jkyle

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by jkyle 11y ago
> Effectively, from transaction #1 you're in a perfectly replicable pattern - Cleaner X comes to your house every Y weeks and works for Z hours. This is the key failure. Anyone's whose regularly procured cleaning services knows
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by jkyle 11y ago
UCI is lifting the disc brake ban. [1] 1. http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/04/bikes-and-tech/uci-to...
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by jkyle 11y ago
> I would be really interested to see some things like how far someone could hit a golf ball if there were no restrictions on the club or ball or how fast a person could swim if there were no restrictions on the swimsuits. Sometimes rest
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by jkyle 11y ago
> Some groups have even actively silenced and banned the few vocal voices of color speaking up on the websites, according to records that I reviewed. Looks like some kind of process for silencing voices is already present in the app....
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by jkyle 11y ago
I've used python for years, decided to teach myself R for a masters class I'm taking. I have to disagree. Its main model is generic function method dispatching. It can feel odd at first to someone coming from the C++ style of OO w
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by jkyle 11y ago
Caret is a great package for a lot of utility functions and tuning in R. For example, the sampling example can be done using Caret's createDataPartition which maintains the relative distributions of the target classes and is more &#x27
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by jkyle 11y ago
Not sure about the above poster, but the only times I've heard folks claim that macports broke their system was when they were setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. edit should be noted you really ought not do this and if you absolutely have to
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by jkyle 11y ago
> Doing a google search of "top TV 2014" Hollywood has a history of being a canary in the coal mine when it comes to stereotypes...both good and bad. For example, when homosexuality started becoming more accepted in American cu
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by jkyle 11y ago
> As a corollary however, is it really a good thing to push a gender towards a particular field? I don't think the suggestion is being made to push genders toward a particular field. I believe the case being made is that the status
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by jkyle 11y ago
good to know!
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by jkyle 11y ago
> As long as I have enough good friends, I don't really care what anyone else thinks of me. That's the definition of desiring inclusion. If all of those friends that accepted you were marketing majors and not computer scientist
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by jkyle 11y ago
> Yet, somehow more boys are sufficiently interested that they find their interest more important than the negative feedback. In these scenarios, boys find groups that are supportive. In their case the video game playing, computer orient
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by jkyle 11y ago
> Boy nerds get beaten up, girl nerds get ostracised. The key is to make it a priority to move to an area where all the families promote a culture that views academic excellence as a good thing. I know this isn't available to every
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by jkyle 11y ago
Upon hearing de Blasio's announcement, my initial reaction was mandatory programming classes for high school is as unnecessary as mandatory calculus. After reading the article, I'd update that opinion. I still don't feel it
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by jkyle 11y ago
Computer Science is now the top major fro women at Stanford. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10366681
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by jkyle 11y ago
> For those who don't understand, gasoline taxes provide a large portion of highway maintenance revenue This isn't true. They only provide 20% of revenue in CA and between 20-30% across the country. Taxes on fuel have not been
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by jkyle 11y ago
Only 20% of road maintenance in CA is paid for by local and general taxes.[1] Probably less now that gas prices have dropped so much. So even if it dropped to 0%, it would only result in a 20% shortfall that would have to be made up in the
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by jkyle 11y ago
> It's not like one day someone's going to say "oh, shit! we ran out! sorry, no more oil." That's not necessarily true. Well extraction curves decline exponentially with the highest amount extracted early in the
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by jkyle 11y ago
> Meanwhile 55 engineers at WhatsApp can write software used daily by 700m people. First, arguably, the engineers at what's app quite possibly might not be the best or brightest. Not saying they're aren't very good, but th
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by jkyle 11y ago
> The best and brightest should stick to engineering and finance where they can have a bigger impact. Many of the best and brightest stay in academia, but at the university level. Many others go into engineering and finance, but make no
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by jkyle 11y ago
> generally flatter pay scale overall compared to most other countries, a corporate lawyer isn't that much better off than a teacher. The most important aspect of this is that when your nation's best and brightest choose a car
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by jkyle 11y ago
> The smartest students, the most driven students, they all become teachers. Part of that is the cultural status of teachers. But another large contributor is the policy status of teachers w.r.t rate of pay, autonomy, and educational r
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by jkyle 11y ago
In the case of cql-rb, patches are most certainly not welcome.
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by jkyle 11y ago
> At $8/lb and 6000 tons (12 million pounds) you're talking about $100mm just in materials and that's before you do anything. The Seawolf Class submarines cost about $3.3 billion. There's 3 of those in service, they w
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by jkyle 11y ago
Hm, perhaps. Though I swear they were well coordinated...
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by jkyle 11y ago
I don't know if they're not teaming with beetles....anytime I've had the misfortune of being rather close to a landfill they seemed teaming with all manner of insects.
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by jkyle 11y ago
They're also a tasty, environmentally friendly source of protein. [1] 1. http://news.discovery.com/earth/mealworms-beat-beef-as-susta...
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by jkyle 11y ago
Yeah, it is. But that's a hell of a lot of real estate for a single vendor whose not even providing significant network services.
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by jkyle 11y ago
I know from Joe Beda's talk [1] they run vm's inside containers for scenarios where they need a managed os. And that those containers run on bare metal. But I can't speak to the reverse not being an employee or authority on G
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by jkyle 11y ago
That would be correct.

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