jakevoytko

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by jakevoytko 16y ago
This is the effect of telling the histories of nations as if they were groups of 5 people. It's convenient to say sentences like, "Germany then instigated the Battle of Britain, causing Churchill to say X and beginning a lengthy battle," bu
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The level of work that David Grann put in is a marvel. He generates an idea for a story, researches it, and has enough for an article. He has a queasy feeling about a subject of the piece (not unlike the art connoisseurs might have), and in
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by jakevoytko 16y ago
The two of you are looking at their success from opposite directions. You're looking Google from day zero and asking, "Why were they successful at all?" The first answer looks at their mammoth success and asks, "How did they avoid becoming
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by jakevoytko 16y ago
Chris Rock has some good input on the subject: "Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check is wealthy." If you're rich, you can buy an expensive house. If you're wealthy, you can forget exactly how many expensive houses you have.
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Updating our abstraction for a particular 3rd party camera, since we found ANOTHER edge case not mentioned in the documentation >.<
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My company has been switching to CMake over the past 8 months, and it's not that bad. Well, not usually. Their conditional expressions are goofy, it's never clear whether mixing variables and lists will do the right thing, and good luck d
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I doubt anything will happen. Stories with similar elements don't usually end with an underdog victory [1]. If the software was already released, people could create "I'm mirroring the Shazam code, come and get me Shazam!" blog posts. The n
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by jakevoytko 16y ago
I graduated a few years ago, and a common worldview in my graduating class was, "I've put X amount of work in my whole life, so I should hear back from jobs when I apply." It's a flawed line of thought, but it's not common to question thing
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"The instinctive drowning response is a climbing response. What you see are twin splashes as the person's arms flail wide looking for something to grab on to. If they find it the automatic response is to grab it, climb up, and stand on top.
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I'm glad that Lynx never got <blink>. I use it on a day-to-day basis! Why? Well, I used to check the Internet too much while working. I discovered that Lynx can fetch news and not much else, so I decided to use it for my personal br
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He's not making that argument! From the article: "You can learn PHP in a day or two if you're familiar with any other language. You can write PHP code in any editor or environment you want. Emacs? Vim? Notepad? nano? Who cares? Whatever flo
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Tornado is great because it's so damn simple. Just a couple of nice little libraries that work well together. It doesn't try to be sneaky about anything, so a glance at the code on Github is usually enough to determine what's going on behin
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by jakevoytko 16y ago
Q: How do you make a herd of nerds stampede? A: Make them think computers are being stolen I worked for our college IT department one summer, performing computer upgrades. The schedule was relaxed - one lab in the morning, 20
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It probably depends a lot on the industry. If your ticket purchase works, you never need to speak to a human being to ride a bus. Contrast this with cable companies - to sign up, you must have at least two customer service experiences: one
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Treating the entirety of an individual's education as a market doesn't really make sense. It's only a market in the last few years! There's a market for a college education, but there's no "demand" for a 5th grade education. The whole educa
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I never considered that before - how DO entrepreneurs take time off? Is this done post-post-/Ramen profitability? Never? Just for a day at a time? Or does the flexible schedule prolong burnout?
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In addition to this list, you absolutely need feedback from someone who's honest. I know some designers (and live with one), and they always want opinions on their latest work. In the limited design work I've done, I've found it extremely h
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"When teaching someone a programming language, your first goal should always be to get them to the point where they've made something real in a domain they understand" There are steps before that! The user's first concern is how to run the
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A coworker introduced me to the ADT-style solution for nesting problems, and it works nicely. He introduces a struct that encapsulates any nested inner collection. It's worth noting his designs use fat structs in a shallow hierarchy. This h
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I agree. To clarify, I'm hoping that because they're not focusing on language enhancements, they might make some major headway towards nuking the GIL
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The Right Way for a long time was to run multiple processes. If you absolutely needed threads, then the Other Way That Is Less Correct involved launching threads written in C from a C extension The Python community seems to be warming to th
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Sleep(1) is very noisy on Windows machines. The time slice given by default is ~15-20ms [1], and calling Sleep(<15) relinquishes the rest of the time slice. Windows has a multimedia API that can be used to get intervals down to 1ms, b
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by jakevoytko 16y ago
As someone who works with autonomous robots, restarting a system 30 feet away in demo conditions can cause pins and needles. I can't fathom how the NASA engineers felt. They probably didn't get any good work done waiting for the ACK It's in
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You must also consider competition. Myspace's relative lack of competition catapulted it to the #1 spot within 3 years [1]. Facebook overtook it at Myspace's 5 year mark. Alexa isn't scientific, but surely some inferences can be drawn from
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This is very exciting! In this case, I want the law on Google's side. Some of the provisions of the DMCA are ridiculous, but the DMCA claim/counterclaim process is better than alternatives, like vetting all user submitted content up-front.
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I switched my last computer to Ubuntu 13 months ago, and haven't looked back. I haven't regretted it once! Emacs and Firefox/Chrome work fine, there's finally a reasonable 64-bit version of Flash, Steam works well under WINE, and OpenOffice
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Looking at it from another angle, the laid-off employee loses nothing - they simply stop receiving. However, the owners are on the hook if the company goes belly-up The entrepreneurial system is organized so that the risk takers are the mon