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by shadowmint 9y ago
oh, nice! I didn't realize that `brew info X` had a nice summary line in it. Thanks for the tip.
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by shadowmint 9y ago
Someone super needs to turn that list into an expanded version with a 2 line summary of each line. I found myself tabbing out to google constantly like 'fdk-aac, wow, that's a thing? cool~'
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by shadowmint 9y ago
I don't know why people are down voting you. Yes, the eclipse doesn't start until ~15.50 UTC. If anyone jumps on the live stream now they're going to be bored for a while. There's a quite convenient little countdown on
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by shadowmint 9y ago
> As of the third quarter of 2013, Gartner reported that Windows Phone holds a worldwide market share of 3.6%, up 123% from the same period in 2012 and outpacing Android's rate of growth. Sound familiar? (and I assure you, that 3.6%
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by shadowmint 9y ago
That what people said about the early growth in windows phones too. I literally remember standing there listening a microsoft rep tell me that 'When you don't have much market share, there's always room for great growth"
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by shadowmint 9y ago
I imagine anything short and simple enough can be finessed to be beautiful and elegant. ...but scaling from the small to the large elegantly is what make doesn't do well; and there's an astonishing number of tools designed to tr
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by shadowmint 9y ago
> That's hardly a fitting analogy. From my perspective, it's absolutely no different. ...but you know, reading your comment history, I see there's little point in arguing about it with you. Let's just settle for: we d
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by shadowmint 9y ago
Things happen to people all the time, should I care about every single person who gets fired for doing something stupid at work? Do you care that Bob down the road got fired for swearing at his boss? I bet you don't. Why is this guy sp
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by shadowmint 9y ago
> He got fired, very publicly, from Google for what he said, or at least an interpretation of what he said. I don't care. I don't know the dude. Lifes tough, people get fired. /shrug. > That is in fact the core issue ov
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by shadowmint 9y ago
yeah, ok... but I mean, really, do you care what he said? I mean, do you really care if people misinterpreted it? Is that what is important here? What someone did or didn't mean when they did or didn't say something? I honestly
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by shadowmint 9y ago
> His hypothesis implies that personality differences mean a smaller percentage of women will be interested in and/or qualified for a Google job than men, but that doesn’t mean any of the women at Google fall below the “qualified” t
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by shadowmint 9y ago
> it is very much not obvious to me that this doesn't count as meaningful engagement. Unfortunately you can't call posting a document full of your opinions and conclusions meaningful engagement. That's just meaningful self
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by shadowmint 9y ago
Do you really need internal statistics to prove that diversity programs increase the number of employees from the relevant demographics? Come on. It's self evident that it's working. Whether that results in effective outcomes fo
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by shadowmint 9y ago
...because the 'VP of Inclusion' came up with the current plan, that you don't like. So how do you propose to move forward? If you leave to them, they're going to do nothing, and leave it as is, because objectively, by t
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by shadowmint 9y ago
Our experiences with clojure are clearly different. There have been plenty of people who have built successful businesses with perl too. /shrug I'm still going to recommend people not use either language, because I've persona
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by shadowmint 9y ago
Rubbish. I've worked with a dozen languages, and its unquestionable that certain ones attact a high ratio of terse complicated code. Clojure is specifically renouned (and celebrated) for its low LOC counts; people go as far as saying (
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by shadowmint 9y ago
I don't like working with clojure. Its basically modern perl. I've worked with both professionally, and the outstanding point with both has been: - programmers try to be clever in their code, write one giant file full of complicat
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by shadowmint 9y ago
The irony is that the maths stays the same for a more modest 1.2x if you can get 80% of your investments to pay off. ...but when you have an 80% loss rate, you have to play the game more than a hundred times to reliably make your money ba
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by shadowmint 9y ago
Calling this an experimental neutral network is like me calling an opengl demo that renders a few flat shaded polygons an 'experimental 3d engine'. It's not. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but that's what you have.
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by shadowmint 9y ago
There's nothing to see here. Trivial NN implementations are a dime a dozen, and this one is no different. It's just a partial work in progress; it's not a 'Show HN'; it's just a few hundred lines of toy code. .
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by shadowmint 9y ago
> My point is that if Go is not going to have a story for templated types, then we need to own it, just like Haskell programmers own their decisions. > This isn’t simply a case of saying “nope, sorry, no generics for Go 2.0, maybe in
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by shadowmint 9y ago
This is a very pro-Ether take on what happened, but ultimately it comes to the right conclusion: > The problem is that his programming toolchain allowed him to make these mistakes. Damn straight. The problem is that the model of 'pu
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by shadowmint 9y ago
It's hard to believe this is going to happen to google.com Google is, if nothing else, obsessed with metrics; unless they'd A/B/... tested this to death , there is zero chance they'll roll it out to their homepage.
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by shadowmint 9y ago
To be fair, a negative experience probably leaves you writing a negative review, and it sounds like she had a pretty rubbish experience. So, fair enough. > The point is, I derive a lot of joy from food because I’m not a sociopath. etc. O
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by shadowmint 9y ago
Don't just down vote this guys, that doesn't help. No, your naive understanding is not correct. 'Deep learning', and by that I mean a neural network, works at a super high level by generalising some input (say X) into so
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by shadowmint 9y ago
A stand alone static binary that does not depend on system libraries. Specifically, one that 'just works' on windows, and doesn't require that you open powershell and need to change into an obscure directory to use it, or hav
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by shadowmint 9y ago
tldr: The author claims 'Vertical AI startups are inherently defensible'. My point is, so what? That's not a good indicator of anything meaningful. The values that make them 'defensible' only make them difficult to
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by shadowmint 9y ago
If you can deliver 'a totally new opportunity through rich domain modelling' (ie. You have a solution to a problem that hasn't been solved before), and your solution: - Is fundamentally tied to data that is proprietary and di
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by shadowmint 9y ago
Care to qualify that? I'm not following this at all, but I can't see anything particularly obvious that's a 'train wreck'. They have a game. It's playable, if not particularly good. Some people are playing it (
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by shadowmint 9y ago
May I add: - pip and setuptools maintainers break everything quite often* - basically no mobile support what so ever for packaging (* quite often you say, skeptically? Well, they completely screwed it up twice this year already. That's

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