mathattack

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1. 5521.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Very important point. It can also be viewed as the difference between research and development. It's hard to get through with testable and measurable development until you've done the fuzzier creative work first.
2. 5522.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   I'm not an expert, but it seems risky to trust MongoDB for that. Isn't it the wrong tool for that space?
3. 5523.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Apparently multiple public outcries.
4. 5524.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   This is also quite assuredly one of the best ways he could have possibly advertised for Heifer International. Indeed he used his reputation for something that would go viral, and in the end helped that charity quite a bit. It also suggest
5. 5525.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Almost certainly one of the reasons your applications sell is because they are very good. This is HUGE for the educational market. With all the word of mouth that goes on, it's important to do something good. All the tweaking of pr
6. 5526.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   I was thinking that 12 cores would be to cut a compile time from hours to minutes, or shorten a scientific calculation, no? Or pricing a complicated bond.
7. 5527.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   ok - so this is just for the corporate environment that there would be these issues? But couldn't they just have a similar getup sending all their processing to their own data center in the background? My intuition has us going back t
8. 5528.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   I was thinking the same thing reading this. I don't see many instances of pair programming. Granted, my data points are limited, but that seems to be the exception, not the rule. I've seen more people extoll (and consultants sel
9. 5529.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Wow! Does this in include NYC?
10. 5530.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Amazing that a lot of this has stood up to the test of time. A good rule of thumb: Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receive. You should not send heated messages (we call these "flames") even
11. 5531.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Why wouldn't it be theoretically possible to move the data off-site? Too big? Again I'm assuming there is some seamless way for the operating system to treat off-machine cores and in-machine cores.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Real Estate is strangely one of the last bastions of obviously disruptable inefficiency. Why do brokers deserve 6% for a purchase, or 2 months rent for a rental? It's absolutely crazy. The best I can tell, they serve two functions: 1
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    An open question... How long will selling computers based on increasing processing power make sense for anything but a very-niche audience? My thinking is that at some point, it should be transparent where the computations take place. So
14. 5534.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    If they can cancel pre-delivery, it's a very different story, because then it can be interpreted as a free option.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Can you explain more on why normalizing is better? I get it for OLTP systems, but for data analysis performance it just seems like doing the denormalization can remove a step every time you want to pull the data.
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    What is scarce?(ryanholiday.net)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Now you're quite screwed, while coinbase has taken a profit on this (and probably other) deals by delaying these settlements. And what are you going to do if you don't get all the losses covered? Your options are quite limited.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think points #3 and #5 are the two biggest ones. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt is a well-worn sales tactic, and predictors of AI advances have generally been on the wrong side of history.
19. 5539.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    This was a remarkably human-centric explanation. Thank you.
20. 5540.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm impressed with the bananaknowledge here. Is there a limited amount of times you can do this?
21. 5541.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    That's a pretty damning article. I know the history was bad. Is it still that way?
22. 5542.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Maybe we all go to plantains, or that out too?
23. 5543.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Great concept, but add NYC please!
24. 5544.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Bananas are cheap enough that many of us can afford a 2x or 3x cost increase easier than with other fruits. What's so bad about banana seeds? Are they hard like in grapes?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Wow - So are you saying this is a case for GMO (create a resistant banana) or against it (for killing biodiversity)? It's a shame because bananas are very cheap. On the one hand they're cheap enough to double in cost and many can
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I've been there too, though I found I was much more spread out. During my last unemployment stint I would send out 20+ applications per day . This was just to make sure that people out there knew that I was looking. At the same tim
27. 5547.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    True. I was thinking of it in terms of "Overall the hours may be close to 2000/year" but the reality is the pay sucks, so having downtime is different than other fields. (Say a month or two off between high intensity program
28. 5548.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I interpreted the story differently. I read it as 100 hours for THE job. It isn't unreasonable to spend 100 hours nailing down the right place to spend 1000s of hours. (Same with college)
29. 5549.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    There is a very fine line between "Trying very hard" and "Trying too hard." I've seen people try very hard for getting a job, and then stop right before the finish line. In this case, it's all about the outco
30. 5550.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    And that this is what he was up against as a suit wearing white person. Others get it much worse.