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by temphn 15y ago
No. Rupert Murdoch's intentions are not good. And how ludicrous to make studio bosses into people concerned about the little guy.
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by temphn 15y ago
Your undergrad degree is just a noisy and expensive proxy for your SAT score anyway. And that's not taboo to discuss. Paradoxically, it's less declasse to mention the subjective measure that takes four years and costs a quarter million buck
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by temphn 15y ago
Which is an example of a "dehumanizing and arrogant behavior towards a fellow developer": cursing them out personally in a comments thread or collecting an email address like every other site in the world?
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by temphn 15y ago
This is like contacting the IRS for assistance with your tax bill.
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by temphn 15y ago
What you want to know is that somewhere there’s a regulator who might stop the bank. But you don’t want to hear that the regulator we really need to call upon is you, yourself. Eben Moglen, libertarian. Amazing to hear him
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by temphn 15y ago
Here is an honest answer that you won't hear from many others. Startups are not the best option for 50 year olds. Most 50 year olds demand high salaries, aren't willing to work long hours (let alone nights and weekends), are far less famili
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by temphn 15y ago
You are right, and I came here to take issue with this quote: I admired R., and I looked up to him, and while I doubt I will ever compete with his genius, I recognize that it's because of a relative lack of my conviction and an ex
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by temphn 15y ago
That European social model is about to go bankrupt. (The American one soon thereafter, though not for lack of hard work.)
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by temphn 15y ago
You should stop being so rude. It's hard to build something like this, especially when the input data is so noisy.
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by temphn 15y ago
> Now this is interesting. What triggers that reaction? Is it asking for the particular documents, or is it the request for meaningful information? It's sort of like a woman who asks you what car you drive right off the bat, on the firs
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by temphn 15y ago
For one data point: as an employer, if someone asked me that in a job interview I'd think they were complete mercenaries and highly distrustful/cynical. Would smile, respond with something noncommittal about how the board won't let us share
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by temphn 15y ago
It's full of announcements, but seems to be missing any calls to action. Ok. Here is the call to action: hire a lobbyist or ex-Congressman who will get you in front of Startup America. Preferably a large bundler like George Kai
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by temphn 15y ago
You are 100% correct, and anyone can verify for themselves that you can predict geographic ancestry from saliva to an incredible level of detail: https://www.23andme.com/ancestry/origins Nevertheless, if you take for the sake of argument
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by temphn 15y ago
Of course Jared Diamond was wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Human_genetic_diversity:_Lew... But many people accept his premises.
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by temphn 15y ago
According to PBS, Race is an Illusion: http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm Jared Diamond concurs: http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/0... If you believe their arguments, there is no scientific ba
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by temphn 15y ago
There are other dimensions to life besides the purely economic. In the social sphere, men are the ones who need to approach and women are the ones with all the options. It's weird that this is not considered, as the point for many (most?) m
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by temphn 15y ago
The 99th percentile C++ systems engineer uses C++ in their day job, likes it, and uses Haskell on the weekends for fun. They can also give you a detailed set of things Haskell needs to fix before it becomes more widely used (fast Mutable Ma
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by temphn 15y ago
Agree on Java, disagree on C++. Many outstanding engineers use C++ (or a particular variant thereof) and like it. C++ is the only choice to write serious performance critical apps with acceptable abstractions. The STL may be hard to debug,
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by temphn 15y ago
The article doesn't discuss it, but the CDN potential here is huge. This would be great for a company like Akamai, without too much confidential information on its machines. You could also rig the machines to auto-delete if the cage is open
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by temphn 15y ago
> Now was there any reason to believe that something in that statement wasn't correct when he made it? Yes, at the time Orszag made the statement many commentators (including the CNN link a few posts up) contested the CBO's projections
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by temphn 15y ago
Well, this one is interesting. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/10/03/04/No-Gimmick/ Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to a claim that this deficit reduction is achieved only through a business-as-usual Washington bud
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by temphn 15y ago
VIPR is ramping up now, and their budget will be increased next year. Here's one more link to an Amtrak/VIPR search from earlier this month, indicating that the Amtrak head of police only succeeded in slowing rather than stopping the progra
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by temphn 15y ago
> But that still doesn't address the problem facing most large cities: gridlock. Whether the cars are automated or not won't drastically change that (although it may well reduce arterial traffic clogs due to accidents and rubbernecking)
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by temphn 15y ago
Unfortunately, VIPR does not seem to be going away. Your article was from March of this year in Savannah. As is common practice at most federal agencies, TSA paused the program for a bit till the outcry blew over. Then they started it up ag
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by temphn 15y ago
> (a) Vastly more efficient But without occupancy/ridership figures and precise fuel consumption statistics (including the amortized energy expenditure used to build the train), it is not at all obvious that trains beat cars from a fuel
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by temphn 15y ago
> so why is this bias? why isn't it simply that palin and bachmann are liars? I hesitate to get into this, but Peter Orszag has only been tagged by Politifact once[1]. Yet at the time he was CBO director, there were many people stating
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by temphn 15y ago
Someone should modify the post to note that this is from Dec. 2009. Not sure what to think here. Google is endorsing, but IEEE is slamming. DWave actually has a reasonable looking dev kit on this page, but Scott Aaronson is quite critical.
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by temphn 15y ago
The interesting point here is that people believe that if a fact has racist, sexist, or homophobic implications it must not be true. Reminiscent of an earlier era in which any statements that contradicted church doctrine must simply be fals
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by temphn 15y ago
This post has many empirical problems, but let's start by looking at the male/female deck by Terri Oda. The only data in the entire deck is on slide 21, and the caption reads: Two normal distributions that are 0.15 standard deviations
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by temphn 15y ago
Very important comment. The biggest risk in doing a startup is not the financial risk per se. It's the psychological risk of knowing you really, really tried -- and still failed. That is the hard part, because everyone goes in with Dilbert/

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