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by jsyedidia 12y ago
"Patriots backs simply don't fumble": Yes, because if they have a fumbling problem, they stop playing until they fix it (Ridley) or they cease being Patriots if they can't fix it (Maroney). Belichick is well-known for ha
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by jsyedidia 12y ago
If you watch Patriots games, you'll see that if Patriots running backs fumble, they get benched. If they do it again they get released. Belichick is maniacal about getting on his players about fumbling. That is a simple explanation. Th
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by jsyedidia 13y ago
About the second point, the U.S. population has been growing (from 179 million in 1960 to 308 million in 2010 according to the US Census). So a particular station that was in the same location in 2014 as it was in 1964 could well have a mor
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by jsyedidia 13y ago
Actually, Carlsen was playing for tricks (as might be reasonable when you have just 30 seconds). Bill Gates had a winning position on the 9th move. If instead of 9. Nxe5?? which allows an immediate checkmate, he had played 9. Re1!, he would
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by jsyedidia 13y ago
The Washington Post is only a small piece of the WPO company, which has a market cap of $4.4 Billion. So by my math Buffett paid $11 million for a 20% share of a company that's now worth $4.4 Billion, or a net return of 80 times over 4
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by jsyedidia 14y ago
I think it would be difficult to find any scientific research that somebody, somewhere didn't consider to have sinister applications. If we discouraged anybody from doing any scientific research that seemed related to what some science fict
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by jsyedidia 14y ago
Yes. The passenger in the car sitting next to you senses when something tricky is happening with the driving and shuts up or otherwise calls your attention to the danger. Someone conversing with you on the phone doesn't. Kids talking to you
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by jsyedidia 14y ago
freebsd.
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by jsyedidia 14y ago
If they found bugs in TeX, they should have reported them to Knuth. If they didn't want to "bankrupt" him, there could have turned down Knuth's check or just not cashed it, like the vast majority of people who have received Knuth's checks f
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by jsyedidia 14y ago
My previous comment was an attempt at humor, but actually, the notion of "smartest person" is too ill-defined to be very useful. People are smart at different things. For example, one person might be smarter at playing chess than another, w
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by jsyedidia 14y ago
Unless you're the smartest person in the world. In that case, trying not to be the smartest person in the room is wasted effort. Of course, if you're the smartest person in the world, you already know that.
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How to Speak: Lecture Tips from Patrick Winston(youtube.com)
2 points by jsyedidia 15y ago|0 comments
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by jsyedidia 15y ago
You can get the complete EB on the iPad for $1.99 per month.
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by jsyedidia 15y ago
If you want videos, use the videos of Sussman and Abelson: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
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by jsyedidia 15y ago
More or less, but it's really best not to think of them in terms of RS codes at all. The reason they're called "fountain codes" is that they're used like a water fountain. The transmitter just starts sending out bits for a file like a water
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by jsyedidia 15y ago
The advantage is you don't need to know the channel characteristics ahead of time. In particular, if you used a Reed-Solomon code, you'd use one designed for one particular erasure rate. But that code would be too weak for a channel with a
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
He certainly is a genius, and you're right that the first version of TeX was not written using literate programming tools; he planned it out on paper instead and programmed it using SAIL. He had a nasty bootstrapping problem since he needed
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
Knuth invented the literate programming methodology and the literate programming tool WEB to write TeX. It is a mistake to say Knuth could ignore all the rules in writing TeX because he was a genius. He could ignore the standard methodology
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
The explanation is all here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1597129 Nobody criticize the Yahoo Store buttons!
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
I think you must mean Tony Robbins.
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Obesity: Drink till you drop(economist.com)
125 points by jsyedidia 16y ago|105 comments
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
Andrei Alexandrescu addresses the issue of programming in D without garbage collection in this interview from yesterday: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265 Notice in particular that he says "Furthermore, you can use m
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
Given that Andrei Alexandrescu, who is one of the best-known C++ programmers in the world, co-designed (with Walter Bright) the new version of D, I would say that there are at least some C++ programmers looking for a better language. I thin
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
D and Go are the two languages poised to take over the roles of C and C++. They both have very fast compilers and numerous other advantages compared with C and/or C++. I've looked at both of them quite carefully, and decided that D works be
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
nbcindia.com has it for Rs. 1323 with free shipping in India, but it takes 20-30 days.
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
I forgot to mention: the book has a web-site at http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ where you can download all the projects and software and some of the chapters of the book in .pdf form.
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
Start with "The Elements of Computing Systems" by Nisan and Schocken. It's a book built around the goal of designing and constructing a computer from the ground up, starting with hardware design and ultimately writing the compiler and virtu
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
It wasn't Yahoo Store. We always had optimized buttons because of Trevor's engine. It was one of our key advantages.
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by jsyedidia 16y ago
The images that are used by a Yahoo Store website are created once and for all and then stored as very small .gif files. For example, all the buttons in Paul Grapham's web-site are stored as the .gif file http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/paulgraha
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Go Vs D (programming languages)(groups.google.com)
2 points by jsyedidia 16y ago|0 comments

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