jdale27

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by jdale27 11y ago
You never went to grad school, did you?
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the point is that it generally indicates a persons attention to detail That should be "a person's attention to detail". Sorry, I could not resist... ;) Sincerely, your local introverted grammar Nazi
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I find that incredibly hard to believe, given Google's reputation. Also, if the average was six months, that suggests that a significant number of exits were happening even sooner than six months. Did you personally observe that to be
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by jdale27 11y ago
I think it's a lot more plausible that he knew exactly what he was getting into, and wanted exactly that, possibly so that he could write a book expounding his preexisting notions about the "digital sweatshop".
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Yeah, you could see that one coming a mile away...
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There is no God but The Dollar, and Santa Claus is his prophet.
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I second this. I've been getting more into his films lately. One of my favorites so far is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Ecstasy_of_Woodcarve... . It's a documentary about ski-jumping -- something I
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by jdale27 11y ago
What is a good metric? My take: a good metric is one that is correlated with customer happiness and can't be gamed by engineers.
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by jdale27 11y ago
I've been a fan of John Cage's work for a long time. However, for me his oeuvre kind of splits into two halves. Many of his early works (say, up to the mid 1950s?) can be listened to as decent works of modern music in the classica
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by jdale27 11y ago
Moreover, he never wrote down the "law" that is now attributed to him---a marketing coup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy strikes again.
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by jdale27 12y ago
Please check out DNAnexus ( https://dnanexus.com/ ). (Disclosure: I work there.) It's a platform-as-a-service that allows you to do exactly what you're asking. You submit jobs that you want to run, can set up depend
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by jdale27 12y ago
Not to mention that the Agile Manifesto doesn't actually say anything about meetings, standing or otherwise.
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What accounts for the big decline in match length between 1950 and 1970?
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by jdale27 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Blissett_%28nom_de_plume...
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by jdale27 13y ago
Yes, but you can usually get around the paywall by visiting the site through Google News. Just go to Google News and search for the title of the article.
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by jdale27 13y ago
From the original report ( http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf ), it appears that they do actually compare medians as you suggest: "The Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey uses the 'Median Multiple
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by jdale27 13y ago
Yes.
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The naming is historical baggage. In practice, "HOV lanes" today serve two (intended) purposes: (1) reduce gridlock; (2) reduce pollution. As originally conceived, (2) could only be achieved by actual high occupancy vehicles being
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by jdale27 13y ago
This is a bunch of speculative nonsense. As the article itself finally admits in the last paragraph, there are "situations in which preventative procedures lead to healthier people with lower overall health expenses". In other wor
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by jdale27 13y ago
Maybe I'm just not used to this visualization, but I didn't find it particularly easy to see the thing it was intended to show: which countries are over- or under-represented in Wikipedia coverage, relative to their size. It seems
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by jdale27 13y ago
It depends on where the "different behavior" originates from, but in the case of traits like olfactory acuity that probably have a large genetic component, it's related to the general idea of http://en.wikipedia.or
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by jdale27 13y ago
Both Scheme and Common Lisp support imperative and functional programming styles. The Scheme community has historically been perhaps more dogmatic about sticking to functional programming, and so Common Lisp has built up more tools and idio
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by jdale27 13y ago
What is the relationship between APL and R?
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Big Medicine Takes a Dose of Big Data(technologyreview.com)
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Apocalypse Now is more recent than The Deer Hunter.
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by jdale27 13y ago
I'm not really a lisp coder at all (a bit of clojure experience) In other words, you don't have a clue. Right, thanks for clearing that up.
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by jdale27 13y ago
Not upset, just tired of ignorant programmers who get off on complaining, and inventing solutions to imaginary problems (bad syntax? ooh, clever visualization!) rather than actually writing code. By the way, you didn't answer the quest
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by jdale27 13y ago
I've heard people complain about parentheses, but indentation isn't usually the issue. I challenge you: I looked at your personal website, and you seem to claim experience in Java and C. Show me a large codebase in Lisp and a la
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by jdale27 13y ago
Please don't submit stories when sites go down. They're not interesting.
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by jdale27 13y ago
It's 2013, and the top comment on a story about Lisp (on HN, a site written in Lisp) is complaining about syntax? Seriously, how much time did you actually spend learning/using Lisp before giving up because it had a "massive

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