pmichaud

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811.
by pmichaud 17y ago
This is a pipe dream. I totally get the engineery argument for certainty and perfection, but this can't work in the real world. It's too inconvenient, and relies on users being responsible and educated.
812.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Heard of Sifter.org?
813.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I see students every semester struggle with the p-value. Most can use it in a formula, but almost none could explain fluently what it actually means. I'm not sure how to make it more clear.
814.
by pmichaud 17y ago
It's a body hack. HN is about being clever, and this is sort of clever, that's my guess.
815.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Linkbait. This guy is noticing admittedly interesting characteristics of "grain dynamics," but it's not a new state of matter at all.
816.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I don't think I quite get what he means by "professionalism" (which is a stupid word in most contexts). I think he means "high quality craftsmanship," ie "not amateurish." My question to the author is: how do /you/ balance the need for craf
817.
by pmichaud 17y ago
It explains it in the article -- the robot is designed to simulate the motion of real, human soldiers in order to test protective, anti-chemical gear for the military (both walking and crawling apparently). It'll also be able to regulate te
818.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I think that's sort of the point being made -- you might not find eclipse programmer, but you'll find plenty of Java or .NET programmers, and those are tools also.
819.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I don't have a degree and I've never had a problem getting multiple job offers when I've been on the market. I've held some very high posts as well. I think people use the degree as a road sign or indicator of possible quality, among other
820.
by pmichaud 17y ago
This is a site that's really good for beginners: http://www.statisticshowto.com And it's really relevant here because the approach to everything is step by step -- the author of the site probably doesn't realize it, but the tutorial steps
821.
by pmichaud 17y ago
My wife and I make a good living blogging -- we have, and are always developing, niche sites that take about a month to build into something substantial, so roughly each month there is a new property which we can track for hits and revenue.
822.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Right, AI isn't recognizable as the Scifi thing you might have in mind... it's automatic financial trading software, or it's robotic path finding or target acquisition.
823.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I don't know why this comment was voted down, but I think he could be right -- given the correct resources (time mainly), and assuming the right talent level, I think we could consistently build rock-solid software. The constraint seems to
824.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I really thought this was going to be one of those linkbait stories about some underqualified guy who wrote a paper that isn't peer reviewed about amoebas, so the author forms a tenuous connection between the paper and some future possibili
825.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I agree that if I set up an expectation that I didn't follow through on, I would be rude. The fact is that I'm very, very clear about my position on the phone, so she has no reasonable expectation that I'll check it regularly.
826.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I resisted until my business partner insisted and the company bought me one, which I still have. I just recently got in trouble with a good friend over it though -- she is very much into the cell phone thing, and culturally, she considers i
827.
by pmichaud 17y ago
This might be the case, but even if it's true, the principle of evolution dictates that we're wimpier because it doesn't matter anymore. Why be strong when we have tools to be strong for us?
828.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I totally get it now. Most of my sites are already using only one vendor per "need," so I didn't get the use case. Now it's clear.
829.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I don't think you fully grokked the article. With cheques, the buyer gives the seller their bank account info and notes how much the seller should take out. With giro, the seller gives the buyer the bank account information, and the buyer d
830.
by pmichaud 17y ago
He's correctly pointed out that zero tolerance is a sort of promiscuous security method, that applies itself to situations where it should not in order, the idea goes, that it applies itself to /all/ situations where it should. It's a polic
831.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I read your explanation, understood that it's a kind of external javascript combining machine to limit http requests and size, while increasing reliability. I then went to your site to check out the demo and found a page with lots and lots
832.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I've never hired one per se, but networking is like having a team of them, and you can call any given one depending on your question. It's like having a super knowledgeable coach all the time, no matter what.
833.
by pmichaud 17y ago
This sort of nonsense is endemic to benefits systems including food stamps. They seem to try pretty hard to disincent people from being honest.
834.
by pmichaud 17y ago
My son once brought a butter knife to school to spread peanut butter on some bread for lunch. They made a prtty big deal out of it, but no one was arrested.
835.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Sort of -- lack of education of the parents, relatives, and peer group is the big factor.
836.
by pmichaud 17y ago
The part I don't quite get here is how these "capabilities" will be able to integrate their data for things like reporting? Even if they are all "on the cloud," the data has to be related somehow or it can't really work. The obvious workaro
837.
by pmichaud 17y ago
His superman reference to Nietzsche is totally wrong. Overmen weren't supposed to be super-duper great, productive people. He was making a really complex argument about human beings shedding their animal nature and antiquated morality to as
838.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Maybe in some sense it could be workable, but there so many implementation issues that it could collapse into worthlessness, or even create big problems within the company.
839.
by pmichaud 17y ago
That might be relevant if you want to continually add many elements to the DOM, but that's rarely the case in most web applications. The benefit of using strings to shave milliseconds is heavily outweighed by the unreadable, error-prone cod
840.
by pmichaud 17y ago
I have my doubts, but my wife has successfully used hypnosis to quit smoking and get over a fear of the dentist. I think it's placebo, but I don't tell her that -- if it works for her, I don't want to risk undermining the effect.

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