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by jwiley 8y ago
My experience at Dave & Buster's is around 80% reproducible, so I think progress is possible.
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by jwiley 8y ago
Can you clarify why "the target series should be log-normal returns" is important or provide a pointer for more information?
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by jwiley 8y ago
How is this different than the "Think Different" Jobs era ads with Einstein and Martin Luther King? Or the giant American flags waving over every car lot? Or pictures of veterans learning to walk again on an add for Prudential in
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Earth’s First Nuclear Reactor Is 1.7B Years Old and Was Made Naturally(medium.com)
2 points by jwiley 8y ago|0 comments
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Key Facts About Seasonal Flu Vaccine(cdc.gov)
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by jwiley 8y ago
Can someone clarify what the use-case is for this new functionality? I've regularly used POS stripe devices based on iPads, is the idea this allows Stripe to be used on proprietary POS devices?
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by jwiley 9y ago
Some more discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/58plow/why_are_...
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by jwiley 9y ago
Next step in operation Foie gras: Amazon connects a tube to your mouth and pushes corn through it, automatically deducting the cost from your credit card. Totally effortless shopping
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Threaded code(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jwiley 9y ago|0 comments
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by jwiley 9y ago
Nice project, thanks for sharing. One interesting application that comes to mind is creating a "safe" subset of Javascript, that could be run in an end-users browser without requiring a sandbox. One definition of safe might be:
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by jwiley 9y ago
I liked your original post as well, and appreciate the DIY site, nice work. I didn't read your new write up extensively, but if you haven't I strongly suggest mentioning some feedback I remember from from your earlier posts: - the
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by jwiley 10y ago
When I posted it, the original article was offline, the site was showing a database error
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by jwiley 10y ago
Possibly a reference to: http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-top-manager-at-russian-cyb...
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Made in Space: Fiber optic cable made in orbit(space.com)
1 points by jwiley 10y ago|0 comments
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by jwiley 10y ago
I graduated during the first dot.com boom, and decided to transition from Economics to web developer. I got a job at a small company, with minimal programming knowledge. My programming test was explaining how a Perl program I wrote worked
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by jwiley 10y ago
Whats EOPL?
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by jwiley 10y ago
"bespoke"
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by jwiley 11y ago
I find myself thinking this, from time to time. It's easy to look at a mixed-martial arts fighter, or coal miner, or sweat-shop textile factory worker, or a drug dealer and say: "why not do something less dangerous?" But the
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by jwiley 11y ago
Frank Herbert seemed to like it... http://io9.gizmodo.com/5458417/new-evidence-that-frank-herbe...
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by jwiley 11y ago
Good points...I threw out copyright law when trademark is the better terminology
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by jwiley 11y ago
I think that unfortunately this was a foregone conclusion. Copyright law, like most other laws in our society, favor corporate interests. I support his stand on principal, however. Azer is a talented developer and has an impressive life st
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by jwiley 11y ago
During the dot-com bust of the early 2000s, I was working at a super-market. One of the guys stocking shelves was a software engineer laid off by a large company after 40 years. The management at Winn Dixie put him stacking boxes in the f
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by jwiley 11y ago
I'm sorry I gave you the impression I hate Apple, thats certainly not what I intended. One of the implicit ideas underlying Apple's arguments is that they are more trustworthy than the government. But theres a lot of evidence that
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by jwiley 11y ago
I think what's being lost in the shuffle is Apple has no credibility in claiming its protecting your privacy and security. http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/18/technology/security/apple-pr...
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by jwiley 11y ago
So only Apple has the ability to do this...not the US government. So we trust Apple but not USG?
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by jwiley 11y ago
You know that opening a Poke Ball releases a tremendous amount of energy, because on television they show a big flash of light. Imagine if you could open a thousand poke balls every second. We call that fusion. What MIT did was make it eas
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by jwiley 11y ago
I second that emotion. I inherited an entire ecommerce platform built around Yahoo Store's proprietary RHTML language. The only documentation was a single comment: "RHTML turing complete?" I never did find out the answer to
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by jwiley 11y ago
I haven't created large amounts of C/C++, so I'm certainly not an expert, but I was impressed by how well the source was commented and structured. Nice to see well documented, well thought out code, congrats
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by jwiley 11y ago
Ahh, I get it, he seems to have written a dialect of Lisp that powers hacker news and contributed to ycombinator.
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by jwiley 11y ago
Meg Whitman's 2014 compensation was 19.6 million, which is exactly 200 times your Dad's salary.

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