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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
These two approaches don't need to be exclusive. Community workarounds such as this can also function as building blocks for discussion.
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
I wonder if withholding pricing information is simply a negotiation tactic that exploits the sunk cost fallacy. If not, funnel conversion rates should be invariant of the stage at which pricing is disclosed, right?
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AT&T customer politely e-mails CEO, gets terse reply from lawyer(arstechnica.com)
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
This is a project I worked on late last year. I set out to build a spaced repetition app for younger students as well as for those who are less technically inclined. Since then, this area of online learning apps has gained a lot of traction
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Show HN: Memoread – Spaced Repetition for High School Students(memoread.io)
1 points by patrickmclaren 11y ago|1 comments
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
It seems to think my apartment building is a parking lot - there's no heat-map.
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
Well, the linked article does discuss the potential difference between a nature walk, and an urban walk. > In an earlier study published last month, he and his colleagues found that volunteers who walked briefly through a lush, green por
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
+1 for Scala, it might be a good stepping stone, given your current "enterprisey" focus. Much easier to differentiate yourself than good old fashioned Java, yet not as esoteric (viewed from enterprise) as some of the languages in
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
Perhaps there isn't.
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
It would be interesting to see if this kind of content is amenable to classification. Maybe it would be worth looking into something like Caffe [1], it may even help you with managing the site in general. I can't search right now, howe
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
I didn't realise they were lacking in weather data. Seeing tangentially related projects like their supercomputer Earth Simulator Project [1] led me to (falsely it seems) believe they were likely also sufficient in that area. Beginners
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
Just give it a shot, you could translate it line for line into Ruby, and use ImageMagick or something. Don't sell yourself short, it won't take as long as you think!
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
Latency will only be an issue if it's non-constant - most gamers can adjust for lag if it's expected. I think the underlying idea here is consistency . If I point and click on something that was merely a "mirage" due to
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
I don't think competitive is the right word (I'm leaning towards "engaging"). Even if I'm casually gaming, it can be a turn-off to notice timing issues. More-so if I have to adjust my behavior to accommodate.
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
Objects being far away doesn't necessarily mean that our view is slowed after adjusting for our speeds, albeit delayed. Although I doubt much at this distance is measured optically, but rather using estimates of gravitational forces, p
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
A couple months ago I put together a spaced repetition app ( https://www.memoread.io/ ) aimed at less tech savvy students. At the time it didn't meet much success, although I may revisit it in the future.
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
I recently worked on a similar project (with Privy.com), where Mixpanel was one of the external providers we tracked with. Mixpanel handles (AFAIK) an arbitrary number of properties. It was a lot easier than say Google Analytics, where cust
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
That's just knee-jerk mentality, not necessarily associated with startups.
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
Indeed! The frequency of Service Packs post-Windows 10 will be key for remote users. I haven't looked into this recently, I wonder how easy it is for end-users to roll their own.
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
Off-topic rant: I used to live in a remote area, with very little connectivity. Upgrading tech used to involve traveling to a retailer, and buying the latest version off the shelf. More recently, it involes traveling to a solid internet con
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
In the past, when considering the term 'Data Science', I've assumed that this is roughly equivalent to the union of Probability Models, Statistics (with a view towards Decision Theory), CS, and Graphic/Web Design (perhap
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
Location: Boston Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AngularJS, Rails, Python, Java, and (some) Scala Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickkmclaren , http://careers.stackoverflow.c
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by patrickmclaren 11y ago
You have stated exactly what the commenter needs to accomplish without a single consideration as to how to change their mind to do so, which in this case is likely the more pressing issue. Instead of telling someone who is doing X and faili
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by patrickmclaren 12y ago
My first exposure to Lisp was through a combination of Hacker News, SICP, and Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence. Also, there may have been a blog post by one of the Posterous (or a similar company) guys about getting started with SBCL fo
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by patrickmclaren 12y ago
Thanks for linking that. Do you know any more about it? I see a component of their curriculum is "Emotional Resilience", curious to see how much of the program is focused on that aspect as opposed to what signals I choose to broad
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by patrickmclaren 12y ago
Significance of a problem shouldn't be considered from the same point of view as pricing an asset, by face value. Open problems concerning prime numbers can be considered as large floodgates, waiting to be opened. Their applicability i
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by patrickmclaren 12y ago
I stumbled across Pyspread the other day, a more recent attempt at a spreadsheet using Python at the cell-level. See http://manns.github.io/pyspread/ . Pyspread expects Python expressions in its grid cells, which ma
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by patrickmclaren 12y ago
Fortunately, there is more to this than meets the eye. It is unlikely that a patient will come to a halt during a panic attack, say "Wait. I just need to breathe, slowly." If you haven't experienced a panic attack, it could b
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by patrickmclaren 12y ago
It is indeed less true, until the possibility that we could be committing a type I error can be ruled out. It may be that TDD has little negative effect upon development and results in a FeelGood™ response that could be present within any p
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by patrickmclaren 12y ago
Thanks for the reference! I had no idea Hamming elaborated further on this topic.

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