ncallaway

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by ncallaway 14y ago
I think you might have misinterpreted the context of "optimizing a single line of yours using hundreds of different optimization techniques based on a vast amount of academic research that you would spend years getting at" was lost. He isn'
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by ncallaway 14y ago
In your penultimate sentence you state you only hire sales people based on commission. In your final sentence you state that they perform twice as well as salaried sales people. These seem contradictory to me. How can you know the latter gi
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by ncallaway 14y ago
There is unofficial support, though! Bumblebee was fairly easy for me to set up, and works quite well (again, for me): http://bumblebee-project.org
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by ncallaway 14y ago
I think the concern isn't over particles that are just smaller than our cells; it's over particles that are _significantly_ smaller that our skin cells. The idea being the particles have to be small enough to diffuse across the cell membran
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by ncallaway 14y ago
I agree that the sexist rhetoric is wrong or misplaced. However, if they have a need for people who are especially creative and social, it's fine for that to be part of the hiring bar. I see absolutely no reason to tie it to any stereotype,
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by ncallaway 14y ago
In addition to the force of the impact, a significant difference is the form that you employ in making a tackle. In football a common technique is to put your head in the center of the opponent's body in order to help stop their force. In r
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by ncallaway 14y ago
Leading with the _crown_ of the helmet will get you a 15 yard penalty. The second infraction should get you ejected from the game. Leading with the front of the helmet (e.g. planting your facemask in the opponent's chest) is still perfectly
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by ncallaway 14y ago
This makes me wonder how sophisticated phishing setups are. This seems like something that they would want to A/B test to determine which "converts" more "users".
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by ncallaway 14y ago
I'm using T-Mobile in much the manner the author describes and not having any problems. This is exactly the kind of reason why their attempt to buy T-Mobile failed.
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by ncallaway 14y ago
This reminds me of the recent ShowHN of criticue ( http://criticue.com/ ). You could do something similar (or those guys could do it) where you provide feedback on other people's repositories in exchange for feedback on your repository. Sor
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by ncallaway 14y ago
I haven't read the book that he linked to, but in the blog post or the journal article I didn't see any true exploration of causation vs. correlation. What if these are 7 habits that make people likely to become CEOs? It would follow, then,
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by ncallaway 14y ago
My interpretation was that he was saying the arrow of refactoring is <i>easier</i> when refactoring in the direction of less abstraction. I suspect he agrees that generally the arrow points in the direction of <i>mor
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by ncallaway 14y ago
robrenaud did not respond to the argument that the PC is a Finite Automata. His only comment was that "Finite Automata are quite weak" (in the context of the _theoretical difference_ between Turing machines and FA). He's absolutely correct.
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by ncallaway 14y ago
This is incorrect. The suggested approach makes the game significantly more accurate adding 3 multiplications and an addition. This does not make the game noticeably slower. If you're concerned about 3 multiplications and an addition you're
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by ncallaway 14y ago
I don't think many people complained that this guy received extra scrutiny. If something looks/seems suspicious it's acceptable to apply a higher level of scrutiny in determining the actual risk. The article acknowledges this, and says it's
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by ncallaway 14y ago
I think there's a minor error in the analogy of "state results" to "coin flip". In the coin flip scenario each throw of the biased coins are independent. How one lands does not effect the other. The same is likely not true for how states en
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by ncallaway 14y ago
I don't think he ever claimed Linked Lists were patented. The title of the post is "Patent #7028023: Linked List". That's entirely factual based on the number and title of a patent. At no point in his comments do I see him say "A linked lis
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by ncallaway 14y ago
I agree with you that the article doesn't give enough context. We can't know whether or not the jury came back to it. Though, by the same token I find your assumption that "they must have had _some_ further discussions" to be spurious for t
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by ncallaway 14y ago
True, though the professional analysis from groklaw is a pretty good read.
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by ncallaway 14y ago
I'm reminded of an old joke: "In Soviet Russia reasonable and appropriate considerations are made before awarding 1B in damages based on vaguely similar designs".
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by ncallaway 14y ago
And what law says that borrowing features and ideas from competitors is illegal or grounds for compensation? If you quote the 43(a) of the Landham Act which covers trade dress, please specify which "word, term, name, symbol, or device" that
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by ncallaway 14y ago
The FBI seized his server farm independently on the raid on his house. I don't think they actually have much _evidence_ that they plan on using from the raid; I think the main action out of that was his arrest.
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by ncallaway 14y ago
Apparently the NZ courts came to the same critical question that you did. In all honesty, it seems ridiculous that the FBI thought they could withhold evidence.