rauljara

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   by rauljara 15y ago

   I'm actually being really productive having the stream on in the background. I'm not looking at him code, but hearing his techno going is reminding me that someone somewhere is getting a ton of shit done, and it's shaming me into working h
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   by rauljara 15y ago

   I actually worked on the project on which the graphic in the Atlantic is based (and which, in turn, this piece is based on). We came up with different percentages because we are looking at a wider swath of spending than this piece is. But
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   by rauljara 15y ago

   Thanks. I suppose ssh or dropbox integration would be a little too much to hope for in a proof of concept app. I will have to buy it and leave feedback encouraging development in that direction.
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   by rauljara 15y ago

   Does anyone who's bought it have a sense of how saving files works? Is it easy to get them off of the iPad, or are they stuck there? There was no mention of that on the app store page.
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   by rauljara 15y ago

   I don't disagree. But it is important to note that the minimum viable product for the creator of minecraft is significantly different from the minimum viable product for random internet denizen x. You are guaranteed a certain amount of cu
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   by rauljara 15y ago

   The thread on xkcd forums has screenshots of a lot of the different comics. It's crazy how many variations there are. The one in hebrew (for those in Israel) makes me think people will be finding new ones for quite a while. http://forums
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   by rauljara 15y ago

   Please do. If it ends up as copy on your site somewhere, would you mind I mentioned that in job interviews and the like? If that's cool, would you mind shooting me an email with your contact info just in case someone asks for confirmation
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   by rauljara 15y ago

   Yeah, homepage looks great. But if your pitch is being used in articles (like this), I think you should work on it a bit. You should also think about how friends are going to describe it to each other and get some of that language on the s
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   by rauljara 15y ago

   Just a suggestion on your pitch: This part of the article sounded interesting: "think of TenFarms as a real-time map that displays who is nearby and lets you skim through pictures, videos, events, check-ins and conversations happening in th
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    I am reminded of the Dijkstra quote: From there it is only a small step to measuring "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced per month". This is a very costly measuring unit because it encourages the writing
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    So from what I could read (it's kind of hard to get to the original studies from their main site) the "multiple clinical studies" means 3 studies. One, involving navigating a computer generated city, had six participants. Which is pretty p
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    Once lawsuits can be filed by algorithm, any court system would be completely overwhelmed unless it had a) some system for limiting the number of lawsuits and/or b) some system for settling lawsuits that would involve an algorithm. Some sys
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    The marketing material assumed that the people reading it would be heterosexual men, and gave no consideration to the idea that a woman might actually want to attend an event. Finding women attractive is not a sin. Assuming the whole worl
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    Kudos to the piece for being well written, readable, and clear. But I'm worried about a "for the rest of us" that starts off with first Plato and then lambda calculus. The problem with "the rest of us" is that these concepts aren't inheren
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    For contrast, they sold 5.2 million macs last quarter. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/01/24Apple-Reports-Firs... Also, the iPhone 4s sold 4 million in its opening weekend. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/10/17iPhone-4S-First
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    This is wrong: primes = [2, 3, 5, 7] puts primes[0..3] # => [2, 3, 5] It actually outputs [2, 3, 5, 7]. I believe the author meant to write: puts primes[0...3] # => [2, 3, 5] Had trouble finding an email on his blog page. Hope
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    A low number of false positives with a water pistol is an impressive engineering feat. A low number of false positives with an actual gun is a disaster. The technology is still a long way off.
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    I think a fair number of homeowners would be willing to pay a lot of money for a version of this system they didn't have to program themselves. And had more firepower, of course.
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    And 1GB of ram confirmed. Apple's policy of not mentioning the ram made sense to me when they started, because it did seem like a amount of ram in the initial model (256mb). But they've doubled the ram with each new generation and made no
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    Most of the answers I've seen as to why hjkl have fallen into the "so your fingers stay on the home row / it's actually quite fast once you get used to it" realm. But those answers were never completely satisfactory to me. Once you get us
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    Hate to be that guy, but citation needed. I don't know about all of the entitlement programs, but according to the AMA+, the official cost of medicare overhead was 3.1% in 2005. Which does not sound like a "huge fraction" to me. I don't kn
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    "The main function of our government is to write checks to middle-class and wealthy voters." Unless I'm reading those graphs wrong (pretty sure I'm not), even though a smaller share of entitlement checks are going to the very poor, a majori
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    Actually, from the beginning they've mentioned that equipment failure would be one of the ways to account for the findings. They also have been incredibly open in asking for help to explain the anomaly. I don't see this as scary at all.
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    Upvoted, because that was well said, and because I'll fully admit that CK's rant is not quite a proper response to the OP. But I do think that the original rant was clearly someone who let his rage batter the rational part of his brain into
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    Louis CK has a fantastic rant about people complaining about technology being too slow (and technology, in general). It helped to put my own rage in perspective. I find myself getting less pissed at technology since watching it, and I kin
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    I really like the ideas behind this "infoveganism", but lord do I hate the name. I think the author chose it because in his mind veganism has to do with health. Nothing wrong with that association (i don't think there's anything wrong wit
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    This is a preference in system preferences that is pretty easy to change. I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to say that if you can't figure out how to change it, you probably would have trouble figuring out what's safe to install on
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    > I can't see a privacy issue unless some human gets access to that information. Correct me if I am wrong, but the change in google's privacy policy meant that the data google collects from google+ is shared along the data that they col
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    Problems with hotmail/ms aside, I'm really glad a major corporation is going after google over the privacy issues. It's pretty hard to get people to care about privacy, and one of the few ways I could imagine the issue entering into the ma
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    by rauljara 15y ago

    Absurd. When the library of Alexandria burnt, knowledge and culture was lost, never to be recovered. When mega upload shut down, it just meant you had to switch which service you used. I seriously doubt there was a single bit of knowledge