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by cschneid 17y ago
I'm not sure, it's a random idea based on the idea that most personal communication protocols tend toward being used as notification protocols. XMPP might be the answer, or maybe dialects on top of XMPP. (haven't looked too close to see wh
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by cschneid 17y ago
Good call, that's yet another axis of communication. I actually had all that written down for a blog post I was going to get around to making (with diagrams & graphics and everything). Something I'd really like to see if a protocol tha
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by cschneid 17y ago
This is silly, it doesn't account for the many, many axes of communication. * Push vs. Pull. Does the recipient have to ask to get incoming messages. * Off the cuff vs. Official. How quickly is the communication written, how much thought g
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by cschneid 17y ago
One optimization is to write big O notation in minimized form. It looks more impressive to write O(n). And to try being helpful: do aggregation in the db where possible, be sure indexes are good, play around with the number of rows you proc
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by cschneid 17y ago
Not quite. There are 2360 individual tasks. Each one would take no more than 15 seconds, perhaps a bit more. Spread those across the several hundred people that are on MTurk at any given time, and you can get done in 2 minutes. The 4 multi
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by cschneid 17y ago
I really like this map projection. But I'm having a hard time finding a real life use case for it. It's not very good at local items, so a walking mall situation (over a few blocks) doesn't work very well. The projection is inherently fix
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by cschneid 17y ago
I worked at HP in IT. We had literally hundreds of stupid little internal projects. Some were giant, some were 3 aspx pages. All of them used SQL Server or Oracle. But none of them came anywhere close to leveraging the databases. I can th
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by cschneid 18y ago
Right, but real estate is one of those rare places where people will lend you a few hundred grand in "startup capital" at a reasonable rate. (yeah, you need more money down for investment properties, but still, lots of easy loans to be had
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by cschneid 18y ago
I'm the type of guy who goes and googles this kind of thing..... It looks like halfnium is a byproduct of zirconium production (1:50 ratio is what the pdf says), and that we have a decent chunk of reserve (worldwide), compared with the rate
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by cschneid 18y ago
Ok. So what you're saying is that you have a profession which has long dry periods in between lucrative jobs. Also, that you don't have the planning skills to have enough in the bank to feed your family if things don't work out, and you ha
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by cschneid 18y ago
It's not your money. How are you planning on taking care of your family when you're in jail for a few years on tax evasion? Anyway, come on... you're saying "I'm going to skip paying taxes so I don't have to work for a year"..... how does t
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by cschneid 18y ago
Ok, in detail of figuring out the deductions it's complicated. But the gradiated tax scale that's used isn't hard to understand. And that's what the poster I responded to was complaining about. The hard stuff is the tweaking how much of yo
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by cschneid 18y ago
... You should be putting tax money aside with each check you get, really easy. Open up one of the online savings accounts, and throw money at it. Right now I withhold about 30% of each check to cover all the various taxes I'll owe. Then
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by cschneid 18y ago
He's a consultant, so not really. He's liable for quarterly "estimated tax payments", which should be 1/4 of the expected amount you owe to the government for the year. But it's best to pay the minimum required by law, and bank the intere
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by cschneid 18y ago
The front range of Colorado & Wyoming is pretty decent a spot too. That's at least a purple area....
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by cschneid 18y ago
Getting manual testing right is hard. I used to do it as my main job (testing a large java app). We had plain text test plans, which worked well enough. We didn't do as good of a job of keeping track of finished plans as we should have. Y
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by cschneid 18y ago
Leechblock + NowDoThis is my solution to this. I don't actually use NowDoThis, but it's default is to have it's own name in big letters, which is enough to remind me to stop slacking.
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by cschneid 18y ago
Check the last bunch of techcrunch 50s. I think there was something along these lines, but I can't remember what it was called.
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by cschneid 18y ago
Because it's already easy to do this. The browser portal to your website is the easy thing to solve. * Network connectivity * Computers (& physical considerations: space and tables) * Web store Those are the hard things to implement, a
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by cschneid 18y ago
The ambiguity of language reminded me of a Demitri Martin joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLa_MpNGQA 4:15ish.
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by cschneid 18y ago
That's BS. Nuclear War is a great game to play, for all ages (seriously, check it out, it's a fun waste of 30 minutes)
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by cschneid 18y ago
Not much. Facebook makes almost nothing off me, Twitter doesn't make money off anybody, reddit & hacker news both have very little or no ads. CNN / NY Times / Local news. I RSS all of it, so no money there.... I have found myself buyi
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by cschneid 18y ago
This is funny, I actually had to do this. I had a flash app hard coded to look for a particular .php file. It would have been a PITA to get the source for that, so... just figure out what it expects, and Rails route it. This approach is h
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by cschneid 18y ago
parse & whitelist. Shouldn't be too bad, assuming you just throw out anything that even starts to look like bad input (make a super strict parser, and don't worry about css "hacks" like a real browser's parser would).
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by cschneid 18y ago
Meh, I don't even care about the spammy blogs. They aren't there for human consumption, and will never get enough links to be visible to humans. The articles on the real sites are custom written, and he pays a small premium to decent conte
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by cschneid 18y ago
That is really cool. I'm glad that Google is willing to go through all this hassle (court case, notice ads, etc) to digitize books. I'm sure somebody thinks they'll make money on it too, but even if it's a giant cash cow, it's also a gian
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by cschneid 18y ago
I buy into the argument that social networks aren't stable entities. Because the main element is friending somebody, it is incredibly awkward to unfriend somebody, or denying a friend request. So a boss asks to be your facebook friend, and
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by cschneid 18y ago
Amazon ups their percentage as you sell more items, you go to 6% after less than 10, and keep going up another step or two past that. Makes the numbers a bit more appealing, but still not as good as they could be via a more targeted method
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by cschneid 18y ago
Bayesian analysis on not just the content, but the way the content was written. It'd be fakable, but not easy.
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by cschneid 18y ago
Working through a thought process: 1) The stock market is a collection of all known information about the stock, including future predictions 2) You can see that in options, their value is tied to the value of the stock market at some point

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