peter-row

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by peter-row 12y ago
I think their marketing is off. It's 10-20% of the price of a segway, and you can climb stairs, and carry them much more easily. They also look easy to put on (unlike rollerblades). If they can sell 500 units, they'll easily hit t
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by peter-row 12y ago
Also, not knowing what scope a variable has when creating closures.
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by peter-row 12y ago
Yes and yes. It's still probably the biggest upset ever, but not as unlikely as their model suggests.
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by peter-row 12y ago
I think he's saying it's a souped-up poisson model, not an agent based model. It's not trying to predict individual behavior. A poisson model is probably valid, but it should perhaps be refined a bit. Maybe it should account
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by peter-row 12y ago
Statistically, high paid CEOs are worth less than low paid ones. There's a negative correlation between CEO pay and stock performance.
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by peter-row 12y ago
FTA, it seems she's front-running some approvals requirements and the sales / payola cycle by running a testing lab as well as developing the tests. To IT people, this is counterintuitive. You don't vertically integrate, you
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by peter-row 12y ago
Just a stupid question ... what is it? edit: Answered in other people's comments - it's somewhere between HTML5BoilerPlate and Bootstrap - a basic "hello world" bunch of HTML / SASS / js boilerplate code. This
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by peter-row 12y ago
Can you fix it by adding random gaussian noise to the input?
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by peter-row 12y ago
No, the ASU (which is part of the government) is doing its job. Starbucks is forking over a few hundred dollars per worker as a perk.
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by peter-row 12y ago
Ideally, if you can convince a court there's a reasonable chance that the property was legally obtained (using income you legally earned), and that it wasn't purchased with the intent to primarily use it for illegal activities. Pr
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by peter-row 12y ago
It sounds like the Soylent Revolution will be pleasurable. If you have Soylent for one or two meals a day, then you'll really enjoy everything else. The mechanics of pleasure are well understood - you enjoy things more when you don&#
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by peter-row 12y ago
Python 3 isn't really good. It's not really bad, either. There's really not that many magic bullets (other than proper functional programming, maybe, which isn't about to happen in Python). People are leaving Python for
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by peter-row 12y ago
No, it won't. Unless the economists have seriously screwed up, then capital gains will be done on an accrual basis - 100 people will all be gaining income from their homes.
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by peter-row 12y ago
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference, right? Your problem is not really knowing if you can change things. Or whether it's worthwhile to chan
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by peter-row 12y ago
Apple Fanboy and MS basher here. Seriously, the Surface is a great move. Aside from the whole Pro / RT naming thing, of course (confusing customers is not good). The Surface is, AFAIK, the only good tablet PC out there - it's a re
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by peter-row 12y ago
http://peter-the-tea-drinker.com/pages/longjing-exmple.html Summary - if you don't want to break the web you should do this: 1. If you must use Javascript templating, inline the JSON into the document. 2. If possi