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by jplahn 10y ago
Meta question: what do you consider spammy about this blog post? It seems like a perfectly fine, digestible narrative of the product without requiring the reader to sift through a product page. On a more related note, I find it interesting
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by jplahn 10y ago
Then why do we use the summary rollup when it completely loses any of the granular insights? It makes no sense for me to say I'm an E when it was 51E, 49I. For me personally, shouldn't I instead say something like 51E64N60F65J? Li
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by jplahn 10y ago
I've become a Cal Newport fan and I'd recommend you read at least some of his blog ( http://calnewport.com/blog/ ) or his book (Deep Work) since he'll be able to explain things much better than I can. In k
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by jplahn 10y ago
This feels a little bit like Lombok in the Java world. Can anybody with experience with both comment on that? We use Lombok a fair amount within our code to abstract away a lot of the class setup, which has been nice. But as I move more tow
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by jplahn 10y ago
I know a few teams in Walmart Labs use Clojure, so there's at least some small percentage of the tech side adept in the functional world.
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by jplahn 10y ago
Very cool! I've been looking for something like this for a while in hopes that I could get a better feel for the tech industry through Scotland. I lived there for 7 years during middle school and high school and I'm always flirtin
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by jplahn 11y ago
We read Name of the Rose in my 10th grade English class and it was a tome that challenged us all for the couple of weeks that we pored over it. I love that book. I've read it one other time since then and it's amazing the number o
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by jplahn 11y ago
I'm sad. I used to love this site back when I was an engineering mechanics student (pre-CS). It gave me the ability to converse with people that were similarly interested in inventing and opened my eyes up to a whole host of interestin
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by jplahn 11y ago
This is anecdotal, but staying in Airbnbs made my cross country drive from Richmond, VA to Seattle much better than if I had stayed in hotels. 1) The prices were significantly cheaper. I stayed in a room in a beautiful home in Spokane for $
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by jplahn 11y ago
Really? I understand the point you're "attempting" to make, but to claim that what is acted on TV is the same as what actually occurs is such a stretch I didn't think anybody would attempt to make it. I don't equate
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by jplahn 11y ago
Ah I wish I had known about this! I lived in Aberdeen for 7 years and, as a lover of Lemmings when I was younger, I would have loved to check this out during one of the many times I drove through Dundee. Very cool.
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by jplahn 11y ago
Interesting resource! I like this take on learning C. On another note, I LOVE gdb. One of my prof's begged and pleaded for us to use gdb with all of our assignments because he claimed it would make life easier. For our first two comput
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by jplahn 11y ago
I'm so glad to see The Little Book of Semaphores on here, especially in the top 5. I didn't expect to see it on a list like this, but I found it to be immensely helpful. In my OS class last semester, my prof mentioned it almost in
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by jplahn 11y ago
Looks great Joel! Definitely going to check this out and start working through it. I've noticed the huge bifurcation between extremely applied data science and almost entirely mathematical based. I was always wary of 'learning&#x2
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by jplahn 11y ago
http://paperjs.org/
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by jplahn 11y ago
Surprisingly, there actually IS fiber in Blacksburg. At one of the co-working spaces downtown, they got gigabit internet two years ago. But sadly it hasn't extended from there and the project itself barely got funded.
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by jplahn 11y ago
That's intersting. I know in Blacksburg, if this was to come to town, people would switch en masse. Other than internet on campus, the quality is terrible.
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by jplahn 11y ago
I see the service has launched in Charlottesville. As a Virginia Tech Hokie, it's hard to stomach that the Hoos are getting if first, but in all seriousness, I think this is a great thing. That being said, there's a lot of informa
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by jplahn 11y ago
I think that's an interesting point, _if_ people actually do that. That said, I'm wary of the claim of 1/10th time and being able to iterate 3 or 4 times per every one iteration with Haskell. Sure, maybe when you're star
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by jplahn 11y ago
I assume they would have build in stipulations regarding how long you attempt the delivery, under what conditions, and at which point you simply drop it off at the post office or the persons house. Maybe they don't, but I would hope th
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by jplahn 11y ago
Goodness sakes. I used to be 'anti-Apple' because I thought it was a bunch of people following a trend. Then I entered high school and realized that I was acting like a child and people have different preferences. I shudder to thi
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by jplahn 11y ago
This is awesome! I'm currently working through a machine learning project for one of my classes, and I was using flight data (which is also super interesting), but the inner astronomer in me is pushing for me to scrap everything I&#x27
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by jplahn 11y ago
This is such a slippery slope it makes me sad anyone would even suggest breaking up a company based off their 'importance to society.' If the founders don't have the right to decide which direction the company should go, who
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by jplahn 11y ago
Very true. If people I know are any indication, when we'd get to a new city (for a wedding, for example), they'd furiously swipe every person that showed up. All that does it water down the entire app and defeat the purpose of the
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by jplahn 11y ago
As somebody who flirted around with Tinder for a little while (ha ha), I think this is a pretty good idea. But at the same time, I think I'd prefer to be able to select which Instagram photos I would like to remain hidden, in case they
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Patent(google.com)
1 points by jplahn 12y ago|0 comments
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by jplahn 12y ago
I think the keyword is "indifference." While everybody miscalculates the CEO - unskilled pay ratio, the article is implying the indifference caused by "American cultural optimism" is what prevents us from changing it.
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by jplahn 12y ago
I'm definitely going to look into this. Even with working on a second degree in Engineering Mechanics, I've found that I have forgotten a considerable amount of information I learned earlier in my degree (likely replaced by the ov
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by jplahn 12y ago
You're completely missing the point. He's saying that for everyone's sake, contextualizing the numbers improves the quality of everyone's understanding and helps determine the actual significance of the news. You and I b
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by jplahn 12y ago
Humblebrag? Maybe. But was there a promise of new insights into affiliate networks? He simply described his experience with online income, but he never claimed to provide fresh insight into the business.

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