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by minimax 14y ago
"So and so has endorsed you for XML and Microsoft Office!" Every time I get one of these emails I come a little bit closer to closing my LinkedIn account. A LinkedIn replacement in the form of about.me sounds pretty appealing right now.
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by minimax 14y ago
I think before you go around slamming the VC culture in this particular thread, you might want to consider that Jody Sherman was well into his forties when he founded Ecomom.
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DIY Transit Info Display Easy Configuration Tool(transitchicago.com)
1 points by minimax 14y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 14y ago
The article is suggesting R has become popular for data analysis projects, not as a general purpose programming language.
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by minimax 14y ago
I started using data.table [1] as a replacement for data.frame recently and it's hugely improved my productivity in R. On the web front, the Shiny [2] project has a emerged as a possibility for quickly building web frontends for analysis p
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by minimax 14y ago
Not at all. There are several free open source alternatives to sqlplus like Yasql and sqlpython but none of them are as good as psql.
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by minimax 14y ago
Several people commenting here have X220s. Anyone have one with the IPS panel? Is it worth it? I hate how the colors on my laptop shift as my viewing angle changes.
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by minimax 14y ago
The command line SQL client is one place Postgres blows away Oracle. I'd pay real money for psql on Oracle.
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by minimax 14y ago
It's worth noting that Cosma Shalizi has been doing this for about six years now, and it's becoming increasingly popular in certain areas of academia. Background: http://masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/442.html http://masi.cscs
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by minimax 14y ago
Neither "lean" nor "agile" appear in this blog post. Someone should fix the link text on HN, which is currently "Is an obsession with Lean and Agile killing true innovation?"
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by minimax 14y ago
"There are a lot of things you can do with C++ (and other languages -- even C probably) that feel good at the time, only to learn later that they don't age well." I think this reduces to the argument that you should do the simplest thing th
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by minimax 14y ago
Woops you're right. Math failure on my part.
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by minimax 14y ago
They are shooting for a 330 minute ETOPS for the 787. That means a plane can be up to 6.5 hours from the closest airport on long haul flights. ETOPS has more to do with engine reliability than fire safety, but I can't help wonder if this
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Hiding Bugs from Branch Coverage(blog.regehr.org)
2 points by minimax 14y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 14y ago
It looks like Install Monetizer was previously known (or is also known?) as Optilly. http://optilly.com/ http://www.installmonetizer.com/ Maybe they "pivoted" from a clever take on ad campaign management to toolbars as a way to increase
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by minimax 14y ago
Wow this is pretty cool. I have written some C (NXC, really [1]) programs for Mindstorms and it was super fun. I built a little rover-like car and wrote a program that would make the car play with my cat in the living room. It didn't wor
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by minimax 14y ago
C pointer aliasing defeats certain compiler optimizations that can be made in other languages, and is frequently brought up in C vs FORTRAN comparisons. I think that's probably what the GP had in mind.
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by minimax 14y ago
Did you evaluate other ticketing packages before developing Nodephone? It looks really slick and the Twilio integration is a great idea.
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by minimax 14y ago
"What do I need to do to upgrade to white collar?" Develop a stubborn willingness to ignore the at-times unsatisfactory performance of immutable data structures.
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by minimax 14y ago
(American here) I recently upgraded from a 1kW to a 1.75kW kettle and thought it was a huge improvement. It does trip the circuit breaker if I try to run the toaster at the same time as the kettle though.
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by minimax 14y ago
You have it backwards. The Pareto principle is based on a Pareto distribution with specific coefficients. The Pareto distribution is a power law distribution. Ergo the Pareto principle is based on a power law distribution. There is noth
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by minimax 14y ago
"Power laws have become a kind of popular science meme..." The blog post is essentially restating the Pareto (80/20) principle, first espoused by management consultant Joseph Juran in 1941. In the blog post he calls it a power law -- the P
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Boomtown slum - A day in the economic life of Africa’s biggest shanty-town(economist.com)
2 points by minimax 14y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 14y ago
Your argument is something like, "If you want to have a successful startup, you should complete college, because most of these hyper-successful people have completed college." You then say the probability of having a college degree, given t
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by minimax 14y ago
I'm not a Ruby programmer, so maybe I'm misunderstanding the article -- are we talking about changing an object's class hierarchy after it's already been instantiated and then complaining that it's the performance aspect that is pathologi
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by minimax 14y ago
FYI it also appears that the submitter is the author (Elise Ackerman). Not that there is anything wrong with that in itself, but this feels more like someone using a sensational title to generate clicks. While we're at it, it also looks li
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by minimax 14y ago
Getting out of your seat on a taxiway is a bad idea. Planes do occasionally bump into one another. How'd you like to be standing up looking for your carry-on inside this CRJ when this happens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayCWSm1f9qk
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by minimax 14y ago
"Problem #3: Have to Wait FOREVER for Waiter to Order, Re-Order, & Pay. Also, Nothing To Do While I’m Waiting." This is pretty straightforward. If you're in a huge time crunch, order delivery. I'm not sure what it's like in the bay ar
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by minimax 14y ago
If you were a programmer in the days before C had prototypes then you are definitely from the old school. If you're working on code that still looks like this in 2012 then maybe it's time to brush up on modern C. ;-)
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by minimax 14y ago
C++ programmers will be familiar with a related (and probably more commonplace) problem: struct Foo {int a;}; int main(int argc, char **argv) { Foo foo(); foo.a = 42; return 0; } Looks ok, right? Wrong. er

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