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by jnazario 12y ago
your comments reminds me of this, which was posted here on HN some time ago when it first came out. "The Last Days of the Polymath" http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days...
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by jnazario 12y ago
John von Neumann was an absolutely amazing human and scientist. truly a genius, a polymath, and evidently quite an interesting party guest. the book Prisoner's Dilemma is ostensibly about game theory but it's set within the contex
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by jnazario 12y ago
any advice on coaches for helping me develop pitches? i've been displeased with a pitch i've been giving lately, and i suspect my audience is as well. i'd like to improve my skills.
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Vodafone Figures of Government Surveillance Requests Around the World(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
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by jnazario 12y ago
there's a userland stack written in C in honeyd. http://honeyd.org/ (slow to respond) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyd
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by jnazario 12y ago
having come to that realization myself, that's more or less what i tell people who are new to wine. but i added something: learn how to describe what you like (or don't like) so that you can find new wines to try and are likely to
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by jnazario 12y ago
standard width of 3 characters maybe? makes visual scanning of a list of names easy to do to spot name/purpose, environtment, geo, etc. you don't have to keep moving your eyes left or right with each row.
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by jnazario 12y ago
if you're considering cloudflare, also drop your domain's DNS TTLs to 5 minutes or so. this will give you the flexibility to migrate to a CDN rapidly as opposed to waiting hours or, worse, a day (an 86400 second TTL value).
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by jnazario 12y ago
anyone remember this brouhaha a decade ago where Orkut was accused of stealing source code to get off the ground? including bugs? http://archive.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2004/06/64046
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by jnazario 12y ago
related is this book by Carl Selinger, "Stuff you Don't Learn in Engineering School". while i didn't attend engineering school, these are things i didn't learn until after grad school, things that will get you far i
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by jnazario 12y ago
thanks, turnersr, all good points.
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by jnazario 12y ago
> 153 slides in 45 minutes (and fail) less is more :) one one the best and most memorable talks i went to was 4 slides long. that said i've been thinking a lot the past week or so about a machine i can dedicate to scientific computi
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by jnazario 12y ago
> Would you have been happy with just the blue glowy affect? nope, agree with the other follow up - HD is good enough that any "enhancements" are now a distraction.
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by jnazario 12y ago
it was a terrible invention. thankfully it didn't survive long.
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by jnazario 12y ago
> insisted on exclusivity for games they didn't even have rights to given the price per game and the market value for that, it seems like a low price to screw your competition. by insisting on an exclusive deal they couldn't us
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Open Access Maps at NYPL (nypl.org)
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National Robotics Week 2014(nationalroboticsweek.org)
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by jnazario 13y ago
as a cyclist in the US there's a very common scenario here, too - turning right, looking left, not looking into the turn and bam, cyclist at high risk. TO CLARIFY - the situation i am most referring to is a cross street, where the car
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by jnazario 13y ago
i used a lot of F# in the past year for one big reason - access to the dotNet platform. similar to how scala gives you access to the JVM and the massive number of java libraries out there, F# gives you access to a wide and growing body of d
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by jnazario 13y ago
two kinds of buzz - playing and making. making is easy for the reasons outlined by protomyth. playing, i think, is NP-hard, and that makes games really addictive. see this research: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1001.4420v3.pdf
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by jnazario 13y ago
spot tested these strategies, they help. when i deviated from it in a fit of panic i lost. similarly, i also find that keeping the small tiles accessible - outside - helps tremendously. if you never move down you get that for free, because
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by jnazario 13y ago
"Research on the Web seems to be fashionable these days and I guess I'm no exception. Recently I have been working on the Google search engine with Larry Page." love it.
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by jnazario 13y ago
fun! wish it told me what words i made a little more clearly - in the end i was just mashing keys and somehow making tiles disappear. thanks, tons of fun.
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Military strategy: War games(economist.com)
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by jnazario 13y ago
thanks for writing it. i have yet to grok or embrace Lisp-family languages, but your post was still fun to read.
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by jnazario 13y ago
simply put: engage. attend every meeting you can, take notes. afterwards, ask people if there are things there you don't understand - acronyms, assumptions, etc. in those discussions take notes. then read like mad every evening. with y
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by jnazario 13y ago
julia is indeed designed to give you the power of R along with much of the ease of python, although it's a bit off from dong that in terms of packages and extensions. i would suggest that if you know python julia would be easy to pick
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Serf - lightweight service discovery and management(serfdom.io)
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by jnazario 13y ago
about time. this has been needed for a long time. ssh mitm attacks were too easy, and legitimately changing server keys (which happens more often than you would expect) would just confuse the issue. so - about time. tatu's decision to
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Bitcoin firm CEO found dead in suspected suicide(nypost.com)
10 points by jnazario 13y ago|0 comments

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