graycat

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1. 3421.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   > For myself, I wouldn't take a job in anything short of scala or haskell. Amazing. > You said before you were confident in the microsoft platform because of the large, busy websites using it; are any of those built on VB.NET? Th
2. 3422.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   As far as I can tell from my software timings, likely revenue from ads as I need to scale, and Microsoft's prices, I should be able to afford Microsoft as I scale. But at some point, if Microsoft's charges to me are so high I c
3. 3423.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   Many thanks. > Modern computers (even desktop/laptop) are much more similar to those workstations than to DOS-era consumer PCs. Absolutely. Current computers are totally unreal, off the tops of the charts, as you noted, well beyond
4. 3424.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   I'll ask a question, serious for me: Mostly you guys are way ahead of me in knowledge of current software tools, especially on Linux and 'open source software' (OSS -- I had to look up that one!). But I'm doing a startu
5. 3425.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   The Japanese in the article are missing out on what man/woman love can really mean and the value it can have. So there should be not just 'friction' but 'love' (with the help that Mother Nature provides) with commit
6. 3426.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   Sex? Add in commitment, caring, affection, intimacy, romance, joining of lives, a good version of passion, a collection of memories, activities, traditions really like, don't want to lose, can't get anywhere else, and, thus, cau
7. 3427.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   > Why can't traditional journalists not use the web the way it is meant to? First, just because they are "traditional journalists". Second, because they got lots of eyeballs with this article.
8. 3428.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   Calm down: Not having sex is for that article mostly just an exaggeration for a catchy headline. Of course they are having sex but likely less sex and less in love with commitment, caring, affection, intimacy, passion, joining of lives,
9. 3429.▲
   by graycat 13y ago

   Okay, take a town 60 years ago. Lots of people, say, o driving cars with tires that last only 15,000 miles, o driving cars with engines that last only 80,000 miles (due to poor lubrication due to water and gasoline in
10. 3430.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Yup. > many unspoken assumptions Yup. And had I known that, been able, in verbal, emotional, psychological, and social skills, to have acted on it, and done so at all well, then as soon as that girl I knew in high school, starting whe
11. 3431.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Snow's Two Cultures was something I loudly cheered when I first read about its points and for years afterward. But now the book and the OP strike me as not well considered. Net, the 'humanities' have a role much more import
12. 3432.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    My guess: What screwed China was the Roman alphabet because China didn't use it. Then when the written word became important for the masses in the West and for progress in the West, China started falling behind. The effect is still e
13. 3433.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Yes, it is. Next to no one at A16Z is qualified to review new, correct, significant, powerful, valuable, useful technical material, review research papers in technical fields submitted to peer-reviewed journals of original research, be a p
14. 3434.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Stanford's not so great. I've seen a good fraction of some of their best work, and it's not too difficult. E.g., to me, Ng is out in la-la land. Diaconis is not too difficult but much, much better than Ng. Then some of
15. 3435.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Reading that article, I get the strong impression that A16Z really doesn't much know what the heck they are doing.
16. 3436.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    About "optimization", Gates likely had a point. That problem of assigning code blocks (subroutines/functions) to memory segments does suggest a significant role for optimization. What is optimization? For a very sparse desc
17. 3437.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    An old remark was, without rules, auto racing would soon become about as exciting as watching the jets land at JFK. Another point is, mostly sports are sold as drama, that is, about human characters the audience can identify with, characte
18. 3438.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    You might be correct, but you are missing the bigger picture: First, the whole thing, climate change and/or global warming is a guilt trip, another morality play about sinful humans, the old trilogy of transgression, retributi
19. 3439.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Yes, yes, yes, the solution is from the Mayans -- kill people to pour their blood on a rock to keep the planet from getting too hot. Right: WaPo is continuing to flog this old horse, trying to keep it going as a long list of stories easy
20. 3440.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Yup, why do I suspect that this article is more of the same from the big movement to claim that humans are evil, carbon is filthy, filthy humans are ruining the planet with evil carbon, or evil humans are ruining the planet with filthy carb
21. 3441.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Mark does a lot of that. First, on being an 'entrepreneur', the US is awash, by the millions, in successful entrepreneurs, with only a small fraction with an MBA or knowing what BizDev is. E.g., once late on a Thursday I needed a
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    by graycat 13y ago

    I'm getting happy: I'm 70 miles north of Wall Street and that means really close to Vassar and not far from Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and more. So find some bright, humanities major coeds who otherwise would have to start in ret
23. 3443.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Easily, just the way Facebook does it except maybe better, with one consideration -- they will have to work their way into such work. Let's see: For such scaling, it has long been the case that a first-cut quantitative approach has be
24. 3444.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Good illustration of why in some ways it's actually easier to be a solo founder of a startup than an employee of one! I know next to nothing about Linux -- it's yet another multi-user, demand paged, virtual memory operating system
25. 3445.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Thanks for raising the level of discourse by several notches!
26. 3446.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    > 0_o What Ph.D. program has no course requirements? When I got my Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, the official statement was that there were no coursework requirements for a Ph.D. At times the math department at Princeton has stated on their We
27. 3447.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    My wife and I lived in Laurel, maybe 30 miles away. Likely the whole area within 100 miles of the Washington Monument is much more highly built up now than then. I suspect that now Laurel is a bit expensive, and the traffic from there to t
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Sure, your point that a Ph.D. program can be a political mud hole is correct. For your > get into a research program that fits one's skills that is the toughest part. I didn't bother with that and, instead, picked my own proble
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Thanks. Not just everyone will understand what I wrote. Many readers will need to listen to the YouTube piece, and for the first few times through that music will be a challenge for many readers. Glad you 'got it'. It'
30. 3450.▲
    by graycat 13y ago

    Anyone who can solve hard theoretical problems can pick up a Ph.D. quickly. Why? Because the main requirement for a Ph.D. is just the research. Commonly there is no coursework requirement. For the research, the main requirement is that it