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by dj_axl 15y ago
> Streak should actually be something like Thunderbird extension with RDBMS running in background The most popular email client is Outlook with iOS devices in second place (as of June 2011). Although if you combine Hotmail + Yahoo Mail
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by dj_axl 15y ago
The original post: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_des...
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by dj_axl 15y ago
Beware, there is a 2 in 933 chance of developing a severe skin rash reaction, and the FDA has rejected modafinil for this reason. From Wikipedia: "The FDA advisory committee voted 12 to 1 against approval, citing concerns about a number of
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> refuse to try again The ways I've heard it are, "never let it happen again" and "learn from your mistakes", in other words don't make the same mistake again. Sure one refuses to try the exact same strategy again... because it didn't
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> our customers paid for the growth This is key. You might need to add another word to cloud... something like "cloud redundancy" or "cloud backup" or "distributed cloud"... if customers will pay for it, sell it.
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> The article's about distribution, not recording. I don't think anybody disputes the usefulness of higher sampling rates when recording. Didn't read the article, so commenting out of context, however it needs to be said that in sample-
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> It was not made clear to me why the protagonist made the choice he made. He was rejecting the hoity-toity New Englanders and their fancy tea served in fancy porcelain teacups. However yes I'd agree that wasn't sufficient explanation.
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by dj_axl 15y ago
I can't find the specific article I was looking for, maybe it's more urban legend than fact, but supposedly chess players burn just as many calories per hour as athletes. In the top results on google you'll find comparisons of chess players
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by dj_axl 15y ago
Needs more teapots. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/418
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> Today is the golden age? Not to people who’ve been doing this for a few years. Things seem to have turned on a dime. Around the subprime mortgage crisis (Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in September 2008) things were looking dire.
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> If you stay at a company, they will give you some fixed pay increase, perhaps tied to your annual review. After a few years, your pay could get seriously out of whack with the market. This. In my experience, especially applies to H1-B
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by dj_axl 15y ago
Right, from what I can tell the Strassen algorithm has been implemented but the others are typically pseudocode only... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1920031/strassens-algorit...
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by dj_axl 15y ago
"We've got early traction" = Our investors has made sure their other portfolio companies use our product. Would you rather work for a company where the investors can't even convince their portfolio companies to use the product? Sure I get t
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> My biggest problem with the 10x productivity claims is that it ignores the most relevant difference. The best programmers don't do the same things faster, they do completely different things. I thought the 10x productivity claim was o
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by dj_axl 15y ago
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/04/135985392/tavis-smiley-if-at-f... http://www.tavissmileyfailup.com/
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by dj_axl 15y ago
Is it just me or is this blog post not clear on what the definition of "business app" is? If it's for internal use, fine, whatever. If it's for enterprise application for millions of users, build the backend in C#/Java/Python/Ruby/Erlang/yo
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by dj_axl 15y ago
The tl;dr I got was that high school didn't adequately prepare students for college. Just to have h.s. kids enthusiastic (as someone else mentions in the comments here, high on dopamine) they make things entertaining/easy. While some may ar
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> or more often they just not technical enough to judge the technical quality or the timeliness of what they are paying for. Anecdotally, this is the case. I've heard of or worked for three 400+ person companies that outsourced. Two of
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by dj_axl 15y ago
Anecdotally, NumPy (Python) has some traction. Similarly they don't consider SQL libraries. And I'm sure there are statistical analysis libraries for Java. According to the bar chart below R is mentioned by 45%, SQL by 32%, Python by 25%, J
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> The Lytro camera captures all possible focus settings. There's a reason photographers prefer certain lenses for sharpness, which can be measured in lp/mm and I wonder how the Lytro compares there. The f/2 glass is probably decent for
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by dj_axl 15y ago
Akamai already mines that data for their ad network. http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/ads/acerno.html
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> Why pay 3/4 of the population to work 40 hours a week when we could pay all of them to work 30 (then 20, then 10)? Because corporations want to pay 60% of the population to work 50 hours a week on salary. This is why everyone should b
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> No. Wont be working at a large company again. Agreed, although in my case it's more "Will be checking reviews on Glassdoor.com before working at any company, large or small." Unfortunately the "players" have infiltrated Glassdoor as w
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by dj_axl 15y ago
This is missing what I will quote from another post above "If they really believe in something they will work on it and become better." If you peak at something this makes you good. If you work ard at something this makes you good. If you p
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> laziness and a holier-than-thou attitude A short explanation might be, socially skilled people are slow (lazy) to understand anything technical and are impatient (holier-than-thou) with unskilled people. Technically skilled people are
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by dj_axl 15y ago
Joking aside, one of the places I worked tried to hire an ex-Google CTO, He basically wanted to be the CTO and then have 20-30 developers reporting directly to him. That to me is flat. And that did not fly well with the business people. "No
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by dj_axl 15y ago
According to Wikipedia this is called "focus stacking", combining depths of field to create a larger depth of field. The page lists a number of apps/plugins that blend photos to create this effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacki
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by dj_axl 15y ago
Looks retro hipster. http://www.warbyparker.com/
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by dj_axl 15y ago
During the first 30 days after an IPO, the underwriters are not allowed to lend shares for short sale. Additionally, number of shares are limited. The entire float is not available on the first day of trading. So today, it is probably impos
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by dj_axl 15y ago
PogoPlug ( http://www.pogoplug.com/ ) and Dropbox ( https://www.dropbox.com/ ) are more popular than Diaspora, methinks. Maybe they could rename themselves to "Diaspora Cloud" or similar.

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