jmilloy

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by jmilloy 14y ago
And the author used the term ammunition and cartridge, so...?
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You're assuming that with correct information comes correct/moral behavior, and that it's clear what that behavior is.
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It's very simple. Using this document, you might interpret Flynn's psych degree as a "common warning sign" and so, as the document suggests, "be alert". A cursory search of Flynn's work, as you show, would alleviate those concerns immedia
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by jmilloy 14y ago
No, that's not what it means at all. What it says is, "If a scientist truly wishes to make an advance..., they'll make an effort to engage with other scholars." In other words, anyone holding a nonstandard degree who is serious will engage
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No, only companies in the payments business should expect to be making less, not the people being paid.
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No, the mundane was not disparaging. It was the previous sentence where you suggested that anyone defining success differently from you was "behind", which is exactly the point. Consider the alternative, where you simply argue for why a cer
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Twitter: Don't build core-feature Twitter clients, we probably won't approve them. Atta: I built a core-feature Twitter client! Twitter: Sorry, we're not approving your core-feature Twitter client. Who is surprised? How is this news? Were
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by jmilloy 14y ago
>I would rather see high quality writing about how to be successful in raising money and delivering on Kickstarter. Not every "project" can and should be successful in raising money. The general gist of the example was not "You didn't
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by jmilloy 14y ago
It's strange to see both 1 and 3. If the expenses are inherently incredibly high, then there couldn't be a low barrier to entry. Why are groupon's expenses so high, then?
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Ha! I've been thinking about this pretty hard and talking to a colleague at work, and changed my mind. You're right... he's not making predictions, he's making forecasts. And you can't say that a forecast was "right" or "wrong" based on whi
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by jmilloy 14y ago
You're all over this thread with the same comment, and you're wrong. When an outcome has 60% likelihood of occurring, then it should occur 6 out of 10 times. But the election only happens once. The prediction isn't "wrong" when the outcome
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by jmilloy 14y ago
I disagree completely that this is a 'functional subset' of C. I also don't know a lot about this stuff, so tear me up. A functional language isn't just one that doesn't use malloc/only uses the stack. It must actually not have state, and i
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Ugh. Gmail continues to roll out new features and arbitrary tweaks, yet the bugs impeding normal tasks continues to grow. I've said it before: can I just have gmail beta back? (The main ones for me are the compose window never actually load
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by jmilloy 14y ago
>Can you remember when the iPad came out and everyone said it was a giant bloated iPhone (myself included.) Now it’s indispensable to most. This is a little OT, but I just find it hilarious when people say this sort of thing. Something
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Again, it's not about this instance, which is one data point on the side of "publicity -> resolution". And there are many more data points on the side of "publicity -> resolution". Instead, the evidence required is data points on th
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by jmilloy 14y ago
One possibility is that Amazon's policy is (and has been) to leave purchased content on a Kindle even if the account is blocked. Unfortunately, content was removed from a Kindle after an account was blocked. Once Amazon became aware of the
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by jmilloy 14y ago
I'll reply to just this comment, although each response I've gotten is similar. I'm not claiming that no one at Amazon was aware that the issue had public visibility. I'm not even claiming that the public visibility in this case didn't cont
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Does anyone have any data about how often [Amazon] ignores or fixes customer service issues despite a lack of high-visibility blogging? My 10th grade world history teacher had a small segment on the rainmaking rituals of some group of peopl
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My sense is that any time a company issues a statement or response about a customer service issue, someone will dislike the tone and comment about it. This gives an inflated appearance of dissatisfaction with statements by large companies
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Your parent is asking how the planet orbits two stars, and probably how the 2-star-1-planet system orbits the two other stars. That is, "how does any body orbit two stars?"
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It's probably similar to other two-sun planets. The planet orbits around both stars at the same time, which are close together. http://galileospendulum.org/2011/09/15/a-planet-with-two-sun...
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by jmilloy 14y ago
I haven't read the article in full yet. So far it appears that the theorem is explicitly about "preventing unauthorized modification of data." Here we're talking about unauthorized read access, not write access. Can you comment on that?
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I'd rather see complaints followed by improvements than to just throw in the towel.
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In the context of what actually happened in the article (did you read it?), your advice amounts to "If there is anything about you that needs to be private, don't have an online presence."
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by jmilloy 14y ago
>He never said he doesn't advocate performance. Agreed. But Guido didn't advocate performance, or anything, so fijal is trying to disagree with him about a topic he didn't state an opinion on. There's no need to make up a disagreement.
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>you should not sacrifice your abstractions in favor of performance I only point out that a list of optimization techniques that advocates nothing will be different than a list of optimization techniques that advocates certain abstracti
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With a rating scale of only 1, 0, and -1, I think most people reserve -1 for comments that, usually in addition to not adding new insight, are disruptive/off-topic/rude/etc.
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by jmilloy 14y ago
The point of the OP was "patterns for fast python", i.e performance. It's absurd to claim that you "advocate abstractions over performance" in the context of achieving performance, so your comparison doesn't make sense to me. Just because y
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Cool! I've been wanting to do this for some time and haven't gotten around to it.
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