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by xanados 14y ago
Haskell programmers hate parentheses. They would write it as: flip coffee.height e.angle $ drink coffee Where "flip" is the function that reverses the order of two arguments of a function and "$" is basically like a set of parenthe
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by xanados 14y ago
Tone is important on Hacker News and you can get downvoted for that alone. Your tone throughout this conversation was dismissive and exaggerated, and HN generally rewards people who are clear and staid in their writing. If you offered evide
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by xanados 14y ago
On my computer it also blocks the play button by default. It looks like this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30313301/Photos/Screen%20Shot%20201... And this is with a completely different browser: https://aboutmybrowser.com/1498962490
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by xanados 14y ago
I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that heuristic because sometimes things literally are absurd. I think in this case though, Bill Maris is literally not in a position to say whether they are coming in at half the value of other players. H
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by xanados 14y ago
Honest question. How does accidentally clicking a mobile ad lead to accidentally calling the vendor in question?
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by xanados 14y ago
The e-mail from Michael Herzog, assuming it's legitimate, is pretty damning. Unapproved incidentals doesn't account for using someone else's work credit card to purchase multiple plane tickets. I agree with your broader point, however, and
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by xanados 14y ago
A company called AVACore has the rights, and they charge a hand and a leg for it (~$2000, and apparently only sell to select groups). I looked into making one myself based on the published papers. It doesn't seem too hard but probably just
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by xanados 14y ago
I fail to see how your main citation supports your position. Just because an increased risk may be outweighed by environmental factors, or that an increased risk based on currently available information accounts for only a small percentage
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by xanados 14y ago
Someone who eats at your local cafe 15 times isn't a "difficult customer." That person is a goddam hero to you. I haven't eaten at any local restaurant 15 times, living in a city that has good local restaurants. What constitutes a difficult
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by xanados 14y ago
All of the documentation for old Haskell packages on Hackage are hosted online and it does pollute Google's results. Google often links to outdated versions and you have to take a couple steps to find the current version.
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by xanados 14y ago
Tooth-i-ologist doesn't have its own Wikipedia page. Just because a job title isn't protected by law or regulation, doesn't mean the job title doesn't exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritionist
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by xanados 14y ago
A default rate of 5.9 vs. 3.8 is significant. That means that if two groups of 1000 students take out loans, the group made up of liberal arts majors will have 55% more defaults than the engineering group. Given that loan interest rates are
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by xanados 14y ago
It is not much of an exaggeration to say that they do. In many (most?) other professional fields decisions are made based solely on interviews, including finance, accounting, sales, middle management, etc.
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by xanados 14y ago
That is not fully accurate. Craigslist offered a licensing agreement for MOBILE ONLY: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/craigslist-sues-p... Given that PadMapper is a desktop-focused website (and the mobile experience is terrible
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by xanados 14y ago
It's a reboot of the franchise. Just like the new Star Trek movie wasn't called "Star Trek 11" but simply "Star Trek." It would be odd to keep the same version numbering scheme when they threw away the old system, no?
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by xanados 14y ago
Straw man is not the best concept to evaluate arguments in the world of tweets where every potential argument can be exemplified without nuance or detail by 140 characters. If you are considering writing an essay (or ascertaining the truth
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by xanados 14y ago
Many people were able to raise $100-400M funds during the 2003-2007 time period, and thus their management fees were $2-8m per year. That can make several people millionaires over the course of the fund life. Most of these funds did not hav
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by xanados 14y ago
When you are considering hiring you don't want to hire the already famous Jeff Dean, you want to hire the 25-year-old that will become Jeff Dean. This person is not in the limelight, and not everyone knows their name. I mean, you want to hi
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by xanados 14y ago
You don't think "take lots of photos" is good advice? I'm curious how you would recommend people improve their skill in general.
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by xanados 14y ago
Those aren't real stats. Those are just numbers on a page. That link doesn't include any methodology for how they collected these numbers, doesn't include any references, doesn't included any reason I should believe any of them whatsoever.
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by xanados 14y ago
Assuming that you are referring to the USA, our policy is to have by far the largest and most advanced military on the planet, with the ability to extend force to remote corners of the globe within hours. Also, our policy is to have a massi
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by xanados 14y ago
This site will search all of the streaming services in one interface, and I use it for Netflix/Amazon if there is a particular movie I'm looking for: http://www.canistream.it/
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by xanados 14y ago
Technically you may be right, if one is in a debate club perhaps. In a real world debate the close position of two elements, especially when one is composed of emotional content, draws a strong implied link between the two points even if th
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by xanados 14y ago
Keep in mind that his advice is targeted at companies at the stage in which he is most active, those seeking or having completed Series A/B venture capital financings. By the time a company has reached this stage it has much more centralize
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by xanados 14y ago
I unfortunately can't find a reference (but I'm hoping someone else can!), but my understanding is that group conflict is often greater between those who have similar ideologies than between those of very different ideologies. For example,
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by xanados 15y ago
The logical conclusion of your argument isn't that this theory should be more credible, but that we should assign all such theories a lower likelihood of representing reality. Luckily most of these theories have no bearing on how anyone liv
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by xanados 15y ago
I was amazed that they may have removed the requirement for an independent audit of the accounting, but after looking into the changes it looks like it absolutely doesn't remove the requirement for an audit. Based on the summary that I read
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by xanados 15y ago
There is actually a straightforward tip that is fairly reliable. Take melatonin 30 minutes before you need to go to sleep in order to wake up on time. This stops you from staying up too late because it softly commits you to only being up f
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by xanados 15y ago
Another important economic concept that bears on this issue is "positional goods." Baseball abilities are positional goods because the value is almost all in being the best or among the best, and any other level of ability has no value to s
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by xanados 15y ago
I found beeminder ( https://www.beeminder.com/ ) to be a surprisingly effective commitment utility. The goal has to be measurable, and you have to trust yourself somewhat enough not to subvert the rules, but since there is a counter-party m

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