jdale27

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   by jdale27 13y ago

   Indeed. For example, dual-paned windows are fantastic, but since air conditioning is relatively rare in dwellings in the Bay Area, you effectively can't use them for sound insulation for several months of the year.
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   by jdale27 13y ago

   Why would a taxi need a taxi medallion? Because the government says they do.
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   by jdale27 13y ago

   Hispanics run that city. At first I thought it was great for my taco habit, but after our second or third burrito date I quickly realized the locals were not as thrilled to have us. We were glared at often, and my rusty Spanish was good en
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   by jdale27 13y ago

   A bunch of "typical" programmers wrote a program in C++, and it turned out crappy. A "super smart guy" rewrote it in Go, and it turned out nice. How much of the delta between crappy and nice was due to the language, and
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   by jdale27 13y ago

   Well, it is already pretty convenient in one direction (between SF and the east bay). Beyond that, it'll never happen, because Marin and the peninsula are full of NIMBYs.
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   by jdale27 13y ago

   If you really want to learn neuroscience, here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Edition-eboo...
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   by jdale27 13y ago

   Looks like whoever posted this got around the repost limit by appending a '?' to the end of the url. Someone should fix that. Yeah, because we should never, ever be subjected to the same content twice. After all, this is Hacke
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   by jdale27 13y ago

   According to Techcrunch, the price was "somewhere in the $60 million-plus range" ( http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/03/source-xobni-was-acquired-f... ). That makes it look a little better, considering th
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   by jdale27 13y ago

   I thought AIMA was pretty gentle on the math. It also doesn't assume, as this text does, that AI == machine learning (even if that is a more and more popular assumption these days).
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    by jdale27 13y ago

    Not sure what domain you're in, but here's the view from mine... SAS is extremely common in pharma companies. Basically, any company that has anything to do with a clinical drug trial will be using SAS. In the basic research &#x2F
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    by jdale27 13y ago

    "startup" == "SaaS web startup", apparently.
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    by jdale27 13y ago

    Not much to be learned here, except that Python programmers who don't have a clue about Lisp will happily comment on it anyway. The Lisp programmers, on the other hand, don't bother to discuss Python, but just treat this thread li
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    by jdale27 13y ago

    I don't really disagree with the principle, but it seems to more or less be a statement of the idea of "whistleblowing". Snowden is a high-profile current example of a whistleblower, but it might be going a bit too far to cr
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    by jdale27 13y ago

    That's the reason Adobe, Microsoft, Novell, eBay, Overstock.com, Goldman Sachs etc. have all started to put up shop in Utah Off topic, but one of those things is not like the others... Novell was founded in Utah more than 30 years ago.
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    by jdale27 13y ago

    Surely Tim Draper can hook you up. And shouldn't you have asked sooner?
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    giga bit
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    Yes.
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    "Ed is the standard text editor."
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimplantation_genetic_diagnos...
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    I don't get it. Are you suggesting one can't link to a paper on a completely legit MIT site, because a version of the paper was later published in an ACM publication?
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    Thanks! The main page ( http://readscheme.org/ ) has a contact address for the maintainer; maybe they'll add those links to the site if you let them know.
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    Hell, at least when you emailed Steve Jobs you'd get the satisfaction of a glib, dismissive response and a story to tell your grandkids.
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    Link to abstract: http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2338
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    #2 sounds like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224499
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    I downvoted you for writing "loose" instead of "lose".
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    Hitting it's peak in popular consciousness in the midst of the Black Friday and S&L recession didn't help either. Is there any real connection here with CL? Did these events somehow precipitate or deepen the AI winter?
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    (CW == conventional wisdom?) There are probably a few reasons for that. Many more programmers these days probably get their start with "scripting" languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, and JavaScript. Compared to these other dynamic, high
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    Server side frameworks can use [the X-Requested-With header] to determine the type of content to return, such as JSON if the header is present and HTML otherwise. Isn't that what the Accept header is for? How else do servers typically use
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    I have a feeling I'll regret this, but I flagged your post because: 1. In general, meta discussion like this does not improve HN, but is a distraction from useful content and discussion. 2. It's none of your business how edw519 chooses to s
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    by jdale27 14y ago

    This is not even remotely surprising.