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by hexagonc 14y ago
Fun anecdote: There was a worse than usual flu season here in Boston and since a lot of other people in the office were getting sick, I was wondering if I should get the flu vaccine. Being lazy, I didn't bother with the vaccine, yet I have
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by hexagonc 14y ago
Especially since it doesn't provide any actual stats or data or back up the claim that photographers are being put out of work. There are no testimonials from either those who would hire photographers nor photographers themselves that this
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by hexagonc 14y ago
No he/she is the 2% that need to touch the advanced settings tab.
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by hexagonc 14y ago
The problem here is the lack of communication. How hard is it to show a brief popup telling the user what is happening and how to reverse it? At lot of applications with a fullscreen mode already do this. For example, Parallels and VMWa
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by hexagonc 14y ago
I agree. The only mistake the user made with the search query: "pink impact resistant iphone 5 cover", is failing to realize that she probably only needed to search for "impact resistant iphone 5 cover". Products on this page may already
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by hexagonc 14y ago
One obstacle to a company developing a "hacker ethic" is invention assignment clauses in employee agreements. There seems to be a fundamental tension between carefree experimentation and "everything you build which is even remotely related
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by hexagonc 14y ago
This seems to be an excuse to start looking for a new job, depending on how your company rewards high performers. Since everyone around you is unproductive, this suggests that there is not really a competitive environment for performance b
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by hexagonc 14y ago
Spain is in Western Europe
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by hexagonc 14y ago
A connected tangent type thought, and I have no idea where it goes; but how come Romans were so clever, but current tribes around the world, sort of, aren't? How does that work? Is it a resource thing? Environment thing? Seems a bit odd to
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by hexagonc 14y ago
They aren't used interchangeably in the linked article. In the article, Americans are singled out as being particularly "weird" even compared to other "Western" nations.
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by hexagonc 14y ago
I agree with the conclusion that improving reading comprehension is the best way to improve reading speed, at least for me. There are two things I learned from my stuttered attempts at speed reading: (1) The best way to increase reading sp
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by hexagonc 14y ago
I doubt that work important to the company is done this way. Otherwise, they'd expose proprietary information. Of course, I could be wrong.
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by hexagonc 14y ago
Of course, you could always take smart people and train them - but seriously, who does that anymore? The sad truth about this is that I think many companies are afraid an employee will leave shortly after receiving training. They fear th
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by hexagonc 14y ago
I remember actually working on some of the puzzles that were posted by ITA in the Boston MBTA subway. I didn't submit them (since I wasn't interested in working at ITA) but they introduced me to interesting problems. For example, there wa
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by hexagonc 14y ago
If we stick to the moral approach. China might see it as hypocrisy as well. From their point of view they can say "well you stole to improve your industry, you burned coal like it was nobody's business to ramp up your steel mills, now you
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by hexagonc 14y ago
I'm not making a moral argument about IP and whether it is good or not. I'm saying that if you've entered into agreements with other nations on the premise that you do something (in this case, protect and not steal IP) then you should hono
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by hexagonc 14y ago
I don't think we would want to use the disreputable behavior of nations in the past as a model for what is acceptable today. That's why treaties and agreements are made so that we learn from our mistakes. Not playing by the rules that you
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by hexagonc 14y ago
This comment will be probably be unpopular but I think that root access is overrated. Not that it isn't useful in the appropriate hands, just that people make it out to be more than it really is. Like it is some magic wand that grants wis
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by hexagonc 14y ago
Tell that to the people in Iran.
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by hexagonc 14y ago
The real calamity you risk in a bad startup is the career damage. You can easily end up in a position well below your level of ability in the next job, and once that happens, you're screwed because most people get bored rapidly and lose mo
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by hexagonc 14y ago
If questions of residence are in consideration, you would think things would be complicated by his request for asylum from Ecuador. That certainly doesn't suggest he intends to return to Australia in 6 years.
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by hexagonc 14y ago
(unfortunately its really long) NOT "unfortunately". Thanks for the links. I have the entire Feynman Lectures on Physics series but have never actually heard his voice.
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by hexagonc 14y ago
I like your idea. I've been interested in the use of machine-learning and techniques from AI to improve teaching for a while. It seemed odd to me that no one has been able to effectively apply what we've learned about machine learning to
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by hexagonc 14y ago
Unfortunately, the copyright terms have nothing to do with whether you can actually use the algorithm/datastructure. It only means you can copy the source-code of a particular implementation of the algorithm/datastructure under the terms o
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by hexagonc 14y ago
Well, I'm against software patents pretty much as much as anyone here, as you can verify from my comment history, but describing the mathematics of an array isn't the same as the array itself. The patent isn't violated until you start exec
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by hexagonc 14y ago
I don't have much to add to the discussion except to say that I don't think the cd vs vinyl debate that we had in the 90s is a good comparison for the current controversy with 48FPS. Even if you accept that the first cds really did sound m
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by hexagonc 14y ago
The download links still work too.
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by hexagonc 14y ago
I think maybe the same rule of thumb applies to tinnitus; if it starts suddenly without warning and persists then get it checked out. Otherwise, it may be normal. I've had mild tinnitus for years but it never occurs during the day unless
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by hexagonc 14y ago
I always fount it odd that mathematicians use so little of the mind augmenting potential of computers. Is is true that there aren't any smart enough programmers to craft the tools they would need, or that the tools end up being so "user ho
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by hexagonc 14y ago
These terms do not apply to the Android source code, only the "Android SDK". This is like the difference between the JDK and source code to the Java standard class library. The SDK only contains tools for developing Android applications,

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