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by waldrews 18y ago
Ok, fine... can I downmod the line in the movie instead of your comment?
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by waldrews 18y ago
Umm... Caltech sports teams? There's a whole movie, Quantum Hoops, about how we historically never won any game.
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by waldrews 18y ago
Downmodded; joking about prison rape, or any kind of rape, is beneath the dignity of this forum.
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by waldrews 18y ago
As a practicing statistician, I have to whine about this. The issue is selection bias; the four observed events are not independent random samples from the same Bernoulli distribution, but the events about which we have learned because they
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by waldrews 18y ago
Why couldn't they just use Ruby? It would take fewer lines. (kidding, kidding, don't downmod me)
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by waldrews 18y ago
Rhapsody, Audible, GoToMyPc
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by waldrews 18y ago
Oh come on, does everybody here have to bash .Net? You do get an enormous performance boost from actually using a compiled language. The libraries are vast, and CLR lets you access other languages; and C# 3.0, with closures and linq and t
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by waldrews 18y ago
Though I'm pro-Python on maintainability grounds, there's one Lispish feature Ruby has that I wish were available in Python, that's not even in the Py3000 spec: continuations. The Ruby community doesn't seem to be too enthusiastic about us
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by waldrews 18y ago
To put this in a historical perspective, Adam Smith's bitter comments on the fate of the academic still make sense today: "But the usual reward of the eminent teacher bears no proportion to that of the lawyer or physician; because the trade
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by waldrews 18y ago
Seems to fail on IE 7.
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by waldrews 18y ago
It's a little surprising how many of the Python-favoring features are already present in C# 3.0; closures, syntactically clean properties, and a nicer array syntax; between the yield keyword and LINQ, you get something close to generator sy
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by waldrews 18y ago
Escaping is important for all text fields, and I never use user text to build SQL strings without using some kind of typed parameter API. But I'd like to let the user submit formatted HTML via something like FCKEditor and have it checked ag
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Ask HN: What do you use for HTML sanitization?
3 points by waldrews 18y ago|4 comments
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by waldrews 18y ago
There's no choice anymore - it's got to be Seam. It's the first Java EE framework to really learn from Rails, eliminate the XML through annotations, natively support Hibernate as the ORM, and still keep the perf and tooling advantages of s
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by waldrews 18y ago
The threat of lawsuit is more relevant if they were to violate copyright and take work done for hire and resell it, or set up their own site to compete with you on your own codebase; this is especially true if you give them access to your s
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by waldrews 18y ago
Has anybody tried GAE with Amazon FlexPay or another payment service?
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by waldrews 18y ago
It's a great find, but a huge security hole. The browsers have got to patch it, even if it breaks some CSS functionality.
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by waldrews 18y ago
I agree with Feller as the classical book on probability; it is beautifully written and full of insight and deserves to be read over and over again. For theoretical statistics, justifying why you'd use one method versus another, the graduat
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by waldrews 18y ago
Even people who don't happen to like suburbs should be turned off by the speaker's arrogant central-planner community-before-individual attitude.
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by waldrews 18y ago
You still might want to get the bids and see what you can afford - even $10k might get you pretty far if you're willing to do a lot of the work yourself, using the design firm as consultants to guide you through the process.
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by waldrews 18y ago
You're probably going to want a design firm, rather than a manufacturing firm, to get you to the point where you have a physical prototype, CAD files of manufacturable parts, and choices of materials and processes. Then they can guide you
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by waldrews 18y ago
But just observing isn't enough; it can be tempting to use observing as an excuse not to practice and talk.
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by waldrews 19y ago
Amazon is promising low latency to the new storage system... the question is, how low is low, and what issues will surface when mounting such this storage on multiple EC2 instances (perhaps even on non-EC2 machines?).
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by waldrews 19y ago
The modular Django apps, of which Admin is the most prominent, are tightly connected to the Django ORM, and usually need joins. Even the session manager is database backed.
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by waldrews 19y ago
Looking closer at the Django support... it's Django except for the ORM, Sessions, and Admin! All that's left is routing, forms, and the templates, all of which have better alternatives. No out of the box Django apps will run without the O
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by waldrews 19y ago
Mail API supports sending mail, but I don't see a way to receive mail to the app's domain... am I missing something obvious?
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The No-Tech Hacker (Forbes)(forbes.com)
3 points by waldrews 19y ago|0 comments
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by waldrews 19y ago
It took me years of brooding in a corporate job to get over my first failed startup. But people aren't kidding when they say it's valuable experience; I've seen enough entrepreneurs who didn't fail soon enough or often enough. Their first
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by waldrews 19y ago
I went with Django because I could read its codebase, but found the Rails codebase too cryptic. Rails magic, epitomized by the pluralization rules, was also a turnoff - the prospect of debugging in that world seemed scary. The case for Dja
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by waldrews 19y ago
The discussion of Ken Olsen's "no computer in the home" comment at http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp makes a credible case that, although the quote is not apocryphal, it was badly misinterpreted - Olsen was knowledgeable about and

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