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by morganherlocker 13y ago
10 days plus ~10-15 days of holidays is pretty standard in the US software world.
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
'Copied' is completely the wrong word here. This really has nothing to do with Apple at all.
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
I use a MBPr for general development, have an imac close to top specs and have a beefy windows/linux box. Of the 3, my imac gets the least use, and I will probably be retiring it fairly soon. For development, I really do not need a pow
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
> I really doubt too many people who are in the market for an HP or Dell workstation are going to consider a Mac Pro Especially with the gap in Mac Pro releases over the past few years, I have seen many people deciding between Mac Pro a
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
I would prefer to keep the name out of the comments, just to prevent mud-slinging. That said, it is a proprietary language built for a niche data analysis market. It is basically a BASIC variant that probably came out around 95, and the app
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
> First off, popularity of a language shouldn't be as important as you seem to make it in starting a project. I think there is a minimum threshold to this. I support a large application written in an extremely obscure language (it&#
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
It would make it an argument, which I guess you could say is a subset of opinion. A proof goes back to an argument and shows that its conclusions must follow from its premises.
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
They have a right to an opinion, but that does not necessarily mean that their opinion is valid. From Wikipedia on Validity: "an argument is valid if and only if its conclusion is logically entailed by its premises."
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
While the whole "if we do X then the terrorists win" phrase might be largely accurate, I kind of doubt that it is planned that way.
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
I do not know if I would vote for him necessarily (not knowing much about the rest of his views), but a candidate who promised to pardon Snowden would receive a couple "get-out-of-terrible-policy-suggestion free cards" in my book.
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, and Symbolic Logic are all common Philosophy courses that have strong connections to CS, machine learning, and the biological models often behind (or inspiring at least)
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
I would just point out that most of modern philosophy is not really like this. I think most people think philosophers spend there time arguing about ethics, when this is only one tiny part of philosophy. A good chunk of the current discussi
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Simple spatial aggregation for geojson data using turf(morganherlocker.com)
1 points by morganherlocker 13y ago|0 comments
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
I second this one. I have used it for years as my default snipper.
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
> In turn, why you want a society where a decent quality of life is not just obtainable but reliable without an all-consuming level of competition with others. Is financial instability really a problem for most people qualified for this
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
My first day on the job I erased the whiteboard in my office. When a couple people walked in and saw what I was erasing (a short inspirational phrase on the corner of the board), everyone had a look of horror on their face. It turned out th
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
I replaced an old AS400 system from the 70s as one of my first gigs. It was 50k lines of incomprehensible RPG code. I would often have to print out the code, steal a conference room, lay out all the pages, and go to town with a bunch of hig
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
Is it that big of a leap from voxel.js, which is already doing this with pure javascript? (genuinely curious)
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
> If "stakeholders" are that demanding of peoples' time Sure, for 1 or 2 stakeholders. What if there are dozens? Big projects have lots of requirements and lots of people to coordinate. This is not a small task that can ju
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
> A good engineer can PM his own work, A good engineer can do lots of things on their own, many of which are a poor use of their time. Any engineer working on a sufficiently complex project will spend 100% of their time in meetings witho
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
Make your mission about skepticism. Skepticism is the driving force behind today's data boom.
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
The "starred by people I follow" feature is exactly what I have been waiting for.
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by morganherlocker 13y ago
OP here. If anyone wants to see some other specific visualization based on the data, I am happy to run it and post the results (different classification scheme, filters, etc.).
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Visualizing npm modules by geography(morganherlocker.com)
1 points by morganherlocker 13y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: geojson2; geojson conversion to various formats in node.js(morganherlocker.com)
3 points by morganherlocker 13y ago|0 comments