. Is that no longer correct? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_and_Maria_Stata_Center
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by cschmidt 14y ago
There were lots of comments on this thread when he joined Google: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923914
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Good to know. I only have non-recurring charges, so I hadn't looked into that.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Well, for non recurring charges Stripe is awesome.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I'm a very happy PiCloud customer. They have "Environments", which let you log into an instance and install whatever you want. You can then run your code on that customized instance in the future. So your Python code can access any weird c
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Photos on the internet tend to have a long life. I think it is the permanence of these photos and videos that make it worse. In the old days you could just go to college and leave your high school life behind. Now Google is forever.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
It is annoying that the tech press has to frame everything as a "war". They've been writing that same article for decades, only the players change.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Strangely Halliburton seems to have done this: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/11/12/halliburton-patenting-pa...
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Seemed a bit of a straw man argument, really. I don't think those are the best criticisms of taking VC money.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
You are absolutely correct. However, Font Awesome might be the most frequently used set of icons with TB.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
The book "Makers: The New Industrial Revolution" by Chris Anderson talks a fair bit about 3D Robotics, in addition to lots of other interesting topics. www.amazon.com/Makers-The-New-Industrial-Revolution/dp/0307720950 One of my favorite boo
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Learning Python first is a good step. There are lots of good books for Python. I liked the book "Python Essential Reference", but there are many tutorial style books that might be better for you. Once you have the basics of Python in hand,
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Many Django or Rails sites are well within single developer range. They would sure beat Wordpress in the fulfilling department.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I guess that might be some of the best free fonts, but even then I don't really like them. Most people using web fonts would have a Typekit account. I'd take most of the fonts on Typekit over this list. However, I've found that the WebTyp
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I've been looking for a service like Snapjoy. Kind of sad that I found it in a post that the service is suspended. Hopefully the team will keep working on a Snapjoy like service within Dropbox.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, ... unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Yes, he's a political polemicist, hence shouldn't be on HN. I wouldn't want to see a Fox News columnist on here either. (I don't l
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by cschmidt 14y ago
His assertion that buying my children Christmas presents will be killing rhinos? Please. He ticks off a bunch of unrelated bad things that happen in the world as a result of consumption. He lists a bunch of stupid presents some people buy.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Originally a column in the Guardian[1], which explains a lot. If you give your loved ones store bought presents you are massacring people in the Congo, killing rhinos, and generally destroying the world. Apparently those presents will all b
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I just can't see Kurzweil being in the same league as Peter Norvig. Sure, he did some interesting work a long time ago, before he got weird. I can't see this working out well for Google, unless they just want a famous figurehead.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Ingram's standard color is meant to be cheaper http://www.ingramcontent.com/MRKNG/2012/52856-29853/29853.ht... Don't know about the quality.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Any chance you're going to have the book printed? I like reading on paper, still.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I've just applied, and it seems like an exciting prospect. Are you going to decide on a rolling basis, or only after the February 10 deadline?
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by cschmidt 14y ago
It says "Only $3.95 a month" on the site, so I imagine that's the plan.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Stephen Wolfram's ideas on New Kind of Science (NKS) suggest that the universe is based on simple computational rules. (If I might paraphrase a thousand plus page book I've only partially read into a sentence.) Strangely, the paper in the O
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by cschmidt 14y ago
My daughter's favorite character is Olivia. They have profiles of all the girls. Hers says: I love: My friends, science, school, drawing, inventing things, nature, hiking, photography, history. I ’m also good at: Readin
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I really appreciate their Friends series. My son had tons of legos of all kinds. My daughter, who is 5 now, played with Duplo, but refused to try regular Legos. They were for boys. The Friends set are a different matter. The fact that the
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I use it mostly for exploratory data analysis. I'm pretty quick with making plots in it (I've used it since v1.2), so I tend to use it for reading in a data set, and them playing around with it. It can handle datasets in the hundreds of t
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by cschmidt 14y ago
The link was direct when I tried it. However, to answer your question, it is a chapter from The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. An amazing work covering much of mathematics. http://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Timoth.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Funny, I feel the opposite. My email is way too important to be left to a free service. I pay for Fastmail, and they do a great job. If I were to have a problem, they provide support. I greatly prefer that model to letting Google mine my

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