jared314

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by jared314 12y ago
> No, it's not perfect but I don't think you need to worry. You don't need to worry if, and only if, you assume that the standards are designed correctly and all vendors code to all the standards correctly. As Quviq found,
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> My suspicion is that the younger candidates expect to have to get past a computer and then HR before encountering anyone who knows what they're talking about technically As someone who is currently reworking their resume, I can sa
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> I'd love to have a locally owned and operated 'storage depot' where I could shove my excess power to the depot, I don't understand why the utility companies can't convert some of their regional substations to l
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by jared314 12y ago
> The Tesla model S has a 60 or 85 kwh battery. I don't know what the cost of the battery alone is, but it's probably pretty expensive. As of 2013, the 60 and 80 kwh batteries are approximately $10k and $12k respectively. [1] [
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> but once you need to go for something bigger, with big teams, the thing start to melt down. The people in the Clojure community have already started exploring this issue. Component [1] [2], Jig [3], and others are trying to add just en
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> I'd really like to see someone make a home device that can test for nutritional deficiencies at home. Home health monitoring was the end goal of the "Intelligence Toilet" system made by Toto (Japan). I'm not sure ho
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by jared314 12y ago
> the problem with human memory is that each read operation is also a write operation I consider it an attribute of human memory, rather than a problem. Emotionally charged memories can haunt people for decades, negatively affecting thei
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by jared314 12y ago
It sounds like you have a less demanding job, thus allowing you to choose your own adventure. Don't loaf around. This is a gift. My suggestion: 1. Learn the existing CF system, with full knowledge that CF is not a "marketable skil
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by jared314 12y ago
I am excited, but I would rather wait until a Phase 3 result before getting my hopes up. Phase 1 is just to verify that the vaccine doesn't kill you all by itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial#Phases
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Joyent is accused of: 1. Fixating on platform stability over project evolution 2. Ignoring the community on project direction 3. Preserving public image over project committers 4. Being a total square NOTE: I am against the fork.
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> but I don't think LISP DSLs are quite on the level of SQL I'm curious what you mean by this. Is your definition of a DSL based on the language's syntax, or on the language's paradigm? Clojure's core.logic [1] p
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> My person vision is lots of tiny languages that work together I personally can't work deeply in more than about 4 languages at once. This might be my memory, my experience level, or it could be a human limit, like the short-term m
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> I'm curious: would the same sequence of pitches be more or less meaningful ... For me, Yes. The core of the issue is that the sequence of pitches is not meaningful on its own, like all communication. When I am listening to music,
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by jared314 12y ago
You successfully caught a wave. This is to be expected in any area of programming. RoR was propelled forward by businesses trying "new" technologies in the hopes that it would pay off in faster / cheaper software development.
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> "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." Interesting quote, but I think it unfairly judges people who are not "like you". Discussing people, like celebrities, is like di
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If they must be there, a smaller font size would be better. At first glance I ignored them completely, because they looked like ads.
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> I am not a lawyer, but I do have to wonder, how is 'civil forfeiture' as a whole compatible with the U.S. constitution IANAL: Last I heard, the logic was that you, the owner, are not accused of anything. Your property is accu
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> But what remains interesting, and glaringly obviously absent, is user identification. I wonder if using Facebook over Tor would help in that regard. https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-conn
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I went through a phase like that. I measured everything I could and found I could only improve things by about 10%, with light bulb changes, computer hardware changes, etc. The bulk of my usage was still HVAC, water heater, fridge, washer &
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Proguard 5.x supports Java 8.
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> The US (hopefully) is a land in which the process of acquiring a warrant before actually seizing anything or arresting anyone is so commonplace that it isn't even mentioned. That is not true any more. There was a discussion [1] tw
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Great analogy, but i'm not sure it's accurate. Any kind of abstraction (functions, interfaces, objects, macros, DSLs, frameworks) could be considered a pneumatic nail gun. Software development is built on layers of abstraction tha
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by jared314 12y ago
> It seems it has lost whatever popularity it once had Popularity is always a problematic metric for platform evaluation, because the programming community generally has a very short attention span. I would attribute the lack of marketin
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by jared314 12y ago
I propose a third layer: Integration with an application checkpoint library, like CRIU[1], to snapshot the running container. CRIU already supports snapshots of docker containers[2], just not correctly restoring them. [1] http://
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by jared314 12y ago
> Because the bootcamp industry hasn't been around very long, you're right, there is no good data. The training industry has been around for a long time. I would suspect there is years, perhaps decades, worth of data, just not
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by jared314 12y ago
I've had my suspicions about the rebranding of vocational schools as "hacker schools" and "bootcamps". Regulation and accreditation, while stifling, does allow government aid and ensures some kind of minimum quality
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> We saw this with Heartbleed too: given sure confidence that there is a vulnerability in a particular diff, skilled security researchers can find it very quickly. That reminds me of the old QA technique / tactic of only telling the
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> Unfortunately, measuring real success is quite hard because successful stop using the dating site. Real success is extremely hard to quantify, which is why i'm not suggesting that as the goal. The goal is to grade spam messages, a
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If OKCupid has all of these messages, couldn't they algorithmically rate your message (based on sender patterns, receiver patterns, and/or site wide patterns) before you send it. While it wouldn't be perfect, it would act lik
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by jared314 12y ago
> Lampert took the myth that humans perform best when acting selfishly as gospel, pitting Sears company managers against each other in a kind of Lord of the Flies death match. Sounds a bit like how Microsoft was structured [1]. [1] http

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