tmarthal

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by tmarthal 14y ago
Have you ever seriously considered PhD programs? No one that I've ever heard of has ever had to pay tuition to attend college for their PhD (myself included). It is usually a "work exchange for education"; a research or teaching assistantsh
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by tmarthal 14y ago
Did you ever read the blog by Stephen Wolfram about his historic personal data collection and analysis? http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic... It offers great insight into how he lives and works, and that is just
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by tmarthal 14y ago
Here is a study that shows that the median (not mean) value of internet sites (note that these are not applications, but blogs or forum sites!) is around $500, with a monthly revenue of $133. http://www.slideshare.net/Flippadotcom/how-do-
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by tmarthal 14y ago
And yet, the original author doesn't have any data to say how the various headlines are doing. A nice writeup would be if someone at HN posted the CTRs and applications (i.e. conversions) for the various job descriptions w/ headlines. Not s
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by tmarthal 14y ago
Right. It seems that Hendrix is a private institution. The company and book he was promoting was the antithesis of how that private college makes money. Why would anyone there allow him to promote something that completely removes their fun
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by tmarthal 14y ago
I used to call the scientific software that I was writing, "paper-ware". You aren't building a system for other users, you aren't really doing anything other than one-off analysis to create charts, which will be explained in a paper. Things
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by tmarthal 14y ago
I know it's science-fiction, but the 2010 book <a href=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quantum_Thief>The Quantum Thief</a> makes use of weapons like these: basically firing a missile to get physical access to your advers
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by tmarthal 14y ago
Everyone uses Eclipse/SpringTool Suite(STS) for spring/grails application development or for projects using gradle as a build tool. One of the main features of this release (version 12) is the upgrade of the Spring integration, so maybe Int
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by tmarthal 14y ago
I posted that link at the same time as someone else, with a post date like 5 minutes after them. I also didn't clear off the referral parameters (I got the original article in an email blast about tech news, with two utm_ parameters). So ma
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by tmarthal 14y ago
Here is a great article on what it means to be a Senior engineer: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engi... The long answer is maturity. Then the author goes to explain what maturity brings to the discipline of softw
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by tmarthal 14y ago
Hear, hear. I will also say that most people that will excel at data science may not ever be pushing the envelope of statistical methods enough to warrant writing a research paper. Being able to apply and understand the state of the art alg
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by tmarthal 14y ago
Since IFTTT ( http://ifttt.com ) uses the Facebook push notifications, you can actually auto-save pictures that your friends have tagged you in fairly easily. Granted, this is not for historic purposes, but will work from when you turn the
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by tmarthal 14y ago
Really should have modeled it at a Poisson distribution. The Normal/Gaussian distribution doesn't seem to model the information.
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by tmarthal 14y ago
At a previous startup in Los Angeles, I had one of the co-founders order a bi-weekly office dropoff of organic fruit. It was hassle free and automatic. It wasn't always the fruit they would have picked up in the store (e.g. 2 large cantalou
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by tmarthal 14y ago
Is there a geolocation map of all of the hotspots that have supported either candidate? I would assume that would be more interesting than the configuration to a lot of people.
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by tmarthal 14y ago
11) There used to be an issue in select browsers (not sure how prevalent it is anymore) that when a user opened a link in a new tab/window, that the document.referrer would not be set correctly.
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by tmarthal 14y ago
While not exactly what you are proposing, ff you want/need to use characters as icons, there is a pretty neat hack called Font Awesome ( http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ ). It's used to replace the twitter bootstrap icons with fo
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by tmarthal 14y ago
I know that when iOS 5.0 mentioned 'twitter integration' and BBM like messaging, I had assumed (wrongly) that iOS was going to use twitter DMs in the way that they are using iMessages now. This would be using a person's twitter handle inste
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by tmarthal 14y ago
I don't think the size (or the revenue) of the company matters as much as the size of the projects that you're working on within those companies. Someone mentioned maintenance, so I will also ask how old the codebases that you're working on
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by tmarthal 15y ago
You're absolutely right. I was in the audience last night and was unable to 100% distinguish with my own eyes that the performer on stage was not real. I think a lot of people are just watching the re-hash of the high-definition feed with c
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by tmarthal 15y ago
If you've ever been to a conference or a talk where there was no open bar (or even food) scheduled afterwards, everyone just leaves. This is more of an academic thing, so YMMV.
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by tmarthal 15y ago
Royalty payments? Can someone chime in here on the difference between the royalties Facebook is paying Yahoo versus what fees they want recompensed the lawsuit? From the article "The company adds that Facebook has been “free riding” on Yaho
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by tmarthal 15y ago
You raise a good point. How many of us would comment on articles if the YC HN article feed if it was just a Google+ hangout with posted links? It sure seems that the barrier to entry would be lower to comment/discuss articles, however it is
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by tmarthal 15y ago
What I was trying to connote is that 60%+ of that home page was devoted to driving traffic to other stories in the same site. A publisher's home page shouldn't necessarily be a place for content (even though it is serving ads). A page's hom
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by tmarthal 15y ago
... and the idea is that there are advertisements which generate revenue on the second, third and fourth page in the site that they visit. So his 99.5% metric is that 60% or so of that screen is trying to drive traffic to other articles on
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by tmarthal 15y ago
LinkedIn has become the defacto area for working world recommendations. Granted, people are not going to give you recommendations on there without it being a 'strong' recommendation, and you also have to approve it, so you will never see wo
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by tmarthal 15y ago
I think the idea is that if you have to write JSONP to implement the cross-origin requests for non-CORS browsers, then why even write the CORS part of it? We've had issues with JSONP handling long strings and had to change our API slightly,
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by tmarthal 15y ago
Other than plotting to murder the president, I am not sure there are any crimes of thinking about doing illegal things. Even if the DOJ has evidence that he planned on dumping the JSTOR archives on BitTorrent, until he actually would have p
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by tmarthal 15y ago
I have to agree with the article. The writeups from the founders of ZeroMQ always make it seem like a magic bullet, but a few years back when I got down to implementing a distributed 0mq C++ application, it was a hoary mess and we had to im
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by tmarthal 15y ago
I think that a lot of 'number crunching' scientific programs that evolved in the 1990's were written in Matlab. Most of them in the 1980's and earlier where in FORTRAN77. Where the comparison to python really gets interesting is the additio

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