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by wanorris 15y ago
It's referred to in the materials as 229A, so yes.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Those are valid reasons. I coded a fair amount of Perl a decade or so ago, and I wouldn't be wild about having to do more of it, never mind learn it nowadays. But it doesn't sound like you were approaching the conversation constructively.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Thanks! The only links I had seen to the full CS 229 lectures to date were from a previous instance, and they were incomplete. So far I've enjoyed CS 229A (ml-class.com) even if it has glided over a fair bit of the math, but I do want to sp
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by wanorris 15y ago
Likewise, ml-class.com is currently being offered and covers some of the material under discussion.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Well, if their data mining skills are good enough, they still might be a threat in your fantasy league.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Totally agree on the browser. But as an aside, can you program an Arduino if all you have is an iPad? Or would you have to go buy a general-purpose PC for somewhat more than $30?
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by wanorris 15y ago
Well, suppose all you have is an iPad, and you want to write some code. Sad panda, yes? Well, not necessarily. Let's say you go plop down 50 bucks or whatever on a keyboard -- or maybe you don't because you have a bigger tolerance for tryin
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by wanorris 15y ago
Teas Willis, and the sticky tours Did gym and Gibbs in the wake. All mimes were the borrowers, And the moderate Belgrade. "Beware the tablespoon my son, The teeth that bite, the Claus that catch. Beware the
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by wanorris 15y ago
I can't help feeling that part of the difference is that, per Feynman, Apple builds MIT Cyclotrons while Windows, like Linux, is more like the Princeton Cyclotron. http://bit.ly/qUZnMP (directs to Google Books) Personally, I'm kind of fon
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by wanorris 15y ago
It seems clear that there are some differences between Microsoft's designs and implementations and Apple's. But if you compare, say, DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows XP, and Windows 7, it seems difficult to make the case that Microso
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by wanorris 15y ago
Can anyone speak to why New York has become such a good locale for venture capital? I live in Seattle, and haven't really kept up with the state of things in New York. Is it simply that the firehose of capital available there is being turne
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by wanorris 15y ago
Paul Graham is a really smart guy who has helped a lot of great startups, but that doesn't mean he's always right. He responded to a really incendiary post attacking a company he's trying to help succeed with a response that wasn't as caref
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by wanorris 15y ago
Personally, I tend to want to respond to an article or discussion with whatever thought I'm having at the moment. The HN karma (in particular, the average) reminds me to try to filter my comments based on whether I'm saying something that I
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by wanorris 15y ago
But the real world usage of disgruntled is as a marker for "This person is biased against the company, so any fair-minded person should discount what they have to say."
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by wanorris 15y ago
That's incredibly cool, but I think Gruber's point about the problems of third party integration will prove to be crucial. Me: "Set my facebook status to getting ready to ride the roller coaster at Six Flags." Siri: ... Me: "Are there any h
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by wanorris 15y ago
Thanks for the reference to the FLQ crisis. I was a little tyke at the time, and I'm neither Canadian nor a student of Canadian history, so it was all new to me. Interesting case study in how a democratic, apparently well-meaning government
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by wanorris 15y ago
.Net does the same thing (though strings and arrays are reference types, not value types), but it doesn't really solve the problem. If you write a function that performs an operation on a dictionary/hashtable/map/associative array, it would
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by wanorris 15y ago
> You have reinvented PHP better, but that's still no justification This says it all right here.
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by wanorris 15y ago
I'm sure it's not rare as in unheard of, but to have any significant impact on the number of people carrying 2.3 billion devices, there would need to be hundreds of millions of people with multiple phones. I have no idea of the statistics,
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by wanorris 15y ago
We almost never used the DVD service, but the streaming service is our primary way of watching TV -- the kids watch it frequently, we use it to watch with varying frequency, but either way, we rarely watch something on actual cable. For thi
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by wanorris 15y ago
It's worth remembering that this has traditionally been offset by the fact that x86 chips are manufactured in such epic volumes and on such advanced processes that there was no way for more "efficient" silicon to dislodge it. And unlike the
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by wanorris 15y ago
Another vote for the Akai LPK25 -- it's superportable, so it's easy either to keep right by your computer, or even to throw into a laptop bag and have along with you. Personally I like Sonar (the current generation Cakewalk) on Windows as a
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by wanorris 15y ago
BeOS is a good point. And even if Be itself didn't change the world, there might have been flocks of Apple refugees who moved on to make something else wonderful. So perhaps many of the same things would have happened if another player had
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by wanorris 15y ago
Unless you're working a seriously crazy angle like Phelps, there's generally more money to be made outside the church than within it. I think most people who have devoted their lives to a church are either sincere, or they started out since
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by wanorris 15y ago
That's actually an awesome point. A robot construction kit that you could connect to a phone would be a cooler way to really learn about robotics than a delivered, finished robot. Even if it were modular -- so that you learned nothing about
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by wanorris 15y ago
The idea of the replacement for the original Mac OS being sourced from within IBM (instead of from NeXT) is flatly scary. OS/2 is the most obvious source, and it actually had quite a few strengths, but it's really hard to imagine it being a
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by wanorris 15y ago
As noted in the article: "When the company dismissed its first president, Michael Scott, in 1981, for example, Mr. Markkula, agreed to cede the title of chairman to Mr. Jobs and become Apple's president -- but only until a permanent chief e
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by wanorris 15y ago
Revolution may be overstating the case, but taking a technology that is accessible to enthusiasts with the technical ability to program an Arduino and construct a robot out of components and making it accessible to users with the technical
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by wanorris 15y ago
If I were the intern in question, I would have withdrawn my application rather than proceed like that. I would never want to create an adversarial relation with a current or former employer unless they left me with no other alternative. It
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by wanorris 15y ago
Microsoft may well be completely uninvolved, but while the molecular gastronomy movement lacks any motive for involvement, the same cannot be said for Microsoft.

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