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by zck 8y ago
Maybe it's all the posts about Erlang ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 ).
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by zck 8y ago
"Goes down" could include things like "we're going to increase your pricing by 10 cents per charge". It's a much stronger negotiating position that Uber is in if they can say "we can switch 100% of our vol
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by zck 8y ago
> At midday UTC everyone experiences the same date. Would that this be true! There are time zones as far ahead as UTC+14: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B14:00
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by zck 8y ago
If it helps, I wrote an implementation for Emacs: https://bitbucket.org/zck/2048.el
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by zck 8y ago
I don't think it does. The picture here: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/UPj... is CVD-Jet, not their new scale. The blue-and-yellow rightmost picture is described as "as
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by zck 8y ago
That's hard to get started! It does sound powerful, but it also seems like a daunting task for your average chord strummer, like me.
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by zck 8y ago
33. Most guitar tabs for The Beatles' Norwegian Wood are wrong -- they have the intro accurate, but it's not the same as the part played under the lyrics. And it's not just that the song is played on a sitar -- even the sitar
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by zck 8y ago
I assume the hostage negotiators aren't saying "ok, release the elderly and go ahead and kill everyone else", but "ok, let's start by releasing two hostages and then I'll get you a pizza" or something like
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by zck 8y ago
> California’s DMV requires all companies testing self-driving cars to report how many times safety operators were forced to take control of its vehicles. You make what you measure. This encourages companies to have their safety operator
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by zck 8y ago
> “An Outer Party member could reach the Inner Party by chancing into an early job at a lottery-ticket company (such as Facebook or Google) or by becoming a successful entrepreneur. But that’s rare; most of the Outer Party prefers workin
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by zck 8y ago
Lifting 5lb weights -- unless you're starting out not strong at all -- won't do much to increase strength. You know how, say, a crane can lift a 20,000-pound rock 10,000 times before it breaks, but lifting a 20-pound rock doesn&#x
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by zck 8y ago
Aren't these all pretty dependent on the systems you're trying to fool? Even with adversarial learning ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_machine_learning ), if the system you're trying to hide fr
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by zck 8y ago
Also, I'd imagine it makes a difference how _replacable_ shows are. A show which is the only show watched by a user in a given month is probably more valuable to Netflix than a show that is one of seventeen shows that user watches.
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by zck 8y ago
> Downside, I don't have $10,000+ to spend, and I doubt a high end shop would enjoy me running this experiment on their inventory. One thought that comes to mind: ask them if they're ok with you writing an article on your resul
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by zck 8y ago
I imagine he was embarrassed, but not because of what was on the cake. > Cara Koscinski said she then had to explain why the grocery store censored ‘‘cum’’ from Jacob’s cake to her 70-year-old mother while Jacob’s friends laughed uncontr
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by zck 8y ago
I'm assuming what they're doing here (they don't really say) is using a flywheel in the equipment in the charging station to charge a "regular" electric car -- a car that stores the electricity in batteries. And the
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by zck 8y ago
I feel like there's a whole lot of backstory not contained in this post.
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by zck 8y ago
When taking science classes in school, I never understood why a hypothesis had to take a side. It could not be a question, like "hypothesis: does hot water freeze faster than cold water?", but had to take a position on the issue:
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by zck 8y ago
I think some of the other sites you linked are great examples. So move the elevator pitch for Clojurescript to the top of the page. "Clojurescript is a compiler for Clojure that targets Javascript" is an explanation technically, b
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by zck 8y ago
Have used ClojureScript a little bit, Clojure a fair amount, a lot of coding in other Lisps. Having code is useful! Yes! But it is easier if people are guided to it. On the reddit thread you link, you link to two tweets containing the homep
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by zck 8y ago
Who's your target market for the front page? If it's people who don't know what Clojurescript is, why confuse them with hundreds of characters of incomprehensible code, with no understanding of why it's there or what it
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by zck 9y ago
It's interesting how much advice given is "show people hiring you your programming projects". I don't find this does so much for me, because projects I want to work in in my spare time don't have any relation to the
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by zck 9y ago
It really depends what you're using it for, and what you're comparing it to. For example, when I'm writing Java, I use Intellij -- but sometimes copy an argument list into Emacs to do quicker macro-driven editing. For basic t
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by zck 9y ago
A few years ago, I sent a message to Stripe about a problem with its documentation (they let you switch examples to be in different languages, but at least some Java examples showed up as C++). They not only sent a personal message saying t
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by zck 9y ago
> I have no knowledge of New York subterranian transit, but at some point you have to step back and ask yourself if the expenditure is worth it, simply based on the value of the dollar. I think it is. That may be true. But if NYC could g
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by zck 9y ago
> But more important than the command itself is the manual for the command. Whether you expect to use this command, you should read its manual. Let's look at the manual for `git rev-parse` ( https://git-scm.com/docs&#
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by zck 9y ago
> I’m not sure how long they get to keep their back catalog. Has anything been licensed indefinitely? At a minimum, they have their original series^1. I would assume that, as part of paying for the various shows to be created, Netflix h
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by zck 9y ago
If you're tired of writing HTML that isn't inside Javascript. Seriously, though -- the company I'm working for is serving SPAs that interact with APIs directly, so you can serve everything except your API from a CDN. You don&
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by zck 9y ago
This doesn't seem to distinguish between different types of masters degrees. I got a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from Cornell, and it's not a research degree^1. I enjoyed the program, but it was closer to a fifth
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by zck 9y ago
If you think that outcome is likely to happen, you might make decisions not to put yourself in that situation. Uncertainty around US immigration and borders would be a very understandable reason to not start a startup in the US. Why start i

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