lurker17

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by lurker17 15y ago
Wow. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by lurker17 15y ago
It's rather standard already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension
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by lurker17 15y ago
The user you are talking to is "qwe123_troll" qwe123[4] is a troll account name with a storied history: http://www.reddit.com/user/qwe1234
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by lurker17 15y ago
Churches are also non-profit. As is Scientology. Just being a non-profit isn't insurance against evil.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Surely this problem is trivial to fix by changing the linear scoring function "5 points per upvote" to a sublinear function, that decays as upvotes increase, or has hard max.
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by lurker17 15y ago
We are on Paul Graham's Hacker News, this is already in the canon: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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by lurker17 15y ago
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
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by lurker17 15y ago
Only if we care about getting reliablly correct answers.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Pablum. Kids are happy everywhere because they are carefree kids.
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by lurker17 15y ago
the ovals are far too deeply colored. If they were closer to invisible (especially the horizontal segments) it wouldn't be so bad. and the linebreak between "defun" and "hello" is just wrong. "hello" should be colored, and "defun" should be
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by lurker17 15y ago
I don't know how idiomatic that phrase is, but Schmidt's statement is a direct rip off of Micro-Soft's mission statement https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=microsoft+computer+in+... Google is the new Microsoft, indeed.
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by lurker17 15y ago
The sentence is excluding the possibility of Google getting it right while leaving some pockets empty.
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by lurker17 15y ago
There are no "indie" iOS developers, because iOS developers are not independent. There are only "iOS contract developers", paid on a royalty basis, but retained at-will by Apple.
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by lurker17 15y ago
It's the same in US English. The issue is just that there are 1-10% of people who are sensitive to the issue, and computing has grown from a small club of close friends/enemies/frenemies to a more mainstream activity, there is a growing cal
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by lurker17 15y ago
Headline is completely false. Ars Technica made the mistake, and the submitter copied it. Editors, please fix. The cited research shows that wealth is a predictor of unethical behavior. There were no exeperiments investigating the directi
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by lurker17 15y ago
The author was thinking of http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawoflargenumbers.asp but confused it with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers Apple has no need to grow its market cap forever. It could pay dividends from
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by lurker17 15y ago
I thought everyone knew that Google had the most incompetent recruiting machine on the planet, just barely propped up by the mountain of money that towers over the recruiters' shoulders, which is what actually wins candidates. > They're
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by lurker17 15y ago
So the telephone network is secured by a $100 entrance fee charged to any DDOS attacker?
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by lurker17 15y ago
Why don't actual phone call minutes use all these expensive resources?
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by lurker17 15y ago
What sort of experiment could test the hypothesis "x > c" in a binary way without depending on a precise measurement in a complex system? "x > c" is a binary test, BTW.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Bonus to anyone who gets the answer by intercepting another solver's email message.
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by lurker17 15y ago
+1
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by lurker17 15y ago
Doesn't work for me :-(
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by lurker17 15y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Mathematics_as_sci...
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by lurker17 15y ago
You don't see the same movie every week either, so...?
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by lurker17 15y ago
More diet and snack hacks: http://weblog.mrbb.org/2010/12/diet-hacks.html
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by lurker17 15y ago
In Browse, you need many more books per page, with much smaller table cells per each, so that the user can browse .
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by lurker17 15y ago
> It's away from the teaching environment Interesting choice of words. Office hours are the "teaching environment". The classroom is the (increasingly obsolete) bulk information transfer environment.
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by lurker17 15y ago
In other ways it's also the smartest student possible: It never forgets or misunderstands what you tell it (unless you instruct it to forget something, or you don't say what you actually mean.)
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by lurker17 15y ago
> Going to Harvard means I have the very unique opportunity to be around a lot of smart people. My high school English teacher mocked Harvard students who used term "very unique". "uniqueness" is a binary (not continuous/leveled) attrib

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