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by wjnc 13y ago
Astonishing for me from a cross cultural perspective. -Here in the Netherlands mechanics would never come as close to senior management as at BART. The highest ranking mechanics / technical staff are in the $/2 range of senior man
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My company actually bought some "big data"-machinery plus consulting and they actually delivered their hardware in a Very Large case. Truly one of those '90s dual big towers. I thought that was pretty funny, considering they
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by wjnc 13y ago
There's a nice Econtalk on 'price gouging' [1] that talks at length on this subject. ihsw hits the highlights. [1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/01/munger_on_price_1.h...
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by wjnc 13y ago
Good point. Excel then functions as the kind-of dashboard to lots of more powerful code.
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by wjnc 13y ago
I grok why you would want to replace VBA for Excel by Python. But once you've switched to an iPython way of working, your pretty much above and beyond the spreadsheet world? iPython-way: Build or import nice functions, import them, get
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by wjnc 13y ago
One point that is made more often is: "It's very probable that the NSA has newer techniques that remain undiscovered in academia." How does one go around maintaining such an omerta? Most cryptographic math is not that hard th
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by wjnc 13y ago
The correct term is newspeak [1] In newspeak the contracted name for the unit would have been DemoUn, pronounced /ˈdiː.mən/. UnDem would have been a good second choice. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspea
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by wjnc 13y ago
TL/DR: Worker productivity in Japan is high and has risen like all other western countries. Other factors, like lacklustre respons to zombie banks, must explain "lost decade". I look at the Penn World Table. In: * Real Income
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by wjnc 13y ago
iPython? How did he manage to get that seamlessly on his blog? It's awesome that you can get really professional scientific looks for random cool stuff.
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by wjnc 13y ago
Nothing new here, although I am amazed that it is still considered a 'rumor'. Just fly to Breda, the Netherlands and look around in the EDM-scene. Many, if not most, of the upcoming DJs make and share with Tiesto. It's like a
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by wjnc 13y ago
You forget the employers share of health insurance cost (7,75%!)
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by wjnc 13y ago
Why (as a European, but my dad is big a DET-fan) do you guys estimate WPE from high level variables? Baseball is basicly a lineup versus lineup sport, right? Or in terms of the link: Q per team is variable between matches. An additional mod
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by wjnc 13y ago
It's a good read about how not to treat your user base when focusing on growth. If you toss away big chunks of user edited content, you don't stand a chance of retaining those users. Since the users making content are your key users (the 20
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by wjnc 13y ago
The point is that he IS pursuing that strategy and that cbc.ca is a positive google for his name.
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by wjnc 13y ago
So now Twitter really is out there as the biggest social science database there is. And much of what we get are descriptives (and analysis on the stockmarket). What are interesting research questions that need tackling (let's say: non-finan
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by wjnc 14y ago
We can separate the debate in a few distinct classes: 1. Superstar class - Excellent researcher and excellent teacher - A good MOOC is not a threat but an opportunity for you to bring even more understanding to your students. Or the superst
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by wjnc 14y ago
Experience mostly in econometric and financial modelling + dabbling in code for fun. The workable implementation pretty soon baffles me on the database side. Basically all I know is from flat data file or database upwards. I really can't im
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by wjnc 14y ago
Good questions. The complexity is not in the database, which will be tops several hundreds of tables with thousands of rows by hundreds of fields. Peanuts, datawise. All we need is dynamic updating of the tables, rows and fields throughout
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The Netherlands!
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Ask HN: Lean & lowtech founders: How to choose a stack?
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That's not how I read the article. I read the article as stating that, even though you have final control, there are so many players and agenda's and sudden decisive moments, that you still only have a weak grasp on events. In my opinion, a
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Registered, just to get to know the date. Both corporates and fathers need to book holidays (way) in advance!
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by wjnc 14y ago
As a European I find that most of the text makes sense. Perhaps in 20 years we see the second Iraq war as a pivotal event in the relationship US - World. But don't let the journals title fool you: the American Conservative is a conservativ
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by wjnc 14y ago
True. My point was a bit more subtle: those of my (former) co-workers with PhD's in physics or maths were extra extra smart and really great programmers... But they didn't start their PhD wanting to go into finance! You start because you wa
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by wjnc 14y ago
Never do a PhD for the money. Ever. It's not worth it, compared to using your skills to get a good education BSc / MSc and then start your career. You miss so many years of good income, plus income growth and will always stand out as the th
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Nice try, but to take down a government with encryption, you first need an internet that is not in under control of the government. Syria, Iran, North-Korea, China: they all control the people And the Internet. What would help would a combi
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by wjnc 14y ago
And you post this on HN, where many people are aspiring to GRODT with a great startup.
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by wjnc 14y ago
It's even better in German: "spukhafte Fernwirkung"
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Matrix algebra is one of the nicest courses to have had. Makes so many other maths and statistics subjects more easy to grasp.
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by wjnc 14y ago
What do you rather have: $300 for a 'toy' drone that might do the job, or $200 mln. on routers that definitively do the job (and stand idle 99% of the time)? I love how they would run a test on cheap hardware.

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