joshstaiger

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by joshstaiger 3y ago
I highly recommend Robert Greenberg's "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" if you have any interest in Classical. Available on audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/How-to-Listen-to-and-Understand-
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by joshstaiger 9y ago
1000 times this. You're going to get a lot of snark from people saying things like "don't", or "learn python instead". This epitomizes "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". Bash has many cringewo
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by joshstaiger 9y ago
I'm not sure if you'll see this 2 days later, but I've been trying to make heads or tails of your example and I think there’s a mistake in there somewhere. Maybe I'm hopelessly lost, but, for one, the inverse of (
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by joshstaiger 10y ago
Your code stops compiling with a pretty unhelpful error message. Y'know, like Segmentation Fault 11, and a stack trace into the swift compiler sourcecode if you're lucky. XCode doesn't always crash (though it does, frequently
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by joshstaiger 10y ago
1000 times this. I've been really enthusiastic about the idea of a modern, compiled, type safe, systems language, backed by a major tech juggernaut. But the compiler crashes and sourcekit instability are just breathtaking (even in 3.0+
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Big Tablets Are Coming(evanmiller.org)
4 points by joshstaiger 10y ago|1 comments
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Linear transformations and matrices – Essence of linear algebra [video](youtube.com)
2 points by joshstaiger 10y ago|0 comments
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by joshstaiger 10y ago
Very cool! I'll be keeping an eye on this. This year I've been experimenting with these DIY self-watering grow containers: http://earthtainer.tomatofest.com/pdfs/EarthTainer-Construct... Very little maintena
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Numeric linear algebra code: an appreciation(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
3 points by joshstaiger 10y ago|0 comments
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Understanding Bayes: How to become a Bayesian in eight easy steps(alexanderetz.com)
1 points by joshstaiger 11y ago|0 comments
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by joshstaiger 11y ago
Only if it is invested offshore. If it comes back to the US, it will be taxed. Same situation as before.
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by joshstaiger 11y ago
Sure, but Berkshire is also explicit about the fact that they only acquire pre-existing "remarkable" businesses. They may benefit from the firehose, but were already self-sufficient without it. That’s in stark contrast to the Goog
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by joshstaiger 11y ago
I feel like it’s going to be hard for a company like Spotify to compete on price. Their margins are already thin from what I hear, and they don’t have a hugely profitable hardware business to subsidize their service.
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by joshstaiger 12y ago
I get this argument for any other company. But at this point Apple has gone to great lengths to control the entire toolchain from the OS to the compiler to the chips that run the instructions the compiler produces. It’d seem odd if they did
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by joshstaiger 12y ago
Google search the headline, then click on the first result.
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by joshstaiger 13y ago
There is a better, longer version of the video here: http://vimeo.com/18913413 He elaborates on collaborating with other people, connecting disperate ideas, and managing creative people or “How to stamp out creativity in the rest of the
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by joshstaiger 15y ago
Good feedback, thanks.
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by joshstaiger 15y ago
You can hide items and product categories you’ll never eat. I hate eating processed foods, too. Just click the hide buttons next to those categories (Snacks, Canned Foods, et all), and you won’t see them again. Unfortunately we don’t have
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by joshstaiger 15y ago
It's useful (at least for me) even if you only go to one store. We use historical data to judge how good the sales are for items at any given time — and it’s surprising how much variation there is week to week. Usually when I shop, I’m loo
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
He used MS Paint for a long time (seriously). But apparently he's upgraded to something called SmoothDraw3 and a Wacom Bamboo Tablet. http://www.khanacademy.org/about/faq#equipment
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
You’re misrepresenting the data. Gas may have been $1.616 in Dec 2008, but it was $4.114 in July 2008, and ~$3 in Feb 2008. http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/23/news/economy/three_dollar_ga... The price is volatile (especially on either side
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
Really looking forward to future discussion. Congrats!
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
Probably a good time to point out that the email field in your profile isn’t listed publicly. It’s there for pg to contact you if need be. If you want others to see your email, put it in the about section.
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
AppEngine's task queue uses http requests to do offline processing. In fact the new limits only seem to apply to these types of requests — not user facing requests. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/overv...
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
I use Chrome for many tasks, but there are little things I go back to FireBug for. For some reason the WebKit request explorer doesn’t show cookie headers, for instance.
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
This talk gives a good high level overview of the Facebook infrastructure: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Scale-at-Facebook In short they use sharded mysql instances (sans joins) as a key-value store with memcache on top of that.
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
Some previous discussions: Ask HN: Learning Web Design — http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604915 Ask HN: How can I get better at design? — http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474315 I’ve found this online book great — http://design
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
Why a used copy of ”Universal Principles”? It’s available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Principles-Design-William-Li...
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
You’re right. My mistake.
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by joshstaiger 16y ago
Not a lawyer, but knowingly infringing on a patent opens one to treble damages: http://www.patent-infringement.org/recover.html So maybe it’s legal speak for “Regardless of what the patents say, we weren’t aware of them.”

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