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by jfarmer 13y ago
Yeah, 100%. There are (at least) two incorrect things the original commenter took for granted. First, that the infinite binary tree as he created it is equinumerous with the natural numbers and therefore can stand in for the "list&qu
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Neither of your arguments really make sense, unfortunately. For your first argument, the number of nodes in your tree isn't equinumerous with the naturals. If it is, can you define an injective function which takes as its input any (p
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by jfarmer 13y ago
I took the article to mean they were "reaching for Silicon Valley" in the sense that folks at the top (e.g., the Board of Regents or whomever is responsible for managing GT's endowment) were interested in establishing the kin
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by jfarmer 13y ago
There's no such thing as a "small" or "large" sample size, per se. If you're doing it rigorously, you need to fix both your confidence interval (e.g., 95%) and the effect size you expect to see (e.g., a 50% li
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by jfarmer 13y ago
What is "...", here? If it's infinite then we're talking about something abstract and you need to be more precise. If we're talking about something finite then you need the specify the finite-ness. Note that (1,2,
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Those are two separate questions, IMO. In the context of a job interview, however, I believe giving the interviewee permission to say "I don't know" makes the interview go better because they'll spend more time focusing
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by jfarmer 13y ago
And still they released a phone with antenna issues. People complained just as they are now. Apple did something relatively rare and issued a "mea cuppa" in the form of a free case. Life went on. My point was that controversies
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by jfarmer 13y ago
One word: antennagate.
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Fair enough. I ask you forgive me for my incorrect interpretation. Here's what you wrote: >"You can't trust your intuitions. I'm going to give you a set of rules here that will get you through this process if anythin
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by jfarmer 13y ago
> But I sometimes feel that there is a definite emotionality involved when people hit the vote button and people jump to a quick conclusion depending on either the particular subject or the person who the commenter is making their though
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Detroit has been losing 200k residents per decade since 1950. It's probably more useful to see Kwame Kilpatrick's administration as a symptom of Detroit's deterioration rather than its cause.
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Detroit was the 10th-largest city in the US in the 2000 census with a population of ~900k, but was the 18th-largest in 2010 with a population of ~700k. It was the 4th largest in the 30s and 40s and reached its peak population of approximat
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by jfarmer 13y ago
> Just go ahead and post a passive-aggressive, oblique insult at my life experience and what I've learned from it. This runs the risk of being pedantic, but that comment was neither oblique nor passive-aggressive. It was just plain
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by jfarmer 13y ago
The "level is so poor?" I don't know what that could possibly mean except "This article is beneath me." Well, that's fine. It was written for folks who had never thought about the relationship between iterati
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Given that it started with some relatively messy C++, I don't think this article was aimed at folks who even know what those words mean.
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Your comment is what has come to be called a "middlebrow dismissal," cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 .
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by jfarmer 13y ago
There is no place where he's assigning a value to an already-defined variable. Nothing is "varying." Perhaps the restriction can be put this way: you're only allowed to define variables by naming them as an argument to
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Consider the author concluded with > In effect, the whole idea of an array is built on being able to change part of it, and if we intend to avoid changing memory once we have put values into it, we need another kind of data structure ent
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by jfarmer 13y ago
The main aspect of your product they didn't like us that you were inserting yourself between Facebook and their users. Any platform provider would try to stop that because that relationship is the foundation for every platform's
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Of all the companies out there, Facebook is the least arbitrary and inconsistent I know! Just imagine they're a perfectly rational, self-interested actor who plays realpolitik all the time and plan accordingly. For example, how does F
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by jfarmer 13y ago
This has been Facebook's MO for almost 5 years now. What Social Fixer was doing in particular is among a class of applications that Facebook has always deleted or banned as soon as they noticed them. I've had applications with 5
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by jfarmer 13y ago
I don't know about that! People were writing terrible JavaScript to perform DOM-manipulation magic long before jQuery came around. I think it has more to do with how people see JavaScript, i.e., whether JavaScript is a general purpose
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by jfarmer 13y ago
This article adds nothing to the conversation and is poorly edited to boot. The author thinks it's bad that this happened and he rants about it for 10-or-so paragraphs. It's not worth reading, let alone having on the front page
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It’s really not that complicated(medium.com)
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by jfarmer 13y ago
> If a female made an app that included men's butts, would people have the same reaction? When the jester mocks the king it's funny. When the king mocks the jester it's just mean. The situation is inherently asymmetric, w
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by jfarmer 13y ago
> I'm not saying that if you start out without being able to solve basic equations Well, I'd argue this is a bad place to start out. The better questions are: 1. What do these equations represent? 2. Why do we care a
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Well, perhaps we disagree, but I don't think mathematics is about "proofs". I think proofs are a by-product of folks doing mathematics. They're the output of a long chain of mathematical thinking and can take many form
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by jfarmer 13y ago
No, but talent does matter a lot in the last mile. Barring any physical or mental handicaps, however, I'd say it matters very little in the first few miles. I'd even go so far as to say this is true of almost any thing one mig
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Trader Joe's only works in a world where everyone is already using these tactics. Imagine a world where everyone was like Trader Joe's. The first grocer with a loyalty program that offered discounts, etc. would suddenly seem new

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