jamn

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by jamn 15y ago
I have seen a great parking lot lately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3NZ6J8Fg6c
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by jamn 15y ago
B-Trees actually have superior cache performance compared to other types of trees (such as T-Trees or BST Trees). In part, this is because B-Trees have a higher density of actual data to pointers. There is a tradeoff of computation (doing b
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by jamn 15y ago
Obvious point, yet horribly argued. It is clear to everybody that iMessage is not a platform-independent to send messages today. Thus, there is still a need for BBM, SMS, and all. However, the distribution of people who own iPhones is not a
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by jamn 15y ago
You've probably seen this already, but have you considered the Harvard Extension School? I don't know the details, but I do know the extension school offers some classes taught by the same professors that teach regular Harvard classes. An e
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by jamn 16y ago
His actual name is Harold (Hal) Abelson.
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by jamn 16y ago
Another question is to what extent AshleyMadison needs to rely on traditional advertisement versus, say, word of mouth. I don't particularly remember ever seeing an ad for Facebook, Google until recently, or OKCupid. Yet it seemed to matter
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by jamn 16y ago
It is sad to see some areas where people on average are doing significantly worse than the richest parts of the United States. However, I find the choice of the term 'Third World America' to be particularly deceiving. Let's take Louisiana,
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by jamn 16y ago
I wouldn't call it to 'tweak' the data collection. He is simply normalizing the results to ignore the differences in language distribution. This is normal and has nothing to do with how you choose to represent it. It would have been meaning
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by jamn 16y ago
The link is not working for me; going to http://twitter.com/NokiaPlanB/ only shows the following quote: "there are no 'nine young investors', just one very bored engineer who really likes his iPhone" If this is the case, then I guess that
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by jamn 16y ago
I do see reasons. They have fixed costs (independent from the number of tickets bought) in the form of payments for search results to ITA plus whatever company overhead (maintenance, salaries, etc). Whether Hipmunk can afford improvements i
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by jamn 16y ago
The point raised in the presentation is that as Hipmunk is better able to achieve price parity (say, via the ITA deal which will make better search results available to them), the prime differentiation will be the usability of the product.
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by jamn 16y ago
Why is this being downvoted? The question is pretty legit; the long application asks a number of questions like how much you use desktop apps (Anything from MATLAB to Citrix), and also about your preference in Google products vs anything el
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by jamn 16y ago
Of course the complexity will increase as a function of the number of features. However, I'd make the following claims: (1) Some of the functions are simply not that used. You can get by perfectly well without knowing what double and triple
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by jamn 16y ago
I got a message from BankSimple telling me that I was going to get an invite soon and asking me for feedback. I got really excited and responded with an e-mail, but never heard back from them. I'm not sure if I misinterpreted the original e
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by jamn 16y ago
To further this. I think this is a great idea, but having worked on benchmarking database structures in the past, I'd be weary of using them for any type of real benchmark. For one, trying to model a real disk would get very complicated ver
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by jamn 16y ago
I second this. I just graduated and as I was looking for a job and I interviewed for a bunch of companies. One of them asked that I solve some programming challenges. Sure, I like puzzles and I like being challenged. However, at the time I
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by jamn 16y ago
Playing the devil's advocate here. I have bought more than a couple of CDs from CD Baby and thanks to them I've been able to connect with more than a couple of wonderful artists. However, from Apple's perspective, it must have seemed like C
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by jamn 16y ago
I wouldn't first argue that Dvorak spits out 'ignorant bullshit' while claiming that all design preferences are equally valid. I personally prefer the older Google Images. For one, I lose the ability to scroll the website immediately after
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by jamn 16y ago
I don't think that would explain why the result varied depending on the type of images displayed.
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by jamn 16y ago
I don't think so, The task you are splitting has to be sizeable enough that the setup costs of parallelization (in this case, going to every cashier to put your stuff and then going and picking it up) don't outweigh the potential benefits f
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by jamn 16y ago
Even though Telmex (his landline company) was acquired from the state, and therefore was a monopoly from the start, Slim faced a monopoly by Iusacell on the wireless phone industry, which he managed to break and manage to get Telcel (his wi
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by jamn 16y ago
(1) I have an iPhone, but I'd really love this type of functionality. I agree I'd probably feel weird saying this to the cell phone. However, when I'm using my earphones with microphone built-in, it's actually extremely handy to issue a com
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by jamn 16y ago
At the very least it helps me build intuition for how a brain actually looks. I haven't had the opportunity to look at a brain layer by layer, so it's hard to imagine how to construct it from it. However, with common fruits which we've alwa
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by jamn 16y ago
I disagree. As an international student in the US, I personally would enormously benefit from a cell phone that can do video conversations well. My family lives thousands of miles away, and seeing their faces is actually something I really
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by jamn 16y ago
100% agree. I usually found the problem sets were usually really hard. Much harder than the actual exams. Most study groups that I had seen simply consisted of one person that found the questions very easy, and a group of people that scramb
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by jamn 16y ago
This is something that actually has puzzled me for a while, so if someone can provide me with some economics insight I'd appreciate it. The question is: why does it make economic sense to refuse a cheap labor force? If suddenly some aliens
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by jamn 16y ago
I don't think it matters if you didn't have a cell phone as a kid, anyways. In the past, kids didn't have access to malaria vaccines. Does this mean kids aren't better off now that they have it? I feel that using these stories to conclude t
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by jamn 16y ago
Not sure I agree with the premise of this article. You can always make the case that, on the contrary, you may want to go to a hotel to experience something that you haven't experienced before. If the design is somehow more functional or ot
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by jamn 16y ago
At least it seems to me that Droid X has similar problems: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=droid%20x&gbv=2...
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by jamn 16y ago
I disagree. A recruiter that uses resumes effectively frees up time that lets him carefully inspect only those candidates that made it through this coarse filtering process. I've helped my friend do recruiting at his startup (albeit, not in

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