jamesaguilar

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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
It depends on what your goals for your kids are. It also depends on the quality of screen time. Youtube != Programming != Video gaming != Documentaries != Movies != TV. Personally, my primary goal for my son is not to make him the best prog
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
I really like your idea to give her cards. I think practicing budgeting and spending is probably really good for kids, and your solution feeds into that. Great job! I will probably steal this idea when my son is older . . . and perhaps I sh
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
You paid to get your PhD? I thought that was pretty uncommon?
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
> No, that is an overgeneralization of a very lazy mischaracterization of what I said. I didn't characterize what you said, I asked whether I had understood your properly. Now that you have clarified, I have another question. Do you
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
> I am condemning the reaction to the comments Are you saying that you believe it is wrong to fire or refuse to associate with someone who says racist things? (This was the reaction to his comments.) I mean, leaving aside the legal issue
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Or do, and cut from other areas/don't get on the hoighty-toighty daycare/lessons/private school treadmill. But kids are definitely an expense.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
> I'm of the opinion that the stock markets are now inherently unstable, and they will continue to crash every 7-10 years. When you say "now," are you referring to the period from when financial markets were discovered unt
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Hedonic adaptation is the devil. You'd hope/intuit that spending more resources would make you happier, but that's just not the way it works. That said, you can use knowledge of this quirk of human psychology to make you rich
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Some of these problems can be incredibly difficult. We used to use these to practice for the ICPC.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
How would a driver come about these numbers? And 5% per day? Pretty sure you were talking to someone not in the know.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
I don't know exactly how much Netflix pays this guy, but if it was at least as much as Glassdoor claims we pay our directors, I really can't understand why he would risk that for an extra $300k.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Prius regeneratively brakes until the battery is full, then engine brakes.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
False. If you and your opponent can't agree on an arbitrator, you each pick one, and the two of then together agree on a third, who performs the actual arbitration.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Yeah, but if they're a quarter as efficient and cost a tenth as much, then we might have a winner.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
It's not so much a design flaw as physics. Without adding brakes, what else could they do? They only have two energy sinks on board. The wheels aren't a sink when going downhill and the battery isn't a sink once it is full (u
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
You can seal the wood with some kind of lacquer, though, right?
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
I see people riding them all the time. I wouldn't let this stop you if you're actually interested. It would be great if the law always reflected the reality on the ground, but when it doesn't I favor pragmatism.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
That's true. Well, in that case, let's just interpret what I said as aimed at the doomsayers in this thread. :)
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
>Facebook, the product, is no longer this super sexy app that college kids are checking out. Looking for Facebook to be that, you will probably predict its future demise. Been hearing this line from the hn crowd for at least three years.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Kinda agree with this flippant response, but then again, if you need speed such that you care about lock free algorithms, you are likely using one of the very fast languages, and few of these offer a garbage collector.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
If you're reading about the focus of Germans and wishing that described you (i.e. you want to cut out Facebook, gmail, etc.), there are a lot of technological solutions that can move you in the right direction. For me the pair that hav
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
It will be interesting to see how it works. The biggest issue I can foresee is that a program doesn't have a limit on how much it can manage, given the computation time. If one AI is even a little better than the next best, it could qu
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Part of me is somewhat worried. Part of me recognizes that a 3D printed firearm is hardly very practical, consider it's easy enough to get a real firearm, even for convicted criminals. (I'm speaking of the US here.) What keeps peo
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
> terrible defense In what sense? In the sense of not mathematically fixing the problem, or in the sense of leaving it feasible to exploit in reality?
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Question: if you know the attacker doesn't have local access, is it sufficient to simply introduce random response delays to mitigate JVM-JIT level timing differences? Even if you only delayed responses by a few hundred micros on avera
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
IANAL, but I'm at least curious whether they'd be willing to take someone to court when the discovery process would likely involve documenting claims of false advertising. Whistleblower laws might also apply. Will be fascinating t
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
So, there were lots of MBAs in 2013, but not so much in 2014? Even if you grant that MBAs are a good indicator of startup success, two data points doesn't make a trend line. And I don't think many people on here would be inclined
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a while, and it's a hell of a thing to get Google to understand. Can someone explain why the rail is referred to as "-5v" instead of its opposite simply being called "5v&q
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Huh. That makes me feel better about planning to vote no on M. Thanks.
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by jamesaguilar 12y ago
"Fix it, but, uh, not until I leave." As a homeowner in the Bay Area, my politics are: "Let's fix it!" But with as much equity as I've got pulling in the other direction, it is damn hard to toe that line.

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