determinant

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by determinant 12y ago
I saw that you got some flack for this comment, but I think your comment is very insightful. If it were possible to construct a regression on start-up inputs vs success, I suspect average hours worked past 6 hours every single day would no
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by determinant 12y ago
Get a better chair, better shoes, and a better bed. More money doesn't necessarily get you a better model. I know there's a bunch of other suggestions on here for other things to do, but sometimes the solutions are really basic.
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by determinant 12y ago
This was my frustration also. It surprises me that they haven't worked out an arrangement to either make that feature an upgrade or worked out a way to make financial arrangements with (I'm guessing) the people who have broadcast
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by determinant 12y ago
I found your post really insightful so I went over to Dice and Craigslist to read through some of the job listings. I tried to read in-between the lines to figure out what kind of organization was behind the ad. If it isn't asking for
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by determinant 12y ago
A big problem is keeping people in school instead of letting them go work to support their families. Can technology solve this? Maybe. Perhaps when an ed-tech company wants to test the effectiveness of their product, maybe they could pay
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by determinant 12y ago
It really depends. In one case, I started with the back-end because I figured that, to make money with the product, I could coast with a minimal front end for quite some time. Then, in another project, I thought the front-end was the selli
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by determinant 12y ago
The core idea behind your concept is basically breaking risk-management apart. However, a good team should be on the same page with regard to risk management. So, wouldn't the player-end-refinment of sorts on this game just be teams
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by determinant 12y ago
This looks cool. Is there more or a development web site for this?
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by determinant 12y ago
I kind of view "failure" as just another folded hand in a game of Texas Hold'em. At some point, you might take down a pot to make up for past failures. You might not take down that pot and you might end up broke and pennile
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by determinant 12y ago
Past: A sundial Now: a digital watch/alarm clock/iPad with time showing Future: A robot (maybe with an iPad for a head)/terminator coming out of a portal.
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by determinant 12y ago
I highly recommend the Acer Aspire S7. It is a pain to get Linux onto, but once you do get it on there, it's an absolute pleasure to work with in Ubuntu. The keyboard will take some getting used to. I have literally written tens of
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by determinant 12y ago
The Raspberry Pi blog has some good projects to inspire you. I skim it routinely even when I'm not building anything, just because the people who make stuff are pretty creative and interesting themselves.
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by determinant 12y ago
Whatever action you take will generally come back down the multicast feeds back to your own systems to process.
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by determinant 12y ago
1) Totally normal 2) Big Nerd Ranch Guides are quick and painless 3) Go to the library for the books (old books for iOS 6 and better are good enough to learn from); use the simulator for code. Don't worry about getting it on the devic
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by determinant 12y ago
I like Nate Silver's book, "The Signal and the Noise." If you read it, you shouldn't focus on the scenarios he describes specifically. You should try to take his mindset, walk away from the book, and try to decode the
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by determinant 12y ago
You might have to be domain specific. I feel like people are A-players when the environment around them lets them shine. To date, I have not found a single person who hasn't impressed me in some specific domain. Of course, sometimes
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by determinant 12y ago
It doesn't have to be an all or nothing proposition with C# or C++ anymore if Windows is your target environment. You can write the portions you want to write in C# and mix it in with C++/CLI. Yeah, I know, a lot of people think
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by determinant 12y ago
I am a midwesterner. What startup communities should I be looking at to observe what you have observed? (This is a serious question.)
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by determinant 12y ago
Well, the arguments in the thread so far aside, I thought the reminder that being determined was important. When you're sitting around in a room at 3AM in the morning in front of the glow of a monitor slaving away on code with no paych