earl

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by earl 17y ago
Um... yes and no. In general, I'm with you -- that's sort of a very open job description and it's hard to figure out what the responsibilities are. OTOH: R is an open source project. Maintaining good relations with the many people who con
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by earl 17y ago
It was a joke, worth at least a smile. I bet you're fun at parties, too.
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by earl 17y ago
start with screenr -- www.screenr.com. I saw them a while ago and bookmarked them. Basically, they do screen capture + video recording from your video camera. Not amazing quality but the (free) price is right.
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by earl 17y ago
Right. I'm planning on learning to read any day now =P
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by earl 17y ago
Um, are we supposed to be impressed that their income is above the median income of 2 months shy of 10 years ago ? What, did we have no inflation for the last decade? Not to mention that things like buying a modest house and having two ki
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by earl 17y ago
Well... it was a shitshow. We were just told by a livid CEO that a major university (the bio world is surprisingly small and it's pretty easy to get a terrible rep) had a major data loss, etc. We were on the phone with them while simultan
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by earl 17y ago
The most expensive bug that I can talk about publicly that I've encountered: I used to work on software for a very expensive (started at 70k) DNA/protein analysis hardware solution. This was in the late 90s, and our GUI was a couple millio
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by earl 17y ago
Two reasons: 1 - it's unreasonable to not ask why saving $20 is worth many hours of your life; 2 - Why would you assume that mucking about with php and wordpress, then validating front end code in ie{6,7,8}, ff, safari, and chrome is in a
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by earl 17y ago
Maybe because the programmer is an adult and isn't wowed by the prospect of spending more than 5 minutes writing something (s)he can buy for $20? Also, this is seriously nasty ageism. Once you grow up the same thing will happen to you: sig
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by earl 17y ago
Hmm -- my understanding is they were one of the biggest low latency trading shops. Biggest in the sense of percentage of profits generated this way. Maybe some of the changes the SEC is pushing through lead to this. Also, he's stupidly fu
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by earl 17y ago
Dude, a sudoku solver is really directly solved via brute force search. If a coder can't come up with the brute force algorithm for a 9x9 sudoku board, there's something wrong with that person.
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by earl 17y ago
I'm personally of the opinion that this comprises a large portion (>60%) of the value of unit tests. Unit testable code tends to not have many of the side effects / global variables / nasty state that make nasty bugs, so this alone ten
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by earl 17y ago
Exploiting asymmetric information to intentionally screw low-information consumers on the value of their property makes you an asshole in my book. Cue the glibertarians to spew their idiocy about blah blah blah, consenting adults, blah blah
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by earl 17y ago
"The law, in its majestic impartiality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under the bridges of Paris"
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by earl 17y ago
Yet is also true.
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by earl 17y ago
But lottery winners are not the right example. Those who inherit wealth will be far different than lottery winners, not least because their parents tend to instill values and practices that help produce wealth. They also have greater acce
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by earl 17y ago
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by earl 17y ago
Also, props for #8: "Don’t expect to pay median salaries for top talent." I've repeatedly had this conversation with CEOs / hiring managers during the interview process: you want to pay median / 65th percentile salaries for 90+ percentile
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by earl 17y ago
I swore off Thinkpads when my $2K (at the time) T60 couldn't drive an external 24 inch monitor without horrid text flickering. Thinkpad's "solution" was to buy a $350 dock that had better external monitor electronics. Um, thanks, but no t
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by earl 17y ago
No, Glenn Reynolds is a glibertarian who always votes, supports, and blogs about conservative causes. Also, the Acorn worker in question reported the two actors in the video to police: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,553423,00.html
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by earl 17y ago
so -- the idea is to take some big list of drugs that a person requires and compute the lowest cost supplemental insurer? I have a couple questions. 1 While the social utility of this is obvious, how do you support the (very likely) large a
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by earl 17y ago
You didn't understand the parent. See my post below. Also, of course the result could be due to chance. You could flip a fair coin 25 times in a row and come up with heads each time -- it's just pretty damn unlikely. Similarly, I'd bet wh
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by earl 17y ago
I presume that the investigators used something like the t-test for a difference of means. You treat 1/2 the group and don't treat the other; if you selected these two groups randomly, then they should a priori have equal likelihood of inf
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by earl 17y ago
They probably sought them out for their high incidence of HIV -- it would obviously be unethical to specifically infect people to test the vaccine.
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by earl 17y ago
I use prgmr to host a bunch of stuff. My only complaint -- and this is definitely just me being stupid -- is that eventually I will have to upgrade the kernel and I don't know how to easily do that while making sure the necessary xen stuff
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by earl 17y ago
Yeah, I noticed. I thought my gf had been on my computer again, so I checked with my work laptop. Nope, it was the NYT.
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by earl 17y ago
Transportation costs are comparable to $1000+ ft^2 housing prices? Please. And in the context -- people decrying $100K/year salaries -- it's important to understand that $100k is a small income to live in the city.
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by earl 17y ago
In Manhattan, decent 1 bedroom apartments go for $1000 per square foot. My grocery bill increased 150% (somewhere between 2x and 3x) as compared to the midwest. My utilities ran $200/mo to air condition a 570 square foot apartment. $100k
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by earl 17y ago
zotero for saving pages that I'll want to see again or want to be able to search locally
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by earl 17y ago
Sorry, I wasn't referencing the self promotion. I just like the fact that principals at both companies looked around, saw the sort of company they wanted to work at, and built that company. Lots of people seem to focus on making as much m

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