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by gms 12y ago
That Toyota pick up truck is the AK 47 of pickup trucks.
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by gms 12y ago
I know. It is reprehensibly capricious behaviour, to say the least.
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by gms 12y ago
As with the author's other essay on his visit to Yemen, this was an enjoyable one. But this line isn't wholly true: "I don’t have the heart to tell him that there’s no future for him anywhere I’m from, either. In the US, bein
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by gms 12y ago
Locality-sensitive hashing works decently enough for finding duplicates/near-duplicates. Alternatively (and more simply if you already have a search index), Lucene has a 'more like this' feature that also works pretty well in
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by gms 12y ago
No. And even then, you'd only be interested in the data among the top end of the industry population, i.e. people likely to be productive as Google employees.
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by gms 12y ago
The Uber driver pays for his car's maintenance and fuel.
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by gms 12y ago
Experience, as there is no canonical feature set that applies to all problems. Feature sets instead tend to be domain-specific. The usual iteration loop for a machine-learning system is: 1) Try features. 2) Evaluate your system. If you are
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by gms 12y ago
Maybe. We don't know their future plans.
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by gms 12y ago
Are you against your neighbours letting their friends stay in their apartment?
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by gms 12y ago
Good thing people don't take the advice in the last sentence, otherwise there would be no Google for said well-paid engineers.
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by gms 13y ago
You are absolutely correct. I made a mistake in not mentioning these potential pitfalls.
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by gms 13y ago
It's striking that choosing a cofounder one barely knows is a common problem. I'm trying to get something going with my best friend (I've known him since we were six years old), and people we meet will sometimes ask us if we
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by gms 13y ago
It's difficult to find what you are looking for, since maths is a much older field. However, Spivak's 'Calculus' is pretty close: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0914098918 .
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by gms 13y ago
For those who supported this, I am curious for your answers to these questions: 1) Should Mozilla deny employment to programmers who are against gay marriage? Like your average programmer from Arab and Muslim countries. 2) If said programme
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by gms 13y ago
It does. Thanks.
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by gms 13y ago
Yeah, you are right. I do continue to make things I want; it's just that so far they are yet to turn into something I (or anyone else) has a burning need for. In other words, the idea turns out to have less steam when it becomes realit
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by gms 13y ago
Yes, you are correct. I wasn't clear in that I was talking about my current hurdle.
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by gms 13y ago
"The only thing you have to know how to do is build something people want." I have actually found this to be the most difficult thing - a lack of ideas that turn out to be wanted by other people.
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by gms 13y ago
First time I see these - they are really great!
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by gms 13y ago
Thanks.
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by gms 13y ago
Why should I use you instead of Twilio?
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by gms 13y ago
http://www.airpair.com
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by gms 13y ago
Either regular text messaging or Apple's iMessage (iPhones are most popular in the US). My sense is that they don't really do group chats (a heavily used feature of WhatsApp).
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by gms 13y ago
Don't feel bad; no one really uses them in the US (except us foreigners to communicate with friends and family abroad). They are the de-facto messaging service in the rest of the world (except for China).
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by gms 13y ago
Ok, thanks.
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by gms 13y ago
Why should I switch to this from 1Password?
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by gms 13y ago
America in general flunks mental health.
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by gms 13y ago
I'm quite glad you submitted it; thanks. Unfortunate that such an online article could only have been written by a woman, as the likelihood of being on the receiving end of outrage is too high had it come from a man.
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by gms 13y ago
In other words, the woes in Silicon Valley are due to local government mismanagement than anything else.
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by gms 13y ago
Every time I hear talk of tech companies 'giving back', I wonder: isn't that what taxes are for?

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