smanek

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Allston Trading is hiring Haskell/Erlang devs in Chicago(cufp.org)
4 points by smanek 16y ago|1 comments
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by smanek 16y ago
FWIW, I've done 100 hours a week for several weeks in a row. I felt pretty productive since I could intermix the kind of work I was doing. 11AM-6PM would be meetings, interviews/recruiting, etc. Dinner break w/ hulu from 6-7. Then program m
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by smanek 16y ago
To be fair, software firms are also overwhelmingly in favor of each Fortune 500 being liquidated, and the proceeds being evenly distributed to the remaining software firms.
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by smanek 16y ago
He was still working on it (during his free time) as of an year ago.
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by smanek 16y ago
I worked with him at an AI-focused defense contractor in Cambridge till about a year ago (when I left). He's a pretty cool guy - what did you want to know?
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by smanek 16y ago
The 'Singularity' (in the sense of a super-human intelligence, for example either augmented human or purely machine) comes into being and, basically, gets to exert influence over humanity's future.
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by smanek 16y ago
The actual content (since the webpage is broken): http://rickosborne.org/download/SQL-to-MongoDB.pdf
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by smanek 16y ago
This was interesting: When employees log in to their computers, we ask them to look at a picture of a random employee and then ask them how well they know that person -- the options include "say hi in the halls," "hang out outside of work,
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by smanek 16y ago
Elisp isn't really functional ... everything is dynamically scoped so you don't get closures and the entire language is built for mutating state.
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by smanek 16y ago
How would you possibly A/B Test SEO improvements?
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by smanek 16y ago
What was your SaaS? (I didn't see a link in your profile)
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by smanek 16y ago
I hate to say it, but I've interviewed a 'senior devs' who made six figures before who couldn't do fizz buzzish problems in any language of their choice (and many more who took >15min to do so ...) What's the harm in asking if it's a qu
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by smanek 16y ago
The cost of the fab is reflected in the cost of the chip, since it's necessarily amortized over the production of the fab (for a profitable company/fab).
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by smanek 16y ago
A) But it could discover new laws of physics. i.e., A nuclear bomb would have looked like 'god like powers' before Einstein/Relativity. B) This is nonsensical ... C) You can deduce a ludicrous amount of information from relatively little se
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by smanek 16y ago
Offtopic: Why was kjhgfghjk's joke (this comment's sibling) killed? It's funny, since the scan of the article is very 'noisy' and a Kalman filter is a possible solution to help clean it up (probably not the best, but still ...)
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by smanek 16y ago
Great stuff! Aren't there licensing issues involved with making arbitrary fonts available over the web though? I'd talked to a few font foundries in the past, and very few would let me use their fonts with a @font-face (or, in their eyes, d
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by smanek 16y ago
I have no affiliation with these guys. I just found some useful data there and though others might like it too.
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Great source to find APIs or Developer SaaS Tools(programmableweb.com)
1 points by smanek 16y ago|1 comments
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by smanek 16y ago
I usually put a safety check at the top of my code, ensuring that console and console.log exist (and, if they don't, defining something appropriate in their place).
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by smanek 16y ago
It's been a few years, but I'll take a shot. 1. SVMs are useful for categorizing items. 2. SVMs can only categorize on 'linearly separable' sets. That is, if you were to plot the items from the two sets on a plane, it's possible to distingu
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by smanek 16y ago
By the Berne convention, everything is copywritten on creation. And, to the best of my knowledge, the default is that you can't distribute a copywritten work unless you have an explicit license to do so. For example, I can walk into a book
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by smanek 16y ago
Helpful tidbit: The native code compiler of CMUCL (and SBCL) is called 'Python'. Yes, it's confusing. But CMUCL was using the name well before Guido's Python was ever conceived.
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by smanek 16y ago
I certainly miss ML-style pattern matching when I'm in Lisp. I sometimes find myself (poorly) simulating the idea with a whole bunch of multi-method specializers. Based on my limited experience, it seems like you'd really need a more static
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by smanek 16y ago
I think a reasonable case could be made that Clojure is a Lisp in the same sense that scheme, arc, qi, et al. are (albeit, not 'common lisp')
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by smanek 17y ago
Is that sarcasm? To the best of my knowledge, they don't even have any significant revenue (besides bigger and bigger VC rounds ;-)) - let alone having hit profitability.
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by smanek 17y ago
Obviously you can't have truly pure functional code - I don't think anyone advocates that. But non-functional code is much harder to debug (spooky action at a distance, etc) so a little bit more work upfront to isolate the non-functional
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by smanek 17y ago
And a lisp-hacking CS dropout! ;-)
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by smanek 17y ago
You know Alexis and Alexandria (the two HBS MBAs who are ostensibly behind Gilt) had almost nothing to do with the company's conception - right? The real founders are Kevin Ryan and Dwight Merriman (the founders of DoubleClick). They create
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by smanek 17y ago
Hi Sam, I'm the technical co-founder of http://postabon.com (the crazy guy who wrote the entire thing in Lisp ;-)). Based on my experience over the last 6 months, I think most MBAs start out thinking that they'll be fine at doing a startu
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Why MBAs fail at Entrepreneurship(stuwall.tumblr.com)
92 points by smanek 17y ago|36 comments

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