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by nborwankar 5y ago
They said 2.5% of customers ie companies. They didn’t say what % of individual users which is probably wayyy bigger than 2.5.
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by nborwankar 5y ago
Sometimes vendors don’t offer credit cards because their own credit is not good and they can’t get a merchant account. Or if they can it’s with huge per-transaction charges. This is particularly problematic when starting out and not having
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by nborwankar 5y ago
The unit of software delivery agency is a team not an individual any more. That was in the days of Norton Disk Doctor where a single programmer held the whole problem in their head. The question that is lost in the noise about 10x is “Does
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by nborwankar 5y ago
This is so on-brand for HN - the article is about a writer now working as a delivery driver which is a juicy topic in itself, but most of the discussion is down the rabbit hole on an entirely tangential matter.
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by nborwankar 5y ago
Technically analogous to pen testing except that it wasn’t done at the behest of the target, as legal pen testing is done. Hence it is indistinguishable from and must be considered, a malicious attack.
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by nborwankar 6y ago
My 486/33 came with 16mb. It sat at one end of a 64k frame relay line and allowed me to telnet (yes!) into remote sites and WFH in the early 90’s.
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by nborwankar 6y ago
What about those of us who arrived decades ago are now settled with families and children who were born here are proud to call ourselves American citizens? We never imagined even 5 years ago an America like this and are questioning our life
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by nborwankar 7y ago
Amazon will have some record of all the transactions, at least initially to help in the transition, and that means it can figure out what’s selling best where, then undercut the stores online. Allowing Amazon inside your transactions is not
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by nborwankar 7y ago
We seem to be discussing WW1 and 2 while looking past the drumbeat to war in the Middle East. Are we missing the relevance of the posted content to current times?
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by nborwankar 9y ago
Finally, someone who remembers NNTP!
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by nborwankar 9y ago
It is ironic that we are complaining about how polarized our discourse has become, when we created the social networks and the dopamine-drip feedback loops that genrate mutually disjoint echo chambers.
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by nborwankar 10y ago
They are not saying "our elections are unhackable" they are saying "our already manufactured machines as available to register votes are unhackable". It could be true today. But now that they have thrown open the challe
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by nborwankar 10y ago
You might want to consider Twitter integration (different target, I know) but you'd solve a huge problem of size limit of 140 chars which people are solving by posting images of text. Also far fewer issues of proprietary content and c
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by nborwankar 10y ago
Long line outside the general store in Moscow. Manager comes out and addresses the crowd "Comrades I have good news and bad news. Bad news we have no more toilet paper. Good news we have no food either"
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by nborwankar 10y ago
Shameless plug: LearnDataScience http://learned.com is a git repo with Jupyter Notebooks, data and instructions. It's meant for programmers, assumes no math background and addresses data cleaning issues which most classes i
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by nborwankar 10y ago
Bit of a self-plug here - LearnDataScience http://learnds.com has been well received as a starting point for newcomers. It's a set of Jupyter notebooks with a lot of hand holding. Git repo has data sets included so you can
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by nborwankar 10y ago
Take a functional programming class. Martin Odersky on Coursera now has a while track. It's Scale. If that matters. Functional programming is the blood-brain barrier between programming and math with lots of activity bringing the two c
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by nborwankar 10y ago
Perhaps this is a good point in history to create an open repository of problems authored by contributors with some sort of CC license. Basing it on the material of existing MOOC courses would provide focus and relevance. Also long term ins
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by nborwankar 11y ago
Hi Tomasz, Ann Winblad talked about 4-5 months of product before an IPO. The huge difference now seems to be no consideration of profit or even projected profitability. IMHO, this is beginning to hugely distort what it even means to be a bu
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by nborwankar 11y ago
"It's free from interference. " "It suffers from interference by light."
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by nborwankar 13y ago
I heard the continuum analytics folks are working on something similar but I don't know if it's a public repo yet.
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by nborwankar 13y ago
Even without the JavaScript R and Python can communicate using objects in the IPython namespace via %RPush and %RPull
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by nborwankar 13y ago
Also look at Asciidoc which outputs Slidy slideshows.
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by nborwankar 13y ago
I am consistently disappointed that these sort of articles do not even mention what can be done to develop spatial reasoning but focus on testing alone. The challenge is to create a curriculum that systematically develops this mental facul
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by nborwankar 14y ago
Hi Jan, another way to think about this (from the old days) is that disconnected mode data is a given because the rate of growth of data is far greater than the rate of growth of bandwidth. So everyone can't always be accessing all their da
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by nborwankar 14y ago
Well the problem here is not what the app did - it's what it said. If offline it should say "Offline - queued for deletion" or "Offline - queued for sending". When you have offline mode you have to think differently and design your UX app
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by nborwankar 14y ago
What startup is that? Can you post a link?
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by nborwankar 14y ago
This is an interface mapper for hardware. V. cool.
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by nborwankar 14y ago
So will they return the extra money that this has cost customers?
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by nborwankar 14y ago
It's true you may have set a low bar re: proofs, I just don't think any formal proofs are needed at the first step. Learning about numerical convergence and computer arithmetic so you can understand why your MATLAB Linear Algebra program is

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