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Complexity, or, Why Computers Won't Fix Everything(mumbledrantings.blogspot.com)
1 points by trjordan 18y ago|0 comments
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by trjordan 18y ago
So, for the majority of users, I'm guessing this wasn't that big a deal. They even point out that 45% of Digging is happening through the DiggBar, meaning that there are a whole lot of people out there who actively enjoy using it. I underst
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by trjordan 18y ago
In the courtyard of Senior House...
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by trjordan 18y ago
Here, "covered", an active, transitive verb taking the direct object "ground", conveys vividly what the verbose and pale construction "were lying", coupled with the repositional phrase "on the ground", does not. Pullum's fussiness abou
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by trjordan 18y ago
My friends and I at MIT did this once, and it's about as much fun as you'd think it would be. My favorite trick is to try to melt a stack of pennies -- I'm not sure what actually happens, but the stack exploded, throwing half-melted pennies
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by trjordan 18y ago
This has always struck me as kind of strange. Many, if not all, languages are defined in large part by their communities. Java is for the unwashed masses, Ruby is undisciplined, monkey-patching lunatics, Haskell is friendly, brilliant, and
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by trjordan 18y ago
If it becomes a big enough issue, people will write software and protocols that are as easy to use as the rest of the internet. As an example take https: since it was decided that sending credit cards in cleartext was unacceptable, browsers
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by trjordan 18y ago
Similarly, if you use map instead, you get the right answer: >>> map(lambda x: lambda i: x + i, range(0,10))[3](4) 7
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by trjordan 18y ago
Shit's hard, sure, but that's why we have a full-time government and all their associated aides to do it. Complexity is not something that should be carte blanche ignored, but it also should not be the determining factor for any major decis
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by trjordan 18y ago
It would be hard to maintain, since a lot of textbooks change version number relatively frequently.
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by trjordan 18y ago
Oh, absolutely, and that's the point of the question. My guess is that the answer "three bucks" and the answer "Well, the expected payoff is infinite, but ... three bucks" is the difference between the door and an offer.
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by trjordan 18y ago
Can somebody explain to me the difference between using an OODB to back your web app and using a web framework like Rails or Django?I know the actual implementation is different, but the abstraction presented seems to be the same...
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by trjordan 18y ago
Put another way, 70% of self-made billionaires completed college. This strikes me as higher than the national average, so completing college increases the chances of you becoming a billionaire. Also, with a sample size of only 292, I find i
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by trjordan 18y ago
But you're playing the house to his Martingale bet, right? If the game was repeated, you should be willing to bet all your money on it, since the odds are in your favor. I think the question checks your ability to understand the mathematica
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by trjordan 18y ago
The point of the question is that there is no mathematically "right" answer. The interviewer knows the answer from experience, and (s)he's testing two things: whether the interviewee's intuition on the market is right, and, if not, how well
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by trjordan 18y ago
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by trjordan 18y ago
I think there's something else here, implicit in Sussman's comment, that's important. MIT was founded on a philosophy of practicality, and everything else is secondary. If you couple that with the belief that fundamental computer science is
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by trjordan 18y ago
I take issue with his argument that the free market punishes those who take code close sourced. The fundamental problem with open-source development is that it's always designed by committee. In most cases, this produces cleaner, faster, mo
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by trjordan 18y ago
Homeownership by itself is not useful, but it does promote saving. For the average family, a home is the most expensive thing they will ever save for. After 10 years in that mortgage, they'll have significant equity that they probably would
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by trjordan 18y ago
It's a lot harder to believe that a company with a Superbowl ad is an out-and -out scam. At least in my mind, I tend to assume that if they make it to that level, they're legit.
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by trjordan 18y ago
This model seems to work well for cars, high-end stereos, real estate, insurance ...
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by trjordan 18y ago
Tripeedo ( http://www.tripeedo.com ) actually does this - I agree, it's a really nice way to let the user know they're ding the right thing. I find it a lot better than the traditional calendar widgets. On the other hand, there are a lot of
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by trjordan 18y ago
I just finished reading it as well. He plays the same abusive games with stats and data that he does in his other books ("science by anecdote", if you will), but it's still a good read. There's a lot to be said for talent and hard work, but
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Twitter and the value of real-time search(mumbledrantings.blogspot.com)
13 points by trjordan 18y ago|8 comments
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by trjordan 18y ago
Of course, the assumption here is that grades should represent how well a student knows the material, not how hard they worked in the class. I know a number of teachers I had used that philosophy, despite the clamoring of the kids at the to
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by trjordan 18y ago
Great moves may be greeted by yawns, but moves than are greeted by yawns are not necessarily great.
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by trjordan 18y ago
The most salient point I saw there was that Google is using its search power to subsidize Gmail, gDrive, Google Office, etc. In my opinion, search is a narrow, competitive enough market that you can't break it up, but you can force Google t
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by trjordan 18y ago
Bookmarklet for it. It just displays the link (no copy to the clipboard like tinyurl, but I don't actually know javascript.), but it's better than nothing, I guess... javascript:void(location.href=' http://tinyarro.ws/api-create.php?url='+e
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by trjordan 18y ago
Dijkstra argues 0. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
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by trjordan 18y ago
Is there no thought given to the sample bias this incurs? Twitter is definitely not a cross-section of nearly anybody's customers...

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