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by dmoney 14y ago
So, the really cool part is this: "At Watsi, 100% of your donations directly fund medical treatments. Watsi.org is separately funded. They pay all their operational costs from their own funding, and none from your donations. They even eat
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by dmoney 14y ago
I've heard it pronounced as rhyming with woeful-stomp.
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by dmoney 14y ago
Just as you shouldn't limit yourself to being a "Python programmer" or a "Java programmer", limiting yourself to liberalism or conservativism is a bad idea. You may prefer more liberal or conservative projects, or companies, but that doesn
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by dmoney 14y ago
There's some special treatment of job ads for YC companies. Maybe this post was done using the same back door.
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by dmoney 14y ago
How does this work? I thought neural nets only learned when they got some kind of feedback that let them know whether what their classification was right (back propagation).
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Using Lean Startup inside a 40-year-old company(slideshare.net)
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by dmoney 14y ago
I don't like the ribbon either.
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by dmoney 14y ago
Yes, in my experience of tech support, I often did have to tell the user what buttons to click. I'm curious how it works in your country. What would a non-technical user do if they had a problem? What if you're a paying user of a web serv
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by dmoney 15y ago
I'd like to know what "key NASA computers" means. This could mean a computer that can send commands to sattelites and rockets, or it could just mean a central e-mail or file server used by office workers.
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by dmoney 15y ago
The movies "Hackers" and "The Net" were released in 1995. "Hackers" used the term to mean "someone who penetrates computer security". The one use of the term in in "The Net" [1] was ambiguous as to whether it meant this sense, or Paul Gra
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by dmoney 15y ago
A computer is a machine for following instructions. At first it only knows a limited set of logical and arithmetical instructions. You can use these instructions to teach it new things to do, and new commands to follow (and if you buy a c
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by dmoney 15y ago
Seconded.
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by dmoney 15y ago
1024 meters would be a "kibimeter", abbreviated "Kim". (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte )
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by dmoney 15y ago
Is it down? All I see is google maps.
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by dmoney 15y ago
If it's called Brytter, are the posts called Breets?
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by dmoney 15y ago
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering This would lead to the banning of genetic engineering on Earth by the mid-22nd century, even research which could be used to cure critical illnesses. This ban was implemented because of
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by dmoney 15y ago
Three things that would help to kill Hollywood: 1. Make it less expensive to create entertainment. 2. Raise the quality level of what amatuers can create. 3. Turn people who would ordinarily be consumers into creators.
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by dmoney 15y ago
For large projects, there is git-flow: https://www.google.com/search?q=git-flow I remember someone posting a recommended workflow for smaller projects, but I don't remember what it was called.
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by dmoney 15y ago
So you're saying the formula is to do things in earnest and learn as you go?
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by dmoney 15y ago
At least he's not just calling it "SQL", like certain people at my job do.
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by dmoney 15y ago
The dictionary doesn't seem to have that sense of the word "ordinary". By context in web results it seems to mean "tavern".
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by dmoney 15y ago
This just redirected me to my US netflix account. What am I supposed to see?
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by dmoney 15y ago
I can't find a news article saying that NDAA has been used to detain Occupy protesters, only that Occupy protesters have protested NDAA and some were arrested for failing to leave when ordered.
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Interplanetary Transport Network(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dmoney 15y ago
There are ways to get from planet to planet with almost no energy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Networ... There must also be ways to get from star to star. If there are Sun-Earth Lagrange points, there must be Ga
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by dmoney 15y ago
Careful, you might trigger its berserker mode.
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by dmoney 15y ago
> On the one hand I'm all in favor of driving these around where there may be active IED activity That would stop being a good idea once "insurgents" learn what X-rays are.
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by dmoney 15y ago
By the time I type "Matt", the "I'm feeling lucky" button disappears and, thanks to instant search, is replaced by a screenful (on a netbook screen) of ads for mattress discounters.
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by dmoney 15y ago
I read in an interview that at the end of the year, 37signals takes most of its profits, and pays them as a dividend to its shareholders. I don't know if lay employees get a chance to own stock, but if they did it could be a great incentiv
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by dmoney 15y ago
Same here. It's annoying that people are now using the social network for content they'd otherwise post on a blog.

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