ericwaller

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by ericwaller 17y ago
It's only a decision in the sense that each day I "decide" not to go to medical school, and so sacrifice some future earning potential. Inaction may have consequences, but that doesn't make it a decision. And by inaction I mean maintaining
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by ericwaller 17y ago
That's a false dichotomy. There are not only "believers" and "non-believers" in any issue. It should always be the goal of all parties in the discussion to work from the best possible data/predictions. Besides your argument is circular. T
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Luckily, there's an rfc for that http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html
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by ericwaller 17y ago
I think amazon.com does something like this. I read an article that dissected their product image urls to explain how their image service worked but I can't find it now. If I remember correctly the service could resize/rotate, add sale "sti
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by ericwaller 17y ago
I agree that the connection to startup v. career just isn't there, but I really like the analogy insofar as it concludes that it's worthwhile to "meander some in your walk (especially early on)," and "randomly drop yourself into new parts o
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by ericwaller 17y ago
GitX is awesome software, I use it everyday. For the most part I'm comfortable with git on the commandline, but I still need a gui for looking at complicated branching situations and I can build commits much more quickly with a point and cl
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but why the PGP key?
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Sure, a lot of successful tech companies come out of Silicon Valley, but there's a disproportionate amount of tech companies in Silicon Valley to begin with. It's certainly not obvious that the success rate is any higher there.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Well it seems clear to me that the "core human task of driving" is the supplying of inputs to the 3 major controls: brake, accelerator and steering wheel (5 if we include clutch and gear selector). I'm not necessarily agreeing with kirse, j
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by ericwaller 17y ago
The distinction is clearer than you think. The technology in the GTR and F1 cars is limited to "managing braking, shifting, steering, etc." Intent is still left entirely to the human driver. He decides when to brake, the computer helps to d
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by ericwaller 17y ago
I'm sure I have as well, but I didn't publish it.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
[Jokes] are funny only if you accept the premise. If you don't accept [the] premise, [jokes] become cancerous hate speech. Totally wrong. Try: [racial minority] is [derogatory adjective]. The hate groups who accept the premise aren't laug
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by ericwaller 17y ago
seebulletin.com stealyourradio.com stolenradio.com
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by ericwaller 17y ago
The signup/login UI is very interesting, I was skeptical at first but now I think I like it. It's kind of awkward that you have to enter your email again as a reminder destination, which then ends up killing the reminder I had started to cr
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by ericwaller 17y ago
It's funny because that's actually what I liked the most about an intro economics class (at an engineering school): that it was more philosophy plus illustrative math than anything like a science. But I had to laugh at this line: The textb
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Here's the NPR stream they mentioned: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1041295...
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Especially if your application is business related. Just having a paid version might help convince customers that you're a reliable company.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
What a terrible title. The researching doctor clear states: antioxidants in general cause certain effects that inhibit otherwise positive effects of exercise It's like claiming "food found to cause heart disease," based on a study of chol
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Of course it would be, my point is that less dangerous necessarily means less powerful. Though I'd agree that there are cases where the trade off is desirable, like `rm -rf /`.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
The new ones aren't dangerous because you can't actually do anything with them. As soon as I can send an email (or affect the outside world in any way) from the location bar, it becomes just as dangerous as the unix command line.
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Inside Demand Media's "Content Factory"(videonuze.com)
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Yeah that's my user friendly way of saying you're not logged in.. I sent you some login info
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by ericwaller 17y ago
I'm actually working on something a bit like this. It's a super early prototype, but it'd be cool to hear what you think. http://eric.drumsti.cc/ It's designed to be public or private, with one or many users. No search yet, but it's defin
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by ericwaller 17y ago
That's actually a great idea for a simple, low-tech affiliate scheme
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by ericwaller 17y ago
I'd agree that there can be no successful argument for or against an unverifiable opinion, consensus-based or not (taking your first point a bit further). But my claim is that a consensus of scientists is an authority on matters of fact of
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Just wanted to point out: the appeal to authority argument is only a fallacy when the cited source is not a legitimate authority. Theologians would want to disagree, but I would argue that an overwhelming number of scientists does constitut
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by ericwaller 17y ago
The Intel Science Talent Search is pretty much exactly like this. You work on graduate-level research with a university professor as your mentor. Even if you don't care about the competition, it's an easy pretense for getting in touch and w
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Is this really an issue with spec work? What recourse do you have if a non-spec designer uses stolen illustrations in your logo?
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by ericwaller 17y ago
a combination of ebay and adsense – where you would put your auctions on other peoples’ websites as ads I think this a great idea. Have you thought about trying to partner with other ad networks as a quick way to get access to content pub
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by ericwaller 18y ago
Strictly, the evolutionary fitness of an individual is the ratio of that individual's genes to all of the genes in the subsequent generation. What Dawkins is likely saying (I haven't read the book), is that we can (or even should) forget ab

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