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by unclesaamm 10y ago
This reminds me of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and his advice to his kids (paraphrased): I don't care what you do, as long as you do it every day for the rest of your life. I think one of the main thing this advice misses is that if you&#x27
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
You're right about the prevalence of guesswork about probability along laypeople (and everyone until Pascal was essentially a layperson). The Emergence of Probability is a very interesting book on this topic that sketches how statistic
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
Looking in the code, it loops over all the indexed text and does substring matching on tokens from the search query. Good enough for everyone so far, but...
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
I heard this from recruiters when I was negotiating salary right out of college. "I want to give you more but we have a policy that unless you have another offer..."
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
One of the issues with ranking by percentage is it biases in favor of smaller nations because they're more likely to be anomalous. Notice how the countries at the top and bottom are both small.
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
I read this book cover to cover and did all of the exercises earlier this year. I didn't take any upper math in college that involved proofs, and this book has really helped me get over my fear about it.
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
Does anyone actually refer to a "cheatsheet" when they are hacking? Or do they just use Google? It makes me laugh to think someone has some of this stuff printed by their desk for an emergency. For example, "gcc -o exploit ex
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
This is a huge issue that is very hard to solve at this point. The obvious solution, not telling people about the experiment, is out. It reinforces the skeptics who think of this as a way for YC to brand itself more philanthropically, becau
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
I find it misleading that American enterprise can ever be wholly "private", when it depends so much on regulation, subsidies, and public resources. Taxation goes to support the common infrastructure that makes any work possible. P
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
> "Their loans are mostly paid off" I'm not sure what bubble you're living in, but some of my tech colleagues (making six figures) have enough student debt that they'll be paying it back for the rest of their wor
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
For example, http://meetu.ps/e/BwlPx/nLH2C/d
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
I attended an event in SF about the mistreatment of non-technical employees at tech companies, and how tech people can become allies. For example, security guards in tech companies are not unionized, and many workers had experiences with th
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
With last night's victories for Clinton and Trump, the real question people should be asking themselves is what these two candidates have in common that have kept them winning, despite their having the two worst favorability ratings in
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
On the contrary, it's meaningless to view this only through psychology. Was the monk who self-immolated in Vietnam depressed? Psychology doesn't have the vocabulary in place to understand political emotions, and the only people wh
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
Yes. This is a very strange article. When you think about what goes into the startup ethos, of independent hacking and really a passion for work, there's nothing antithetical about that and being turned off by massive income inequality
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
This loses meaning when we realize that the US is a huge force behind defining who is "recognized" or not anyway. Also this doesnt change the fact that during the American Revolution, the British were much more "recognized&qu
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
> The basics of dynamic linking is actually pretty simple, but it's tricky to find reference materials outside of reading the source code itself. I recommend the dynamic linking chapter in "Linkers & Loaders" by John L
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
Hm, I thought you were going somewhere different after that first sentence, because San Francisco history is actually deeply embedded with racism. It is often egregiously racist, in the late 1800s so much so to the point of the entire justi
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
which is perhaps why he can "write as he talks", and get away with it. He honed his craft. I work with a few programmers who write exactly as they talk, and it is littered with misplaced, dangling modifiers, and misspellings of th
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
...what? The vast majority of techies are whites and affluent Asian Americans. Are there even non-white techies to protest?
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
Rather than taking writing advice from a programmer/venture capitalist, I recommend Steering the Craft, by Ursula Le Guin, which will help ground any writing you might do in solid understanding of the "tools" you have availab
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
Hm, the happy note on the end about the good parts of progress was light on the massive increase of income inequality. A city with foreign investment and state of the art medical facilities is good and well, but is unrelated to what makes S
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
I realize this may not be constructive, but it definitely qualifies as "glorious": I clicked "Random" and this was what I got: http://ipfs.pics/QmPJddhYZb2kXtn2vzeGTAagPcPyfCb7fuoPxQ3mqpE... Excellent pr
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
If the Python version is Pandas you could replace the brackets with dot notation. (x.a, x.b)
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Why sys.setdefaultencoding() will break code(anonbadger.wordpress.com)
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
The people I used to work with called it "mighty".
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
What's the situation like for HTTPS in the embedded world?
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
Do you know lispm? Can we not "I feel you, bro" each other around here?
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
Perhaps you could do this if you're on Linux, and booting into separate OS's that run off the Linux kernel. Or if you're using boot2docker. However, in neither case does Docker itself provide the kernel in the container.
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by unclesaamm 11y ago
That seems extremely painful without explicit page break characters, because if you were to rewrite anything, you would have to adjust the corresponding whitespace or else everything would get misaligned.

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