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by traviscj 10y ago
Dunno, sounds easier than chess.
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by traviscj 10y ago
This is really awesome! One of my "life mantras" is "Don't Poll", and this is exactly the kind of thing I have in mind when I think that. The eye candy is super cool, too.
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by traviscj 10y ago
Maybe this is dumb, but when I wrote this I also took it to mean the "transitive closure" of different fields of your data. So if you had a object "a" with fields "b" and "c", you'd consider &quo
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by traviscj 10y ago
I tried to do a quick job of explaining this, but the example that motivated this strategy was pretty work-specific and I'm not comfortable using that, and I can't come up with another offhand. Lemme tinker and see if I can come u
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by traviscj 10y ago
Love these. Can't believe I missed "Find a library"!
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by traviscj 10y ago
Interesting! Looks like Eno's was 1975 and CWP was '89, but I think the title+description+prompt is actually closer to what I'd originally intended to / would make if I had fleshed it out fully.
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by traviscj 10y ago
Completely agree -- My original intent when I scribbled them out was to make the long ones pithier and add some personal interpretation to the short ones. Life's a work in progress, I guess.
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by traviscj 10y ago
Author here, quite flattered to see the attention on HN! I would be quite open to feedback, additional mental de-blockers others have picked up, and/or requests for clarifications that I could expound upon. :-)
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by traviscj 10y ago
Lisp was way more popular for classic AI for many many years, and possibly still is. For machine learning, you want very fast matrix operations for the actual training/evaluation parts and very good data munging for the "get the d
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by traviscj 10y ago
Spoiler: yes.
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by traviscj 10y ago
Fraud detection and compliance systems have a false positive rate, unfortunately. And a company confirming something like that would be tantamount to telling how to avoid the filter, which also raises their false negative rate, which is not
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by traviscj 10y ago
Assuming 1 login/day and 85k/year annual employee cost (practically a joke, especially in the Bay Area) and 250 work days/year, it comes out under 3 bps (0.03%) of the employee cost. Probably not crazy for two factor, vs dist
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by traviscj 10y ago
My favorite trick is binding a hook in unit test modules that basically runs an "explain q" for every query "q", and asserts that it found an appropriate index to use. Then as long as your unit tests exercise all queries
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by traviscj 10y ago
And it took 1-3 nights to settle.
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by traviscj 10y ago
> and it might also help them learn personal finance. Also, everyone should learn C/assembly why trying to learn how to make websites, because it might also help them learn pointers.
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by traviscj 10y ago
You can't mute "@here" notifications though, which is really annoying. We have a slack bot that proxies "@team" to relevant "channel owners" , but the @here is more discoverable/more uniformly usable,
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by traviscj 10y ago
Any more details? "Timeline" is basically an I searchable term, even when I tried filtering by "Apple iPad app" and similar variants.
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by traviscj 10y ago
No. Consider a small perturbation (i.e. Poking) the ball on your table. At least for a small enough poke and/or a big enough table, friction slows down the ball again, and it stops. Now consider a small poke on a Dyson sphere that was
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by traviscj 10y ago
Fees argument doesn't really hold water because authorizations costs money too, even if subsequently voided.
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by traviscj 10y ago
Agree with your overall point but I think the efficiency Tinder is trying to increase is pretty self-evident.
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by traviscj 10y ago
> I ran into a client where they preferred their home-grown Perl script to our million-dollar solution because grep searches faster than we do, even though we have literally a billion more features. Did they need any of those features, o
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by traviscj 10y ago
You are being needlessly pedantic. The point is that typing "vi" into a terminal runs some application that implements a "vi-ish" interface. Whether it is ported vi or vim or vim-tiny has some effect on how nice that in
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by traviscj 10y ago
What? Early retirement is a different ballgame than severance package. Why should zenefits be on the hook (or compared to) for the former?
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by traviscj 10y ago
So, when it is unclear whether they are scamming you, your response is: here, have a physical copy of my credit card information? Sure, the liability is with your bank, but still seems like bad decision making.
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by traviscj 10y ago
Tangential, but your two questions struck me as isomorphic to computing the gradient and finding a maximum in the mathematical optimization sense. There to, there is a huge difference in the amount of work between the two: one is a for loop
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by traviscj 11y ago
Not sure that this is the best answer, but seems like a good use of feature flags. If the flag points to the old state, serve the old assets. If it points to the new state, serve the new assets. So make a deploy with both assets, deploy eve
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by traviscj 11y ago
I have tried a couple of times to get into ledger-cli, and what generally happens is that get really frustrated with "post-date ambiguity". In other words: do I enter a credit card transaction or check as the day I wrote it or the
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by traviscj 11y ago
I am a bit less convinced by this practice. The general consensus seems to be: "oh you can SELECT around after you've done your update and before you commit; the update." But while you're doing that, you might be holding
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by traviscj 11y ago
I have a very strict habit after once or twice doing this: always start all DELETE commands with "--" (that is, comment it out) until I have written a where-clause. My command in the buffer might go through these steps: 1. "D
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by traviscj 11y ago
As a fairly frequent (at least formerly) APRS user and extra-class licensed radio amateur (W9TCJ), ehh, maybe. Pretty easy to find yourself in a 140-MHz-dead-zone.

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