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by gphil 12y ago
> "require" gives you methods that appear out of nowhere (unlike other language where they are name spaced) I always worry about this too, but in practice I've rarely run into a namespace collision (I can't even remem
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by gphil 12y ago
Concurrency (Clojure, Erlang)
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by gphil 12y ago
According to data pulled from here: http://www.wealthandwant.com/issues/income/income_distributi... (Summary Table 1. Effective Federal Tax Rates, 2005) The bottom 20% makes around 4% of the total income, so I gra
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by gphil 12y ago
This has been alluded to in other comments, but without any data. The "unexotic underclass" has virtually no money to spend compared to the upper classes. The bottom 40% in the US has only 0.2% of the wealth! Source: https:/
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by gphil 12y ago
More generally, logic can be used to demonstrate the limitations of logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_th... You could say that a neural network found this limitation of neural networ
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by gphil 12y ago
Yep, my first thought upon seeing the title was: wait, what about non-computable functions?
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by gphil 12y ago
> nearly none of the products you mentioned work without an email notification feature. Not to mention the ability to reply to those emails to add new content to those products. Building around email as a messaging backbone is incredibly
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by gphil 12y ago
Not really. Portland is the 19th largest MSA and 29th largest city in US. There is only one city in the US that is 10x Portland in population (NY) and there are no MSAs that are 10x the size of Portland's (not even NY's.) You don&
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by gphil 12y ago
My company makes a rent per sqft map that somewhat answers this question: https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract/Boston-Cambridge-Q... https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract/San%20F
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by gphil 12y ago
> my experience business people aren't dumb enough to think that a "software solutions engineer" is anything different to a plain old programmer This is true, but I think misses the broader point of the article. It's
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Why the Zillow-Trulia Merger Is Meaningless for Real Estate Innovation(blog.kwelia.com)
5 points by gphil 12y ago|0 comments
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A Clojure DSL for Apache Spark(github.com)
2 points by gphil 12y ago|0 comments
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by gphil 12y ago
What a mess. The current real estate "system" in SF isn't serving anybody well.
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by gphil 12y ago
> a single set of initial conditions can only result in one outcome Nobody knows if this is true or not, or even whether we could know this to be true or not. For more info: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determin
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by gphil 12y ago
Off the top of my head, I remember the engineers' initial idea was to reduce the weight of a load in a truck. Then, they realized the technology could be used to build a time machine.
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by gphil 12y ago
I'm certainly not an expert on this, but I think what hnal943 said is the general motivation behind these types of agreements. The one "non-compete" agreement that I've signed in my career covered both non-competition an
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by gphil 12y ago
I think the most common use case of a non-compete is to prevent employees who have developed strong customer relationships during their time at a firm from leaving that firm and bringing those customers with them.
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by gphil 12y ago
Yeah, I was going to bring this up also. Obviously there are international markets as well, and the mere existence of Uber could in itself grow the size of this industry. However, if they are expected to become Google or Facebook-sized they
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by gphil 12y ago
I'm curious about this too--clj-spark didn't work for me so I'm currently prototyping a job using the Java bindings in Clojure. If I end up wrapping the Java bindings in a useful way I would consider putting together some kin
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The Best Times to Rent: Apartment Dynamic Pricing Patterns(blog.kwelia.com)
3 points by gphil 12y ago|0 comments
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by gphil 12y ago
I think it's this podcast, where Rich Hickey explains codeq: http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2012/10/12/rich-hickey-podcas...
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Fire and Forget Background Jobs Using Clojure Futures(gphil.net)
1 points by gphil 12y ago|0 comments
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by gphil 13y ago
Yep, I have a BA in Philosophy, have been employed as a Software Engineer, and am now the CTO of a SaaS startup. I got into web stuff before going to college, but decided that a CS major wasn't really for me even though I wanted to mak
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by gphil 13y ago
I think you should put a note on the form to explain this, I had the same confusion as the parent commenter.
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Big Data, The Cyclical Universe and The End of Science(davidbyrne.com)
1 points by gphil 13y ago|0 comments
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by gphil 13y ago
Being able to link to and follow links to specific content is a defining feature of the web that has been disrupted by single-page JS and mobile apps that don't support it. I always find it frustrating when I run into this, so I'
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by gphil 13y ago
> Well, that's because we've never had a cryptocurrency of this scale before. I agree. I was mostly trying to assert that we shouldn't confidently make predictions in the absence of data. I didn't know about the Austr
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by gphil 13y ago
> What if Bitcoin does recover? This is what's interesting to me about all of this. I don't think anyone knows whether or not it's going to work in the long term. The only predictions (both positive and negative) that I&#x
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by gphil 13y ago
There are clauses in some agreements to prevent this from happening. Presumably, Zynga employees just didn't get these kind of rights.
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by gphil 13y ago
> 70% of Americans now have Comcast as an option, but only 9% have Comcast as their only terrestrial TV option. Thanks for pointing this out. It would be better for that second percentage to be zero, but this isn't that alarming.

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