mkramlich

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by mkramlich 10y ago
I'm the author of a book about a space pirate so I got a particular thrill about that moment in the book/movie. (The Dread Space Pirate Richard.)
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by mkramlich 10y ago
What if it contains secrets Man was not meant to know?
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by mkramlich 11y ago
George Clinton quote? rang a bell. won't google, more natural.
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by mkramlich 11y ago
if this is who I think it is, Dan Bricklin, I want to chime in to say thank you for VisiCalc, sir! I was a user and big fan of your work. for the kids/newbs: effectively the (co)inventor of The Spreadsheet. and consider that spreadshee
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by mkramlich 11y ago
good point. reasonable. the making of generalizations does not outlaw other generalized groups or categories. an entire side discussion about Bayes predictions could be entered here. where having a few rough rules would yield a 90% benefici
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by mkramlich 11y ago
observation of reality. not theory. not wish/want/should/ought. actual reality. trust me, if you're smart and wise then the older you get you should be getting more and more reality-based in your decisions. not theory. n
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by mkramlich 11y ago
Google seems perfect for two kinds of programmers/engineers: 1. you are 20-something, white or Asian, fresh out of college, Jewish/Stanford/Ivy/otherwise-2nd-gen-pampered-background, male, maybe still in college or 1st s
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by mkramlich 11y ago
one word. or 4 letters. understand them and you understand everything else about this issue: MITM
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by mkramlich 11y ago
ie. they have such an extreme scale that often what's best for them is also unique to them, so doesn't really work/apply/be-appreciated anywhere else. They want sharp folks. But because so many, and because folks at top
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by mkramlich 11y ago
I awake. It is dark. Therefore when I awake it is always dark. Problem. Mismatch. Turns out that if I awake between the local hours of 5am and 7pm then it is light. Otherwise it is dark. Problem. Mismatch. Turns out, it depends on the &quot
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by mkramlich 11y ago
Bayes is perfect but also painfully bloodily sharp-edged. Best description I have.
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by mkramlich 11y ago
I'm in the middle of designing and building a system which uses Bayesian models. One thing that struck me early is that while Bayes itself is rock solid, like arithmetic, when you go to apply it the results live or die on the quality o
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by mkramlich 11y ago
> There really is no excuse. I should get off my ass and make something. please don't make a Bitcoin exchange/bank. or anything that will take enduser's private PII or money. the mindset to "just go make something&quo
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by mkramlich 11y ago
two words: survivorship bias
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by mkramlich 11y ago
I agree that complexity is far up there. But also risk. Also long term thinking. And net cost or net profit. The more years I have under my belt, I think more and more not only about complexity, but also risk, cost, profit. Code and hardwar
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by mkramlich 11y ago
seeing this comment on HN, made my PG, a Lisp book author, is amusing. I have to admit that while I don't do Lisp day-to-day probably my favorite Lisp book(s) were written by him. The practical hacker in me prefers Python, Java and C.
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by mkramlich 11y ago
reporting in. and I remember the time before Byte existed.
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by mkramlich 11y ago
engineering good. abstraction bad. my rough rule of thumb. I know that's too high level of a description. but what I'm saying is... that you always pay the price for poor quality, rushed work, whether you pay that price in an ho
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by mkramlich 11y ago
because web forms are hard -- the mid-90's Perl CGI scripts are calling and they're laughing at us all.
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by mkramlich 11y ago
bingo Google: Go Microsoft: C# Sun/Oracle: Java almost all others: more on their own merits, from developers eyes (Python, Perl, C++, Ruby, Rust, D, Scala, LUA, JS, etc.) a language should have innate merits, of course, but never disco
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by mkramlich 11y ago
The flip-side of this story? Imagine what the NSA is doing. Imagine how much information the NSA is slurping up, on everybody, 24x7. Now... assuming their databases are an even more attractive target to hackers/criminals. Now assume th
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by mkramlich 11y ago
pre-order = I give you money, you give me nothing (but, hypothetical promises about a future) gotta love cool new business models
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by mkramlich 11y ago
fair points
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by mkramlich 11y ago
wait til they hear that Linux has a stack-based architecture. that all C-based software has a stack based architecture. threads with stacks everywhere: surprisingly fast. it's usually things like higher-level architectural patterns and
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by mkramlich 11y ago
from the historical record I'm pretty sure that the USA gov has caused/allowed more drugs/chemicals/radiation/weapons to cause more harm/deaths to innocent/civilian people than Ross ever has. I don't
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by mkramlich 11y ago
> There's a huge opportunity here to have a government public works program or some other major initiative to mobilize the underclasses, but it won't be taken. agreed. but it won't happen. they clearly do not want to. you
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by mkramlich 11y ago
which is how the web worked originally, how it was intended to be. in some ways the ecosystem has gotten better than the 90's, in others its been getting worse. too many sites are getting too cluttered, too slow, with too many moving p
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by mkramlich 11y ago
you have been both very kind and very constructive. email me at groglogic@gmail.com and I'll ensure you always have free copies of all the books and audio episodes. (I did not see your email in your profile otherwise I would have sent
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by mkramlich 11y ago
consider me forewarned. if in twenty years I'm retired living on a golden yacht sailing the icy seas of Europa I hope a non-trivial portion of my income is coming from the royalties on the sales of that T-shirt. and/or from the ea
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by mkramlich 11y ago
ha. your welcome! maybe turn it into a C poem and wear as a T-shirt? I once had the following printed on a T-shirt and wore to a Meetup.com event here in Colorado, and out of the crowd an early Bell Labs alumnus (C/UNIX era) emerged

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