mathattack

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1. 5821.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Great story. I think it's less about cheating and more about poking your way around public software. I appreciate the spirit of adventure in searching through the game.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Can you be more specific on your issues with WebSphere? I remember the buzz when it first came out, but haven't bumped into it in quite a while.
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   Microsoft's CEO selection: The unanswered questions(management.fortune.cnn.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   Don’t click ‘like’ unless you’re paid to(venturebeat.com)

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

   There are very few of them. I have one friend who doesn't work at Google who decided that he wanted to jump aboard the Google+ train since Facebook already passed him by. Strange.
6. 5826.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Great point. Not only is it personally empowering to be open with what you don't know, there are frequently 4 or 5 other people who are happy when you ask for clarification. When I'm on sales calls, I now go out of my way to ask
7. 5827.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Thanks for sharing. I think you hit the main point - it winds up wasting a lot of people's time, and also gives short shrift to others in the process. In a sense I put this up with the moral equivalent of practice interviewing with r
8. 5828.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   I'd be curious if the folks at Google and YC would be flattered by this, put off, or both.
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   Franchise (2010)(readanybooks.net)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    The Robots Are Here(politico.com)

    3 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    MIT’s John Gruber On Obamacare’s Meltdown(hughhewitt.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
12. 5832.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I've worked with many Lebanese, and found them to be very intelligent and resourceful. The country had a huge brain drain to France and elsewhere during their civil war.
13. 5833.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    There are plenty of Big Data applications that aren't unethical. Back in the 90s (before the term Big Data was conceived) two of the biggest users of Teradata were P&G and Wal*mart. It was more about supply chain and retail store
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Thanks for sharing!
15. 5835.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    My impression is that Engineering majors take as many Physics and Math classes, but they tend to be more on the practical side. For instance, a math major can take a bunch of set theory, number theory and topology that an engineer wouldn&#x
16. 5836.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Did it struggle to change the world because he lost interest, and focused on other things afterwards? It seems like he has an awful lot of balls in the air, which might mean long intellectual leaps, but not the legwork behind them.
17. 5837.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    What makes it so much more powerful than any other computing language?
18. 5838.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    It's amazing how motivation increases once you know what it's useful for. :-)
19. 5839.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think you're missing the point. He's still doing freelancing work, it's just packaged as being the owner of a consulting firm. The difference is subtle, but I think you see it in rates.
20. 5840.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Yes. Cooking multiple dishes simultaneously for multiple people.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I very much enjoyed the 2 logic classes I took through the philosophy department. My school used to offer an interdisciplinary major between Computer Science and Philosophy. Unfortunately not any more.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    For whatever reason, I hit a poor grades stretch in math for my first three years of high school. It was just boring, and high school had distractions. My school almost blocked me from taking calculus. When I hit Calculus, I had my &quot
23. 5843.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    It's very hard to separate emotional liking of people with being able to rate their abilities, since rating for most white collar jobs is so subjective. This is why forced stacking can be so insidious, and also why ratings frequently
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Accounting is what did it for me. :-) I disliked how overly simplified micro and macro 101 were. The models were counter to what I knew was obviously true, so I didn't go any deeper until graduate school. Once I took some advanced c
25. 5845.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Exactly. Much of the academic world (humanities?) operates thinking that there are no constraints. I felt economics was refreshing in forcing tradeoffs. I assume these would be equally relevant to engineering too.
26. 5846.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Yes - micro-economics. It's mostly about tradeoffs, referenced in the OP.
27. 5847.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Microeconomics, not micro-processors. I'll correct the original. It was in the context of tradeoffs.
28. 5848.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    The grad assistant in my computer structures (programming hardware in assembler) class suggested that every CS student should take a semester of microeconomics to understand trade-offs. He was right. EDIT: Made microeconomics more explici
29. 5849.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I find a Chomsky documentary on Kickstarter to be an interesting idea. Is this entirely what we should expect given his worldview, or a subtle case of irony?
30. 5850.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    My impression is there are a couple issues: - Methodology - If you're mining for answers, and then presenting only the statistically significant, you will still find false positives on larger datasets, it will just take more work. - Re