jwecker

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by jwecker 6y ago
Spam-detection poisoning
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by jwecker 8y ago
It doesn't look like it's trying to be a startup at all, just showing an idea to HN- but I guess you're saying it should be more of an "ask for early feedback on HN" instead of "Show HN"- which implies sho
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by jwecker 10y ago
True, but that's my point- it's a backend issue, not a front-end "help the user" issue.
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by jwecker 10y ago
An email address isn't a document though, it's a routing command. I don't mean sanitization in the sense of inserting backslashes. I mean sanitization in the sense of "we don't allow people to set their email addres
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by jwecker 10y ago
Back when SMTP servers still had remnants of UUCP etc.- where the address could actually contain characters that specify intermediate servers to route to, I would have argued that front-end sanitization was important as, for example, html s
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by jwecker 10y ago
I always assumed it was more a sanitization issue for security's sake. By allowing only a simple subset ("common") email address type, you can be ambivalent about what email server is running and how it reacts to the wide var
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by jwecker 11y ago
I know the one. http://boxcar2d.com/ is similar (possibly based on the one you're referring to but it looks like it's been updated). Also this: http://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
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by jwecker 11y ago
Replying to myself- too late to edit. Some other comments in here lead me to believe there would be experience-related questions ideally these days. Again, my experience was a few years ago :-)
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by jwecker 11y ago
This sounds like a huge improvement from when I talked with them a few years ago.
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by jwecker 11y ago
I agree with you, but it's still easier to fire someone than to un-not-hire someone ;-)
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by jwecker 11y ago
Makes sense for google. And it's not that I didn't appreciate doing all that (and I did do well), it just struck me how they knew nothing else about me afterward except that I could answer academic questions, and how different tha
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by jwecker 11y ago
I interviewed @ google several years ago as part of some due-diligence they were doing to decide if they wanted to acquire the startup I was working at, [redacted]. It was several hours, with many interviewers one at a time, of academic exe
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by jwecker 11y ago
I was very excited to learn about recursive neural networks and how they are different from recurrent neural networks. I began imagining self-similar fractal topologies and automatic convolution layer creation etc... Disappointed to see it
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by jwecker 11y ago
Quick fix, in nim: foo_bar = fooBar Foo_bar = FooBar foo_bar != FooBar That is, it's case sensitive with the first character of the identity. I've mentioned elsewhere that this one bugged me at first, but in practice it
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by jwecker 11y ago
Comment voting ala hackernews / reddit would be useful but in this case so would some attached polls. The +1, -1 was from "back in the day" when it was a useful way for the active contributors to actually vote on something (o
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by jwecker 11y ago
In addition to ignoring the big picture economics, it makes rather silly claims such as "And with that [the elimination of the need to own cars], the elimination of entire industries built up around the existence of car ownership like:
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by jwecker 11y ago
For posterity: The paper is here- and is very readable: http://www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?journal=o... The pdf: http://www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?journal=o...
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by jwecker 11y ago
Fun fact- Nimrod means mighty hunter. The negative connotation came from early Bugs Bunny cartoons where he applies the name sarcastically to Elmer Fudd.
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by jwecker 11y ago
This is my least favorite "feature" of Nim as well and almost killed my interest in it. But it hasn't come up in practice yet for me.
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by jwecker 11y ago
Fun to try with code (mildly). Here's the geekiest I could do that's worth sharing :-) http://i.imgur.com/IBaLCn4.png - based on the first stanza from the following: Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly;
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by jwecker 12y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Best I could find was the developer email listed for his calculator app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.projectfan... [Edit] Which makes me realize that the submi
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by jwecker 12y ago
I enjoyed that far, far more than I expected. His intro from the index: "So I was me and I was in math class watching paint dry it was starting to crack when suddenly I realized there was a page for which the internet was invented. I s
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by jwecker 12y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response- it didn't come across as combative at all to me. The true, provable safety of Rust was what drew me to it as well. I've always hated having to choose between un-principled memory management (wit
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by jwecker 12y ago
I actually coded a predecessor to the system under development a few years ago and have used Erlang and more recently Elixir a lot, but in the end it just wasn't low-level enough, fast enough, or runtime-free-enough for our current pro
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by jwecker 12y ago
In my experience it's very responsive and rational. It benefits as a language from being opinionated which is sure to ruffle feathers from time-to-time. Obviously not as big of a community as some others, but that hasn't been an i
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by jwecker 12y ago
We just switched from Rust to Nim for a very large proprietary project I've been involved with after rejecting proofs of concept in Go and Erlang earlier in the process. This despite the fact that we had formally decided on Rust, had t
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by jwecker 12y ago
Point taken, and I acknowledged in my first comment that it was a weak reason compared to the reasons for adopting. It wasn't meant as advocacy :-) I would point out however that no one (that I know of) claims that English is the most
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by jwecker 12y ago
No, I assumed they had a very good way of doing it, which is why I asked about it :-) It was a sincere request for comment but it obviously came off as a cynical challenge, which wasn't my intention.
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by jwecker 12y ago
You mean similar to how stock prices used to be demarcated or how foreign exchanges use 'pip' values? ;-) ( http://www.cringely.com/2012/09/05/ticked-off-how-stock-mark... ) Seriously though good ques
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by jwecker 12y ago
I guess the real issue is which units get names. Yes, you can do with 12cm exactly what you can do with 12in- but the latter gets its own named unit. The Imperial system has a preference for scaling its units by some slightly more practical

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