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by wisty 12y ago
> So would I. But what you'd learn in the first week of hanging out with a doctor in a typical clinical setting is that most patients are frankly too uneducated to be able to use that kind of tool. Yep. There's apps to do your
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by wisty 12y ago
I don't really think it's purely tooling that's the issue. If it were so easy to use Dylan, then the tooling would be easy to write. I think it's performance. "Scripting languages" tear compiled languages apart
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by wisty 12y ago
> In the last 20 years, the economic surge of Asia, especially China, has brought a large trade readjustment to the world, one with few parallels with the possible exception of the rise of the Western economies several centuries ago. Chi
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by wisty 12y ago
The new idea looks like my desktop. A web browser, terminals, text editor windows ...
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by wisty 12y ago
Tests are a great way to learn, and a terrible way to manage. Tests are shown to reinforce learning. High stakes tests aren't, though, because they start to cause too many distortions.
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by wisty 12y ago
The urban legend was mostly due to its use in WWII, to explain why the allied night fighters were so good. The fighters actually used radar, which was still top secret.
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by wisty 12y ago
Once you're talking volume, things start scaling cubicly. It's not intuitive to most people that a cubic meter of water weights a ton. It's certainly not intuitive how to compare say, the Hoover Dam to a 7.5km long (but skinn
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by wisty 12y ago
It's lucky crime rates have dropped so low. You wouldn't want this kind of hardware lying around if there was any chance the wrong king of person could get their hands on it. It would make a great movie or game premise though.
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by wisty 12y ago
Look here: http://userguide.icu-project.org You really need a library when dealing with unicode, if you are doing anything advanced. How do you split a sentence into words? Spaces, right? Oh, Chinese doesn't have spaces. Ho
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by wisty 12y ago
1. Hire really good PR people. 2. Don't listen to them when there's a crisis. If you don't listen to PR people in a crisis, or dictate the strategy to them, there's not much they can do. Sure, they can communicate their
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by wisty 12y ago
If it's a choice between democratised micromanagement, and highly political feudal lords and their serfs, which would you pick? OK, having the right people manage might be better. Can you point me to an institution that's managed
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by wisty 12y ago
Apple does this, I think. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon did (in their quest to reduce everything to replaceable cogs). You create three teams, and get them to work on basically the same problem. Apple will often give them slightly
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by wisty 12y ago
Yes, that's possible. You could a topic clustering algorithm, for example. Text -> topic_id.
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by wisty 12y ago
The same reason the Army has mechanics to fix their tanks, not some "US Tank Repair Agency". Also, if you were an officer, how willing would you be to trust a hacker from another agency, if you didn't have someone you trusted
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by wisty 12y ago
There's at least one other well known agency that focuses on cyber security. The uniformed forces might have hackers, sure. The Coast Guard has heavy machine guns, but the US doesn't rely on them for naval defence - it's also
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by wisty 12y ago
Australia solved this. It's called the PBS. Basically, an independent board of experts does a cost-benefit analysis on new drugs (note - they don't call it cost-benefit, but whatever). If the drugs are "worth it", then t
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by wisty 12y ago
As a Pythoneer with a vague knowledge of Haskell, that's odd. None is not an int. Or a float. Or a string. It's None. Python is nothing like C, where a string is a pointer that might point to null ... it just can't happen.
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by wisty 12y ago
Presumably, the legal product will drive down the price of black market product. If the only reason to buy it illegally is price, then there better be a significant discount. Putting pressure on the dealers could lead to nasty shit happenin
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by wisty 12y ago
See https://github.com/devyn/unholy (Ruby to Python bytecode, then Python bytecode to Python source). Used to run Ruby on Google App Engine, I think.
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by wisty 12y ago
Post to /r/MechanicalKeyboards with "I run a Mechanical Keyboard company, AMA", and you'll get an epic thread. Post and ad and it might get 2 comments.
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by wisty 12y ago
People genuinely care about stories. A story about a wacky inventor is better than a story about their invention (see everything by Malcom Gladwell). Maybe a meme is better, since you already know the main character. Or maybe there's a
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by wisty 12y ago
From the parent: > In fact, the caste system of racism is maintained by all of us, in the same way the rest of the status quo is maintained. Mostly just by people being comfortable enough with the status quo that they don't try very
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by wisty 12y ago
What if you are wrong? You seem to think it's important to believe there is a caste system, which is moving close to Abrahamic Religion territory - you have to believe because (sometimes irrational) faith becomes the very bedrock of yo
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by wisty 12y ago
If you go Python, you could start here: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-S...
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by wisty 12y ago
Kickstart is very clear that if it falls through, then it's not Kickstarter's problem. The terms are very clear that there's a contract for the vendor to deliver or give a refund. There's certainly warnings that vendors
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by wisty 12y ago
That's odd. When I last checked, CouchDB took a lot more memory. Unless you are doing something very odd with how you model your data ("select (key, value) from attributes where recored_id = ?" ... why are you even using SQL
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by wisty 12y ago
That's actually correct - it requires a gargantuan amount to "buy" an election (double the spending for 1% more of the vote, or something along those lines). But politicians are a simple and superstitious folk, and they do ca
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by wisty 12y ago
There's pretty strong evidence suggesting this isn't a problem. Or if it's a problem, it's not one that schools can solve. Teaching "critical thinking" is basically a waste of time. You can't do it. It wou
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by wisty 12y ago
Yeah, but VC backed companies usually deliver a product. Whether they make money is an entirely different issue.
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by wisty 12y ago
Once there's a patent on the use of sodium benzoate to treat things, it will be. OK, you'll still be able to get generic sodium benzoate cheap, but it won't have whatever magic fairy dust the patented version adds to it.

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