medearis

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by medearis 17y ago
Infant mortality rates are not a fair metric for comparison because the point of viability is significantly earlier in the US that in most other countries in the world. When adjusted, US infant mortality rates are some of the best in the wo
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by medearis 17y ago
I think you're contradicting yourself when you argue that economics is not a science and yet also argue that central tenets of modern econ have been "proven wrong." By what means are you claiming they have been "proven" wrong if not scient
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by medearis 17y ago
I think he was using "techno" as an umbrella term for electronic music. Lets be honest -- techno, trance, electro, progressive etc. it's all ultimately pretty much the same thing.
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by medearis 17y ago
If GM's value speculative then Telsa's valuation is completely pulled out of thin air. Just a few months ago Tesla was actually losing money on every car they sold. Now they're asking for government money to stay afloat and promising a 50
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by medearis 17y ago
His primary example of how Google is big and evil is actually an industry-wide problem, The issue of internet royalties for musicians has been contentions, largely because most internet radio sites aren't making very much money in the firs
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by medearis 17y ago
No -- you didn't say anything about education level, which is tangential to GPA. What you said is "judging on the basis of GPA alone is class discrimination. Poor people don't stand a fighting chance." In other words, if you're poor, you
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by medearis 17y ago
You've gotta be kidding me. Being poor prevents you from having a high GPA?
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by medearis 17y ago
I really appreciated your write up as a primer on git. Thanks for writing it. One issue I have with it, though, is that the part focusing on Pushing and Fast Forward Merges is either vague or incorrect and led me down some confusing paths
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by medearis 17y ago
I particularly agree with this point -- "students need to be exposed to the tools to construct large-scale reliable programs..." The individual technical component is only half the story. Real "software engineering" involves developing so
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by medearis 18y ago
I don't see any "hard barriers" but a lot of soft issues that will take time to overcome. As of now, there isn't even a uniform event handling framework in JS. So, first, we'd need a good generic 3d framework. Next, we'd need a significa
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by medearis 18y ago
There's also a security reason for attributes to be enclosed in quotes when we're talking about dynamic webpages. Avery's permissive parser might parse the page "correctly," including an additional maliciously injected attribute like oncli
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by medearis 18y ago
Agreed. Very cool: http://gyu.que.jp/jscloth/parpevision.js Even on my relatively beefy comp, though, the miku animation was enough to get my fan going full blast. Papervision otoh has the potential to build a real, high-quality, 3d gam
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by medearis 18y ago
I think that most people's interest (including mine) in doing YCombinator or TechStars is not really the funding. It seems that you'd be much better off in this case just saving the 6 or 8k yourself. Rather, the network and guidance in ge
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by medearis 18y ago
I don't really get these things... why code all night when you could just as easily code all day without entirely throwing off your biorhythms and feeling like crap the next day? It seems to me that I'd be a lot more productive when I didn
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by medearis 18y ago
Prestige may be part of the equation to the extent that prestige is a proxy for the quality of education and research that you'll find at a given university. That said, I chose my school based on a lot more than the limited metric implied b
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by medearis 18y ago
I particularly agree with your point about caffeine and stimulants. I've found that I very rarely do my best work when I'm all hyped up. Yes, sometimes you have to stay up to finish that last really cool feature or whatever... but most of
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by medearis 18y ago
Though an interesting data point in terms of specific numbers, I also am not very surprised that VCs are losing money at the moment. What I did find somewhat refreshing was the fairly limited discussion of how this is an indicator that ven
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by medearis 18y ago
There are a number of other interesting (though perhaps dubiously supported) similar arguments (including this one) in his book freakonomics.
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by medearis 18y ago
You are missing a critical caveat about these statistics: "*Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs." In countries like China and India, PDA's and smart phones are the only computin
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by medearis 18y ago
I've lived in Palo Alto most of my life and wouldn't want to live anywhere else. You can walk around the main parts of the city and it has somewhat of a community feeling while also being a major hub for tech and innovation.
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by medearis 18y ago
You're right -- the teleportation aspect should almost be secondary. I think the reason the article got stuck with this headline is that it attracts eyeballs (hey, it got me interested). The more "hacker" relevant section is the surprising
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by medearis 18y ago
What/Who is DreamIT? Is anyone familiar with these folks?
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by medearis 18y ago
I couldn't really find much in what he had to say about WHY it is a "scam." The linked article requires registration and is cut off before it starts explaining why "this approach is misguided." While carbon trading may not be a solution fo
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by medearis 18y ago
It really doesn't look to me like megaupload worked too hard on their captcha. In the general case, this is apparently a difficult problem because of the character segmentation step. So, my guess is that if megaupload did something to dec
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by medearis 18y ago
Free apps have a lot fewer hoops that you have to jump through, so you can publish almost immediately. As far as the article goes, I think the main point has been obvious for some time. Apple knew that these sorts of apps would be popular
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by medearis 18y ago
"Microsoft announced today that it will be laying off up to 5,000 people over the next 18 months... Microsoft also says that it will continue to hire..." I don't know what percentage of those are developers, but my guess is that it will inc
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by medearis 18y ago
I've met several startup founders who say the best candidates are the ones who get into top technical Ph.D. programs and then drop out to join startups. Even in technical fields, it seems that the value of the Ph.D. is sometimes not in the
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by medearis 18y ago
Awesome, yes, but I'm not really sure I'd consider this "hacking." We're about to have thousands of 13-year-olds running around changing road signs to references to bodily functions.
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by medearis 18y ago
Obviously, tech spending declines in a recession. What I thought was interesting was the discussion of all the variables that go into these predictions -- so many that I can understand why these predictions are often so far off. Strength o
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by medearis 18y ago
I've got a mid-high end HP notebook, which I've run with some permutation of XP, Vista and Ubuntu for the last year. Its treated me fairly well as far as being rugged, with a nice big monitor. It is a bit heavy.... What sorts of stuff are

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