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by jowiar 13y ago
I'm definitely curious about this. One project I've been looking at doing was building an iPad-optimized version of an R IDE (RStudio or something like it) backed by EC2.
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by jowiar 13y ago
He's not saying it's a great thing for users - he's saying it's a great thing for developers looking to enter a crowded space, because there will be some room to enter the market targeting only iOS 7 while established pl
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by jowiar 13y ago
This is purely a hypothesis, but our generation has been raised to believe that failure is a bad thing, that must be avoided at all costs, rather than something that happens and is learned from. Having a successful career meant going to a t
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by jowiar 13y ago
Living in SF rendered my leather-soled AEs pretty much useless. Walking up Nob Hill wearing leather soles is pretty much a treadmill. On the casual end of things, backless sandals are equally iffy (despite the SF Birkenstock stereotype).
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by jowiar 13y ago
If you're in a decently sized city, craigslist is your friend. The going rate on used Aeron/Chadwick/Life/Leap/Think/Liberty/Freedom/etc. is about $200-300.
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by jowiar 14y ago
There's a pretty solid argument to be made that if JCP doesn't go upscale, or at least some sort of mid-scale, they're going to go kaput, because they have zero chance of winning a supply chain competition with the Wal-Marts, Targets, and C
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by jowiar 14y ago
Basically, yes. Some combination of Walmart, Target, Costco, and Amazon (and I'm sure others that I'm leaving out) have basically taken over the inexpensive department store market, where price is the #1 purchase-decision factor. At some po
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by jowiar 14y ago
Which works fine for undergraduate courses that meet for three one-hour weekly sessions. This doesn't really work when you are trying to choose between 3 conflicting options that meet for one three-hour session a week all at the same time,
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by jowiar 14y ago
Professor Galloway might be advised to also get his shit together and/or remove the stick from his ass. Rather than say: "This is a suboptimal situation, how can we fix it?", he simply called the student immature and disrespectful, and neve
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by jowiar 14y ago
One iteration of ROT13 is too fast to compute to guarantee any sort of security. If you really want to secure your passwords, make sure you perform 2↑↑100 iterations of ROT13 or so to ensure substantial computational cost to the operation.
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by jowiar 14y ago
Once upon a time (1969-ish), my father was hired as a programmer. He was an electrical engineer by training, but had zero programming experience at the time. Given a shortage of programmers, IBM placed an ad in the newspaper, hired smart pe
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by jowiar 14y ago
> 1. Take the least amount of stock possible - your startup is statistically unlikely to succeed. It'd be better to bump your salary up $10-20K than to get the stock. This is a worthwhile suggestion regardless of startup or not. You don
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by jowiar 14y ago
Agreed, which is the unfortunate effect of the vast, vast majority of people being unwilling to pay more for better service when flying, thus leading to airlines being badly understaffed. In the Kayak/Orbitz/Hipmunk/Adioso era, people buy t
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by jowiar 14y ago
Getting stranded is a fact of life when flying. Especially during winter. Especially with connections. Especially when flying to airports with very few flights where one missed connection breaks everything. If, going into the trip, the poss
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by jowiar 14y ago
The entrepreneurial lesson to be learned here is not to sell items you can't provide. Like sending people zooming through the air from point A to point B for a price that people are willing to pay for it[1]? [1]: http://www.bosto
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by jowiar 14y ago
From http://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/specialneeds/... What if my child’s travel is affected by delays, cancellations or other problems? It can be very stressful when flights do not operate as planned, especially f
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by jowiar 14y ago
Personally, I don't pirate movies/music, but as a CMU (SCS + Heinz) alum, the lack of rigor and potential conflicts of interest displayed in this paper are disheartening. More than that, they cheapen the value of my degrees. One of my big p
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by jowiar 14y ago
Beyond any educational benefit, what do you see as the advantages of programming in this way? For me, literate programming has been exceptional for organizing my thoughts, and preventing me from thinking myself in loops, or h
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by jowiar 14y ago
Eh, wide ratios aren't a new creation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_(1959_film)
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by jowiar 14y ago
More importantly, we won't actually need to park the cars. Private ownership of vehicles will plummet as a perfect taxi system emerges.
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by jowiar 14y ago
Reading the original 2001 AUMF explains where this language comes from. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milita...
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by jowiar 14y ago
The wording is key. The reasoning in this paper is pretty sound. I think the bigger issue, if there is one, is that the AUMF in 2001 grants the President too much power to determine which "nations, organizations, or persons planned, authori
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by jowiar 14y ago
Reading the paper, the justification for this authority is the existence of military conflict between the US and Al Qaeda. From the AUMF: "The President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organiz
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by jowiar 14y ago
Read the paper. The issue is not "potential terrorist" but rather swearing allegiance to Al Qaida, between whom and the United States there exists a present state of armed conflict. The US is not in a state of armed conflict with OWS. Also
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by jowiar 14y ago
Note the faster development process of Sublime as compared with TM2 (which was to be a free upgrade). The promise of cash works wonders.
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by jowiar 14y ago
One thing this reflects is the growing uniformity within parties. Democrats have had the Senate for the entirety of Obama's term, so objectionable bills have hit a previous roadblock. Looking at GWB's vetoes, all but one occurred with a Dem
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by jowiar 14y ago
> Why is the recidivism rate for felons over 50%? Because it's damn near impossible to make an honest living with a felony conviction on your record in the current economy. The mentality of "Why should you get the same as honest men lik
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by jowiar 14y ago
2 brief points: Consider the amount of human innovation dedicated to killing other humans more efficiently. Ads are an improvement. Also, analysis techniques and technologies developed and funded with the goal of selling more ads translate
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by jowiar 14y ago
Or a (European) football fan on the west coast... Games starting anywhere between 3am and 8 am? Actually, 8am is pretty nice. Wake up in the morning, pull a couple shots of espresso, watch calcio, get on with my Sunday.
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by jowiar 14y ago
And yet, even given DUI laws of varying (arguably insufficient) harshness people still drive drunk. 20 years from now or so, when self-driving cars are the norm, DUI will thankfully be a relic of the past, and many lives will be saved. Chan

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