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by jey 13y ago
That may be true, but the difference is that caffeine doesn't inhibit cholinesterase across the board.
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by jey 13y ago
No, it's primarily an adenosine antagonist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Mechanism_of_action
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by jey 13y ago
I agree that's ridiculous! But it doesn't seem ridiculous that she actually hears that message.
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by jey 13y ago
I expect the same issues are present in a field like organic synthesis. It takes cleverness and skill to develop synthesis procedures, and I'm sure a lot of people graduate with PhDs who aren't particulalry great at it. Hmm, maybe
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by jey 13y ago
You're right that programming isn't science, but parts of it are complicated in a way similar to math, with many intricate components that interact in complex ways. People with only a BS (or no degree) regularly get jobs writing
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by jey 13y ago
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use MATLAB." Now they have two problems. (Apologies to jwz.)
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by jey 13y ago
I wonder why this is so different in CS, where it's much more feasible to get a senior highly-technical job without formal credentials. What's the source of this cultural difference?
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by jey 13y ago
Not to me; I parsed it as "she shouldn't leave so that she sets a good example for other women" or "by leaving, she's not doing enough to support the cause".
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by jey 13y ago
Some people have asked, "Where are the sites?" Well, the menu above should aim you in the right direction. Too bad that Web Pages That Suck sucks.
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by jey 13y ago
For the confused: @alekslitynski is making a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Tests .
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by jey 13y ago
presents strong evidence that this language is gendered. We've since stopped saying that people must "love" programming Could someone expand on this point and explain how the "love programming" p
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by jey 13y ago
I have installed Ubuntu on an endless sequence of random laptops without trouble. You may have better luck with these popular "desktop" distros like Ubuntu since they get a lot of testing on typical consumer hardware.
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by jey 13y ago
It's hosted using Yahoo Stores, which is descended from Viaweb.
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by jey 13y ago
tl;dr?
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by jey 13y ago
No, what's incredible is that they're simultaneously a tech company and a fashion company. Perhaps it would be most accurate to say they are a design company in the consumer electronics market. Calling them a "design-orient
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by jey 13y ago
Try Eigen, you'll agree that NumPy is an array library that had linear algebra support thrown in as an afterthought.
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by jey 13y ago
Huh? Isn't it a question of whether you are doing matrix or array ops, so the type system is the issue? I have rarely needed to do elementwide multiply on matrices, and if I do, in Eigenproblem I can just call mat.array() to get an Arr
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by jey 13y ago
> bundles free videos with Prime They're not free, they're part of the $99 fee. I don't watch TV and I don't want to be charged extra so they can give me "free" TV I didn't ask for.
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by jey 13y ago
There are very few cellphone towers in the middle of the ocean.
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by jey 13y ago
I bet it intentionally lowballs so you're then forced to enter a value that makes sense. Correcting a bad estimate will probably be psychologically easier than coming up with it from scratch.
621.
by jey 13y ago
Wow. Running a company primarily on Chat and Team makes too much sense. I'm going to steal these ideas.
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by jey 13y ago
Oops, I meant to write "the first Wikipedian-in-Residence at a university".
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by jey 13y ago
UC Berkeley already has one. My friend Kevin Gorman is the Wikipedian-in-Residence at a university: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/02/25/berkeleys-wikipedi...
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by jey 13y ago
"Sure, it'll just take me infinitely long to reach 100% confidence."
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by jey 13y ago
Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users
626.
by jey 13y ago
> lose the ability to do math What does that mean? (How did it play out and what did it look like?)
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by jey 13y ago
FB didn't spend $19B for a texting app. They spent $19B for a huge userbase in parts of the world where FB doesn't have much market share. (And one with considerable network effects leading to significant switching costs.) I expec
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by jey 13y ago
I think you meant NIH ("Not Invented Here"), not NIMBY ("Not In My Backyard").
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by jey 13y ago
This is computing the cardinality (size) of the set of partitions, not enumerating all of its members.
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by jey 13y ago
This can depend on the local laws. For example, in California anything you do on your own time using your own resources is your own property (there can be some exceptions, consult a lawyer).

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