dschobel

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1201.
by dschobel 18y ago
We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories. Is attacking fair-use now the official go-to play when you can't figure out how to deliver your content to your customers in a way they actu
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by dschobel 18y ago
A counter-argument can be made based on the ridiculously low barrier to entry for web apps though. I'm finding this amongst even startups I think are darn useful. It's just hard to get noticed anymore. Everyone's (ie; the investors) are jus
1203.
by dschobel 18y ago
The problem with trying to pick the bottom of a slide is that you never know until you're many months if not years out of it. It could just be a bear bounce. I certainly wouldn't start proclaiming that people have missed the boat on the val
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by dschobel 18y ago
How do you measure an entry-level candidate salesperson otherwise though? In CS you can ask theory questions and ask them to program something for you. In sales you... ? I agree it may be a lousy metric, but that doesn't mean it's not the
1205.
by dschobel 18y ago
Brits are completely ok with government surveillance but once The Google takes some pictures, it gets real!
1206.
by dschobel 18y ago
But there absolutely was a need for this public flogging for all the hundreds of companies who care about their customer relationship who may not be aware of GS' dubious tactics.
1207.
by dschobel 18y ago
even worse, local politicians.
1208.
by dschobel 18y ago
Is that even possible when mortgages are leveraged at a rate of thirty to one and sliced and diced and bundled in every conceivable way?
1209.
by dschobel 18y ago
I saw that quote re: PyCon and eagerly googled for 'Brett Cannon', pycon, git and only found the same announcement time and again without any explanation as to why git was disqualified. Is anyone here involved closely in the python communit
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by dschobel 18y ago
I asked him how the bonds worked. “You put chicken into the grinder”—he laughed with that infectious Wall Street black humor—“and out comes sirloin.” I'm speechless.
1211.
by dschobel 18y ago
again, karma be damned, terrible customer service is an incredibly limp definition of evil. but by all means, enjoy the hyperbole. woe is the author, etc etc
1212.
by dschobel 18y ago
Terrible customer service makes them evil? You have my full sympathies and it's a crappy situation but that has got to be the most banal version of evil I've ever heard of.
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by dschobel 18y ago
The article is more of a character study and description of modern science when it crosses into politics / pop-culture. Dyson's view is simple: he thinks the doom & gloom predictions of those who are forecasting the end of life within t
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by dschobel 18y ago
You have to admire Dyson's blunt honesty: If what he says were obviously wrong, he wouldn’t have achieved what he has. But Hansen has turned his science into ideology. He’s a very persuasive fellow and has the air of knowing everything. He
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by dschobel 18y ago
I remember watching one of Norvig's Tech Talks where he was asked specifically about the semantic web and his response: "the semantic web is the future of the web... and always will be"
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Sand Won't Save You This Time: the story of chlorine trifluoride(pipeline.corante.com)
39 points by dschobel 18y ago|4 comments
1217.
by dschobel 18y ago
Perhaps twitter should restrict its content to tweets about Erlang for a day or so.
1218.
by dschobel 18y ago
I thought it was an objective criticism but I'll gladly delete it if you think otherwise.
1219.
by dschobel 18y ago
I wasn't trolling, I voted for the guy (and fully did anticipate the reactionary karma downvotes) but I think it was a legitimate criticism of him that he's never had to run anything bigger than a senate office and I think it's showing here
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by dschobel 18y ago
Like with the Hans Reiser story, it's just more interesting because it happened to someone in our clan. Hell, we've already got TMZ for nerds in the form of ValleyWag so even our educated consort likes drama & gossip.
1221.
by dschobel 18y ago
Whether Erlang is worth learning about is entirely beside the point. The issue is whether it's worth sand-bagging the content for everybody on the tenuous theory that Erlang repulses "the wrong kind of people for HN". Simply, it gets annoyi
1222.
by dschobel 18y ago
Sure it keeps the drive by visitors from staying, but it makes HN useless (unless you _really_ _really_ like Erlang) for the next few days. There has to be a better way to control the audience than intentionally ruining the content.
1223.
by dschobel 18y ago
so he scripted google and fed it all into a learning algorithm?
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by dschobel 18y ago
I wish he provided more technical detail as to what differentiates this from every other attempt at exposing a general learning algorithm + NLP to the web. Beside the Wolfram brand-name, there's little reason to elevate this above 'curiosit
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by dschobel 18y ago
"They, like any other search engine, or ISP, shouldn't be liable for their users crimes." I agree but most ISPs & search engines stop the illegal activities of their users when the copy-right holders bring it to their attention. You can