snoman

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by snoman 11y ago
So correct me if I'm wrong, but a lay-person's understanding might go like this: It's like a fiber optic cable, except that instead of light, it transmits a magnetic field, and instead of being a cable, it's a metal ball
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by snoman 11y ago
Fluff is not content that you already know. It's narrative that isn't directly relevant to the topic at hand.
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by snoman 11y ago
Not sure if you're being facetious or not but if you were right then we would just do it on our existing phones now. In the 90s we had slow voice recognition that took a long time to train, that would only ever work for a single user,
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by snoman 11y ago
One subtly awesome thing here is that with ryujit being a part of 4.6 then you can do simd in .net without any hacky pre requisites and workarounds. ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/04/07
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by snoman 11y ago
Some of the very same reasons you give for the proposition that network performance having caught up can be used to argue that it may have slowed down (ie feature creep and bloat). So the other question is: who, in 2015 disagrees and what
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by snoman 11y ago
Not sure if we were reading the same article or not, but this is not "what society needs." While there is a part of me that loves computing and wants to share it with the world, I also realize that the nuances of compilation or fu
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by snoman 12y ago
I suspect that the reason for the perpetuation of this myth is that, if a manager is doing their job really really well then all of that stress and BS is hidden from their directs.
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by snoman 12y ago
> "Just to be absolutely clear, we don't know how most kinds of thoughts are represented in the brain." I've spoken about this recently. It's important that we keep in our minds a particular distinction about how
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by snoman 12y ago
I've seen it work well with "core hours." ie. you had to be in the office, or on IM, between 10-3, and meetings could only be scheduled during core hours. That was a great, simple, rule.
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by snoman 12y ago
Not in asg either.
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by snoman 12y ago
White male engineer here as well, that also identifies with what the OP is saying. When a number of people from all differentiating groups all identify in the same, or similar ways, I don't see how people can continue to call it an iss
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by snoman 12y ago
Oh certainly. I'm not biased one way or another, as I'm pretty ignorant of what's available. I've just been getting into the R space myself in the last few months in what free time I have available after work. My underst
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by snoman 12y ago
RStudio has the Open Source AGPL v3 version that, ostensibly, is only different from their commercial offering in that it there is support for the commercial version, I'm perfectly fine with it. This MRAN looks to be a similar situatio
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by snoman 12y ago
I was looking into them yesterday, and the best source of info on what exactly REvolution R seems to be is from Wikipedia (Their sites is fraught with buzzwords and little info). That is, it's an R distro that has multi-threaded comput
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by snoman 12y ago
If I remember my reading of A History of Mathematics well enough, they very much were into base 60 (sexagesimal) because of the numerous divisors (1/2/3/4/5/6/10/12/15/20/30/60).
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by snoman 12y ago
After the 3rd mention of Apple before the story intro was completed, in an article that (by all appearances) isn't actually about Apple at all, I decided that this just isn't a news source worth reading.
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by snoman 12y ago
Twitter is useful and interesting, but your idea of rich conversation is shallow or weak if it was ever satisfied by conversations that were had 140 characters at a time.
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by snoman 12y ago
> Zapier and probably IFTTT's integrations are very shallow and don't allow you to do much automatic processing of data. Given their target market, I see that as their competitive advantage. It's all too easy to appeal to
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by snoman 12y ago
Docker looks like a really interesting concept, but to say that with docker you can "write once, run anywhere" is a misrepresentation at best, and an outright lie at worst. Looking at their docs ( https://docs.docker.com
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by snoman 12y ago
> Having kids is optional. Choosing not to participate in a fundamental experience of the human condition is no more a choice than choosing not to have a job.
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by snoman 12y ago
Consider that the 10% must also include Windows Phone users (as there is no Swarm app in WP). 'checkin users' probably means something like "active daily users on platforms where we have released swarm" and 'moved o
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by snoman 12y ago
Unless you're already familiar with the material, spelling and grammar lends credibility to the content of the article. Similar to a code smell, it makes you ask "are you sure you know what you're doing?"
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by snoman 13y ago
Dropping out of high school, especially if you are interested in and want to work in computing, will be the worst mistake you ever make. Whatever is making school unbearable for you, fix that problem instead (or ask for help to fix it) of t
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by snoman 14y ago
This just in: when you have a proven example application, an existing design, pre-fab content, known behavior... writing software is easy. I'm fighting the urge to say "no shit".