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by stoney 16y ago
The question is whether showing you adverts that you think you'd like to see is more or less effective than inferring what adverts you'd like to see based on your actions (you're reading a blog about gardening -> show gardening adverts,
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by stoney 16y ago
Wow, that might be a little creepy but it's very eye opening. Especially as maukdaddy lists "information security" as his business, so is presumably not too reckless with his details online. I'm assuming you started with his HN profile, go
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by stoney 16y ago
And this is one of the reasons that I don't like the idea of facebook being my universal log on for lots of different sites. It takes things from mild irritation at having to find another way to waste time, to a potentially major problem w
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by stoney 16y ago
The limit of 50 does seem like a bit of an awkward conversation waiting to happen. Surely someone must have pointed out to the developers that someone out there has a large close family and a lot of close friends? I'd also be very worrie
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by stoney 16y ago
Grigori Pereleman would be doing mathematics with or without the prize money. I think sp4rki's point is that it's a waste if not taking/making the money means that you have less time to do whatever it is you're good at. E.g. the artist who
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by stoney 16y ago
I'm pretty sure the phrase itself played a part here. Just imagine it - you've figured out something that fits using only one letter. You're probably feeling a little bit excited, but it's a bit of a gamble to guess - how many other phras
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by stoney 16y ago
As I understand it, taking a list of FB contacts and turning them into a mass email list would be a violation of the CAN-SPAM rules - people need to explicitly agree to be added to a mail list.
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by stoney 16y ago
What happened when the next annual review came around? Didn't everyone try to game it to maximise their scores? Did managers feel bad giving low marks knowing that it would mean people getting fired and potentially claims of discriminatio
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by stoney 16y ago
I think the problem is simply their size makes it very difficult to identify their top performers. There is no objective measure that can be applied across the entire organisation, so they have to rely on humans to identify the top perform
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by stoney 16y ago
I generally save the Pomodoro technique for when I've got something I really need to do but really don't want to do. The shortness of the 25 minutes can be quite useful in those situations. Sometimes I find the shortness of 25 minutes bloc
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by stoney 16y ago
See my other comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1885543 ) - I use Excel+Python all the time, and yes, it's freakin' awesome.
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by stoney 16y ago
Funny you should mention that. I use Excel+Python extensively and have developed my own plugin for embedding Python in Excel. Basically it lets me easily write worksheet functions using Python, and also with some multiprocessing magic let
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by stoney 16y ago
Thanks for tip 4 - I had completely underestimated the power of Compass. I started using it recently mainly because I wanted to use Blueprint and SASS. I missed all of the cool mixins that Compass adds. If anyone from the Compass project
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by stoney 16y ago
Wherever you draw the line on who to take and who not to take, you will end up with a spectrum of abilities being accepted - there will always be the person who just made it in and there will always be the person who could have done it in t
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by stoney 16y ago
I think this article misses the point a bit (for the record - I do believe that humans are contributing to global warming). The article basically relies on listing a load of bad sounding things as evidence of our effect. Yes, we have helli
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by stoney 16y ago
I was wondering about that too - would the two opposing bots slug it out until the end of time (or the end of Twitter at least)? It really is bizarre to think of two machines sat arguing with each other.
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by stoney 16y ago
In the UK it's also likely that the students are living away from home for the first time, which takes a bit of getting used to for some. It's difficult to strike a balance between not boring the brightest and losing the less bright complet
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by stoney 16y ago
Which means you are in an excellent position of having too much time and not enough to do. Don't waste this opportunity! It takes a very long time to become awesome at something, so I'd suggest you start now while you have plenty of spare
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by stoney 16y ago
Is there something similar to Simulink available for Python yet? That's pretty much the only killer feature of Matlab for me these days. Any other number crunching I do in Python.
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by stoney 16y ago
The quality of UK university courses varies tremendously. I studied engineering as did lots of my friends. The standard course length for an MEng is 4 years, I think that might even be a requirement to get the course accredited. But what
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by stoney 16y ago
I thought the global warming comment was a bit odd too. From a quick Google it seems that Bin Laden does indeed have something to say about global warming. It was on Fox News, so must be true: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/01/29/bin-
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by stoney 16y ago
You don't mention any concrete alternatives in your post (i.e. other job offers or project ideas). Assuming that you don't have anything else lined up then I would take the job - you can always quit if the work pans out to not be what you
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by stoney 16y ago
Ok, so we have a mysterious device that looks a little bit like a cell/mobile phone. Except we know it's not a mobile phone, because there are no towers. But it could be something else that is transmitting to someone from the future, it j
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by stoney 16y ago
It largely depends on your goals and also the work required to develop & run this startup. You wouldn't have to get too many of those businesses signed up to earn a full time salary. Take a look at http://www.softwarebyrob.com , which
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by stoney 16y ago
Income tax is probably always marginal, but in the UK at least this kind of thinking does apply to selling houses - when a house is sold in the UK the buyer must pay "stamp duty", which is a percentage of the value of the house, with the pe
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by stoney 16y ago
There's the no procrast settings, or alternatively there is your hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows). I added the following line to mine: 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com That means that if I open a browser an
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by stoney 16y ago
Also http://hnrecap.com - you can get the day/week/months top stories in one visit.
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by stoney 16y ago
In Australia things are routinely priced at e.g. $4.99 (including tax), but the smallest coin here is 5 cents. They just round the total to the nearest 5c, it's really not a problem.
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by stoney 16y ago
It's one thing to put it in your apps, which can be updated when they get tired, but if you put lol in your name you're pretty much stuck with it (or facing an expensive rebranding exercise)
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by stoney 16y ago
Android vs iPhone definitely reminds me of PC vs Mac. It will be interesting to see if things play out the same way in the long term. I'm planning to do some app development stuff and my thoughts were that maybe in the long term Android wi

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