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by erubin 10y ago
doing it that way would be better writing
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by erubin 10y ago
I think you may be overestimating the number of employed people who are invested in the markets to any real degree.
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by erubin 10y ago
does the survey check a few classes or a large sample? Between folks still in graduate school, in their early careers, people who have left the workforce to have kids or pursue lower paying jobs because they have financial security, you mig
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Nukemap – Model effects of nuclear explosions(nuclearsecrecy.com)
2 points by erubin 10y ago|0 comments
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by erubin 10y ago
I have no reason to believe that there's any malice involved here. I also think that incidents like this might become more common as the state of cyber warfare progresses. As engineers, we should take care to build secure software, es
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by erubin 10y ago
the people displaced by the robots do, and more than ever.
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by erubin 10y ago
I'm not sure why you don't consider stock in a public company that you can immediately sell every monthly vesting period liquid.
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by erubin 10y ago
It's true that many tech workers are eventually affected by the contribution limit, but my understanding is that it's essentially always smart to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts while possible.
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by erubin 10y ago
I wish I had done math. I got scared by 203.
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by erubin 10y ago
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr16/cos217/lec...
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by erubin 10y ago
the lower levels of optimizations are supposed to be more straightforward translations of the high-level language code. you can imagine this might be useful if you are debugging assembly.
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by erubin 10y ago
When algorithms matter, you do get a lot of performance out of a better algorithm. But I actually recently wrote an admittedly not production ready trie extension in C and it was about five lines of SWIG to use it from python.
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by erubin 10y ago
A lot of money to be sure, but he'd have an order of magnitude or two more if he were the last cofounder instead of the first employee.
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by erubin 10y ago
The blog post is really excellent.
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by erubin 10y ago
Logic is music production software.
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by erubin 10y ago
One charity that I contribute to is GiveDirectly[1]. They are one of GiveWell's[2] highest rated charities and are quite transparent about the impact they have. GiveDirectly is also currently experimenting with basic income and have
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by erubin 10y ago
I used Twilio to make a simple SMS wrapper around an app. It took maybe 30 minutes and I had never used it before. Very cool product.
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by erubin 10y ago
Anyone can bake a cake. It's a lot harder to bake a billion cakes.
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by erubin 10y ago
Is there a reason why nobody suggested the Rabin-Karp algorithm (modular hashing)? It is also no-backup and conveniently allows searching for multiple strings in the stream.
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by erubin 10y ago
I believe it is not legal to use actual IQ tests in the U.S.
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This is not a place of honor(wipp.energy.gov)
450 points by erubin 10y ago|280 comments
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by erubin 10y ago
I definitely agree with this. It's very cool to see something you've built actually work more-or-less correctly. In science all I get are maybes.
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by erubin 10y ago
posted behind a paywall on wired...
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by erubin 10y ago
is the difference between a generator and the rest that generators are lazy?
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by erubin 10y ago
this is a case of the programmer calling his function inside an assert macro, which disappears in the preprocessing step when you compile with -D NDEBUG
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by erubin 10y ago
The folks here commenting about entrenched power structures should remember that Ed Felten (who put his name on the release) is not a career bureaucrat at all.
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by erubin 11y ago
Can I use this with latex?
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by erubin 11y ago
If there's one place where just about everyone I know has done job interviews, it's jane street. They cast a very wide net.
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by erubin 11y ago
Arvind is one of my favorite profs. I look forward to reading it.
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Atari Vax Mail, Memos and Status Reports: 1982-1992 (2001)(jmargolin.com)
118 points by erubin 11y ago|33 comments

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