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by jcdreads 15y ago
I ran a lunchtime SICP reading group at my last job wherein we read a section or two at a time and someone (usually me) would illustrate the concepts by walking through our own Java code base (a big industrial ad server). It helped that we
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by jcdreads 15y ago
I reliably put in four or five 50+ hour weeks per year (especially if I'm at a new startup), but I've learned through hard experience that it's unbelievably counterproductive to do that for longer than a week or two at a time. My personal l
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by jcdreads 15y ago
With every technology one must weigh its benefit against the risk of abuse. Giving someone else the ability to shut off my camera doesn't help me at all (and is in fact something I want not to happen), so all that is left is the risk of abu
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by jcdreads 15y ago
It looks like the legislation they lobbied for pertains specifically to "...a method or corresponding apparatus for performing data processing operations used in the practice, administration or management of a financial product or service."
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Let's build a new Internet in academia(scripting.com)
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by jcdreads 15y ago
> who just implement fully spec'd code If the spec is really complete then why don't they just compile and run that? Put another way: Is there such a thing anymore as a programmer who just implements fully specced code?
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by jcdreads 16y ago
What happens if blogging tools become their own HN post bots? The last few Dave Winer posts I've seen here have been submitted by davewiner. Since he's a dude who rolls his own blogging tools, I'd be not at all surprised to find that he wi
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by jcdreads 16y ago
It's a false dichotomy. Also worth noting what Alan Kay said: "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Can anyone enlighten us regarding the correct spelling in Arabic? Not that I could read it, of course; and I assume that there is one.
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Banking and health care data, for example, cannot for the most part live on AWS or some other generic cloud provider. There are financial and legal penalties for leaking a database full of medical histories and Social Security numbers that
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Snow and certain clouds all night near Boston. This is the only winter solstice snow storm I've ever been disappointed by. http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.245293663448...
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by jcdreads 16y ago
I know that cooler heads will prevail, and that python won't get this silly syntax change, but... ...everyone seems to be forgetting that i == -j (either squared is 1). Physicists usually describe traveling waves (of whatever) as something
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by jcdreads 16y ago
I'm at a startup (that I otherwise like) where the CEO refuses to disclose the total number of outstanding shares. You can bet that I compute the expectation value of my options to be exactly zero.
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Get a job at a small-to-medium sized startup. You will learn whatever technology you use ridiculously well, by necessity, because you're responsible for shipping the feature; and you will be forced to finish the hell out of whatever you're
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Our pg has, of course, had much to say about the feasibility of this kind of thing: * http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html * http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html * http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html (a proposed recipe
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by jcdreads 16y ago
"I'm thinking about breaking up anyway, and I don't feel like spending a bunch of money on a Christmas gift."
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Have no doubt that by the time one of these rebrandings is announced many truckloads of stuff has been printed. The hippie in me absolutely weeps.
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by jcdreads 16y ago
There is also http://xkcdexplained.com/
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Also, DropBox is a YC-funded startup.
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Because he "…will now be editing it and doing the index," presumably.
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by jcdreads 16y ago
The difference between good and great is usually pretty obvious to former colleagues who are now at a new company that's hiring.
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Burglary Ring Targeted People Based on Facebook-posted Location(necn.com)
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by jcdreads 16y ago
And here's a paper claiming evidence against: http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/files/EarthSun.pdf (Another 30 seconds of googling.)
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Fischbach's page, with citations of (but not links to) the original research: http://www.physics.purdue.edu/people/faculty/ephraim.shtml A preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3283 Why do publications refuse to post links to (or at least
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by jcdreads 16y ago
It's meaningless to add temperatures in any circumstance. You can average temperatures, and you can add amounts of heat energy, but it is semantic garbage to try to add temperatures. I'd say what it's doing--converting to an absolute scale
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VocalKit: voice recognition library for iPhone(github.com)
3 points by jcdreads 16y ago|0 comments
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Strong agreement on this point. Roads like River Drive in Philadelphia and Storrow Drive in Boston have twisty, blind corners and a 35 mph speed limit, but a regular flow of traffic that is at least 20 mph faster than that. It seems that
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by jcdreads 16y ago
By editing your ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file you can set up a gigantic subset of emacs navigation keys (including almost-but-not-quite versions of C-k and C-y) in every Cocoa text widget on your computer, including Sa
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Turns out that the FriXion ink is still there after being erased, but it's on the other side of some kind of (reversible!) phase transition. Any kind of heat makes it go away, and cold makes it reappear, as this video shows: http://www.je
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by jcdreads 16y ago
Check out the literal web log: http://literally.barelyfitz.com/ Sadly, it seems to be dormant.

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