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by hoprocker 12y ago
Love these sorts of reflections -- insight about a career in software, from those that have been in it long enough to have one.
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by hoprocker 12y ago
Reading this article reminded me of Steve Yegge's summary of Amazon's overall strategy: build a platform, not a product[0]. My takeaway here is that Amazon keeps reinvesting in making itself the platform through which sales run (w
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by hoprocker 12y ago
Gardens aren't the only potential vector; when we were raising chickens in out backyard in Oakland, we had an egg tested and found that its lead content was quite high. Still, visitors seemed to love that we had them, and we never rece
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by hoprocker 12y ago
This looks clipped in my browser, but you can see the original diagram here: http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.com/2013/01/machine-learning...
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by hoprocker 12y ago
Cool! My brother and I were thinking up project motivations for learning Swift, and Game of Life was one idea. Maybe this is part of a natural progression of learner projects, beginning with Hello World.
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by hoprocker 12y ago
If you're making comparisons based on physical displacement, sure. But it's probably more helpful to think about how fast it will copy an equivalent number of bits, and from this perspective it actually will, indeed, take 1x10^-2
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by hoprocker 12y ago
Those props sound interesting! Are you embedding the LEDs and circuitry in the juggling apparatus itself, or putting them in some stage props?
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by hoprocker 12y ago
> Did you upgrade the door frame as well? And the windows? I strongly second _A Pattern Language_. It's significantly augmented my sense of what in a living space works and what doesn't.
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by hoprocker 12y ago
Funny way to arrange this comparison. To me it reads: for every Uber trip I take from my apartment in the Mission to my office in Soma, I would ride a taxi from 24th to 23rd street.
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by hoprocker 13y ago
cough content farm cough cough
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by hoprocker 13y ago
My post below asks the same question. Is this a regular phenomenon w/ PyPix? Also, I'd post a link to the original chapter here if it was publicly available; it's (of course) much more complete. Check out your local library&#
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by hoprocker 13y ago
Thanks so much! I was really stoked by yesterday's related post (and your discussion in the comments). I also find it really interesting to see Scheme used in production; I sort of marginalized it (unfairly to myself, I'm sure) af
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by hoprocker 13y ago
It's truly inspiring to see a project like this completed. I've been wanting to combine mobile (specifically Android) and some sort of Lisp dialect for a while. Am I interpreting correctly from some of the other components that do
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by hoprocker 13y ago
Awesome. Kind of like an embeddable software Square. Bravo.
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by hoprocker 13y ago
I think I felt my pulse quicken as I started to scroll. edit: Actually, it has a bunch of unclosed h3 and h2 tags.
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by hoprocker 13y ago
+1 on that!
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by hoprocker 13y ago
This looks great. It looks a lot like what I've scraped together using a fabfile and Python dicts for configuration, but much more formal. I'm excited to try it out.
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by hoprocker 13y ago
Well, then, I refer you a few sentences on: '"Techie" used to suggest a computer whiz with no social skills, now it suggests one with no social conscience.' This article boasts several choice phrases: "chronic obliv
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by hoprocker 13y ago
> I listened to this podcast the other day and it was one of the more compelling This American Life episodes I've listened to recently. Agree. Rarely have I felt so riveted to what was going on. I attribute it to the pace and the ch
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by hoprocker 13y ago
Great writeup. I always appreciate somebody else doing a down-to-earth overview of something complicated. This post makes me wonder if some sort of flowchart or UML diagram of the docker system components wouldn't be a useful thing.
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by hoprocker 13y ago
Wait -- you set up an entire system of metaphor, and then the most fundamentally associated of these doesn't work together? Even with the beautiful product videos to convince me of how well this skeuomorphism will complete me? I mean,
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by hoprocker 13y ago
So looking through this 'track', I see one course which seems like it might be more central to the discipline, "Intro to Data Science"[0]. Has anybody had a chance to compare this one against Bill Howe's "Intro
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by hoprocker 13y ago
For an introduction to the broader realm of data input, normalization, modeling, and visualization -- in which ML plays but a part -- you can "preview" Bill Howe's "Introduction to Data Science" class on Coursera[0]
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by hoprocker 13y ago
Crazy. I was just thinking about doing this in my place a few months ago. I was going to actually build a little container that fit in a window and have a HEPA filter from McMaster-Carr (or wherever) sitting behind computer tower cooling fa
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by hoprocker 13y ago
Very clever --things have come quite a ways since Mavis Beacon. I see the WPM in this, but what about accuracy? Should you be able to recover the word when you mistype it? In any case, a fine example of game-reward theory tying into feedbac
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by hoprocker 13y ago
Although I strongly agree with the basic premise -- namely, that many of us could benefit from some reflection on our screen-gazing habits -- after the Brief History of Drugs portion of this piece, it drifts off into speculation that could
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by hoprocker 13y ago
Shared authorship, even.
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by hoprocker 13y ago
> Well said. All I'll add is, thanks to the internet, there is much more comparing going on. An unhealthy amount imho. Amen to that. I usually feel more fulfilled when I restrict my online "achiever" voyeurism -- just enou
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by hoprocker 13y ago
Reading through this post, I was put in mind of just the opposite: how so many computers in sci-fi movies use voice interaction. In particular, D.Curtis' point #3 -- looking at something near your face and/or looking at a dark background, m
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by hoprocker 13y ago
Hilarious. Although it's projected to be 140% the size of Manhattan, the article states that the city will accommodate only 150,000 residents. Indeed, the article also says that the entire country of Belarus is only 9.5 million inhabitants,

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