jonshea

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by jonshea 4y ago
Your comparison to inject molding is correct. The press is used to hold the die mold halves together. I enjoyed this video that explained the process https://youtu.be/FUsicN-wKoY?t=234
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by jonshea 14y ago
People say this kind of thing a lot, but I’m pretty sure it’s simply not true. bash-completion handles pretty much everything I can imagine already, and can be extended to handle anything you can express programmatically.
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by jonshea 14y ago
We do the simplest thing we could imagine. Our sitemap of ~50,000,000 entries is written to static xml once a week as part of a batch job and pushed to S3. Is there any reason to believe it needs to be updated near real time? How often does
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by jonshea 14y ago
If we assume that Saverin had to pay his taxes by selling shares at the same price at which the IRS assessed then, then my logic still holds. Saverin would have to sell 15% of his stock to pay the 15% tax. If, as you suggest, he is able to
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by jonshea 14y ago
By my math, Eduardo Saverin doesn’t avoid any tax at all by leaving the US, regardless of whether or not his stock goes up or down. If he leaves, the US takes 15% of his stock now. If he stays, the US takes 15% of his stock later. But eithe
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by jonshea 14y ago
To be clear, you are comparing a sharded Riak cluster against an unsharded MongoDB installation?
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by jonshea 14y ago
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt
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by jonshea 15y ago
In 1729 Jonathan Swift anonymously published “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick” [1], which suggested that poverty and
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by jonshea 15y ago
I find Sparrow for Mac much more pleasant than gmail or Mail.app. I’ve been on Sparrow’s beta build since the Sparrow beta started. I haven’t had any serious issues since version 1.0 was released, and I’ve received grateful replies to all o
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by jonshea 15y ago
Did Kim Dotcom ever leave his house? Could it possibly have been cheaper, safer, and easier to, say, pull over his car and arrest him on the side of the road? Wouldn’t that also leave Dotcom less cause and opportunity to activate Megaupload
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by jonshea 15y ago
Good to know. Thanks Paul!
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by jonshea 15y ago
They’re interesting problems, a good way to improve your coding skills, and an amazing way to train for interviews.
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by jonshea 15y ago
If anyone is able, would you please explain to me these two questions from the quiz? I’m stumped. Why does `toSeq` compile, but not `toIndexedSeq`? Set(1,2,3).toIndexedSeq sortBy (-_) Set(1,2,3).toSeq sortBy (-_) Why does `h` c
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by jonshea 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer_fixed-point_theorem
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by jonshea 15y ago
Plurals of Latin / Greek words used in English: http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxplural.html One of my favorite pages.
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by jonshea 15y ago
You mean “without any prior evidence”. The phrase “a priori” means “by reason or deduction alone, without empirical evidence”. The phrase “a priori evidence” is an oxymoron.
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by jonshea 15y ago
Before posting that there is an easy or obvious resolution to the “paradox”, please read at least the first couple pages of the literature survey that Landsburg links to [1]. """ The meta-paradox consists of two seemingly incompatible facts
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by jonshea 15y ago
Landsburg actually addresses this in his next post! Regarding the Liar Paradox you bring up: """One of Kurt Godel’s great insights was that you can go a lot deeper by considering a slightly different sentence: “This sentence is not provable
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by jonshea 15y ago
Amazing experiment. I wonder if it cost Yudkowsky money to get out of the box. I think that a bribe is the only way he could convince me to let him “win” the contest.
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by jonshea 15y ago
It’s a bit of a spoiler to post it here, but Nick Bostrom’s “The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant” (Journal of Medical Ethics, 2005, Vol. 31, No. 5) is the single most influential essay that I have ever read. It completely changed how I think of
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by jonshea 16y ago
I’m on my 5th productivity motivated SC2 uninstall, but I’ll reinstall for an NYC Startupcraft.
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by jonshea 16y ago
My understanding is that you are correct. I believe that BigDecimal.doubleValue() does the conversion by (wait for it…) converting to a string and parsing with Double.parseDouble(). Real quick: scala> val y y: java.math.BigDecimal = 2.2
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by jonshea 16y ago
Foursquare (NYC, SF): http://foursquare.com/jobs/ We have positions coding for our mobile clients (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry) and our server team. Our server code is all in Scala (booyah functional programming). It’s a superb team in fu
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by jonshea 16y ago
Agreed. Doukutsu Monogatari is, rivaled only by Braid, the most beautiful, fun, and moving video game I have ever played. It is astonishingly creative and innovative. The gameplay is challenging, but fun. And there’s not even a hint of repe
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by jonshea 16y ago
Very interesting. I’m glad that you pointed out that the Economist is “anonymous”. (If you haven’t noticed, almost all Economist articles are published without a byline). It’s a quirk I’ve never been convinced that they adequately justify.
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by jonshea 16y ago
I largely agree with dhh’s thesis that “minority investment valuations aren’t real”, and I agree that the lack of liquidity is part of the problem. But I think it’s “liquidity preference” that totally breaks the investor valuation. As a toy
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by jonshea 16y ago
In pottery there’s a saying that if you’ve made something and you’re not sure it’s good enough to sell, then you should just glaze it blue and someone will buy it regardless.
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by jonshea 16y ago
http://spinning-yarns.org/michael/
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by jonshea 16y ago
The Black Swan was a black swan.
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by jonshea 16y ago
WhizzyTeX is _amazing_. It probably triples my productivity for LaTeX when the material is math intensive. If you’re typesetting matrixes or tables, or anything else where you have to align things, then WhizzyTeX is even better still. In gr

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