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by sleepdev 16y ago
Potential for what? It is only possible to measure fitness for a specific task. Often a trait that would help in one situation will hinder in another.
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Career advice from someone who shouldn't be giving career advice(poetic.ly)
1 points by sleepdev 16y ago|1 comments
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by sleepdev 16y ago
techstartu.ps reddit.com digg.com
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Build Something (the cure for everything)(terrorified.com)
3 points by sleepdev 16y ago|0 comments
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by sleepdev 16y ago
I don't disagree completely. We are talking about completely different things. I am talking about long term, you are talking about 10 weeks. Yes, you can calculate calories in vs calories out. No, you cannot extrapolate that to determine if
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by sleepdev 16y ago
"For 10 weeks, ..." For his own health I am glad that he didn't continue the diet much longer. There are a number of confounding variables here that the article forgot to mention, which most likely played a larger part in his weight loss th
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by sleepdev 16y ago
I am not sure how applicable it is to an introductory text, but I would be interested in learning more about the internals of compilation and linking. What is the minimal necessary amount of work that needs to be done to interact with exist
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Launch #2: November is Launch Month(launch.poetic.ly)
1 points by sleepdev 16y ago|0 comments
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by sleepdev 16y ago
This keeps a playlist of what you liked and uses that to recommend videos, allowing you to personalize and filter down the videos to only what you are interested in. Example: Searching for "haskell" will give you videos about people named h
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10 apps in 50 days: Launch #1(radio.poetic.ly)
15 points by sleepdev 16y ago|6 comments
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10 apps in 50 days(terrorified.com)
2 points by sleepdev 16y ago|1 comments
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by sleepdev 16y ago
Brian Chesky, of AirBnB, gave a talk at startup school that touched on this topic: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383 His advice was that "you always focus on supply first... then you shift to demand." Here that would mean to
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by sleepdev 16y ago
After having you point out that fact, I had to do a search on the document source for "<a" to find the 6 point font footer at the bottom! I hardly expect anyone to do this much work looking through my job applications...
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by sleepdev 16y ago
For me, self submissions are a large part of the reason why Hacker News is interesting. A lot of smart people come here to share their thoughts. Without that we would only have the Times blogs which aren't hard to find in the first place. I
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by sleepdev 16y ago
I've always thought of dynamic programming as memoized computations + ordering. Maybe memoization isn't quite as efficient as dynamic programming but it feels like it is halfway there.
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by sleepdev 16y ago
Good point. Memoization is a one off that I also find myself using quite regularly. "Coolest" algo I've ever developed would have to be parser combinators. Coolest graph algorithm: finding maximal cliques and independent sets + approximatio
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by sleepdev 16y ago
Tangentially related question: how are real numbers formally defined? I remember that integers are usually defined in terms of successors: Succ 1 = 2. But this doesn't help for real numbers because they can't really be enumerated?
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by sleepdev 16y ago
Synopsis: if you are in the textile business, then middle managers are a good idea.
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by sleepdev 16y ago
More than a few startup ideas here. Certainly a big problem, but also a sticky one.
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by sleepdev 16y ago
Wouldn't the opposite of a meritocracy be an entitlement society? Somehow putting the whole emphasis on acceptance into "gatekeeper" schools strikes me more as the latter.
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by sleepdev 16y ago
I like python + Tornado web server because I am a minimalist. If you want to learn how the web works from the top down & bottom up, this is a great framework to start and end with.
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by sleepdev 16y ago
Tornado, nginx, MySQL.
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Youtube for couch potatoes(poetic.ly)
1 points by sleepdev 16y ago|0 comments
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by sleepdev 16y ago
Watch TV in a foreign language. There are lots of ways that this could be entertaining, and if done correctly you can pick up a language in your leisure time.
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The end of programming paradigms(terrorified.com)
2 points by sleepdev 16y ago|0 comments
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How to be concise (5 lessons from haiku)(terrorified.com)
1 points by sleepdev 16y ago|0 comments