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by pnmahoney 15y ago
there is a rumor that initial delays had to do with (what would seem to be a very cautious) aversion re: sopa/pipa issues over the screencasts. i say that "there is a rumor" because the only extent i know about it is as a rumor from someo
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
"He wants to tell stories rather than to analyze a phenomenon. He tells them well enough, if you can stand the style. ( Blink is written like a book intended for people who do not read books.)" -Richard Posner on Malcolm Gladwell
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
daft punk, daft punk, daft punk.
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
really? pinterest has a substantial potential for data warehousing! maybe that's why they're hiring to find ppl with data mining experience for their hadoop stack . . .
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35 Things FB's filing Says Could Kill Them(mashable.com)
2 points by pnmahoney 15y ago|0 comments
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
The conclusions here feel overblown to me. I'm all for being vigilant, but but there's nothing compelling Dropbox to madly scramble to (as the author puts it) "pass muster under the new regime". But what new regime? I'm not totally sure wha
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
This is a pretty cool example of how important it was to change business model (or at least be sensitive to being wrong about your initial expectation) and the uncanny serendipity of the valley. One question, though: what kinds of factors g
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
This is crucial: the difference between the state of mind (mens rea) requirement for the criminal charges, and the clear(!) violations of the civil statutes at hand. Even if, for some reason, this isn't getting Megaupload off the hook, it's
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
I guess downvote-burying is a pretty good way to stimulate discussion, huh? I don't know if I should interpret it as you agreeing with DHH or not.
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
I don't think anyone has a final answer, but really _how close_ do designs have to be so as to lack integrity? (assuming that they hadn't straight up lifted the CSS, images, button etc... which they did, which is clearly wrong.) Ex: DHH say
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
ps, hosted at stanford? yes. stanford's program? no.
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
I don't think anyone has a final answer, but really _how close_ do designs have to be so as to lack integrity? (assuming that they hadn't straight up lifted the CSS, images, button etc... which they did, which is clearly wrong.) Ex: DHH say
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
Edit: totally out of line, my apologies. I'll just stick with saying that it's absurd to say (as implied above) that "class homework" isn't _really_ plagiarism.
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
This appears to be the guy's self-description on LinkedIn. He loves software-as-a-service: Intense, energetic, and ambitious professional interested in staying as close to the bleeding edge as I can in the realm of SaaS, social, and mobile
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
Note: This can't be a correction so much as (ideally) an opening point for discussion, but Hitchens certainly wasn't a Marxist in the sense of one who advocated replacing the market economy. (Or at least not the Hitchens that died yesterday
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
I think the rationale is that - at least as Prof Ng articulated in another ML course he taught this quarter - videos following a lecturer as he teaches on stage are actually _less effective_ than videos which just follow slides w/ audio nar
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&#38... This seems to bear on the implied point here: that mental focus on a problem -- perhaps unconsciously -- can be reflected in our neurobiology. (Or vice versa? Not sure whethe
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
http://dumbsluts.jpg.to/ goes to sarah palin
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by pnmahoney 15y ago
airport repository removed 'til wednesday -- http://forum.sourcefabric.org/index.php/t/3654/
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by pnmahoney 16y ago
yeahhhhhh.... i think they would get Eric Roberts to teach a fucking class on Word/Excel. That sounds completely reasonable. to clarify: 106a is java, basically an intro to OO stuff and 106b is C++, getting into data structures, etc.