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by ims 13y ago
Right. While not impossible (it's possible for almost anyone, no?), this type of blackmail is probably extremely uncommon. In the real world, it's so much more likely to be "he's a cool guy, we went to the same prep school, why not?" Which
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by ims 13y ago
This is exactly right. I'm a member of INFORMS (the operations research professional society), and I can report that a staggering amount of ink has been spilled over the last few years about how to capitalize on the recent "Analytics" and "
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by ims 13y ago
Very true. Wouldn't the typical approach to this involve probabilistic methods like taking large-ish (but not "Big") samples from your multi TB data and doing your EDA with those?
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by ims 13y ago
Zach Holman has written about this: http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/ In fact, this slide deck was extremely reminiscent of his style, down to the font and some other details. I wouldn't be surprised if the person w
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by ims 13y ago
Not saying it's a great analogy, but it seems like SaaS would be the McDonalds (scalable, commoditized) whereas bespoke software is the fancy restaurant meal. It doesn't really seem to hold up though, or say much either way.
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Neurocriminology: Inside the Criminal Mind(online.wsj.com)
1 points by ims 13y ago|0 comments
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by ims 13y ago
Not to speak for the GP but in addition to the Delaware Division of Corporations[1] in which February Won, Inc -- like many startups -- was registered (and where you have to pay a fee), there are quite a few public sites which attempt to ag
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by ims 13y ago
One thing that you can truthfully write (and that I have seen many others write) is "Have completed projects using ..." It is accurate and conveys a certain flexibility and curiosity to the reader, assuming they are putting any thought into
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by ims 13y ago
No, I don't think so. Or if so, it was ancillary. He wasn't saying "I should have done things differently" -- instead he was trying to show how depraved, spoiled, and inadequate people are inside the ivory tower. Much as in "Less Than Zero"
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by ims 13y ago
Okay, I was trying to stay sympathetic to this article as I read it, but it bears almost no resemblance to reality as I've known it (not a stranger to these institutions). This is less an indictment of "the system" than further evidence tha
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by ims 13y ago
I'd be very interested to hear you expand on this.
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by ims 14y ago
> "C++ is unsafe by design," he said. "It gets you down to the metal," a term that means that the code runs very fast because it can be read directly by the hardware, "but it is unsafe." Hmm...
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by ims 14y ago
This is a great point too. Excel is hard to lock down and easy for non-computer people to use. Access is easy to lock down and relatively harder to use. If you know what you're doing, you can use Access (scary program that people don't real
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by ims 14y ago
I've seen Access used decently as well as abused. The good: it is actually not a bad tool if you're familiar with database concepts. It even has some nice features, like being able to see a graph of all the pk relationships between tables (
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by ims 14y ago
If there's erroneous data getting inserted in a database, you go looking for the broken part of the program that is putting it there. You don't mess with the database.
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by ims 14y ago
I imagine it's a pun on "Fortran" ("for-" -> "four" -> "five").
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by ims 14y ago
On that note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
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by ims 14y ago
The problem comes from trying to force a dichotomy between "new" and "not new". This is an interesting article about these types of seeming paradoxes: http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_insid...
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by ims 14y ago
I don't necessarily disagree about those things being sad/scary/pathetic. But these things cost money . Taxpayers are generally averse to spending money on long term prevention. Something that people consider an "expensive boondoggle" and
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by ims 14y ago
This is pretty pedantic, but wouldn't for k in m be more "pythonic" than for k in m.keys() ?
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Why Parents Need To Let Their Children Fail(theatlantic.com)
2 points by ims 14y ago|0 comments
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by ims 14y ago
You pretty much described the way jobs are structured in the U.S. military officer corps. You typically have fewer than 2-3 years in any given assignment. There are some interesting pros and cons. On the one hand, it really forces people to
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by ims 14y ago
> Any kid with a family that can afford books will score higher on "can this kid read English". True, but there are also many families that can afford books but don't buy them, instead spending money on other things. Not having books in
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by ims 14y ago
18 U.S.C. 3056 may be instructive here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3056
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by ims 14y ago
I won't go so far as to call this unethical, but this is basic social engineering. You're tricking somebody into violating the normal "flow" of external communications into the company. This may end up hurting that person if, say, they are
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by ims 14y ago
This term comes from "ded" (short for "deduced") -- deduced because you are advancing your last fix based on course and speed.
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by ims 14y ago
Single page version: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-googl...
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by ims 14y ago
You're right, of course. But the point he's making seems to be based on the idea that to experience mastery of a domain can be truly fulfilling even if that domain is boring. That is, the feeling of power and self actualization that comes f
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by ims 14y ago
Look at the date of Mark Cuban's post (March 18, 2012). Cal Newport and Mark Cuban are both well known bloggers who have been making this same case for some time. No plagiarism involved.
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by ims 14y ago
Administrative decisions can often be made without corresponding rulemaking actions. Even when a rule is made the 90 day comment period (normally 60 days after the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and 30 after the Final Rule) is more of a guid

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