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Adding middleware to node.js with Connect(howtonode.org)
1 points by vecter 15y ago|0 comments
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by vecter 15y ago
I believe the cost of living in places like Boise is much less than places like SF/NYC, so that's relatively decent.
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by vecter 15y ago
Vision is pretty good, but if all cars, roads, lanes, and intersections were lined with nodes emitting wireless signals, vision would be less important (I guess except for avoiding running into jaywalkers, etc.).
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by vecter 15y ago
When I was taught A*, I was just given the mathematical definition of admissible and left to run with that. The intuition the author gave transforms some vague notion of a weight function with certain properties into an almost obvious menta
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by vecter 15y ago
If weather is chaotic, how will sampling initial conditions help?
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by vecter 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis#Consequences...
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by vecter 15y ago
I guess his essays must be rubbing off on me lol.
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by vecter 15y ago
UI is hard in the way that art is hard. It's difficult to understand what people really want or will value. Backend is hard in the way that building a skyscraper is hard. You need a solid design and framework, but you also have to make sure
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by vecter 15y ago
That's a great find, I missed all those articles. This one was touching, especially at the end: http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-angrily-clarifies-dont-...
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by vecter 15y ago
Maybe we're talking past each other. It would be ridiculous to claim that Steve would've said "Woz, you should consider this design pattern or abstraction to solve that problem you're having". I imagine it would have been more general point
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by vecter 15y ago
I remember a video of Steve in 1997(?) where he said "people want big beautiful color displays, maps, intuitive interfaces, etc." (horribly misquoted I'm sure). It was clear back then that he had the vision for the iPhone and iPad, in some
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by vecter 15y ago
Remember that all highly educated people bear a responsibility much greater than ourselves, and this responsibility is fulfilled only by sacrifice and discomfort. I'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but assuming you're not, why do the
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by vecter 15y ago
* It just makes me a bit sad that the profits that rightfully accrue to the sector are then seemingly wasted on HFT infrastructure, a competition that doesn't seem to provide anything useful above the standard market-making role. I think th
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by vecter 15y ago
I will absolutely agree that traders want money. I may not be motivated by societal welfare, but it's naive to think most people are. Founders start companies because they want to hit it big. Sure, they do want to change the world, and I ge
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by vecter 15y ago
Please don't spout vitriol when you don't understand what you're talking about. Trading is obviously zero-sum in wealth, but the important thing is that it is not zero-sum in utility. That is the fundamental reason that people trade: to t
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by vecter 15y ago
I think I read about 10 pages of it one random day for kicks. I don't even remember them assigning any readings from the book (they might've been on the syllabus, but you could just watch the lectures and do the homework and you'd be fine).
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by vecter 15y ago
Sounds like studying math or theoretical computer science would've accomplished the same :)
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by vecter 15y ago
That's interesting. Could you elaborate on why you think analytic philosophy better prepared you for a career as an Erlang programmer than a computer science degree?
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Bicyclists beat Jet Blue flight from Burbank to Long Beach(slate.com)
3 points by vecter 15y ago|0 comments
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by vecter 15y ago
I'm talking about mathematical truths for which establishing non-existence follows directly from proving a positive assertion, not that white ravens don't exist.
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by vecter 15y ago
If proving the positive assertion implies the negative assertion, what's the difference?
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by vecter 15y ago
What do you mean by "the logical fallacy of attempting to prove a negative statement?". I can prove the negative statement "I did not assassinate JFK" by citing the fact that I wasn't born yet. You're right in that in this particular case,
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by vecter 15y ago
Can you define "algorithmically simple"? This looks like hamiltonian cycle with an extra constraint that there is one bounded region. I wouldn't be surprised if this problem was NP-hard.
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by vecter 15y ago
I think it's safe to say he was being tongue-in-cheek.
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by vecter 15y ago
I believe they're referring to the holographic principle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle )
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by vecter 15y ago
Anyone with expertise in dark matter care to comment? I love pop physics but I never got beyond E&M in college
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Lost tribe of 200 found in Amazon spotted by satellite(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by vecter 15y ago|1 comments
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by vecter 15y ago
I highly recommend Andrew Ng's lectures also. I was going through them myself, and he does a good job of explaining the intuition behind many things (of which the math, although important, is only a formalization of). One piece of advice I
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Keynesian beauty contest(en.wikipedia.org)
81 points by vecter 15y ago|27 comments
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Watching the Murder of an Innocent Man(nytimes.com)
1 points by vecter 15y ago|0 comments

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