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by m0th87 17y ago
I was referring to the fact that Wolfram actually understood the input, not that it answered a trivial math question :)
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by m0th87 17y ago
This is one of those domain-specific areas in which Wolfram is awesome: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+of+n+from+1+to+365
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by m0th87 17y ago
Any statement that argues that X is stupid and arrogant, where X has a sizable population or market is flamebait, and that applies to PPK as well as "Michael Galpin".
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by m0th87 17y ago
I think he deserves a good degree of praise for having an amenable opinion.
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by m0th87 17y ago
Where else did you intern? I'm curious because I'd like to know whether an Amazon internship would be different or better than my other experiences (Microsoft/IBM).
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by m0th87 17y ago
I have almost no mobile app development experience, so take this with a grain of salt, but it seems to me like the reason you wouldn't have to worry about an Android app wrecking havoc on your smartphone is because it runs in a JVM-ish sand
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by m0th87 17y ago
I like Joel's ideas as a long-term business strategy, but it seems like it would require a lot of initial capital and would be impossible to pitch to a VC. Unless you're made of money, those two drawbacks don't go together well. What's a so
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by m0th87 17y ago
I don't think the data indicates that at all. According to the graph, ~6% of women are considered very attractive (5) and receive ~18% of the messages. ~15% of the women are considered pretty attractive (4) and receive ~28% of the messages.
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by m0th87 17y ago
Also check out Singularity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system) And Midouri: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system) Two cool projects that are part of Microsoft's research in managed code operatin
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by m0th87 17y ago
Plug into facebook. This will allow you to attract users because there's no registration barrier, and collect information about the user's tastes and interests. Then use that information to find like-minded individuals who would be a good m
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by m0th87 17y ago
No. If reducing emissions is the goal, gas taxes are actually superior because the price is proportional the emissions you make. This tax doesn't provide a disincentive against gas guzzlers, but they already have insanely high gas taxes in
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by m0th87 17y ago
I'm a relatively new user too, but for me HN is one of the few refuges for rational discourse online, and the last thing I would want is for it to become another digital ghetto.
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by m0th87 17y ago
In the wake of my disillusionment with the way reddit has devolved, I've been thinking about this problem for a while. I think the best way to handle this is to apply a sort of social equivalent to the PageRank algorithm to users. Thus, whe
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by m0th87 17y ago
Maybe I've been away from Java for too long, but I understand why the + operator's implementation is so much slower than that of String.concat(). If concat() uses a StringBuilder, why doesn't the + operator as well?
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Priced To Go(newyorker.com)
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by m0th87 17y ago
Apparat's Walls album. If there is a way to hack consciousness, Walls does it: http://www.lala.com/#album/1513490949824332234/Apparat/Walls Try Fractals part 1 and 2. It really does feel like the audible equivalent of a fractal!
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by m0th87 17y ago
http://xkcd.com/603/
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by m0th87 17y ago
From my experience, I've seen a huge difference in the quality of developers between companies that conducted strenuous coding tests and those that didn't, although I'm not sure if the relationship is causal. It certainly does help weed out
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by m0th87 17y ago
Thank you! IMO, the smartest thing to do in life is to pursue the options that maximize happiness. Money has a weak causal relationship with happiness[1]. Consequently, those getting a Ph.D. in English, for example, should do so if that's w
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by m0th87 17y ago
This sounds like a more formalized version of Thomas Jefferson's "I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
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by m0th87 17y ago
I'm a huge fan of impressionism (Van Gogh, Monet), but that's like saying you like puppies. A little more off the beaten path is Zdzislaw Beksinski: http://coilhouse.net/2007/12/the-beautiful-nightmares-of-zdz... His artwork haunts me, ev
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by m0th87 17y ago
Ah, in that case, it's not a fallacious argument. I would suggest reading it; while I've only gone through parts of it thus far, it's proving to be quite riveting. Also, he's not the only one who argues that the collapse of civilizations is
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by m0th87 17y ago
Isn't that the definition of ad hominem abusive?
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by m0th87 17y ago
Honest question: does anyone actually /use/ OWL? My only experience with it was in a class, and it seemed to me like a very verbose and overly-complicated way of describing some pretty simple stuff.
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by m0th87 17y ago
While the OP's argument is easily absurd, there is (contrary to intuition) little causality between education and terrorism: http://www.krueger.princeton.edu/terrorism2.pdf But even if a better education caused or prevented terrorism, wha
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by m0th87 17y ago
This is true, but my understanding is TCP's congestion control mechanism is far from ideal and the root cause of its performance problems.
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by m0th87 17y ago
no, that's μTP. UDP is a 30-year-old protocol: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc768 it's substantially faster than TCP because it doesn't provide any guarantees (e.g. error checking); consequently it's more difficult to work with. this proto
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by m0th87 17y ago
Additionally, I like to pay with cash when I don't want my purchasing habits to be collected by the store or my creditor. I find it disturbing how our modern economy makes the task of collecting information on one's interests and identity s
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by m0th87 17y ago
I interned there as well, and not only did I find plenty of intelligent people there, (including you, what's new Mark? ;) but I also found a hotbed of innovation and unique ideas. I think it's annoying how so many of my peers treat the comp
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by m0th87 17y ago
How does it improve on git's interface, besides providing a UI for browsing the trunk and visualizing merges? I've just started using github, and while I see the value of git (especially in its branch-oriented philosophy), I always have to

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