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by ganley 17y ago
This is a class of problems that Monte Carlo optimization (GA's, simulated annealing, etc.) typically can't solve, because almost-solutions are generally really deep local minima that the search machinery can't climb out of.
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by ganley 17y ago
Totally broken analogy. If it took a significant amount of time to move your chess piece after you'd decided what to move, then yes, moving it faster would be a good thing. I can definitely say that pair programming with a slow typist drive
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by ganley 17y ago
IANAL, but this seems ludicrous on its face. The patent app was filed in 2008, and Bissantz has prior art back to at least 2006 (see, e.g., http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/sparklines-in-excel-si... ). However, my half-assed OpenOffic
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by ganley 17y ago
In that previous thread no one mentioned my favorite, Jasper Johns. Though if you like Waterhouse, Johns may not be your cup of tea.
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by ganley 17y ago
That won't work. The rate at which different foods spoil after they're opened varies dramatically. Foods with a lot of salt in them, for example, stay good for a long time, while my carrot juice spoils within days of opening it. Not to ment
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by ganley 17y ago
Oh, please. Perhaps they care about pedigree and GPA for new grads, but what else do they have to go on? I'm 40, and they didn't seem to care at all where I went to school nor what my grades were. The interview was challenging, but a lot of
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by ganley 17y ago
On a practical note, in case anyone can help you out concretely on the job front: Where do you live, and what's your specialty?
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by ganley 17y ago
His family might disagree.
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by ganley 17y ago
Firstly, I'm sorry you feel this way, and I hope the rest of this doesn't sound unsympathetic. Do not stop working. That might be the answer for single, childless people, but not to put too fine a point on it, you have greater responsibilit
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by ganley 17y ago
Best intro-to-design book I've seen. Just to clarify, that's "The Non-Designer's Design Book" by Robin Williams (not the comedian).
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by ganley 17y ago
You plan to live indefinitely on $40K/year? Where I live, that's below poverty level for a family.
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by ganley 17y ago
Clearly this depends on how much you need to make per year, and on how much risk you're willing to tolerate, but given those variables it's not hard to calculate. We can get 5% return at basically no risk, which is on average 2% real yield
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by ganley 17y ago
It's also for WEB design, not design in general.
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by ganley 17y ago
Sheesh. "If you can get away with it," indeed. Most of these 'strategies' simply say: I am far more important than you, and if you want any of my time, you'll get it when and if I damned well please. In particular, strategic incompetence is
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by ganley 17y ago
I feel obliged to point out a friend of mine's really great short story: http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
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by ganley 17y ago
A spelling checker for HN headlines.
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by ganley 17y ago
I'm dubious how well this functions in practice; won't the keys on the key ring be turned perpendicular to this one?
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by ganley 17y ago
Where'd you get that figure? AAA says 71c/mile, or $7100/year if you drive 10K miles, and that's an average, meaning it's possible to do much better. Otherwise, I agree with you in principle, but living in a city with great public transport
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by ganley 17y ago
Yeah, the various nerd meetups around here never seem to get much traction. Not sure why that is. Maybe too many of us family guys.
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by ganley 17y ago
WhatEVER. Working until 7, then several more hours after the kids go to bed, and half a day on Saturday, doesn't fit any definition of "balance" that interests me. Also, you've carved out a couple of hours a day for your kids, but what abou
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by ganley 17y ago
An ex-coworker used to (half-facetiously) say that his mantra was, "You're doing it wrong."
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by ganley 17y ago
A few of my favorites that I didn't see people list; note that many of these are sort of combined personal blogs and programming-related (like mine - http://joeganley.com ): - http://wilshipley.com - http://lbrandy.com - http://nedbat
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by ganley 17y ago
Borland Turbo Pascal, circa 1984.
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by ganley 17y ago
There's a joke that when an engineer says 'nontrivial,' he means 'impossible.'
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by ganley 17y ago
Every market is dominated by POS software systems. Oh, you meant something else by "POS".
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by ganley 17y ago
Maybe I'm missing something; if you're in the office 8 hours a day, what are you doing with the other 16 that leaves you feeling out of touch with the outside world?
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by ganley 17y ago
If you're happy doing what you're doing, why do you care what anyone here thinks?
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by ganley 17y ago
That's a pretty narrow view. For many, living a balanced life IS success, or at least an important component of it.
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by ganley 17y ago
Follow-on question: How best for a hobbyist to learn manufacturing processes, machining, etc.?
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by ganley 17y ago
Get good at time management. College undergrads have an enormous amount of free time, few responsibilities, and a lot of flexibility. The main cause (for me, at least) for not doing most anything you want is poor time management. Start here

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