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by ghc 14y ago
H.265 sounds great...but the article doesn't mention the most important point: Is it patent-encumbered? Last time around patents proved a major barrier to adoption in free browsers, so why should this time be any different? A quick wiki che
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by ghc 14y ago
In the narrow context of software that exists entirely to deal with other software, you're probably right. But I build software that mainly optimizes non-virtual processes. These processes often require human oversight due to laws or safety
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by ghc 14y ago
Your suggestion is one often made to me so I didn't realize it was facetious. The truth is that many of the big data systems we build are starting to make complex decisions based on subtleties in data a non-expert human can't understand. We
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by ghc 14y ago
That would be ideal, but often decision making follows a pattern similar to computational complexity theory. Even if the computer tells you what action you need to take, actually executing can be monumentally more complex for a computer. Au
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by ghc 14y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but I feel extremely awkward going to nice restaurants alone even if I bring something to do. I don't experience this feeling anywhere else...just restaurants. I think I'd be more likely to travel alone than
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by ghc 14y ago
I often feel like this is where web analytics needs to go. Ultimately, no matter how many pretty charts your product displays and fancy map reduce jobs transform the data into "intelligence", unless someone can immediately take action based
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by ghc 14y ago
You are absolutely correct, of course. But he was sharing his personal frustrations with C++, not engaging in the programming equivalent of "slut-shaming" someone for using C++. That's an important distinction that I think has been lost wit
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by ghc 14y ago
Just for a moment, consider who this man is and what he has done. We would all do well to take a step back and consider his manner of response. Notice that he continued learning new languages after creating Erlang (instead of just evangeliz
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by ghc 14y ago
You are absolutely correct! I'm afraid in some ways the Rails community does the Ruby community a disservice, because even some of the people like me who dabbled in Ruby before Rails existed have forgotten that there's more to the Ruby comm
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by ghc 14y ago
I'd suggest making them links to LinkedIn profiles of your friends. You know, the ones whose resumés make you look good by comparison ;). Even if you don't get hired, maybe you'll do one of them a favor.
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by ghc 14y ago
These Ruby guys (aside from Corey Haines) are displaying some real lack of emotional maturity here. These are the sorts of apologies I'd expect from a teenager. If this is what I can expect from the community after _why's disappearance, I'm
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by ghc 14y ago
Hey, wait a minute! Where's the "Customers who viewed this also viewed" section? I want to know what my options are.
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by ghc 14y ago
Just took it for a spin. The implementation is fantastic . Bravo, Github!
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by ghc 14y ago
I'm going to give this inverted pyramid a try. I'm always wondering why I just can't effectively get my ideas across to certain people.
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by ghc 14y ago
Aren't impulses like that relatively common? I can recall hundreds of times where I felt a sudden impulse like that since about the age of 10, all triggered by finding myself in a situation where something not normally dangerous presented a
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by ghc 14y ago
Actually, there's quite a few, if you you by what you get get to via the subway. That means Everett, Braintree, Quincy, Newton, Medford and several others. But there's a more systematic way city size is measured: MSA and CSA. Boston's MSA (
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by ghc 14y ago
That has nothing to do with the actual size of Boston. That's a political artifact more than anything else, as neighborhoods around Boston didn't want to get annexed around the turn of the century. Boston's continuous urban population, whic
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by ghc 14y ago
As someone who lives in Boston, I would like to point out the falsehood of this. Boston is not spread out. By area it is tiny. From where I live I can walk through five major neighborhoods in half an hour, some of which are among the most d
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by ghc 14y ago
I'd like to see a post-mortem for this submission one the traffic dies down. Most startups these days feature flashy designs, and I've always wondered how much it really mattered. This design is straightforward and not flashy at all, so I'd
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by ghc 14y ago
How is it that possessing mineral rights underneath land allows companies to violate land rights by putting their drilling pads on a farmer's land? And how did they buy mineral rights underneath someone's land, anyway? The farmers had to ha
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by ghc 14y ago
Working from home is lonely; that's just the way it is. Motivation can be easier to come by if you find somewhere else to work sometimes, like a library or cafe. When I was at my greatest depths of despair from living in a new city with no
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Aaron Swartz's prosecution too harsh, critics say(bostonglobe.com)
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by ghc 14y ago
I'm glad this is on the front page. Often when I learn of the suicide of someone I knew or respected I briefly experience idle "sympathetic" suicidal thoughts. This always leaves me shaken because we've all been taught to seek help immediat
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by ghc 14y ago
While there are jokes within the response, I do not believe this to be a "joke response". The points he makes are good, and the call to action regarding careers in math and science is a fantastic way to handle a response likely to be read b
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by ghc 14y ago
Chef's knives are excellent for cutting all sorts of things that don't require an extremely sharp edge, but they're just not good for cutting paper thin slices of very hard ingredients like lotus root, and my personal experience with using
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by ghc 14y ago
I meant Einstein. Haven't had my coffee yet >_<
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by ghc 14y ago
Yes, other scientists had similar idea at the time, but the papers Einstein wrote were groundbreaking all the same. Those papers made Einstein famous, so it's not as if others' contributions are overlooked because of his prior fame. The onl
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by ghc 14y ago
My Minimum Viable Kitchen would forget about half that stuff and add a Rice Cooker and broiler pan. I have more kitchen equipment than I know what to do with, but 95% of the meals I wind up cooking need at most these: - Bamboo Cutting Board
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by ghc 14y ago
Your site is barely recognizable now, but thanks to the Wayback machine I remember it now. You're definitely on to something with regards to young developers. I started with IRC when I was about 12, and I still remember how magical it felt.
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by ghc 14y ago
I did not mean to direct that at you, but at the author. I agree that there are some interesting points in the article, but the pervading attitude in this article and others on the site is that you can use these methods as a substitute for

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