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by pbh101 12y ago
Maybe I missed something: why did the author choose 3.7? Was it just arbitrary?
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by pbh101 12y ago
It's a little different: 1) Reduce 'soft' duplication. Overhead of having many small logging calls everywhere is probably higher than we all want to admit 2) Reduce small variances. Common logging format is useful (as a b
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by pbh101 12y ago
My general impression before reading the article is the Iron Dome, while technically impressive, wouldn't help ease the systemic problems, because if rockets become ineffective enough, other means of enacting violence/getting the
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by pbh101 12y ago
"Infrastructure buildout lags population growth" is a way less sexier story than "Miami will not exist soon because Republicans." I too would bet that Miami isn't going anywhere because entrenched interests (that is
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by pbh101 12y ago
Two more notes: 1) In addition to there being many non-monetary factors in a housing market, as hollerith mentioned, housing markets are also generally not very efficient compared to others. 2) Any bet that land prices will plummet for this
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by pbh101 12y ago
Netflix has apparently called this idea an 'orchestration layer': http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/12/17/future-api-design-orches...
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by pbh101 12y ago
Disagree. Would say it's a decent violation of expectations for the same instance to be passed into every invocation. Of course, the counterargument is 'know your tools,' which I'm partial to, but the fact that this po
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by pbh101 12y ago
Quick note: according to Wikipedia (citing IMF, World Bank, etc) the US is #1 in GDP at ~$16 trillion, almost double China in the number two spot. We are number 6 in PPP, but if we're talking economic output I would argue the former i
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by pbh101 12y ago
If anyone wants a bit more detail and color on this story, I recommend "Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson. I saw it in a bookstore last year and picked it up. Was quite pleased to get more background on these seminal charac
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by pbh101 14y ago
Check this post from StackExchange [1]. One of the things I definitely took away from it is that while working remotely has benefits and affords flexibility to employees and employers, it incurs very real costs that have to be mitigated an
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by pbh101 14y ago
Yes. My father does research in this area. Specifically, inferring the health of vegetation (among other attributes of land cover) from statistical analysis of satellite imagery. From what I recall, you can measure the level of photosynth
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What Would Be The Downsides Of Going To An Accelerator Or An Incubator?(forbes.com)
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Just Friends, or a Secret Club? (Facebook-Goldman)(nationalreview.com)
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by pbh101 17y ago
That was my first reaction on seeing the headline too.
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by pbh101 17y ago
He was commenting on his score in the Harvard Implicit Association Tests, IIRC.
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by pbh101 17y ago
when is that, btw? I lost that google group in a computer somwhere.
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by pbh101 17y ago
Devil's advocate: "Well, if my email is down, then my competitor's is too!" I don't really know how much your argument applies to companies looking for hosted email; if they can't send, they can't send, so it doesn't matter if someone else
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by pbh101 18y ago
Another point I forgot to mention is that, IIRC, every single Congress since the start of the nation has introduced and entertained a bill looking to replace the Electoral System with a popular vote system, and not once has it gotten anywhe
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by pbh101 18y ago
I've heard that it currently ensures that more, disparate voices will be heard. As Jonah Goldberg once said, democracy shouldn't work such that "51% of the country can give the other 49% a wedgie". Were the electoral model to be abandoned,
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by pbh101 18y ago
Chalk that up to: 1) 2004 election 2) the Pretenders' "My City Was Gone" -- which mentions someone coming back to Cuyahoga Falls and seeing her farmtown subsumed by the city. Also, it's Rush Limbaugh's theme song.
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by pbh101 18y ago
just to let you know, there's a very populous county in Ohio named Cuyahoga, pronounced somewhat closely to your name. at first i thought it was a regional search just based on the name. you might want to take that into consideration
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by pbh101 18y ago
4 exabytes? EDIT: err, 16 exabytes, I'm thinking now
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by pbh101 18y ago
I think the graphs, bu fault of 'value' not being defined, are showing a hybrid of the long-term and immediate value of the code. Take, for example, a strict refactoring of the code, in the sense that only implementation is being changed a
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by pbh101 18y ago
I was in the middle of a game! Seriously, though, silly move on Hasbro's part. Of course, if it's true that the brothers rejected $10 mil, then I don't really see what they're aiming for... maybe assurances that it wouldn't be shut down? A
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by pbh101 18y ago
Knol pages are probably optimized and tuned heavily for Google search results, but I doubt the indexer/engine itself has any "if (IsKnolPage) rank++" kind of code in it. When I started a small travel blog, after about a week it was quite we
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by pbh101 18y ago
Being a college senior, I just want to point out again that credit cards aren't intrinsically bad; rather, they're a tool that can be used effectively or abused. I have a local Credit Union Visa and an Amazon CC, the latter of which I only