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by traviscj 11y ago
My take: you try to do something that could scale, but maybe doesn't. You might start with something that doesn't scale to explore market fit and figure out whether it's worth genuine automation. Seems like the problem here
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by traviscj 11y ago
I have wanted to write a series of "X for mathematically inclined idiots" for several years. If you're going to pick a baseline...
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by traviscj 11y ago
I was going to argue that if every street had a sidewalk on both sides, then we could indeed construct an Eulerian path over sidewalks, but probably there are some streets without sidewalks on both sides.
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by traviscj 11y ago
If this was a list of cat pictures, I would not consider posting to a third party cheating. But seeing as how it's credit card data, even though it is already "in the wild," it is still worth not posting to another random web
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by traviscj 12y ago
Depends on whether you have mirrors.linode.com or the ubuntu servers set up in sources.list. I had to swap mine out.
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by traviscj 12y ago
Bingo. My dad has a crazy old email address, because that's what has been on every business card for almost 20 years and that's his , dammit! We have (happily) managed to get him over to faster internet, though.
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by traviscj 13y ago
This is also how Ph.D.s work.
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by traviscj 13y ago
They were.
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by traviscj 13y ago
It just takes practice! https://vimeo.com/89914687
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by traviscj 13y ago
> It's certainly not due to inflation in quality of education. More and more classes are taught by graduate students and adjuncts rather than actual professors (who are mostly focused on their research programs in order to earn tenu
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by traviscj 13y ago
I haven't ever done anything too significant in Haskell, but the Jekor Redo [1] videos are fantastic, and demonstrate the slow building up of more complicated things than "reverse this string." I haven't watched his xmon
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by traviscj 13y ago
Code by Charles Petzold [1] is a fantastic introduction. It isn't so much the nitty gritty "this opcode performs this operation, and these are all the tricks to making it do things, edge cases and things you should worry about&quo
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by traviscj 13y ago
BINGO. I actually try to do this before job interviews: build a dumb version of one of their big products. I'm not even talking about something as sophisticated as this git project, I mean "build a dumb version".
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by traviscj 13y ago
This seems precisely like an argument for a smaller turbine-based design INSTEAD of huge and (relatively) heavy blades. Turbines for car turbochargers and airplane engines can regularly (if I remember correctly) operate in the regime of ~10
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by traviscj 13y ago
Emacs has Org-Mode, which has auto-updating tables [1], which would be the spreadsheet of Emacs. Here's a demo mileage tracker I did in Org-Mode [2]. - http://orgmode.org/guide/Tables.html#Tables - https:/&
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by traviscj 13y ago
I'm no expert, but I think that your portfolio is HUGELY more convincing than your business site. I get that your business can't really sell your skills, but it can sell your past projects, just to give some idea of the scale of t
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by traviscj 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Chicago, IL or REMOTE, can travel flexibly. PhD at the interface of applied mathematics, nonlinear optimization, computer science, and machine learning. I can bring machine learning or optimization to your project. Best at hi
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by traviscj 13y ago
Make an app for ordering an item, then? Or go meta: make an app which makes apps for ordering an item.
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by traviscj 13y ago
VMG is right. You should definitely add this to the Wikipedia page! Great stuff.
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by traviscj 13y ago
I hate to be that guy, but... [citation required]. (Not trying to heckle, just would like to hear it first hand, so to speak.)
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by traviscj 13y ago
Good luck. I'm just finishing mine. It's been a hard path, but also incredibly stimulating and awesome in a lot of ways. I'm an applied math-type, but your list of topics looks like a great start. My most successful peers kne
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by traviscj 13y ago
See my comment above. I'm not referring to running 'sudo homebrew ...', I'm talking about the installation, which has to run sudo to change some permissions in HOMEBREW_PREFIX.
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by traviscj 13y ago
Yes. And nope, I'm not referring to 'sudo brew install'. The main homebrew page says, 'run this ruby script'. The ruby script is available at: https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go The s
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by traviscj 13y ago
A few points: - The default user created at setup of OSX is in the admin group. - Certainly the 'has run sudo' is a bit of a restriction, but even running something like the Homebrew install script runs sudo. (Maybe 'users th