jmatt

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Cresta Raises Series C(cresta.com)
6 points by jmatt 5y ago|0 comments
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by jmatt 9y ago
I'd just like to encourage people to apply. I work with @cbanek on the LSST EPO team. Working on a large science project is amazing. Every day is interesting. There is a shared goal beyond just making money, similar to a startup with t
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by jmatt 12y ago
I thought the same thing and had to check the wayback machine. He wasn't on the leader boards, at least at that URL. http://web.archive.org/web/20070302084140/http://news.ycombi... http:/&#x2F
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by jmatt 12y ago
An aside, pg isn't on the leaderboards, and never was, since he was always far ahead on points. But, it looks like tptacek has finally passed him. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
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by jmatt 13y ago
Norvig's "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" is also worth reading and covers the higher level problem of bad research and results. Including mentioning bad statistics. http://norvig.com/
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by jmatt 13y ago
Yeah a mod changed it, thankfully.
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by jmatt 13y ago
The actual interview: http://mentalfloss.com/article/53216/mental-floss-exclusive-... It was submitted earlier today but never got to the front page.
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by jmatt 14y ago
https://www.spotify.com/us/signup/plain/
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by jmatt 14y ago
Check out msys/mingw. It's a challenging setup, minimal and supports gcc. Key difference with cygwin: no attempt at posix compliance. http://www.mingw.org/
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Error 37(error37.com)
1 points by jmatt 14y ago|0 comments
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by jmatt 14y ago
Unless they have credit for writing the song, or self publish, the band makes most of their money from touring and merchandise. BitTorrent isn't a zero sum game. It's difficult to prevent and any action upsets fans. Why not embrace it and g
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by jmatt 15y ago
On anonymity and privacy... I always thought this was an interesting fact: Birthday, Gender and Zipcode is enough to identify someone uniquely approximately 85% of the time. And a quickly googled source but the meme is older than that: htt
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by jmatt 15y ago
This is my favorite John McCarthy story. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803627 I like how one simple succinct relevant question can say so much about Norvig's claims. It seems appropriate coming from the creator of LISP. And, of cou
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STFU & Make Awesome Stuff(tapsquare.com)
13 points by jmatt 15y ago|3 comments
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by jmatt 15y ago
This is from the Think Different campaign (1997+): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different I really shouldn't admit this but /cough circa 1997 I had abandoned Apple. I had a PC and Linux box at home and Unix terminal at school. I rem
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by jmatt 15y ago
I started coding .NET around 1.0. Completely anecdotal but out of the dozen+ people I knew that dove in at the time - zero are still actively involved in .NET. I rarely take a .NET contract. But what I can say is 1) They always pay my highe
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by jmatt 15y ago
I thought the goal was to motivate users and IT organizations to stay current. This frees up Mozilla developers from fixing bugs in N many different old versions of Firefox. To me, the reasoning behind the change in version is pretty clear.
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by jmatt 15y ago
D3 and ClojureScript: http://keminglabs.com/cljs-d3/ http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...
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Cljs-d3: A ClojureScript façade for D3(keminglabs.com)
4 points by jmatt 15y ago|0 comments
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by jmatt 15y ago
Think Andrew Carnegie. I know I directly benefited from a Carnegie library as a kid. With philanthropy at this scale there is potential to benefit humanity in a way that may otherwise not happen. Compare this to other paths that wealthy p
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by jmatt 15y ago
Buying and owning a gaming laptop or desktop is similar to owning a hot rod. There are as many different philosophies to how and what to buy as there are gamers. On one end of the spectrum people track pricing trends and chase the best poss
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by jmatt 15y ago
Yep. For further explanation: http://codebutler.com/firesheep
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by jmatt 15y ago
There's a 2005 Bentley Continental GT for $29,800. Seems like a good buy. I think someone forgot a zero? http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail.jsp?tracktype=usedcc&#3... Your app made it easy enough to find an exception like this.
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HTML5 player is no longer recognised by Chrome(google.com)
2 points by jmatt 15y ago|0 comments
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by jmatt 15y ago
I thought his comment implied it. In addition his profile has his website which makes it quite clear he works for Wolfram (about and github): http://taliesinb.net/ If someone posts a link in their profile and you don't follow it, they can
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by jmatt 15y ago
If you are already familiar with another lisp check out Rich introducing and discussing the language in detail: http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-for-lisp-programmers-part-1-1... http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-for-lisp-programmers-part-2-1.
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by jmatt 15y ago
Yeah I nearly missed it too. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619736
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by jmatt 15y ago
What programs do the Windows devs use as a terminal? When I'm using my windows box I use Console 2 - which is great. But still doesn't compare to Mac OS X or Linux terminals. Of course using a Linux VM or VNCing into one is the easy solutio
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Access Industries To Acquire Warner Music Group $3.3B Cash(wmg.com)
1 points by jmatt 15y ago|0 comments
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by jmatt 15y ago
I'd also be interested if there were any correlation between meta discussion and it's affects on trends. So I'd be curious to see ycombinator (and/or hacker news) in the "mentioned companies" section.

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