jderick

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by jderick 16y ago
Anyone notice the Med School profs making 1.5M/year? Wow.
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by jderick 16y ago
Does anyone here use twitter? Can you explain how and why?
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by jderick 16y ago
Would be interesting to see how people vote, even if it has no direct effect.
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by jderick 16y ago
I find most the real problems I encounter in my programming job have little to do with code at all.
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by jderick 16y ago
Mechanical turk transcriptions?
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by jderick 16y ago
Support verified voting if you are concerned about electronic voting: http://verifiedvoting.org/
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by jderick 16y ago
Here's a couple: TV chat system - used to find (local?) people watching the same show you are watching and form a chat channel (on mobile phone?) Personalized news site - kind of like YC or digg but using netflix style machine learning algo
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by jderick 16y ago
Here's a couple that don't look so bad: http://www.google.com/trends?q=cuda,+cloud+computing,+androi...
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by jderick 17y ago
I know lots of econ MS/PhDs who have jobs. Why no prospects at grad school?
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by jderick 17y ago
It really isn't a question of which system is better. It is about supply and demand. If there is a huge demand for scientists (as there appears to be at BGI today) then the requrements for getting a good job will be reduced. With the sca
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by jderick 17y ago
What is he doing now? I hope he is still investing.
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by jderick 17y ago
It is too bad that there isn't a place in the medical field for people like this. I think medicine is suffering from a lack of analytical minds.
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by jderick 17y ago
Frankly, I rarely ever use my browser history anyway. I think I will just disable it entirely now.
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by jderick 17y ago
And hope they laugh and refer to Feynman
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by jderick 17y ago
Don't forget Intel generally uses less power than AMD. That cost can add up as well.
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by jderick 17y ago
So it's no longer "not as bad as the great depression?" Now we are going back to the dark ages?
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by jderick 17y ago
Try using your imagination
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by jderick 17y ago
I think a static checker such as Coverity would probably find this bug.
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by jderick 17y ago
While we are on emacs, check this out: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/key-chord.el It lets you bind commands to "chords." For example, I bind pressing U and I at the same time to 'other-window (typically, C-x o).
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by jderick 17y ago
I agree. So essentially the "rust" in a codebase is the differential between what your developers know about the code and what knowledge is embedded in the code. Since it is much harder to read code than write it (at least, for "awful" co
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by jderick 17y ago
I think a lot of it comes down to initiative. It's the difference between saying "man, somebody should do X" and just doing it.
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by jderick 17y ago
I think the original Prince of Persia was the most fun swordfighting game I have played.
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by jderick 18y ago
Our company has not experienced this paradox. In fact, it seems easier to hire good people right now because few other companies are hiring. Maybe this is more of a problem if you are hiring outside your network. So far, I don't think an
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by jderick 18y ago
Imagine if this was happening on the internet -- your ISP refusing to allow certain websites. It is amazing how long this has gone on.
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by jderick 18y ago
I'm not sure if it is really economists to blame here, they are merely trying to build models that approximate the world the best they can. In fact, a lot of the work they have been doing lately has been based on behavioral economics, wher
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by jderick 18y ago
Wow. Great interview. A little common sense sure is refreshing. I hope more people can hear this message. I still am a little surprised how poorly Obama has responded to this crisis so far.
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by jderick 18y ago
So AT&T and Verizon can call up the Feds and get them to collect their debts for them? Nice.
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Ersatz Capitalism: Another Nobel Winner Against Bailouts (nytimes.com)
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by jderick 18y ago
I totally agree people should stop making excuses for Microsoft. At the same time, rants against complexity in general always make me think of this quote: "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong."
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by jderick 18y ago
How many did you send? If it was less than say, a dozen, that seems reasonable. Otherwise, I think you are right -- some kind of adwords type solution is appropriate. They probably aren't quite ready to monetize like that but I'm sure it

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