smanek

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by smanek 18y ago
Is the resume at http://www.maneeshsethi.com/resume.html current? What have you been doing for the last 6 years?
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by smanek 18y ago
This is kind of silly ... It's basically just a one-time-pad, with a magical shared pad that can't be intercepted. They just assume away all the problems with OTPs.
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by smanek 18y ago
I think (hope?) he was writing tongue-in-cheek.
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by smanek 18y ago
I'm a bit short of the wealth requirements to be called an accredited investor ... (1M net worth + 200K/year income). That just seems blatantly unfair to me. It's the government setting up a different set of rules for the rich.
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by smanek 18y ago
Does anyone know if it's possible for an individual to buy a CDO? Supposedly everyone wants to get rid of these things and is desperate for cash, which makes it seem like a decent opportunity for buyers. If I had $10,000 I could afford to l
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by smanek 18y ago
Reminds me a lot of Sun's sunspots ...
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by smanek 18y ago
You have a very arrogant world view. You are assuming you know what's better for a borrower (call him B) than he does himself. You or the government don't have all the facts surronding B's situation, only B does. B is the only one who is qu
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by smanek 18y ago
I would argue that a cost of a payday loan is always less than the alternative (as long as the borrower knows what it is upfront - and if they don't it's fraud). If there were some lower cost alternative, the borrower wouldn't take the payd
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by smanek 18y ago
Go read "The Wisdom of Crowds" - it is chock full of examples like this. No one is saying we should use markets for safety investigations - we are saying that we should use it predicatively.
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by smanek 18y ago
You are wrong. Intrade is based in Ireland and is illegal for US users. The Iowa Markets got a special exemption from the FTC as an academic research project. And you can't sell derivatives unless you get regulator approval (which they won'
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by smanek 18y ago
HTML is now encrypted at the source and then decrypted using Javascript on the client That is obfuscation, not encryption. When you provide a function capable of 'decrypting' the ciphertext with the ciphertext, I don't really think it can
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by smanek 18y ago
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8142600/the-Stock-Market-Reaction-... Sorry for the scribd link. It's the first copy I found that wasn't behind a pay wall. The gist is that within a few hours of the Challenger crash the stock for the company re
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by smanek 18y ago
That defeats the whole point, unless the virtual currency is worth something in the real world - at the very least considerable social currency or (ideally) it should be exchangeable for real goods and services. People bet differently when
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by smanek 18y ago
Yep, I just wish people could bet on these predictions too. Unfortunately, that is illegal in the US ...
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by smanek 18y ago
Reminds me of overcoming bias' stuff. For example: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/02/who-are-macro-experts.... We really need this sort of thing to take off ... Unfortunately, the public hates them. When DARPA created a prediction mar
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by smanek 18y ago
They aren't closing all of Wikia, just "Wikia Search" (which stagnated at 10K uniques/month).
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by smanek 18y ago
The Greeks did know about irrational numbers. They could draw a right triangle whose legs were 1 and 1. They knew that the length of the hypotenuse (a number that we call the square root of two) couldn't be represented as the ratio between
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by smanek 18y ago
In the 6th century BC Pythagoras' followers knew that the square root of two was irrational (couldn't be expressed as the ratio of two integers). The story goes that this messed with a lot of their theories so it was ordered to be kept a se
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by smanek 18y ago
It means no such thing. The fact that a correlation exists on average doesn't necessarily mean anything for an individual.
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by smanek 18y ago
I like the idea of automatically doing a full compile and running all unit tests after every commit (assuming your code base is small enough to make it feasible). But, it seems a little crazy to automatically deploy commits to production. I
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Total Functional Programming(jucs.org)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
I remember playing playing Planarity well before the iPhone came out, so 'The Plateau' is just a copy. In fact, the "Way Back Machine" shows Planarity, basically unchanged, in 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20050731231914/http://www.plan
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by smanek 18y ago
You remember when GMail was announced on April fools and everyone thought it was a hoax? (they were offering 1000MB, when most other providers were offering ~10MB) Google had to come out with a second press release saying that they were act
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by smanek 18y ago
Fair enough. I think I consider an expert in programming to effectively know all programming. Granted, they don't know everything, but they understand the fundamentals well enough that they can pick up most anything in a few days.
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by smanek 18y ago
He misinterprets Norvig. The author claims that Norvig said: "it takes about ten years to develop expertise in [a programming language]." The author then goes to say Norvig was wrong, and he explains why. Norvig really said that it takes te
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by smanek 18y ago
Granted. I was just responding to the claim that Jeff doesn't have copyright on his work - I'm not claiming that CNProg violated that copyright (I don't have any idea, one way or the other).
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by smanek 18y ago
"It's not like Jeff has a copyright on his CSS, javascript, or design" Well, actually he does (and so do you). Most of the world (all the signatories of the Berne Convention, in blue at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berne_Convention.p
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by smanek 18y ago
I thought this was kind of funny: What does annoy him is people misunderstanding his work - or "the technology", as he puts it. One example he gives is an article about him in which the journalist confuses Java and JavaScript (the former i
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The Fallacy of High Level Languages(netsplit.com)
10 points by smanek 18y ago|4 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
Most of the schools I know about have a standard cluster of Unix machines which we can SSH into - and the rule is that programming assignments have to run on those. That seems fairly standard ... Most schools I'm familiar with also let you

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