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by venning 11y ago
> Since bubble sort is always taught as a bad sort... I was taught about bubble sort in three different situations. In each one, bubble sort was not taught as a "bad" sort. The instructor always focused on the difference
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Efficient solution to graph isomorphism problem discovered(sciencenews.org)
8 points by venning 11y ago|0 comments
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by venning 11y ago
idlewords wrote a similar story [1] a month after this one was published, if you're looking for more humor with your discussion of patent law. [1] http://idlewords.com/2003/12/100_years_of_turbulence.htm
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by venning 11y ago
See also this recent Economist article [1] on a new species, the coywolf, found in North America and their comments on the difficulty of deciding if it is, in fact, a new species. And associated HN discussion [2]. [1] http://www
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by venning 11y ago
This throws an invalid SSL cert warning on Android Chrome. NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
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by venning 11y ago
My organization occasionally sends people as exhibitors to conferences. At the biggest one of the year, renting a wireless hotspot from the hotel costs $900 (for a poor connection). Rumor has it, one year, they rented a hotel room for a fe
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by venning 11y ago
An "11.5% conversion rate" is a bit disingenuous. Their advertisement method attracted users who were not "actually eligible to even think about becoming a paying customer". I don't think you can so easily exclude
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Before They Created Apple, Jobs and Wozniak Hacked the Phone System(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by venning 11y ago|2 comments
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by venning 11y ago
Thank you.
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by venning 11y ago
This is why I am perplexed.
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by venning 11y ago
> why did you pause your career? Like a lot of programmers, I was bad at dealing with people, both personally and professionally, and knew I needed a way to address that. While a year of going up to complete strangers in an already te
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by venning 11y ago
I agree. As an avid "car guy" and a student of regulation, I cannot think of any reason for car dealers, as a whole, to be protected in the long-term. I am, however, perplexed with how we should address the possibility of establ
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by venning 11y ago
There is a difference between the creation of the status quo and the defense of it. > ...out in the street protesting... > ...Chicago Teacher's Union marches... > ...cab drivers block streets... Your examples are all of
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by venning 11y ago
Very true and very scary. The sad thing is that regulatory protection often makes matters worse by insulating people from changing realities. That causes the inevitable collapse of that protection to create an even greater shock to those
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by venning 11y ago
The interesting thing about the particular examples in this thread--local taxi companies, hotel franchises, dealer franchises--is that none of them are in fact "big businesses". If Uber and AirBnB and Tesla succeed, they will all
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by venning 11y ago
Agreed. And I didn't mean to sound grim. Markets tend to be efficient in the long-term and inefficient in the short-term as it is still determining how to place capital and whatnot based on new information. I feel like our industry (
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by venning 11y ago
Now you've just taken a deal, which was probably worth $200, and made it even more expensive to execute. Not to mention, this is a customer who is already demanding enough to warrant a swap, so who's to say the demands won't
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by venning 11y ago
I should not have said "very" biased. I also did not mean it as an indictment, only to prep the reader that there may be a bit of a slant. Google can point out some allegedly biased reporting they have done [1], but I'm cert
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by venning 11y ago
> why can't I rent a car for a month and if I like it sign up for a year or two or three? You can, but if you don't buy it they now have a radically-devalued product they still need to sell. Some dealers experiment with this
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by venning 11y ago
Absolutely. Regulatory capture is a real thing and a really bad thing. I'm certainly not defending the franchise protections. I would just like to be clear: people get hurt when we uproot the status quo quickly. That isn't to
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by venning 11y ago
We often moan about the taxi industry, the hotel industry, or the dealer associations but, in doing so, we miss something very important. The players in that industry often existed for years or decades in a state of government-backed prote
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by venning 11y ago
From everything I've read about the industry for the last 15 years, this is all completely correct and serves to demonstrate why it's such a hard industry. Extremely high costs, low profit margins, fiendish competition, considera
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by venning 11y ago
Yes and no. Yes, we could see the inventory of every Honda dealer in the region. And yes, we could exchange cars. However, the "requirement" that cars be swapped was something that managers told customers to ease their minds whi
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by venning 11y ago
The following [1] is an article that explains a bit of the supposed corruption behind the franchise protection laws. It is from a very biased source (Mother Jones), but the underlying facts can be sourced from many places. Essentially, Cal
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by venning 11y ago
Correct. I discovered in selling cars that car buying was an incredibly emotional, often impulsive, decision for most people. Yes, some are able to handle the experience dispassionately, but most people are "on the edge" of bein
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by venning 11y ago
I paused my software development career to sell cars for a year. I sold cars at two different Honda dealerships, both owned by Fortune 500 companies in, what I believe is, the densest single market for Hondas in the US (Metro DC). There&#
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by venning 11y ago
What is the "comment_ranking" data you mention in the notebook?
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by venning 11y ago
See also Gitter's excellent Tentacles [1] and Tentacles-Streams [2] for a GitHub driver with caching semantics, which I believe they use in production. [1] https://github.com/gitterHQ/tentacles [2] https:/&#
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by venning 11y ago
Ah, just saw it. Lazare's comment led me to the same conclusion.
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by venning 11y ago
Your point is an interesting one and leads me to an odd conclusion: the presence of wind producers in this market is not a requirement for negative prices. Assuming the author is accurately describing the market, by definition, the bids o

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