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by lbrandy 16y ago
> I wish there was a way for these guys to disengage from the Death Star and go independent. I've wondered the same thing before. Is there any precedent for such a thing? Here's a dumb way to do it: find enough funding and convince, oh,
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by lbrandy 16y ago
I would think that hundreds of years of engineering (mechanical and electrical) and solid products used all across the globe would be more valuable than a search website, and I would definitely be wrong.
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by lbrandy 16y ago
It's not a pyramid scheme because the incentive to pay them money isn't tied to bringing in new customers. All it is is a business model that the OP doesn't think will work, long-term. I thought the same thing about twitter once. But "a bus
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by lbrandy 16y ago
> Could you clarify why this is? I'm not trying to imply anything, certainly not that Facebook is Enron, just that (to me) they have similar attitudes to assigning staff to work duties. When I read the Facebook quote, I immediately tho
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by lbrandy 16y ago
I actually think having ideas and talking yourself out of them, as you describe, is completely healthy. The ideas that keep coming back to you and have to be repeatedly beaten away are the ones that might be worth taking a chance on. Pay cl
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by lbrandy 16y ago
Eh. Zynga is social games at scale. The engineering talent isn't in the games part, it's in the scale part. Getting to that scale isn't any easy feat either. What you've basically just said is that any idiot could clone facebook. Yes, they
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by lbrandy 16y ago
I agree, although I haven't started brewing yet (my brother does). Doing it by yourself, I think, is hard, cause it's difficult to make a "reasonable" amount of beer for one person. That said, it is def. appropriate for HN. Beer brewing is
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by lbrandy 16y ago
I suppose by the mathematical nature of the situation, people and their social graph end up at one of the two "equilibria". 1) either they know a bunch of people who can't find any good people to hire, or 2) they know a bunch of smart peopl
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by lbrandy 16y ago
Having been in a similar circumstance, the answer is pretty much 'yes' to all of the above. Expect it to be very much like a programming interview for a job.
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by lbrandy 16y ago
I fixed it. Here's the original link: http://lbrandy.com/blog/2008/10/my-first-and-last-webcomic/
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by lbrandy 16y ago
Interesting. Not too long ago I found out that not only does California have incredibly high state income taxes, but it also has really high state capital gains taxes. It actually amazes me that silicon valley has thrived under those burden
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by lbrandy 16y ago
i've realized my math was wrong and removed my comment :( i hate this problem
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by lbrandy 16y ago
Indeed. Speaking as someone who has had several articles at the top of HN and reddit-programming, as well as several on proper reddit as well as digg: it's total nonsense. I'll get 5-10k hits, for a "decent" HN story, I'll get 20k+ for prog
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by lbrandy 16y ago
So reinstalling the whole OS was higher up the troubleshooting chain than just trying it out from your wife's computer? Err.. I think you are suggesting a non-causal solution. What exactly is this "it" you think I should have tired on my
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by lbrandy 16y ago
Considering he listed just about everything I can remember about regexes without google, and nothing more, I believe I'm duty bound to upvote. My only quibble: I'd promote the character classes (especially \s and maybe \S) into this list f
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by lbrandy 16y ago
He's currently answering (tons of) questions, in video form, from "the internet"... youtube comments, reddit, twitter, including other celebs (with shows)... EW, Ellen Degeneres, etc. They are pumping these out extremely quickly, and in lar
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Why face recognition isn't scary -- yet(cnn.com)
1 points by lbrandy 16y ago|0 comments
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by lbrandy 16y ago
It should be pointed out that this is actually 2 charts. The final chart is, in essence, just the first half of the sigmoid.
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by lbrandy 16y ago
Yes, yes indeed. Looking at it like that, it is great a response, but there's still a problem... Given the rather adversarial nature of the technical interview setting, there's pretty much zero probability you'd actually get that answer fro
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by lbrandy 16y ago
If you look at the code I put on github, you will see I tested this exact bit of code. It does produce good assembly but I left it out because the post was already long, and it obfuscates -why- this improvement improves performance. Your se
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by lbrandy 16y ago
This is a terrifying post for me to make because I feel like I'm about to make an ass of myself... but... I'm not seeing an off-by-one error. 'i' will be LENGTH-5 on the last iteration and we will add 'j==4' for in[LENGTH-1] not in[LENGTH].
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by lbrandy 16y ago
> Starts by saying how it's a huge myth that compilers generate better code than hand-made assembly... It's important to note that I never said this. I was simply trying to separate two versions of the same rule of thumb... I said that
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by lbrandy 16y ago
If you zoom in (and give it a sec) it'll load the high-res version. Just remember, every point of light is a star. And then remember, there are as many galaxies in the universe as points of light in that picture. Now go watch Pale Blue Dot
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by lbrandy 16y ago
Please don't pretend like a lot of people aren't going to make a lot of money selling things that could be pirated. You can migrate wherever you want, but you are only half the equation. If the consumers don't follow, someone will replace y
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by lbrandy 17y ago
I ran this same image through our face detector, with results I could easily predict: http://demo.pittpatt.com/detection_demo/view.php?id=JSCV5AH9... We don't find any of them (blue and yellow are low confidence faces). We do "well" by o
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by lbrandy 17y ago
> If only the advocates on different sides of important issues could learn to adhere to these principles. This is an idea better in theory, than in practice. You don't know frustration until you meet someone with poor logic skills, who
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Heh. How many times should I have used it?
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Parallel programming is hard. Right?(lbrandy.com)
59 points by lbrandy 17y ago|33 comments
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by lbrandy 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483610 Maybe? (btw, op, there is another post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483605 asking a similar question with numerous good answers... and only one of them is mine!)
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Your rather extreme libertarian views have really well thought out rebuttals and it makes me think you haven't actually read much to challenge these ideas of yours. I have major libertarian tendencies and I find your arguments extremely wan

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