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by hnriot 12y ago
Keeping up with starbucks opening/closing stores would be impossible without the distributed power of their users, they pop everywhere, move regularly and aren't really critical for mapping. Luckily in SF you can't throw a st
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by hnriot 12y ago
I was surprised at the number who had a degree was less than the national average for California. I guess there's a lot of immigrant workers who don't achieve higher education levels which skews the perception living and working i
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by hnriot 12y ago
an utterly pointless distinction, since a "rendering engine for content that contains JavaScript" is a browser. so like the guy before you said, on iOS you don't build a browser, you build a skin.
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by hnriot 12y ago
The very short answer is that they of course didn't. It's utter nonsense. I was around in those days, worked on Mozilla and Nutscrape etc. Back in the day there were many browsers, all spun off the Spyglass original code, the inte
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by hnriot 12y ago
shown with the iPhone 4, what's up with that, it's really a contact printer (as in the old days with an enlarger, except the phone's screen is the light source) bigger screens like the iPhone 6 will crop since it's a con
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by hnriot 12y ago
anyone can make an arrest, but campus police et al can't shoot you legally as the government police can, they can't call in other branches of government like swat or air support or even the military, they can't take you to ja
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by hnriot 12y ago
nonsense! these are still tests just as much as if they'd been written first, it's just a different methodology.
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by hnriot 12y ago
nonsense. Just because people and companies have contributed new features and capabilities to the language doesn't make your point. It's not a horrible language, any more than any language. Of course it has things that aren't
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by hnriot 12y ago
London already is a police state, every square inch is monitored with cameras and servers equipped with licence and face detection capabilities. While there are some upsides, the down considerably outweigh them. As an aside, and being from
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by hnriot 12y ago
any decent stats analysis has built in outlier detection and ignores them, there are people that either lie or just make stuff up for attention and detecting these (data trolls) is just part of the analysis. Blindly averaging is never effec
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by hnriot 12y ago
at first I thought, cool, but then realized that I'd miss google docs too much if I went back to Office. Aside from Excel which I don't use (prefer Pandas), I'd miss the collaborative document sharing and interoperability bet
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by hnriot 12y ago
wow, unless you got a different question that I did I am amazed at your response. The algorithm is used often in CS, that you didn't know this kind of makes my point. Sure you can probably work as a programmer for years and not care ab
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by hnriot 12y ago
no not at all, these are examples of some of the things you're expected to know as a competent engineer. being able to solve a puzzle is one thing, being able to solve it at the optimal efficiency is a feature of the best engineers - d
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by hnriot 12y ago
sounds a little like cognitive dissonance there, not wanting to work for a company that gave you a perfectly reasonable test of your algorithmic abilities. it's not whether you immediately forget the question/solution, it's a
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by hnriot 12y ago
This seems very sensible, it limits your choice to companies that want to throw away revenue, but at least it keeps you in your bubble.
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by hnriot 12y ago
that's not unreasonable, when applying for job you need to get your stuff together. So many companies have later found out employees claimed degrees they never got. HR protects against that.
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by hnriot 12y ago
I don't see it, the app works, but it's just a bunch of horrible filters a-la-instagram. They work fast but they are still nothing like Lightroom which does a lot more than ruin photos with filters. All the ones I tried degraded a
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by hnriot 12y ago
why would there be? they are content already. I think it's dangerous to bucket people in this way, i know plenty of people with $30k+ gear and use their iPhone most of the time. Those two categories you have are not mutually exclusive.
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by hnriot 12y ago
"destroy almost every DSLR made today in the quality of the final result" why would you say this? The GR1 has a decent enough lens if you are happy with just one, but 28mm doesn't suit everybody, and f/2.8 is not always
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by hnriot 12y ago
no, please stop spreading such misleading information, it is not survival of the fittest at all. go read about evolution please. You're right, evolution is not sentient, we're passed that, it is useful to think of it in that light
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by hnriot 12y ago
to be honest I can't follow what you're even trying to say. It's making no sense, and in general just inaccurate. I'm not talking about individuals, but in general, and in that regard we are all sex driven. Of course evo
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by hnriot 12y ago
the fuji x series are NOT RANGEFINDERS! they are auto focus cameras and support manual focus with the EVF. They might look a little like rangefinders (in that they mostly don't have "hump" for the pentaprism which is an SLR f
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by hnriot 12y ago
the built in meter is perfectly capable of metering accurately enough for slide film. If you're not sure what you're doing just set the iso to exp comp about negative half a stop to avoid (as with digital) blowing out the highligh
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by hnriot 12y ago
this is a bit condescending to teens to write them off as that. Biologically we are not programmed to sit in a classroom, teenage girls are programmed by evolution to do something not too dissimilar to HS (show off their new found sexuality
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by hnriot 12y ago
I think, although cannot speak for the person, they really meant CPA, they mention taxes and only a CPA would be legally able to do that.
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by hnriot 12y ago
yeah, isn't it even quite the opposite, I'd be really surprised to hear otherwise. The startup scene in SF is predominantly white, but SV is nothing like that, pick any large software company and you'll find the split is some
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by hnriot 12y ago
this hasn't been my experience at all, I guess it depends which areas you're contributing to. I've contributed to CS and art pages, with good success, I stay clear of opinion pages, or contentious topics.
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by hnriot 12y ago
it's not as simple as that, the whole stack is GPL, mainly due to Standford's usage of GPL for all of their NLP. GPL is a killer for any project that's not a toy or for school.
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by hnriot 12y ago
You may want to look at Factorie ( https://github.com/factorie/factorie ), that has a decent POS tagger and it's not crippled by the license. It also has dependency parsing which works reasonably well.
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by hnriot 12y ago
GPL :( can't use it

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