cypherpnks

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by cypherpnks 12y ago
I'll make an alternative suggestion. Hire management. You want to sit in a box and code. You want someone to handle business, support, etc. People who can do that are a dime a dozen. That could be another student at the university; som
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by cypherpnks 12y ago
This video has been making the rounds. I call bullsh*t. 1. People aren't idiots. We get the idea that poor people tend to be dumb in the US because, in many cases, it's true. If you have intelligence, work ethic, and grit, in the
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by cypherpnks 12y ago
There is a large market. How are you planning to reach it? If you cannot go lower, I'd consider a partnership with an existing brand. You'll have to have an insane marketing budget to compete with existing clothing brands without
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by cypherpnks 12y ago
That is a true statement, about Wall St. Less true about C-level, until you hit pretty big companies. A typical C-level or VP-level earns between $200k and $500k, typically towards the lower-end of that (obviously, Fortune 500 would be mill
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by cypherpnks 12y ago
Of course. Compare the market caps of Walmart, J. Crew (which was recently purchased), Brooks Brothers (from a sane P/E ratio), Armani. Heck, try a TJ Max or similar (to avoid companies with major non-clothing businesses -- which, coin
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by cypherpnks 12y ago
Most people on HN are in the elite. I'd suggest trying any of the wealth calculator apps, and figuring out which percentile you're in. And please post here once you've done that. Or, go here: http://en.wikipedia.or
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by cypherpnks 12y ago
Amazon is the new socialism. There are basic services which the government ought to provide -- access to unlimited books, movies, music, software, and similar. It's dramatically more economically efficient that way. The governments won
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by cypherpnks 12y ago
Wrong conclusion. There's a difference between bad idea and bad execution. MailChimp is a business site. Twitter and Facebook are personal mediums. There's a mismatch. As a manager, I wouldn't want my employees using personal
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by cypherpnks 13y ago
This contest is a sham. Crypto has to be secure against things like known-plaintext attacks and similar. That's typical in any real-world setting.
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by cypherpnks 13y ago
All data deleted is a dick move. Google should at least be able to preserve takeout data for eternity.
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by cypherpnks 13y ago
Keep it in a public github repo. Voila! Instant compliance.
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by cypherpnks 14y ago
Got screwed this way be Sears. Won't shop there again.
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by cypherpnks 14y ago
Having used both git and hg, I very strongly agree. I learned hg first. Hg took less time to master than git took learn the basics of. The syntax of git is incredibly cumbersome in comparison -- I type a lot more. It's the standard, but rel
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by cypherpnks 14y ago
A few things: * Udacity really tries to learn how to exploit the on-line medium well. Coursera tosses courses not that different from a capture of the normal university course on-line. Coursera instructors have minimal support in how to put
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by cypherpnks 14y ago
Personally, I'm rooting for the open software/open content model of edX, or the very high quality pedagogy of Khan Academy and Udacity. The Coursera courses I've taken were, by and large, fairly mediocre, and the company is hyper-secretive
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by cypherpnks 14y ago
Heh. Yeah. Microsoft makes hardware and starts to compete with you. Doesn't seem insane to start backpaddling a little bit.
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by cypherpnks 14y ago
That wasn't my point. You can do better than theoretically optimal -- indeed, their results, in many cases, do look better than sinc. Theoretically optimal makes assumptions that the source image is, in some ways, random, in a way that the
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by cypherpnks 14y ago
I claim bullshit. The theoretically optimal algorithm is, and has been known to be for 40+ years, sinc interpolation. Gimp does this (Lanczos approximation). Comparing to bicubic leaves aliasing relics and looks bad. I'd be very interested
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by cypherpnks 14y ago
This is kind of a no-duh, sherlock non-story. Fact 1: Sebastian Thrun co-developed Google StreetView Fact 2: Sebastian Thrun is developing the driverless car. A lot more goes into a self-driving car than data from how drivers drive. That's