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by marcus 17y ago
I wasn't talking about brain computer interfaces, although that is an interesting field. Note to self: try our algorithms on EEG data... My point regarding the materialism was that if you can simulate the physical/chemical processes that ha
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by marcus 17y ago
I think genetic algorithms have been able to surpass that standard a long time ago. While the developer has to define the playing field and the rules, the solutions the computer comes up with are way better than randomly searching through t
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by marcus 17y ago
First time entrepreneurs usually confuse equity with control, there can be dozens of mechanisms, by which VC's can gain control of a company they invested in. A few examples: * Controlling all C-level positions, firing you at will (which wi
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DadHacker » Blog Archive » Dead Newt(dadhacker.com)
4 points by marcus 17y ago|1 comments
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by marcus 17y ago
Actually music exec have a solution to the problem it just takes a long time to implement. The solution is known as 360-contract. Currently labels profit only from the selling of albums and some of the merchandise, but not from tours, spons
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by marcus 17y ago
Every big software company needs an ax murderer, on my first day in my first professional job they told me "always write your code as if the person who will maintain it is an ax murderer who knows where you live.". So I guess they gotta sta
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by marcus 17y ago
That is because of psychological mechanism called Priming, basically an earlier input can affect your perception of a later input. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
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by marcus 17y ago
Don't be that sure, I can envision a version with a single button activating the voice recognition software that will allow you to download whatever you want.
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by marcus 17y ago
I actually use a blend of C & Python, C for doing the heavy lifting and Python for the rapid prototyping. Most AI algorithms have clearly defined segments that are very CPU intensive, by only using C in those areas I get the optimal bal
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by marcus 18y ago
But then Apple would have to spend a ton of resources on getting OSX compatible with a gazillion different hardware setups. It will either slow down iterations or hurt the user experience, the "it just works" magic.
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by marcus 18y ago
To be more precise, Sun has 744.71M shares issued, and 0.15$ per share comes to 111.7 Million USD
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by marcus 18y ago
Built this quick hack a couple of days ago, got tired of hitting the Belkin switch to watch the status of my second computer... The PSP side is very minimalistic and dumb, you just send it an image in PNG/JPEG format or a short text and it
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PSP as a status monitor - Hack a Day(hackaday.com)
2 points by marcus 18y ago|1 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
Defining edge cases without technical knowledge is problematic, load times are meaningless without load testing, so basically all you'll know is if the code works, and that is a very low bar to set especially for a startup. And even if you
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by marcus 18y ago
Assuming that works and you actually get a few decent candidates to submit solutions, how exactly do you propose that the business guy/gal selects the winner? He can't evaluate their code, he can't evaluate their design decisions... What cr
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SuperFly: Separating class heirarchy from class definition.(code.activestate.com)
3 points by marcus 18y ago|0 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
I think the founders of every pre-revenue bootstrapped startup fall into those two categories simultaneously. In my case I am living of the money from a previous exit.
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by marcus 18y ago
You're forgetting that in any field that isn't controlled by a monopoly, every single competitor always wants more leverage over the other players.
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YouTube - Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development(youtube.com)
1 points by marcus 18y ago|0 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
Many many years ago I wrote a few apps for PalmOS devices and the biggest problems were small incompatibilities between different PalmOS versions and small quirks of each device. The fact that the iPhone has a very limited selection of hand
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by marcus 18y ago
Another neat trick with slices is that you can do a partial update on a list. a = range(6) a[::2] = range(10,13) -> generates a with [10,1,11,3,12,5] I saw a very elegant implementation of Eratosthenes sieve based on that trick
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by marcus 18y ago
Hmm that depends on the book and who posted the 1s and the 5s, you just described the ratings of every scientology book and every evolution book in amazon. But I agree that while there is a decent chance that a book with lots of 5s and lots
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How Not To Sort By Average Rating(evanmiller.org)
195 points by marcus 18y ago|56 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
I use the term intelligent laziness, that is the constant desire to minimize the effort you will need to invest long-term in your life to achieve your goals. Suddenly writing code cleanly becomes a very lazy thing to do, it reduces the amou
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by marcus 18y ago
I find the onslaught of posts with historical Steve Jobs interviews to be a bit morbid, the guy is alive and fighting can we please avoid a postmortem.
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by marcus 18y ago
The point to remember is that a security system is only as strong as its weakest link, in the comic the human storing the password. But there are many other weak spots available to people who want to decode an encrypted system, keyloggers,
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by marcus 18y ago
Not necessarily, the question is do you procrastinate on parts of it significantly more than the rest, if you do that part probably does stink.
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by marcus 18y ago
Actually that is what separates the professional from the hobbyist (I've seen both bad professional programmers aka 9-5ers and amazing hobbyists), and when I work professionally both in my startup and in a previous life as an employee I put
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by marcus 18y ago
My number one symptom of rotting design is a lot simpler, I keep postponing touching the code... If I do this for more than a couple of days it must be really rotten.
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by marcus 18y ago
The weird thing is that they only did a web version considering the fact that your income distribution is so heavily desktop biased.

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