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I'm Comic Sans, asshole.(mcsweeneys.net)
8 points by siavosh 15y ago|0 comments
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Clojure IDEs - The Grand Tour(bestinclass.dk)
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After Two Startup Accelerators, What I Wish Someone Had Told Me(ecquire.com)
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Confirmed: He Who Sits the Most Dies the Soonest(m.theatlantic.com)
46 points by siavosh 15y ago|44 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
I think many of us mistake expressing our feelings with saying whatever comes to mind which can lead to a bigger wreck than ignoring or suppressing them. I would change it to: don't ignore your feelings. How you act on them is where wisdom
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by siavosh 15y ago
With acquisitions like this and backtype, I wonder if Twitter is exploring offering an enterprise service for analytics. It provide a revenue alternative to the (still) annoying in-feed promoted tweets.
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by siavosh 15y ago
This should be a deal breaker for any serious app. Does the performance hit of safe mode negate all other advantages of MongoDB?
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by siavosh 15y ago
I would bet that there are many apps out there that don't do any reconciliation, and the data will forever be lost unknown. Sadly only 1% of the customers will notice something weird, 0.001% of those will call support saying something is of
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by siavosh 15y ago
Interesting stuff. This is essentially a coding/compression problem. My advisor at UCLA helped pioneer the computer vision analoge for this. His work tackled encoding textures (or areas of little information) with markov random fields and a
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Frogatto - Bret Victor inspired game editor(youtube.com)
1 points by siavosh 15y ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
Wow is this common? I wouldn't be surprised. More and more, I see job posts that list multiple languages (more than two or three), and I wonder why they would have such a fragmented setup. But I guess having one script somewhere in Haskell,
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by siavosh 15y ago
I remember I would beg my dad to drive me around on the weekends looking for garage sales to find Commodore 64 software. Sometimes we would get them by the box full, on unlabeled floppies, and spend the whole weekend trying each one. Every
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by siavosh 15y ago
I don't think it's just a matter of a junior programmer messing things up. To really maintain concurrent code, you have to fully grasp a lot of pieces in your head, like what's the correct locking order etc. This is huge mental debt that ne
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by siavosh 15y ago
I wonder though if this is an out of date concern because the last time Lisp was popular was before the proliferation of open source and tools like github. As a newbie Clojure programmer, I feel like I've already come across some very succe
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by siavosh 15y ago
After a couple years trying to hire developers I feel bad heuristics have a tendency to become institutionalized if for no other reason than: if I admit this is a crap heuristic, that means I've been doing it wrong for the last 10 years--n
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by siavosh 15y ago
Out of curiosity, is clojure used to do the front facing web components of prismatic as well or only the data/computation work?
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by siavosh 15y ago
Thanks for the info. Just curious were the encryption keys stored on EC2 as well? Dataomic client/peer model is definitely interesting.
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by siavosh 15y ago
I never understood Amazon's stance. Their whitepaper and case studies just says medical companies have built applications on our cloud. What they fail to mention is whether they were only able to do so by anonymizing the data prior to uploa
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by siavosh 15y ago
I think that's a valid point especially for certain tasks, but it finally hit me what's slightly jarring about the glasses in the scenario the video portrayed. It creates a very clear seperation between you and the person you're facing, a c
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by siavosh 15y ago
I agree, cultural acceptance or tastes in fashion are hard to impossible to predict. But just on the point of cell phones, I remember they were actually a prestigious thing in the 80's, you remember Zach Morris' brick cell phone in Saved by
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by siavosh 15y ago
I loved the video, but it didn't show the glasses on his face. Besides the technical/usability challenges, I think the cultural connotation of the device will be an equally deal/no-deal situation. Like the Segway, significant portions of th
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Prismatic - Clojure West 2012 slides - Bradford Cross(github.com)
1 points by siavosh 15y ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
I think it's great that there's an increase in attention to the medical space from smart young folks. From my experience though, being smart and hard working have very little to do with success in the medical-tech space. It mostly has to do
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Is there nothing more disposable than yesterday’s paper?(siavoshb.tumblr.com)
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by siavosh 15y ago
I had a similar reaction. I think it speaks to the time, that some of the greatest minds of our generation are 'seizing the opportunity' of a startup to develop social analytics around the 'jersey shore'. I can't help to think the great lin
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by siavosh 15y ago
Maybe it was an outlier, but a friend had a visceral reaction against the design aesthetics of his demos and thought the principle examples he gave were depressing. Overall, since I've evangelized in my humble ways the message from the talk
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by siavosh 15y ago
A tangent, but I like the fact that more and more people are seeing BV's video and getting inspired by it. It's made a big impact for me, and I'm seing a steady stream of folks referencing it almost a month after it was given. What is just
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by siavosh 15y ago
Sure, ex. Blair Witch Project
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by siavosh 15y ago
Since I was a kid, space has always been a deep source of curiosity and wonder for me. With events like James Cameron's dive last week, Elon Musk's work, and this, it heartens me that private citizens are attempting rekindle the wonders the
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by siavosh 15y ago
The more communication there is, the more difficult it is for communication to succeed. I'd like to learn more about this because there seems something deep here regarding the current explosion in online communication mediums. The trend o

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