MtotheThird

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by MtotheThird 10y ago
This is an excellent book, but as other comments have pointed out, the review misrepresents its argument. I wouldn't say Desmond is exactly sympathetic to the landlords he profiles, but he does provide a well-rounded picture of them. T
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by MtotheThird 13y ago
The fire has little to do with it. The stock is down because earlier this week it was priced at 100x Tesla's earning estimates for next year, and implies a 30x growth in sales by 2020. Simply put, while Tesla's fundamentals are st
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by MtotheThird 14y ago
I wouldn't be so sure of that. Try reading the comments on any Boston globe article about this affair. Ortiz has strong support from law-and-order voters and many people in Massachusetts outside of tech; in addition to Swartz, she's been ve
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by MtotheThird 14y ago
Most people here have had good advice. The only thing I would add is that there's a difference between vision and delusion. Visionaries have a strong and clear focus, but are grounded enough to recognize the merits of their competition and
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by MtotheThird 14y ago
I struggled to make LD work well, then someone smarter than me suggested the two character method. :)
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by MtotheThird 14y ago
Oh, I'm under no illusions that it's a universally applicable string matcher. What it seems to be useful for is normalizing human input in situations where someone can pick the best match. It handles typical normalization transforms well (w
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by MtotheThird 14y ago
I've had to do this a few times when building simple input normalization features. The trouble with scoring based on Levenshtein distance in that case is that it improperly penalizes phrases that are significantly different in length but si
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by MtotheThird 15y ago
Yeah, I can't really remember the last time I watched a Starz movie on Netflix. It's been nothing but TV series for me for at least a year now. Occasionally I'll watch a movie that shows up in new releases, but they've been signing a ton of
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by MtotheThird 15y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google, this is my personal opinion, yadda yadda yadda. I've used (and continue to use) Fastmail for many years behind a personal domain. To call Fastmail reliable is a bit of a laugh. They've had at least three sever