mcnamaratw

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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
It was, but only by a minority.
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
Right, Gore Vidal is a perfect example of the elderly-NYC mid-Atlantic accent. Except for me it works better on TV than sitting across a coffee table. It just sounds fake to me--some part of my brain can't believe that these people rea
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
If just knowing P=NP were enough, for applications people could go ahead and just make the assumption now. The problem is finding an algorithm.
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
This is hurting the country. I want my (white) kid to get in and everything, but it's not right. Education is an investment, and we're not putting it where it will do the most good. We know there are de facto quotas at a lot of ot
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of elderly folks in NYC who use something like the Mid-Atlantic accent. Today it sounds made up, as if they learned English from old movies.
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
I'm guessing they liked you, but you got edged out by someone else for the original position. If they didn't like you, they wouldn't be recommending you to anyone. I wouldn't think of it as being sent anywhere. You might
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
Those sound very interesting to me. I wish I'd seen them, and I'm going to go visit your 2nd and 4th links right now. HN just has a lot of traffic all going through one main view. Unless a submission proves that the government is
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
As far as I can tell, 'shortage of talent in tech' just means companies are hiring.
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
I've fixed this several times by going camping alone for a week with nothing to read, no devices, no pencil and paper. Just me, a tent, food and coffee. I come back full of ideas. Stuff I've been stuck on for a year becomes easy.
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
The phrase "not possible" is overloaded. It can mean "I claim this is technically not possible" or it can be a polite way of saying "Thanks for the feedback but you're the only person who has asked for that and
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
Yeah. Ha, maybe the toxic culture is a sort of game-theory equilibrium that keeps out new mods.
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
Thanks for the link! I'll take a look!
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
The political and current-events stuff is very interesting, and I tend to get distracted!
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Ask HN: Is there a way to see only technical posts on HN?
28 points by mcnamaratw 11y ago|18 comments
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
Caveat! Economic history is very applicable but economic theory is often badly oversold w/r/t its predictive power. "In no other field of empirical enquiry has so massive and sophisticated a statistical machinery been used wi
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
(You may have to give in to the temptation to try aluminum foil for a while, before you see what I mean about it being a pain in the butt to work with. It sounds so easy!)
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by mcnamaratw 11y ago
Aluminum is fine, but foil that's only a couple hundred microns thick will only provide useful shielding above say 100 kHz. Fine for microwave shielding, but audio frequency EM waves will go right through it. Also aluminum foil is a pa
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by mcnamaratw 12y ago
It's a really, really fun app. I wish I'd made it. Don't get intimidated by the hype about all that crazy stuff you have to know. Everybody learned one language or tool at a time, same as you.
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by mcnamaratw 12y ago
No! Of course not. Absolutely not. No way.
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by mcnamaratw 12y ago
Is there an algorithm that can (a) point to something and (b) say something about it? (a) and (b) can be weakened as much as necessary to give an interesting answer.