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by pmichaud 17y ago
I don't see how prefixing names with $ is a "smell". It's just a convenient way to differentiate jQuery objects quickly. sort of like "strVar" or "intVar".
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Just pictures of energy monitors?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This is interesting, but I'm not sure how practical it is. Has anyone ever tried this approach successfully?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Why would slovac authorities want to test the security of Irish airport security?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
If the data is available to the public this would be a huge step in the right direction.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This type of shit is endemic because there is no incentive for banking companies to play fair. They move money around with impunity. I hope they are all dismantled or at least muzzled.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Quite sure, hah. Peter and I had an e-mail exchange about 2 years ago when I first found his site. At first I was confused because I thought I had put up a site about javascript and then forgotten about it. I doubt we look similar, but that
728.
by pmichaud 17y ago
The movie is actually quite depressing, but I was happy to find out after watching that the practice has, at least temporarily, stopped.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Summary and delivery are valuable services.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It's very strange, but despite having the same name, being from the same place, being around the same age (I think), and programming in mostly the same languages, Peter Michaux isn't me. Just for the record.
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Beating the Sunk Cost Fallacy(petermichaud.com)
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I would really like a transcript or synopsis of this. I couldn't find one via the link. Is one available?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
So, instead of .5 * 1 does that mean we should waste .9 + .5 * .1 (90% plus 50% of the remaining 10%) or .5 * 1 + .5 * .9 (50% of everything plus 90% of the remaining 50%) ?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I thought this was going t be about productivity gains through idle time. It's actually about spending half your time self promoting. It's directed toward researchers, but it applies equally to anyone producing output. The point: do good wo
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Once this matures it'll be incredible. I spent my childhood having various parts removed and replaced elsewhere on my body, to questionable effect. To be able to grow custom parts at will is huge.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Citation?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Not 305%?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
My wife, who has graduate degrees in Mathematics and Creative Writing, wrote for Demand Media while we were in a transition period between traditional employment and passive income. She knocked out advanced math articles 2, sometimes 3 per
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I get your point, but incidentally, I am not a good driver, in fact. I am a careful driver, but I'm not particularly skilled.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I agree with part of what he's saying -- for some reason I've always had a problem with the word "sir." It struck me that people use the word Sir when they are artificially supplicating, or feining respect like "You, sir, are an idiot," or
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by pmichaud 17y ago
We're going to see more and more of these articles popping up as cars become more automated. To me it doesn't matter what the rate of failure is on automated systems, as long as the rate is below human failure rate. In that case, we win. It
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I am not 100% sure, but I really don't think it was a free membership page. It gave me the impression that I needed to subscribe to see the content.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Maybe they're doing a split test? When I clicked the link, it asked me to become a member. I recently cleared my cache though, and tried the link again, and I'm able to see it now with no problem.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This is exactly how I read, and yes, this site is really annoying because of that.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Pay wall 8(
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I don't get it. You can know fool google by stealing content, then rendering it jibberish to a reader. 1) Couldn't you do this before? 2) What is the point of doing this?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It's interesting that you shut the previous community down. Why didn't you iterate? Force people to provide X feedback for others in order to get Y feedback for yourself?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Interesting. So, I guess they trained the software, and presumably the training consisted of tracking white developers' faces.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
There's a parallel in business software development here. Often a programmer can toil in obscurity from his business counterparts, frustratingly producing no tangible output, until one day he press the big green button, and all the underlyi
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by pmichaud 17y ago
His lack of team experience really would be a big downer for getting a job. Glad to see he found something.

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