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by swolchok 17y ago
Freemium has its own problem: you have to be careful that your free service is not perceived as "neutered", while still leaving a reason for users to pay you for the premium service. (Expect to see at least two blog posts on HN in the next
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by swolchok 17y ago
Why aren't we trying to get analytical individuals from other fields who already do train their students to think analytically? Probably because trainability of those folks would cause more "anyone can do it" sentiment, devaluing our skil
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by swolchok 17y ago
What about "None yet/wannabe" (which I would have to vote for)?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Re: 3, I don't think that the problems are at my age. They're at college freshman/sophomore and younger, when women decide to enter the field. By the time we exit college, there are hardly any women left to treat more equally.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Maybe this is why my summer hourly is less than $20, assuming I only work 40 hours per week.
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by swolchok 17y ago
the second "r", right?
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by swolchok 17y ago
What is the goal of this checklist, other than causing a series of individual guilt trips for a gender imbalance that results from societal factors and/or legitimate gender predispositions for/against our field? What are we supposed to do
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by swolchok 17y ago
It says "LAWL!". Enough said.
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by swolchok 17y ago
But it does warn you if you do not use the var keyword the first time you assign a value to a variable. In JavaScript that is not really necessary since it will automatically create a variable in the global scope anyway. Still it doesn't h
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by swolchok 17y ago
The point was that we also measure startups by their cash costs, not their cost+time.
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by swolchok 17y ago
That's parallelism at the "micro" level. Compare it to the parallelism in superscalar or EPIC processors (incidentally, EPIC is also hard to take advantage of). This argument doesn't show that many-core architecture is necessarily going to
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by swolchok 17y ago
This isn't even "modern" in compiler terms, it's a simple peephole optimization. (grep through the IR, check for "X / 2^n", replace by "X >> n") To get it right when you have int a; int b = 64; a / b requires datafl
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by swolchok 17y ago
The first three possibilities depend in large part on improvements in computer hardware. Progress in computer hardware has followed an amazingly steady curve in the last few decades [17]. Based largely on this trend, I believe that the cre
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by swolchok 17y ago
Your startup is certainly impressive, but I take issue with the statement that you only need $20000/year to develop it -- is your time worthless? If your startup makes $120000 in its first year, I doubt you'll be jumping in joy over a 200%-
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by swolchok 17y ago
It's possible for this to be true, since on a bicycle you may tend to expose both your back and front to the rain more so than when walking.
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by swolchok 17y ago
or at least be aware that one is doing modulo arithmetic.
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by swolchok 17y ago
What about things that don't stay DONE? (i.e., what about entropy?) This may be a case of productivity porn. (a common gtd-related term)
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by swolchok 17y ago
How? He was certainly decried as a villain by many.
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by swolchok 17y ago
"But C++ often hits a sweet-spot between languages where high-level abstractions are available with the raw power of C when you need it." He then goes on to say he uses Ruby and not Python. Is Ruby missing nice C integration? Python is oft-
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by swolchok 17y ago
Is there a positive health story from switching from soda to other caffeine sources? Unsweetened tea and black coffee seem like potential wins, assuming constant dosage, but what about lattes and more frou frou coffee/tea drinks?
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by swolchok 17y ago
read it, enjoyed it, but had to flag because it's OT. Sorry.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Yes, that's the prior probability , before you observe the first outcome. This is a common gamblers' fallacy; past events do not affect future events from which they are independent! I'm assuming that you and/or the GP are assuming that
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by swolchok 17y ago
Well, the tickets where y'all fill in the bubbles with pencil to choose numbers and the form can be read by an optical scanner are surely not randomly generated. People will draw pictures, play birthdays, and attempt to choose layouts that
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by swolchok 17y ago
Well, cpp isn't Turing complete, assuming you only run it once: http://www.ioccc.org/2001/herrmann1.hint
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by swolchok 17y ago
Citation needed. (seriously.)
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by swolchok 17y ago
Didn't we do this discussion already when the last C++ article was posted?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Ah, but facts aren't protected by copyright. Wolfram Alpha deals a lot in hard facts, so presumably we're also talking about finding facts with Google.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Free WiFi is a pipe dream. It turns out that people don't want strangers to use their network -- if someone downloads child porn through your connection, for example, you're still going to catch some heat even though you have an open WAP. I
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by swolchok 17y ago
I thought home poker wasn't legal in California. I could be wrong, though, and IANAL.
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by swolchok 17y ago
If there are N participants, k winners total, and y'all really do choose tickets randomly (proven false, but let's go with your assumption), your chances of winning are k/N. If you know that one of the winners is not you, your chances of wi

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