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Vivek Wadha: "You learn little by writing code."(twitter.com)
9 points by pgroves 15y ago|4 comments
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by pgroves 15y ago
Finding a (legitimate) excuse to post on reddit (or similar) gets a surprising number of hits. I can't tell you anything about conversion rates of those visitors, but just the other day I broke down and submitted a company blog post to the
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Overfitting Entire Companies with Statistical Modeling(designbyrobots.com)
2 points by pgroves 15y ago|0 comments
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by pgroves 15y ago
In all seriousness, is there a shorter "cheat sheet" of this document or something similar? I'm sure I'm not the only one here working on building a server side app but has little security experience. "Security" is tough to give top priorit
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by pgroves 15y ago
I would recommend detecting if javascipt is enabled on the landing page and putting up an "enable javascript to see how it works on this page" message. I had javascript off when I got there and didn't realize I was missing something until I
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by pgroves 15y ago
I disagree with article's conclusion that they are selecting for "backend" engineers. They are selecting for people that think over-engineering every little data structure is the way to build good programs. The skill software companies need
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by pgroves 15y ago
You would probably like the economist Tyler Cowen's books. There are several but in one (I forget which) he goes so far as to say you should walk out of movies after 10 minutes if you aren't enjoying it and walk into the middle of another.
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by pgroves 16y ago
I hate to be Debbie Downer, but discussions like this where people post what they charge their customers can get dangerously close to violating price fixing laws, especially if the purpose is for sellers to get justification to raise their
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Ask HN: Any advice on finding a copyeditor?
2 points by pgroves 16y ago|3 comments
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by pgroves 16y ago
I know everyone loves their high powered languages, but I'm afraid the author is right. The more developers, the more conformity you need. I'm doing a personal project in OCaml, and I absolutely love it. I like to think it keeps my medium s
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by pgroves 16y ago
I agree almost 100% with what you're saying. I'll just add 2 comments: 1) Regarding the fact that at any given time, there is knowledge that people have that hasn't been encoded in a form usable by the optimizer: I think this can be address
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by pgroves 16y ago
I appreciate someone in your position posting this comment more than you can imagine. The research project I'm working on is an attempt to confront this problem. As you say in another comment on this thread, GA's are good for small problems
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by pgroves 16y ago
the virtual design studio you mention is precisely the system i wish the machine learning community was building.
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by pgroves 16y ago
Optimization research is most directly applicable. Genetic algorithms are probably the most widely known. But in general, the problem involves doing pattern detection between possible designs and their quality metrics. When the whole thing
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by pgroves 16y ago
I'm surprised no one is talking about the fact that this is one of the most complex projects ever undertaken by human beings. It was being designed and orchestrated in the only way we know how, and it broke down. I don't believe bringing in
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by pgroves 16y ago
One other point should be made, though: creating an on demand market for network bandwidth was Enron's last spectacular flame out. They were trying to bring their expertise for trading electricity (which had caused serious problems in Calif
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by pgroves 16y ago
This is an idea I've been interested in for a while. The real benefits will occur when the equivalent of derivatives become common. The clearest example is mapping a RAID server (multiple disk drives, with some technique for splitting up th
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by pgroves 16y ago
sorry, server went down. google cache here: http://bit.ly/gPjVr9
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by pgroves 16y ago
>Mr Schmitt says it should be possible for a robot builder to specify what a servo needs to do, rather than how it needs to be made, and send that information to a 3D printer, and for the machine’s software to know how to produce it at
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by pgroves 16y ago
I'm always suspicious of founders that want an exit. Am I really to believe they think they're doing their life's work and trying to save the world if they want to be done with it in a few years? Do they really think of it as their baby if
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by pgroves 16y ago
I disagree that it's only big companies you need to worry about. There was recently a thread here on HN[1] about an open source flight plan project shutting down after being threatened by legal action from a small company that provided a si
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by pgroves 16y ago
Does anyone know which places with relatively developed economies have the weakest IP laws? I would guess Hong Kong, Singapore, or China but I don't really know. I've been working on a rather ambitious piece of software and I'm definitely w
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by pgroves 16y ago
Seriously, the headline should be "House Succeeds at Discontinuing Patriot Act Spy Powers"
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by pgroves 16y ago
It depends on your definition of 'generalist' and 'specialist'. To an engineer working on the low level details of a product that matches the specifics of the market to the specifics of the technology, a V.C. claiming to be a specialist b/c
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by pgroves 16y ago
My favorite: I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though. -Mikhail Kalashnikov
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by pgroves 16y ago
While I actually can empathize with the author on wanting to help out, he's really making stackoverflow sound awesome - knowledgeable people are falling all over themselves to answer your question, and don't worry about being a freeloader,
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by pgroves 16y ago
If the author wants the traffic to go through his site (once he gets a mirror up), just leave a comment and I'll delete the above copy.
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by pgroves 16y ago
Full text from google cache: Corporate stereotypes, and why Microsoft could kill your startup career Note: This post is intended for engineers who are looking to start their own company or join an early stage startup. Many of the critique
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“Add Analytics” is a Terrible Requirement(designbyrobots.com)
3 points by pgroves 16y ago|1 comments
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The End Of Facebook and Free Software's Quiet Revolution(developer.appleseedproject.org)
1 points by pgroves 16y ago|0 comments

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