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by nwhitehead 13y ago
The theoretical payoff of sticky bonuses is one minus twice the house edge [1]. The house edge of slot machines varies between 5-15%, so with optimal play you should be able to get out $.70 to $.90 per sticky bonus $1. By cashing out earlie
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by nwhitehead 13y ago
Reading about suspensions reminds me of the inerter (J-damper) [1] used in F1 racing. It was discovered by analogy with electrical circuits; it was the missing mechanical part corresponding to a capacitor. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by nwhitehead 13y ago
Maybe don't drink any kool aid at all and focus on delivering value to customers.
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by nwhitehead 13y ago
The fun part of parallel programming is getting things running on your GPU, parallelizing the algorithm, then tuning and optimizing the code. This is easier, faster, and more pleasant in CUDA with it's mature tools and ecosystem. That's why
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by nwhitehead 14y ago
If you love programming there's no reason to let unhelpful online responses get you down. Keep looking for good people that can help you online, they do exist. And keep trying to improve the way you learn and the way you get information f
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by nwhitehead 14y ago
Nice looking site! I'm a professional programmer just getting started with indie game development (it's so much fun!). The biggest thing I want out of a game hosting site apart from actual sales is insight into the potential players/custom
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by nwhitehead 14y ago
Talking to your children in an honest way as independent people, working with them to come up with innovative solutions to problems, being inspired by their peers who have managed to overcome the same problem (the deviants) sounds like an E
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by nwhitehead 14y ago
Very nice! I worked through all the levels you have and everything worked great, it was a lot of fun. Some notes: I "cheated" and used cherry-pick before it was introduced, not sure if that should or should not be allowed. Sometimes I was
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by nwhitehead 14y ago
This thread and patch are silly, but running out of entropy can be a real performance problem sometimes. I've seen it on embedded Linux systems that I've set up to be headless servers. After turning off lots of device drivers, I noticed t
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by nwhitehead 14y ago
These are the problems you want to have.
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by nwhitehead 14y ago
> As I understand it, that was the original spec, which both Knuth and McIlroy wrote to. I agree that it is limited as you say. My new opinion is that great programmers will go beyond the spec and make their software handle Unicode in c
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by nwhitehead 14y ago
Actually some subjects on YouTube do have high-brow discussion, they're just not the millions-of-views kinds of subjects. I did a bunch of videos on quantitative finance, the discussions on those often involve talking about calculus, quest
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by nwhitehead 14y ago
At my college (Whitman College) you can get a degree in Mathematics-Physics. That is the "combined major". It is about as difficult as either a degree in mathematics or a degree in physics, the requirements are a mix of both. The alternat
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by nwhitehead 14y ago
You should put the name "patio11" on the landing page. I saw the page, thought "maybe, not sure". After I saw the comments and realized this was you (patio11) I thought "heck yeah!" and signed up as fast as I could.
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
This is explicitly against YouTube's terms of service.
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
The article doesn't suggest only using 48kHz for recording and mixing. I don't think the author would disagree that recording triangles is difficult. He would argue that once you've decided what final audible frequencies you want to prese
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
Nathan here - just chiming in that I'm willing to answer questions here as well as on email.
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Wanna buy a television station?(nathansandbox.appspot.com)
1 points by nwhitehead 15y ago|1 comments
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
It's not your job to decide if you are competent enough to be an asset to the team, it is the company's job. If you want the internship, apply. Let them do the work of figuring out if they want you.
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
It's interesting that in this older essay pg suggests focusing on number of users as a good metric for adding value. Nowadays this is called a vanity metric and everyone is looking for actionable metrics based on cohort analysis etc. It s
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
I don't buy it. Looking at college-educated versus high-school educated people is the wrong comparison when advising people whether to go to college or not. The relevant populations are people like you who went to college and people like
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
At UIUC some of my friends did a startup related to memory architectures. IBM pretty quickly shut them down with threats of patent suits. So I know it happens, not sure how common it is though.
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
I'm not a fan of wrist supports for everyday use. My strategy: 1) Kinesis keyboard 2) trackball on left and right side of keyboard, to balance mousing 3) lift weights 3 times/week 4) fish oil supplements once a day (mild anti-inflammatory
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
(Creator here) Ha, yeah JSLint really provokes strong emotions. Before I added in JSLint, if you misplaced one semicolon or forgot a parentheses, none of the tests would run and it would just say "program failed". That was incredibly frust
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
Simpson's paradox is amazing, it's worth reading all the examples in the article and really understanding it. Another good source is Martin Gardner's "Aha! Gotcha" book. He presents the paradox as a woman trying to find eligible bachelors
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
I'll reword it, I agree that it is confusing still.
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
Most journals now have an explicit policy that putting up your preprints online is OK. You can check the status of any particular journal or publisher here: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
I just put up an interactive javascript tutorial. It starts simple then builds up to passing around functions, closures, continuations. Give it a try and let me know what you think. http://nathansjslessons.appspot.com/
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by nwhitehead 15y ago
Just put this online, try it out and let me know if you see any problems. Kudos to whoever finishes first!
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Show HN: Interactive JavaScript tutorial on closures and continuations(nathansjslessons.appspot.com)
6 points by nwhitehead 15y ago|7 comments

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